Weekend Link Roundup (November 24-25, 2018)

A weekly roundup of noteworthy items from and about the social sector. For more links to great content, follow us on Twitter at @pndblog....

Arts and Culture

What role might foundations play in addressing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES), a significant risk factor for a variety of health and social problems across the lifespan? John Mullaney, executive director of the Nord Family Foundation, has been thinking about that for some time now and, in a post here on PhilanTopic, shares his thoughts.

Climate Change

Thirty years after The New Yorker published "The End of Nature," Bill McKibben's seminal article about the greenhouse effect, McKibben returns to the pages of the magazine with a look at what we have learned in the decades since about climate change, extreme weather, and their impact on human society. You will not be encouraged.

Education

On the HistPhil blog, Leslie Finger, a political scientist and lecturer on government and social studies at Harvard University, considers some of the implications of foundation grants to state education agencies.

Fundraising

It's not enough for nonprofits to simply thank their donors, says Vu Le, who shares twenty-one tips designed to help you and your organization be better at recognizing and appreciating the people who support your work.

On the Bloomerang blog, Terri Shoemaker, chief strategy officer at Abeja Solutions in Phoenix, Arizona, pays tribute to "the small donor. The little ones. Those generous folks that give when they can to a mailing, online, or even to your very specific appeal on social media."

Governance

Why do we still struggle with diversity, equity, and inclusion in nonprofit governance? In a piece for the NonProfit Quarterly, Dr. Elizabeth Castillo, an assistant professor of leadership and interdisciplinary studies at Arizona State University, tries to answer that question.

Innovation

Increasingly, solutions to the growing social and environmental problems we face are likely to be incubated in and by cities. One major foundation is thinking creatively about how to accelerate that process. Ben Paynter reports for Fast Company.

Nonprofits

With #GivingTuesday and the end-of-the-year giving season upon us, Wise Philanthropy blogger Richard Marker shares some practical advice about making good choices with your charitable dollars.

Beth Kanter and Allison Fine have been researching AI for Social Good and Nonprofits, and their latest monthly roundup includes links to tools as well as AI resources in the areas of fundraising, ethics, workplace impact, and social good.

Philanthropy

Janet Camarena, director of transparency initiatives at Foundation Center, sat down with Understanding & Sharing What Works: The State of Foundation Practice, a new report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to see what it had to say about the barriers and catalysts to developing a culture of openness in philanthropy. Here's what she learned.

In a post on the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy blog, Reed Young, an events and webinar intern at NCRP, shares highlights of Resource Generation's Making Money Make Change conference, which brought community organizers, social justice funders, and young people of wealth and privilege together to engage in dialogue about the roots of the racial wealth divide and how they might create action plans to leverage their power and privilege to do something about it.

Racial Justice

And here on PhilanTopic, frequent contributor Kathryn Pyle considers the legacy of lynching and racial terror as portrayed in a new exhibit at Haverford College, on the Main Line west of Philadelphia.

That's it for this week. Got something you'd like to share? Drop us a note at mfn@foundationcenter.org.