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Leveraging Media to Advance Your Philanthropic Goals

Funders of all types and sizes are using strategic communications to advance their philanthropic goals, especially in today’s world that demands increasing transparency. This webinar addressed how thoughtful and strategic media engagement can amplify the impact of your philanthropy and offered tips for engaging media using Exponent Philanthropy’s new Media Toolkit as a guide. Speakers: Rob DiLeonardi, executive... Read More

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What Is a Coach Approach to Philanthropy?

The “coach approach” is a skillset and mindset that can transform the key relationships in your philanthropic work. Using deep listening and powerful questions, the “coach approach” helps you gain awareness, discover new ways of thinking, and focus on creating collaborative solutions. During this webinar, you will learn the basics of the approach and hear... Read More

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Collective Impact: B’More for Babies Case Study

Collective impact brings people together, in a structured way, to achieve social change. Curious how it really works in practice? Want to understand how small-staffed foundations can get involved? This webinar shares an overview of collective impact along with practical, how-to tips from a Baltimore effort that has helped to reduce infant mortality and improve... Read More

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Foundation Investing: Using Passive & Active Management in Volatile Markets

Passive and active management are two approaches to managing investments, and foundation staff and trustees often ask, Which should we do? What is involved in each type? In this webinar, Peter Klein explained the difference between the two, the pros and cons of each strategy, and a way to combine both. Speaker: Peter Klein of Klein... Read More

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Managing Risk to Maximize Impact in Grantmaking

Funders are often described—and describe themselves—as being able to take risks that neither the private sector nor the government can or will take. However, no industry standard currently exists for defining, assessing, and managing risk in philanthropy. Few grantmakers assess risk during the application process and even fewer have processes in place to manage risks... Read More

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Impact Investing: From Concept to Reality

Through stories and examples, learn how Foundations have aligned their investment portfolios with their philanthropic missions. This webinar was created for foundations that are beginning to explore impact investing, or for Foundations looking for ways to advance their impact investing program. Read More