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2021-08-02
IssueLab;
The Funding Intermediaries Special Collection was available as a searchable online collection from 2016 until 2021. The collection was made possible by PEAK Grantmaking. This document includes a bibliography detailing the contents of the collection. Titles continue to be accessible via www.issuelab.org.Archived date: July 30, 2021Collection title: Funding Intermediaries Special CollectionCollection URL: https://intermediaries.issuelab.orgAvailability: 2016-2021Title count: 56 titlesCreator: IssueLab, a service of Foundation CenterIllustration: Untitled, by Foundation CenterDescription: When grantmakers use intermediary organizations, or "regranters", they generally do so to expand their capacity or broaden their expertise. But what impact do intermediaries have on grantmaking practices? There are both promising opportunities as well as pitfalls to working with intermediaries, and this IssueLab collection aims to inform grantmakers about both.Collection Themes:"Working With Intermediaries" - Best Practices; The Funder-Intermediary Relationship"What Intermediaries Do" - Capacity Building; Evaluation & Outcome Measurement; Regranting; Technical Assistance; International Grantmaking; Backbone Support; Relationship Building; Government Collaboration"Where They Work: Case Studies" - Arts; Community & Economic Development; LGBTQI; Youth Development
2021-08-02
IssueLab;
The Funding Capacity Special Collection was available as a searchable online collection from 2015 until 2021. The collection was made possible by Open Society Foundations (OSF). This document includes a bibliography detailing the contents of the collection. Titles continue to be accessible via www.issuelab.org.Archived date: July 30, 2021Collection title: Funding Capacity Special CollectionCollection URL: https://fundingcapacity.issuelab.orgAvailability: 2015-2021Title count: 141 titlesCreator: IssueLab, a service of Foundation CenterIllustration: Untitled, by Foundation CenterDescription: Capacity building can carry many different meanings, but at its heart, it represents an investment aimed at strengthening effectiveness. This special collection gathers the experience and insights of foundations and nonprofits who have made just this kind of investment. The collection builds on topics explored in the new GrantCraft guide "Supporting Grantee Capacity", including approaches to field-building, working with technical assistance providers and consultants, and assessing the impact of capacity building initiatives.Collection Themes: "Topics" - Advocacy & Communications Capacity; Assessing Impact; Field-Building; Funder Capacity & Collaborations; General Operating Support; Governance & Strategic Planning Capacity; Human Capital Capacity; Non-Monetary Support; Research & Evaluation Capacity; Technical Assistance Providers & Consultants
2021-07-30
Barr Foundation;
In fall 2020, the Barr Foundation offered high schools the opportunity to hear firsthand from their stakeholders about the teaching and learning experience within the unprecedented educational environment brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Ten schools across New England opted to take advantage of this opportunity, partnering with YouthTruth to administer surveys to students (and in some cases, to staff and families), to gather information and insights about how they were faring nearly a semester into the 2020-21 school year.
2021-07-30
IssueLab;
The Multi-party Advocacy Special Collection was available as a searchable online collection from 2016 until 2021. The collection was a joint project of IssueLab and the Atlas Learning Project. This document includes a bibliography detailing the contents of the collection. Titles continue to be accessible via www.issuelab.org.Archived date: July 30, 2021Collection title: Multi-party Advocacy Special CollectionCollection URL: https://fundingadvocacy.issuelab.orgAvailability: 2016-2021Title count: 52 titlesCreator: IssueLab, a service of Foundation CenterPhoto credit: "Group Discussion - Flipped Learning" by Michael Coghlan, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)Description: For many foundations, collaboration is key to advocating for policy and practice change. But these kinds of partnerships can be challenging to execute well. "Sticking points", like conflicts over decision-making power or competition for resources, can derail advocacy-focused efforts and make even the most earnest collaborator wary. This collection brings together 40+ reports and reflection pieces about multi-party advocacy efforts; providing valuable perspective on both the sticking points and how we might move through them. The collection was created as a complement to a related set of resources on the same topic from our sister site, GrantCraft (https://grantcraft.org/content-series/advocacy-funder-collaboratives).Collection Themes: "Sticking Points" - Decision Making Power; Conflicting Agendas; Group-Think; Knowledge Sharing; Funder Engagement; Management Structure; Competition for Resources
2021-07-30
IssueLab;
