The Success of Arts Learning Pods
Lessons learned from a pandemic project.
Results of the Fund’s JEDI Snapshot
How our grantmaking is — and isn’t — addressing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Protecting the Most Vulnerable During 2020’s Compounding Crises
This year requires us all to step up in extraordinary ways. The Fund asks you to join us in redirecting your efforts and resources to aid communities in crisis.
Why Funding Civil Legal Services Is Smart Strategy
Supplying the community with civil legal services support dramatically improves quality of life, circumventing crises before they happen.
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
