Last October, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund co-published a blog with the James Irvine Foundation and ReWork the Bay that called on funders to start talking about nonprofit job quality. We wrote about how “[t]oo many nonprofit jobs lack family-sustaining wages, necessary benefits, worker protections, and advancement opportunities. Instead of enabling economic security, for
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund announces 10 Possibility Grants to organizations deemed essential to building a more just and equitable society and actively working to challenge systems of oppression. Through a program designed and managed by Bay Area Youth (BAY) Community Fellows, youth advisors to the Walter & Elise Haas Fund grantmaking team, grants
This year we’ve been talking with grantees, community, and our board of directors to inform a redesign of our grantmaking in the arts, Jewish life, racial justice, and our interest in disaster preparedness and climate resilience. What drives this shift in our grantmaking is our commitment to move from silos to integration: we want to
Since 2020, we’ve been taking deliberate steps at the Walter & Elise Haas Fund to re-examine our grantmaking purpose, reimagine our practices, and strengthen our commitment to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. We didn’t know where these steps would lead, but we knew we were building towards something transformative. What has resulted is a re-articulation
In this blog, we share the big picture of why the Walter & Elise Haas Fund aims to be an equitable learning organization, why learning matters to us, and how it drives our relationship with grantees. As we build our learning practice, we’ll share tactics and processes in future blogs. Justice, equity, and learning are
As we continue our philanthropy learning lab on how the Walter & Elise Haas Fund is operationalizing trust-based philanthropy, I am offering a reflection about how we exit funding relationships with grantees. Exiting grantees is the process a foundation takes to discontinue funding to a grantee. While it is a routine occurrence in philanthropy, it
Our future is a multiracial democracy, where demographers project that by 2048 a majority of Americans will be people of color. This future is driven not by an influx of immigrants but young people of color. In fact, as sociologist Dr. Manuel Pastor points out, our country is living with a racial generation gap,
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