The Disconnected Youth Special Collection was available as a searchable online collection from 2016 until 2021. See "Special Collection on Disconnected Youth: Summary Brief" for collection methodology and a scoping summary. This document includes a bibliography detailing the contents of the collection. Titles continue to be accessible via www.issuelab.org.Archived date: July 30, 2021Collection title: Disconnected Youth Special CollectionCollection URL: https://disconnectedyouth.issuelab.orgAvailability: 2016-2021Title count: 142 titlesCreator: IssueLab, a service of Foundation CenterPhoto credit: Richard Ross, "Families Unlocking Futures: Solutions to the Crisis in Juvenile Justice" (https://issuelab.org/permalink/resource/25544)Description: For too many young people the transition to adulthood is characterized by isolation, joblessness, and a lack of educational opportunity or connection to caring community. In a far-reaching effort to help disconnected youth, nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies across the U.S. are providing support in the form of shelters, job training, mentorship, college prep, job placement, and mental and reproductive health services. But in order to achieve success it is clear that these efforts require greater alignment and coordination. This special collection gathers the many lessons being learned in the field; lessons about the challenges in meeting the needs of disconnected youth and the promise of both new and more proven approaches. Collection Themes:Affected Community: Girls; Boys; Homeless Youth; African Americans; System-involved Youth; Latin-Americans; Immigrants & Migrants; Native Americans; Foster & Adoptive ChildrenProgram Type: Juvenile Re-entry; Shelter & Residential Care; Family Services; Job Placement; Job Training; Secondary Education; Student Retention; College Preparation; Parent Education; Reproductive Health Services; Mental Health Services; Permanence; Youth Development; Youth Engagement; Transition Planning; Youth MentoringFunding Source: Federal Government; State Government; PhilanthropyCommon Obstacles: Insufficient Funding; Lack of Capacity; Programmatic Silos; Insufficient Data or KnowledgePromising Approaches: Cross-system Integration; Pooling Funds; Cultural Competency; Community Connectedness; Racial Equity Lens; Cradle to College; Post-Program Support; Justice System Reform; Educational System Reform; Foster Care System Reform
2021-07-29
Center on Poverty & Social Policy (CPSP);
This report leverages data from the Early Childhood Poverty Tracker (see text box for a more detailed description), a Columbia University and Robin Hood study of more than 1,500 parents of young children in New York City, to provide a window into how families – especially low-income parents – managed their child care needs before the onset of the pandemic and what happens when families experience disruptions in their child care.PART I of this report focuses on accessibility and affordability of child care in New York City before the pandemic, specifically discussing what types of child care families used, including center-based, home-based, and informal care, and how they afforded that care.PART II explores both the extent and the economic cost of child care disruptions for New Yorkers, including an analysis of disruptions during the pandemic. To analyze the costs and impacts of disruptions, both to families and to the economy overall, the report replicates similar studies conducted in Maryland and Louisiana, which found that both states lost over $1 billion in a given year from parental absence and turnover due to child care disruptions. While the data we use for this analysis were collected prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we can only expect that the impacts documented here were exacerbated due to the disruptions of daily life brought about by COVID-19.Together, these findings highlight the difficult trade-offs between access, quality, and affordability for families of young children, as well as the economic implications of disruptions to child care. This report can inform policymakers and practitioners as they lay the groundwork for reopening the city's centers and reimagine a better, more inclusive, and more accessible system.
2021-07-29
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy;
Structural barriers have created a deeply unequal healthcare system that blocks access to abortion care, especially for BIPoC, poor and transgender people.Over 60% of people seeking abortions identify as Black, Hispanic, Asian or Pacific Islander and 75% are low-income. In the United States, 89% of counties have no abortion providers at all, but even geographic proximity doesn't guarantee access when people must choose between healthcare, rent or food. Almost none have services specifically for transgender patients.It does not have to be this way.Reproductive justice envisions a world where everyone can access the safety, resources and services they need. A healthier, safer, and more equitable world means all pregnant people have both the right and the resources to choose what is best for them. Transgender people can access the full range of healthcare services without stigma. The medical precept of "Do No Harm" is taken seriously and crisis pregnancy centers are not allowed to compromise patient health and safety in the name of ideology.If philanthropy is serious about creating this world, then it must play an active, public role in achieving health equity. That includes abortion access for all.Through storytelling, resource links and data collected by NCRP staff and others, this roadmap educates grantmakers on major barriers to abortion access, brings the voices of practitioners, patients and others on the frontlines into the conversation and provides concrete action steps funders can take to support health equity through abortion access.
