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Lean Funders Are Adjusting Their Grantmaking and Operations to Respond to COVID-19: Week of April 20
On Friday, April 17, Exponent Philanthropy hosted a fifth live discussion for lean funders to share how they are responding to COVID-19. We will continue to host these discussions every Friday at 2 PM ET to give all lean funders the opportunity to connect around their responses. We are also compiling COVID-19 information and resources relevant to lean funders. Lean... Read More
How We Leveraged Our Super Powers to Respond to COVID-19
COVID-19 is keeping me awake at night. I am completely overwhelmed with information and uncertainty. As a foundation with only one staff member located in Monterey, California, I knew that we could do something to support our community, but I also knew that we didn’t have the financial or human resources to do anything dramatic... Read More
Lean Funders Are Adjusting Their Grantmaking and Operations to Respond to COVID-19: Week of April 13
On Friday, April 10, Exponent Philanthropy hosted a fourth live discussion for lean funders to share how they are responding to COVID-19. We will continue to host these discussions every Friday at 2 PM ET to give all lean funders the opportunity to connect around their responses. We are also compiling COVID-19 information and resources relevant to lean... Read More
Reflections on COVID-19
Many years ago, Sister Janice of the Sisters of Notre Dame advised me to “never confuse the expression of religion with the essence of religion.” Amid Passover, Easter, and Ramadan, her words ring truer now than ever as COVID-19 makes us reassess how we celebrate these holy days. This Passover, a computer monitor was center... Read More
Lean Funders Are Adjusting Their Grantmaking and Operations to Respond to COVID-19: Week of April 6
On Friday, April 3, Exponent Philanthropy hosted a third live discussion for lean funders to share how they are responding to COVID-19. We will continue to host these discussions every Friday at 2 PM ET to give all lean funders the opportunity to connect around their responses. We are also compiling COVID-19 information and resources relevant to lean... Read More
Is COVID-19 Our Proverbial “Rainy Day”?
COVID-19 is like nothing any of us has ever experienced. Regardless of your field of interest or areas of funding, it is upending how we operate as funders and as a society. To paraphrase founding father Thomas Paine, these are indeed times that try our souls. Each day we are challenged with caring for our... Read More