Chandrika Sahai Appointed New Network Coordinator
Submitted by lguinee on Tue, 03/27/2012 - 22:03After an extensive search, we are excited to announce that Chandrika Sahai has been appointed as the new Coordinator for the Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace Network. Chandrika will be working to build the network, share knowledge about practice, and connect practitioners and projects from around the world.
Chandrika lives in Jaipur, India and has been working with the Dalit Foundation, the Global Fund for Community Foundations and Foundations for Peace. We’re excited to bring such a talented, passionate and skilled woman on board to help build the global Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace Network.
Said Albert Ruesga, President and CEO of the Greater New Orleans Foundation and member of the Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace, "We saw in Chandrika a person who was talented, experienced, and tenacious. Her tenacity will serve her well as she knits together and animates a network of grantmakers committed to philanthropy for social justice and peace."
We asked a couple people who know her well to speak to why Chandrika is a good fit.
The Global Crisis: Movements for Economic Justice
Submitted by lguinee on Fri, 02/24/2012 - 08:56The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace is organizing a breakfast session at the European Foundation Centre Conference in June called "The Global Crisis: Movements for Economic Justice." We will look at the crisis from the global level and from the local level, in Ireland. John Christensen of the Tax Justice Network and Niall Crowley from Claiming Our Future will be presented - and the session will be moderated by Halima Mahomed. We hope you'll join us!
Impact Island at EFC Conference 2011
Submitted by lguinee on Tue, 05/31/2011 - 11:23The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace, along with the Bernard van Leer Foundation, Bertelsmann Stiftung, Erasmus Centre for Strategic Philanthropy, the European Foundation Centre (EFC), and Fondazione Cariplo, sponsored a highly interactive session at the EFC conference in Cascais called "Impact Island." The session aimed to address a number of different areas, including: reflecting upon attitudes in philanthropy toward impact analysis, investigating how context influences decisions on impact analysis, analyzing strategic approaches for applying various tools and methods, learning how to use evaluation results to communicate how foundations make a difference, and exploring practical tools and methods to analyze impact.
The agenda and description of the session is attached here - and the documents shared are available by clicking here.
To see a short video about the session, click here.
Social Justice Philanthropy Sessions at the Council on Foundations Conference
Submitted by lguinee on Sat, 04/09/2011 - 15:05The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace has organized two sessions on Social Justice Philanthropy at the Council on Foundations conference - both on Sunday, 10 April. The first is from 9:30 - 11:00 AM in Room 406 on the 4th floor. The second is from 4:00 - 4:40 PM in Franklin Room 1 on Level 4. Join us!
Study on Grantmaking Strategies with a Social Justice Emphasis
Submitted by lguinee on Sun, 01/16/2011 - 11:09The Working Group on Philanthropy for Social Justice and Peace is gathering information that will be helpful to grantmakers who are interested in funding in these areas and are hoping you will click here to take the survey. We are researching the field to find out how funders develop and implement grantmaking strategies with a social justice emphasis. We hope to develop material that will be of practical value to funders who want to have an impact on social justice issues.
This survey is designed to only be taken by grantmakers (rather than consultants or researchers). If you have been a grantmaker in the recent past, please respond from that perspective.
The information gathered through this survey will be confidential and no names will be attributed in any report without the express permission of those supplying the information.
Social Justice Philanthropy Issue of Alliance Magazine Released
Submitted by lguinee on Thu, 12/02/2010 - 10:48The December issue of Alliance magazine is now out, focusing on Social Justice Philanthropy, edited by Christopher Harris and with articles by many members of the Community of Practice. Click here to view it.