Jennifer Astone is leading her small-staffed foundation to move its assets in strategic ways and documenting the journey for peers. From 2013–2018, under Jen’s leadership as executive director, Swift Foundation Read Story
Katherine Zavala sees, senses, and responds to what is possible and what is preferred by her grantee partners. Katherine has spent the vast majority of her career at Thousand Currents, Read Story
As CEO of Sherwood Trust, Danielle Garbe Reser’s creative thinking is bringing additional philanthropic capital to her region’s underserved rural nonprofit leaders. Sherwood Trust is the largest discretionary funder in Read Story
The Charles H. Hood Foundation, a family foundation focused on enhancing the lives of children through pediatric research and innovation, recently announced bridge funding for three pediatric research projects in Read Story
We at the Potts Family Foundation in Oklahoma feel our most important role is not as a funder but as an advocate, convener, and catalyst. Foundations—including those with few staff like ours—have Read Story
The Fine Fund is a small trustee-run foundation with two very part-time staff, created in 1997 to support organizations using complementary strategies to eliminate toxic chemicals from humans and the ecosystem. Read Story
The Union Benevolent Association (UBA) was founded in 1831 to assist the suffering poor of Philadelphia during an unusually harsh winter. It offered money, medicine, food, clothing, and counseling to Read Story
How do we measure impact throughout the grantmaking process? Often, we find that foundations we work with give with meaningful intent but otherwise remain in the background of grantmaking. To Read Story
The Patterson Foundation of Sarasota, FL, believes in the power of partnerships to achieve greater results. It uses a unique model to collaborate with and support successful programs, leveraging existing Read Story
The Obici Healthcare Foundation strives to improve the health status of those in its service area (Suffolk, VA and surrounding communities in the previous service area of the Louise Obici Read Story