Hilary Pennington, Author at The Center for Effective Philanthropy

Unlocking the Transformative Potential of Intermediary Funds

Sep 17, 2024 | Guest Author Guest Author

One of the fastest growing philanthropic practices in recent years is the use of collaborative, or pooled, funds — one form of intermediary funding, the subject of a recent CEP report. Like many others, the Ford Foundation participates in multiple funder...

What the Evolution of Gender Can Teach Us About Equality

Jun 16, 2022 | Guest Author Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Guest Author Guest Author

This post originally appeared on the Ford Foundation website. It is re-posted here with permission. In Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, muxes, a part of the Indigenous group, the Zapotecs, play an important role in families and communities. A muxe is a person who is...

Building the America that Never Was, Yet Still Must Be

Jan 12, 2021 | Guest Author Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Guest Author Guest Author

Months ago, Rashad Robinson, president of the civil rights organization Color Of Change, wrote, “We don’t get racial justice out of a true democracy. We get a true democracy out of racial justice.” The horror of the past week, in which a violent mob brandishing...

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know

Dec 14, 2020 | Guest Author Diversity Equity and Inclusion, Guest Author Guest Author

Foundations and Racial Equity in 2020 The second of three CEP reports on foundations’ response to crisis in 2020, focused on racial equity, reveals a striking truth about our field: we often don’t know what we don’t know. And that prevents us from acting, which,...

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Unlocking the Transformative Potential of Intermediary Funds

What the Evolution of Gender Can Teach Us About Equality

Building the America that Never Was, Yet Still Must Be

What to Do When You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know