You’ve heard the catchy jingles on television for title loans. You’ve seen storefronts for payday loans and pawn shops on every corner in certain parts of town. But if you’re like many South Carolinians, you don’t know much about the “payday lending” industry. Some of......
16 January, 2020Zoning and land use may seem to be outside of the scope of GPP members’ interests. But it is land use that undergirds affordable housing, transit, access to healthy food, and so much of what is fundamental to many funders’ and nonprofits’ work. The December 2019 GPP meeting focused on Greenville County and the City of Greenville’s comprehensive planning processes (currently underway) that lay the groundwork for these important activities....
17 December, 2019When 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, 2019This 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, 2019Since 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, 2019Nonprofit 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, 2019More 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, 2019All 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, 2019Many 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, 2019Private 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....
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