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Philanthropy Shocker! Marguerite Casey Foundation’s Carmen Rojas and Daniel Gould Put Mission Ahead of Hoarding Money

When federal funding for nonprofits started disappearing last year, the Marguerite Casey Foundation didn’t put out a pithy statement, they pulled out their checkbook. The foundation cranked up its grantmaking from around $30 million to $130 million in a single year. Now the foundation has pledged half a billion dollars over the next decade, 50% […]

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SF Foundation’s Valerie Goode Has Never Seen Her Office

Andy Goodman – Why Bad Zoom Calls Happen to Good Causes

There’s News About Young People and Democracy – And It’s a Little Scary

Trabian Shorters and the Genius of “Asset Framing”

Let’s Hear It is Back with Season Three!

We will emerge from this wounding – Joy Harjo, the first Indigenous Poet Laureate

The Antidote – A Movie About Kindness and Caring in America Comes Along in the Nick of Time

Daniel Lee of the Levi Strauss Foundation Will Warm the Cockles of Your Heart

David Roberts of Vox – A Beacon in the Smog

Planned Parenthood CEO Alexis McGill Johnson at ComNetworkV

ComNet’s Clarence B. Jones Award Winner Susan Vandergriff of A Step Ahead Chattanooga

ComNetworkV – A Preview of This Year’s Virtual Gathering

The opening of the American mind – Javier Torres-Campos of the Surdna Foundation talks about culture, equity, and the state of the American theater

Ideas for Days: Career Karma’s CEO and co-Founder Ruben Harris

Renée DiResta – Disinformation in the Age of COVID

Sabeel Rahman of Demos is the Optimist We All Need to Hear From

Swimming in a Sea of Disinformation: Author Nina Jankowicz on How to Lose the Information War

Thaler Pekar and the Magic of Sharing Stories

Revisiting Our Conversation with Ben McBride

Dominique Derbigny on Closing the Women’s Wealth Gap

Alexis Madrigal of the COVID Tracking Project Outdoes the CDC

Ann Christiano Builds a Field Where There Never Was a Field

“Make Your Content Like a Twinkie” – Talking Presentation Design with One of the Greats – Nolan Haims

Saru Jayaraman and One Fair Wage: Making the Restaurant Industry Work for Workers

Ken Weine of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Has a Very Important Person on the Line

Jenn Hoos Rothberg of Einhorn Collaborative Dares You to Hope

Race Forward’s Jeff Chang: A Cultural Wing Walker and Oracle of the Zeitgeist Talks about Hip Hop, Chris Rock, and Moving Forward

Disability Rights Advocate Emily Ladau Blows Our Minds Wide Open

Aaron Belkin is a Stone-Cold Communications Genius

Stupski Foundation‘s Glen Galaich Offers the Best Idea Yet for How Philanthropy Should Measure Success

Jasmine Banks of UnKoch My Campus is Unafraid

Edgar Villanueva’s Quest to Decolonize Philanthropy

If You Are Very Lucky, Rich Neimand Will Make You Some Soup

Rinku Sen of the Narrative Initiative Shows Us Why What We Say Matters

Living the Work: Precious Stroud of the BlackFemaleProject

Kris Putnam-Walkerly: News Flash – Philanthropy is Messed Up

Lowell Weiss Got Yelled at by the President and other Tales of Derring-Do

SF Foundation’s Valerie Goode Has Never Seen Her Office

Andy Goodman – Why Bad Zoom Calls Happen to Good Causes

There’s News About Young People and Democracy – And It’s a Little Scary

Trabian Shorters and the Genius of “Asset Framing”

Let’s Hear It is Back with Season Three!

We will emerge from this wounding – Joy Harjo, the first Indigenous Poet Laureate

The Antidote – A Movie About Kindness and Caring in America Comes Along in the Nick of Time