The 2022 Philanthropy West Virginia Annual Conference will be held In-Person with Virtual Sessions for Hybrid Participation on May 18 – 20 at Glade Springs Resort. Joining us will be a diverse group of leaders in philanthropy from across West Virginia and around the country. CEP's President, Phil Buchanan, will be giving a bruncheon keynote as...
For the closing session of the Festival, London Funders will be hosting a joint conversation with the US-based Centre for Effective Philanthropy. We’ll discuss where there are shared lessons across our two countries when it comes to supporting Black and minoritised communities, looking particularly at the origins of wealth in philanthropy, how funders shift power,...
Join CEP and the Council on Foundations for a discussion about rebuilding trust in nonprofits and philanthropy. About this event Recent data and research from sources such as the Edelman Trust Barometer suggest declining trust in nonprofits and philanthropy in the United States. Fraying trust in institutions, perceptions that nonprofits and philanthropy are politicized, intensifying...
What are nonprofits and foundation leaders doing to address climate change, in their mission-related work and in their investment practices? How pressing of a problem is climate change from the perspective of foundation and nonprofit leaders, and how do they think climate change will affect their work? Moreover, how are leaders of organizations that do...
The Giving Done Right Podcast returns with a third season! Stay tuned for more information regarding our guests and topics.
Foundation leaders often cite their boards as an impediment to the shifts in practices they see as necessary in these times, CEP research has shown. Moreover, boards’ racial diversity is correlated with some of these very practices, and yet most foundation boards remain overwhelmingly white. How can foundation CEOs and boards evolve so that boards...
Interconnected: Effecting Positive Change Together As practitioners in philanthropy, we are inherently connected. We are tied together by a shared love of humanity, a desire to contribute to lasting positive change, and by our common experience of what is happening in the world around us. The past three years have presented challenge after challenge, highlighting...
This fall, Philanthropy Ohio will convene its first in-person conference in three years, bringing together colleagues from around the state in Cleveland to connect with one another, build skills as leaders and strengthen this network of funder peers. Philanthropy Forward ’22 will examine the shifts in our world and sector over the last two years...
How can we translate our commitment to courageous leadership into brave actions? How can philanthropy take its work to the next level to realize our vision of a just and equitable South? These questions lie at the heart of Philanthropy Southeast's 2022 Annual Meeting – Bold Moves: Building a Brighter Future. This November, we will come...
Tuesday, November 15th, 2-3:15PM EDT MacKenzie Scott’s giving has challenged conventional norms for big donors and foundations. Her gifts have been the largest ever received by most of the recipient organizations – multiple times the size of typical grants from even large foundations – and have been unrestricted and accompanied by minimal reporting...
Few philanthropists embody the changing face — and approach — to philanthropy in America like MacKenzie Scott. Join us as we learn from Phil Buchanan, president of the nationally recognized Center for Effective Philanthropy, about key findings from the center’s 2022 “Big Gifts Study” aimed at understanding how Ms. Scott’s “no strings attached” giving has...