2021-07-29
IssueLab;
The arts education special collection was available as a searchable online collection at https://artsed.issuelab.org from 2008 until 2021. A bibliography detailing the contents of the collection is available to download. Titles continue to be accessible via www.issuelab.org.Collection title: Arts Education Special CollectionCollection URL: https://artsed.issuelab.orgAvailability: 2008-2021Title count: 164 titlesCreator: IssueLab, a service of Foundation CenterPhoto credit: "Arles in Black 2013" (https://bit.ly/2Vi5HQn) by x1klima (https://www.flickr.com/photos/x1klima) licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0.Description: For too many young people the transition to adulthood is characterized by isolation, joblessness, and a lack of educational opportunity or connection to caring community. In a far-reaching effort to help disconnected youth, nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies across the U.S. are providing support in the form of shelters, job training, mentorship, college prep, job placement, and mental and reproductive health services. But in order to achieve success it is clear that these efforts require greater alignment and coordination. This special collection gathers the many lessons being learned in the field; lessons about the challenges in meeting the needs of disconnected youth and the promise of both new and more proven approaches.Themes: Classroom Examples; Community Outcomes; Funding Trends; Program Models;Student Outcomes
2021-07-28
Walton Family Foundation, Inc.;
For the last couple of decades, climate change has been a large, amorphous, existential threat to everything we hold dear. In more recent years, the threat has become increasingly clear and present in the lives of most Americans, who see the reality of the challenge reflected back at us in the most basic ingredient for life: water.Through water, many Americans experience the reality of climate change almost daily. Flooding, drought, record-breaking storms and even wildfires – each in their own way makes the presence of climate change and its impact on both water and everyday life inescapable.The Walton Family Foundation has a longstanding and deep commitment to protecting rivers, lakes and oceans. Our response to the water and climate challenges we face involves building broad coalitions around commonsense ideas.
2021-07-28
Lilly Endowment, Inc.;
While living through the challenges of two world wars and the Great Depression, Lilly Endowment founders, J.K. Lilly Sr. and his sons, Eli and J.K. Jr., dedicated themselves and their company to helping meet the immediate needs of their employees, community and country while they continued to plan and build for the future. During the past extraordinarily challenging year, the Endowment attempted to follow their example by working to help meet various urgent needs in our city, state and country arising from the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to help build brighter futures for individuals, families, organizations and communities through our ongoing grantmaking in community development, education and religion, the areas of focus established by our founders when they created the Endowment in 1937.The Endowment's COVID-19-related grantmaking in 2020, which totaled nearly $208 million, supported the inspirational efforts of hundreds of organizations that worked diligently to help meet urgent needs in Indianapolis, throughout Indiana and across the nation. This grantmaking also included funding for several organizations to make pandemic-related adjustments needed to continue to operate their important programs safely.This annual report also highlights other grants the Endowment approved in 2020 that support promising endeavors to build brighter, more prosperous futures for young children and college students in Indiana and that enhance the future vitality of the community of Indianapolis and communities throughout the state, as well as congregations and seminaries around the country.
2021-07-28
Calvert Impact Capital;
This guide is written for faith institutions and their financial decision makers—chief investment officers, finance staff, investment committee members, and financial professionals – seeking to incorporate impact investments into their portfolios. We highlight the key steps and considerations, which include establishing an Impact Strategy and integrating it into investment policies and due diligence/sourcing questions. The guide includes many resources and examples from fellow faith investors and impact experts.
2021-07-28
Kaiser Family Foundation;
Dental benefits are not generally covered by Medicare, except under limited circumstances, and many people on Medicare do not have any dental coverage at all. Some Medicare beneficiaries have access to dental coverage through other sources, such as Medicare Advantage plans, but the scope of dental benefits, when covered, varies widely and is often quite limited, which can result in high out-of-pocket costs among those with serious dental needs or unmet need.Policymakers are now discussing options to make dental care more affordable by broadening dental coverage for people on Medicare. President Biden's FY 2022 budget request includes as part of the President's healthcare agenda "improving access to dental, hearing, and vision coverage in Medicare." Senate Democrats recently announced an agreement to include Medicare expansions, including dental, vision, and hearing, as part of the budget reconciliation package, though details of the agreement have not yet been released. In 2019, the House of Representatives passed the Elijah E. Cummings Lower Drug Costs Now Act (H.R.3) that would add a dental benefit to Medicare Part B, along with a vision and hearing benefit, in addition to provisions to reduce prescription drug costs. Earlier this year, Representative Doggett, joined by 76 members of the House of Representatives, introduced the Medicare Dental, Vision, and Hearing Benefit Act (H.R. 4311) which would cover these benefits under Medicare Part B.In light of these ongoing policy discussions, this brief provides new data on the share of Medicare beneficiaries with dental coverage, the share with a dental visit in the past 12 months, and out-of-pocket spending on dental care. It also takes a closer look at the scope of dental benefits offered to Medicare Advantage enrollees in individual plans in 2021. We focus on Medicare Advantage plans because they have become the leading source of dental coverage among Medicare beneficiaries. Our analysis draws from multiple datasets, including the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey for information on dental visits and out-of-pocket dental costs and the Medicare Advantage Enrollment and Benefit files for data on individual Medicare Advantage plans. To present a more detailed picture of dental benefits beyond what's available in these data sets, we examine dental coverage offered by 10 geographically dispersed Medicare Advantage plans offered by different insurers with relatively high enrollment that offer dental benefits.
