Find advice and inspiration on a single theme written by fellow members, trusted colleagues, and our expert staff. This exclusive member benefit can help focus your giving and spark conversations with other lean funders. Essentials: Greatest Hits This issue of Essentials covers important and enlightening topics—material you will return to repeatedly. In this, the capstone... Read More
Advocacy Field Guide Make Big Change With Little Money Funders with few or no staff are perfectly positioned to fund and engage in advocacy. This field guide is a set of seven practical, field-tested steps for funding and engaging in advocacy, a great starting point for lean funders. Foundation Operations & Management Report... Read More
Press Releases For media inquiries, contact us at 202-580-6560. Exponent Philanthropy Announces 2024–2025 Board Leadership Exponent Philanthropy, the nation’s largest philanthropic membership association, is pleased to announce its newly elected 2024–2025 board leadership and the addition of new board members. Read more » Exponent Philanthropy Releases Updated Foundation Guidebook, December 3, 2024 Exponent Philanthropy is... Read More
Today is Equal Pay Day, the day when women’s earnings “catch up” to men’s earnings from the previous year. The average American woman would have to continue to work through this date in 2017 to earn as much as the average American man in 2016. The Pay Equity Landscape According to the most recent data,... Read More
This post is an excerpt from the complimentary resource Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations, created by Exponent Philanthropy and partners Mission Investors Exchange and Arabella Advisors. Want to align your investments with your mission? Download Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations >> By Cynthia Muller and Catherine Toner, Arabella Advisors For... Read More
In many cases, combinations are much more powerful than individual circumstances. Think hot dogs and mustard, Abbott and Costello, peanut butter and jelly. Investing is not much different. When the power of two schools of investment management—passive and active—are combined in the Core-Satellite approach to portfolio management, the end result tends to be better. Many... Read More