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Collaboration for Systemic Change Through a Racial Equity Lens: Insights from the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York Jun 16, 2021 In our Adaptable Funder series , we are highlighting practices from a range of funders that enabled flexibility and efficacy in the face of the crises of 2020, and lessons learned for more powerful...

Find Your Niche and Work It with Everything You Have: Lessons from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation May 19, 2021 Prior to 2020, foundations and other funders were already working on improving the way philanthropy was conducted. Then came COVID-19 and the social rupture driven by centuries of racial inequity and...

How One Family is Tackling Inequity from the Ground Up Dec 10, 2020 In the wake of the crises of 2020, the philanthropic community has been reaching deeper to become more strategic and more effective. To find out what skills and practices some funders are finding...

How the Boston Foundation Leads and Adapts in Times of Crisis Oct 13, 2020 This post in our Adaptable Funder series focuses on community foundations, with an interview with Paul Grogan, President and CEO of the Boston Foundation (TBF). As the full scope of the COVID-19...

How The Russell Berrie Foundation Adapted to COVID-19 Jul 28, 2020 In the last few months, the world has changed, and all of us with it. The myriad issues philanthropy has spent decades trying to address on many fronts, and in every corner of the world, have...