November 2025: Network News
NCFP strives to connect its members to resources, best practices, and to peer funders. Network News highlights updates from our members and partners, showcasing accomplishments, new approaches or giving areas, innovative ideas, and staff and board transitions, and more.
We encourage our members and parters to email us with news that you would like to be shared.
Crankstart Helps Cover Loss of SNAP Benefits in San Francisco
Crankstart partnered with the City of San Francisco to provide half of the $18 million needed to continue SNAP benefits through the month of November.
Tomás Alvarez Wins Outsized Impact Award
Grunin Foundation board member Tomás Alvarez was selected as the Outsized Impact Award winner, an honor given annually by Exponent Philanthropy.
Eule, who served as director of journalism and communications at the Heising-Simons Foundation from 2015 to 2024, will return to lead the foundation in January of 2026.
Chicago Beyond Releases Report Highlighting the Impact of Its Holistic Safety Framework
As correctional facilities employ Chicago Beyond’s Holistic Safety Framework, the funder is measuring its impact. By directly addressing entrenched ways of working, centering trust and humanity, and creating space for new ideas, leaders are able to improve safety in jails and prisons. Read the report to learn more.
A Family Foundation’s Transformation from ‘Foundation-Centric’ to ‘Community-Centric’
The William Penn Foundation demonstrates the way it is centering communities and prioritizing listening in this piece published by the Fund for Shared Insight.
McKnight Foundation Announces Erin Imon Gavin as Chief of Staff
Most recently, Erin worked as McKnight’s director of strategic initiatives.