Championing Art & Artists in October
National Arts and Humanities Month is here, and artists need our support more than ever.
Standing With Grantees
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund stands with those who fight for justice. We stand with those whose courage and moral leadership insists that we address racial discrimination and anti-Black racism immediately. Last week the Fund’s Board Chair John Goldman and I co-authored a message to the Fund’s grantees. We share it here publicly on
Attempting Equity in Action: Iteration One of the Learning Lab
The Education Learning Lab is ultimately a case of participatory grantmaking in action.
Building in the Storm
Introducing the Walter & Elise Haas Fund Rapid Response Learning Lab
Listening to the Nonprofit Community During COVID-19
Things are changing quickly, frequently, and for many of us, frighteningly. The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us all to respond generously and compassionately despite the chaotic nature of the day—and that’s what we intend to do. The Walter & Elise Haas Fund is offering, and hopefully modelling, COVID-19-specific support in two phases, with more likely
Breaking Down Barriers to Education: Collaboration with the Center for Cities + Schools
It’s one thing to understand that busing kids to schools around the city might be an incomplete solution to disparity in education. Developing a data-based, sustainable plan to address inadequacies and then building the momentum to enact that plan, however — that’s something at an entirely different scale of impact.
The High Cost of Being Poor: Financial Justice for All
San Francisco’s Financial Justice Project — the first of its kind in the country — assesses and reforms how fees and fines unintentionally push people into poverty and make government a driver of inequality.
Announcing the 2018 Creative Work Fund Grants
As demonstrated by the projects selected, the Creative Work Fund’s focus on collaboration continues to invite artists to be adventurous and to challenge their ideas and their craft.
How Funders Can Better Serve Grantees
As a sector, we need to take the lessons we’re learning here to heart and put people at the center of our work.