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Welcoming Two New Members to Our Board of Trustees

By August 16, 2016

We are proud to welcome two new members to our Board of Trustees: Sonya Childress of Firelight Media and Jorge Blandon of the Family Independence Initiative (FII). We are confident that the addition of Sonya and Jorge to our ranks will enhance our ability to steward The Whitman Institute’s spend out and spread the practice of trust-based giving with…

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Pay-What-It-Takes Philanthropy

By May 24, 2016

This is a repost of an article first published in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.  By Jeri Eckhart-Queenan, Michael Etzel, & Sridhar Prasad Summer 2016 A new grantmaking approach is needed – one that provides enough money for nonprofits to pay for all their operations, not just programs and services. The first step toward achieving…

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Transforming Systems Through Leadership

By May 13, 2015

  “Be harder on the structure and softer on the people.” -John Powell, Haas Institute LeaderSpring trains their leaders to work effectively within the system, and to also work on the system–making it better and more equitable. They take a holistic approach to leadership and believe it is not enough to support leaders in doing…

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