Advocacy and policy

Building Trust to Promote Community Collaboration

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Dave Joseph, Elizabeth Jordan

Problems in a community can be hard to solve when the people involved don’t communicate with each other because of their conflicting values across religious, cultural, political, social and other divides. … Read More

Engaging Stakeholders for Better Grantmaking

Posted on October 2, 2008 by Courtney Bourns, Mary Walachy

We hear more and more these days about working with grantees as partners. But how is that really done? And does it truly make the work of your foundation more effective?… Read More

Family foundations and advocacy: Making your grant dollars go further

Posted on June 12, 2008 by Abby Levine

Abby Levine reviews the various activities that constitute advocacy and describes why foundation support for advocacy is so important. She explains the legal rules governing such activity, outlining the types of activities family foundations may legally fund and those they may do themselves… Read More

How a Family Foundation Employs Shareholder Activism

Posted on May 10, 2007 by Lance Lindblom, Laura Shaffer

The Nathan Cummings Foundation has been consciously following a strategy of attempting to influence the companies in which they are invested around key areas of concern to the Foundation for several years… Read More

Creating Social Change Through Your Family’s Philanthropy

Posted on April 13, 2006 by Alison D. Goldberg, Jamie Schweser

'Social change philanthropy', a term often applied to philanthropy that tries to address the root causes of societal inequalities, is being embraced by family philanthropists of all generations. … Read More

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