Scholarships Available for Full-day Training Seminar
Scholarships are now available to assist representatives of under-resourced nonprofits in California for our full-day training seminars in winter and spring 2009. If you represent a nonprofit organization in California with a budget under $1,000,000, you are eligible to apply. This initiative is sponsored by the Philanthropic Ventures Foundation and Pacific, Gas and Electric Company.
Philanthropy Chat
How Is the Economy Affecting Nonprofits and Philanthropy in the San Francisco Bay Area? (29:44) San Francisco, CA
November 20, 2008
Anne Wilson, chief executive officer for the United Way of the Bay Area, discusses findings from the United Way's recent survey of Bay Area nonprofits. She shares advice about strategies that nonprofits might employ to remain sustainable during these challenging times in an interview conducted by Janet Camarena of the Foundation Center-San Francisco.
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Embracing Diversity: Foundation Giving Benefiting California's Communities of Color
As the diversity of California's population continues to grow, a new Foundation Center analysis of grantmaking by 50 of the state's largest independent foundations finds that at least 39 percent of California-focused grants benefited populations of color. According to the report, Embracing Diversity: Foundation Giving Benefiting California's Communities of Color, in 2005 alone, these 50 California-based foundations awarded a minimum of 2,700 grants totaling nearly $300 million to support health, education, social services, and other programs that serve ethnically or racially diverse populations. In addition, 10-year trends show that giving benefiting these populations grew nearly twice as fast as overall giving between 1996 and 2005.
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Anne Wilson, chief executive officer for the United Way of the Bay Area, discusses findings from the United Way's recent survey of Bay Area nonprofits. She shares advice about strategies that nonprofits might employ to remain sustainable during these challenging times in an interview conducted by Janet Camarena of the Foundation Center-San Francisco.
As the diversity of California's population continues to grow, a new Foundation Center analysis of grantmaking by 50 of the state's largest independent foundations finds that at least 39 percent of California-focused grants benefited populations of color. According to the report, Embracing Diversity: Foundation Giving Benefiting California's Communities of Color, in 2005 alone, these 50 California-based foundations awarded a minimum of 2,700 grants totaling nearly $300 million to support health, education, social services, and other programs that serve ethnically or racially diverse populations. In addition, 10-year trends show that giving benefiting these populations grew nearly twice as fast as overall giving between 1996 and 2005.
