When organizations – both nonprofit and philanthropic – consider their missions with an eye toward diversity, equity, and inclusion, it can have wide-ranging implications, from who comprises their staff and volunteers to what their policies say about vendors, intake, and more. Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy......
30 September, 2019 No commentThis is by no means an exhaustive list, but shares books, websites, movies, podcasts, and other tools that can help an individual or organization in a journey to understand and act on diversity, equity, and inclusion. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People......
30 September, 2019 No commentSince 2014, the Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy has convened local funders at least every other month to learn more about best practices in the field of grantmaking and social impact as well as local nonprofits and initiatives, to collaborate on significant activities, and to get......
11 June, 2019 No commentNonprofit organizations employ 10% of the US workforce and contribute 6% of the GDP, not to mention the good work that they do changing lives and impacting society. But according to Vu Le, nonprofit executive director and beloved blogger, so many in the public and private sector don’t give nonprofits the credit they deserve....
03 April, 2019 No commentMore than one in four households in Greenville County have zero or negative net worth. Almost 20% of households are underbanked (using pawn shops, payday loans, or non-bank money orders to get by). It would take 228 years for black families to accumulate the same amount of wealth as whites. If our community is serious about promoting economic mobility, addressing this wealth disparity is fundamental....
03 April, 2019 No commentAll nonprofits are interested in boosting their success in fundraising to bring more revenues in for the work that they do. But not enough nonprofits strategize around truly transformational gifts – the type and size of gifts that would enable them to ramp up the......
25 February, 2019 No commentMany local nonprofits indicate that they do not conduct an annual giving campaign or a concerted major gifts effort. If they do work on annual giving, it usually takes the form of a direct mail or email campaign. Although a drive such as that might......
25 February, 2019 No commentPrivate foundations are required to spend at least 5% of the average market value of their net investment assets on charitable purposes. Foundations then invest the remaining 95% in ways that will maximize returns to enable them to award more grants in the years to come....
22 January, 2019 No commentAugust 2018 began the fourth academic year of OnTrack Greenville (OTG), the broad collaborative to boost middle grade success at Berea, Lakeview, and Tanglewood Middle Schools and Greenville Early College. It also began the freshman year of high school for the first group of students......
08 January, 2019 No commentMembers of the Greenville Partnership for Philanthropy and the Nonprofit Alliance gathered on December 11th at the Warehouse Theatre to toast the holidays and each other. Dawn Dowden (Homes of Hope), Meghan Barp (United Way of Greenville County), Madeleine McGee (Together SC), Jennifer Harrill (United......
17 December, 2018 No comment