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Bruce DeBoskey, a philanthropic strategist posits that community foundations will play a critical role in fulfilling the U.N.'s Sustainable Development Goals. The SDG's provide a roadmap for addressing the challenges threatening billions of people across the globe.
Community foundations will play an important role in achieving the SDGs. Vikki Spruill, president and CEO of the Council on Foundations, puts it well:
"The 17 SDGs represent a global agenda. But they require local action to achieve them. Community foundations — place-based, grassroots organizations addressing local challenges — have been overlooked as a means to achieving the SDGs. There is a major opportunity before us to leverage their unmatched convening power and local knowledge to improve lives on a global scale."
Community foundations are uniquely positioned to play a critical role in achieving the SDGs – because they have the unrivaled power to convene key stakeholders in the community. Read the Entire Article
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A lead story for The Chronicle of Philanthropy's "Leaders of Color Speak Out... about being underestimated, breaking barriers, and whether things are getting better" gathers 25 leaders of color at...more
Researchers Alison Powell, Susan Wolf Ditkoff, and Fay Twersky have partaken in a collaboration literature review, which identified more than 125 major articles and reports by practitioners and...more
Foundation: Philadelphia Foundation
The Philadelphia Foundation will be crowdsourcing its donations with its new initiative in allowing the public to select the winners of $1 million worth of grants. The Philadelphia Foundation will...more
Foundation: Google.org
Martin Levine of NonProfit Quarterly examines a tech-backed nonprofit accelerator and poses a round of questions asking if this philanthropic effort helps solve problems like inequality,...more
Foundation: Arizona Community Foundation
The H100 Latina Giving Circle recently launched at the Texas Women's Foundation (TWF). TWF was formed by the Hispanic 100 Network to further engage Latinas in philanthropy. According to TWF...more
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio will be collaborating with billionaire investors and philanthropists Laurene Powell Jobs and Brian Sheth to create a new organization, called Earth Alliance. According to a...more
The 7th Asian Venture Philanthropy Network Conference addresses social and environmental issues as part of the the launch of the region's first multi-sector Climate Action Platform by Dr Amy Khor,...more
The Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) researchers launched a multidimensional poverty index, the Business Multidimensional Poverty Index (bMPI). OPHI decided to spin out...more
In a Live Mint opinion piece, it explores the dichotomy between relief of distress and development of capabilities that runs through the NGO sector. Arun Maira, Chairman of HelpAge International,...more
Foundation: Community Foundation of Western Nevada, Nevada Community Foundation
The Community Foundation of Western Nevada sponsors an article in Northern Nevada Business News (NNBN) that touches points why wealth is temporary but impacts can leave a long-lasting legacy for...more
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