Walking the Walk With Wit & Wisdom: EPIP Member Briefings

Special Opportunity for EPIP Members!

This three-part video briefing series will feature three philanthropic leaders who are deeply motivated by a quest for social justice and equality in the United States. It is with great conviction, belief, and dedication that the tradition of progressive American philanthropy continues today - and is so strongly exemplified by the work of these foundation leaders. By dedicating their careers to the practice of philanthropy - or rather "the love of human kind" - these professionals have learned what it really means to make a difference in the lives of others.

These sessions will feature:

• Mark Constantine, author of Wit and Wisdom: Unleashing the Philanthropic Imagination; Vice President for Strategy, Policy and Learning, Jessie Ball duPont Fund;
  
  
• Karl Stauber, President and CEO, Danville Regional Foundation;
  Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010 / 9am-10:30am PST
  
  
• Linetta Gilbert, Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation
  Date: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 / 12pm-1:30pm PST

• Gayle Williams, Executive Director, Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation
  Date: Thursday, November 11, 2010 / 12pm-1:30pm PST

Join us as we explore the themes of race, democracy, and justice within the context of modern-day philanthropy. And ask the questions that you want to ask!

To learn more about these practitioners before the video conversations, please read the corresponding interviews in EPIP's book, Wit and Wisdom: Unleashing the Philanthropic Imagination.

In order to simulate an intimate conversation with our distinguished speakers, this 3-part series will be hosted online using a brand-new video streaming platform called Watchitoo. Current dues-paying members who RSVP will be privately invited via email to join these three sessions - and participants will then have the opportunity to watch the program in real-time, and converse with the speakers and their fellow participants using private and public messaging tools.

If you have a webcam & microphone attached to or built into your computer, you will be able to speak directly to the featured philanthropists as if we were all sitting in the same room!

EPIP Member Briefings - March 18 and April 5

Dues-paying EPIP members in Seattle are invited to convene for an upcoming member-briefing from EPIP National. Please bring your lunch as we tune into the conference call via speaker phone!

Not an EPIP member? Join now at www.epip.org. Dues are only $100/year, and members gain access to a variety of benefits such as participation in briefings like these!

Investing in the Community: New Orleans Renewal after Hurricane Katrina

Thursday, March 18, 2010

12:00pm - 1:30pm

Location TBD

In conjunction with the Katrina @ Five Conference, New Orleans, March 22-24, 2010, of which EPIP is a partner. Developing out of the aftermath of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, The Gulf Coast Fund for Community Renewal and Ecological Health internalized the meaning of social justice philanthropy by creating an advisory group of individuals from the Gulf Coast region to serve as the fund’s primary decision-making vehicle. Reaching out to communities otherwise marginalized by the country’s broader philanthropic community, the Fund continues to engage community members in all of its grantmaking practices and in doing so, hopes to break down a history of regional discrimination and inequality.

Penny Fujiko Willgerodt

Executive Director

Prospect Hill Foundation

Affiliation: Co-founder, Advisory Committee

Stephen Bradberry

Louisiana ACORN

Affiliation: Current Member, Advisory Committee

Angela Winfrey-Bowman

People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond

Affiliation: Current Member, Advisory Committee

Advocating for the Community through Identity-Based Grantmaking:

A Case Study on Funding Immigration Issues

Monday, April 5, 2010

12 – 1:30pm

Location: Philanthropy NW Conference Room

This call will explore how the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute invested new resources during the 1980s and 90s in order to create and expand new social justice programs for immigrant communities in the United States. Reacting to internal leadership transitions, and federal welfare and immigration reform, current and former leaders of Ford and OSI will speak about the strategies that they used to create new identity-based grantmaking programs in the midst of political debate and national controversy.

Suzanne Siskel

Director, Social Justice Philanthropy, Ford Foundation

Taryn Higashi

Executive Director, Unbound Philanthropy, Former Deputy Director, Human Rights, Ford Foundation

Sarah Rios

Director, Human Rights Unit, Ford Foundation

Mary McClymont

Executive Director, Global Rights, Former Vice President, Peace and Social Justice, Ford Foundation

Maria Teresa Rojas

Senior Manager, Equality and Opportunity Fund, US Programs, Open Society Institute

Extra Special EPIP Member Benefits! Sign Up by 12/1

Not an EPIP member yet? If you join by December 1, 2009, EPIP will provide you with a set of valuable library of learning resources that address issues of generational change in the workplace, philanthropic effectiveness, and social justice philanthropy. These include:

• Wit and Wisdom: Unleashing the Philanthropic Imagination, EPIP's book, written by philanthropy observer and practitioner Mark D. Constantine, features indepth interviews with diverse senior foundation leaders discussing the highlights and challenges of their grantmaking work and careers.

• GrantCraft's "Guide to Personal Strategy," arguably one of the most applicable tools for practitioners looking to successfully navigate the foundation workplace.

• Change Philanthropy: Candid Stories of Foundations Maximizing Results through Social Justice, a brand new book produced by EPIP partner, the Linchpin Project at the Center for Community Change.
  

• The Foundation Center's "Foundation Yearbook" and "Social Justice Grantmaking II" executive reports, which highlight and synthesize general giving patterns and social justice grantmaking trends from 2009.

This special library was already provided free of charge to EPIP's current members earlier this fall. We look forward to sharing it with new members who join by December 1st!

Visit the EPIP website at www.epip.org to sign up to become a member!