Celebrating Arts Education Successes: Elena Pinderhughes
From Berkeley’s Young Musicians Choral Orchestra to the stage of SF Jazz: let’s celebrate Elena Pinderhughes
Increasing Awareness of the Arts Loan Fund
The Arts Loan Fund is here to support local arts organizations. If it can help, we encourage you to apply.
In Support of Teacher Training
We’ve seen sharp declines in enrollment in teacher credentialing programs, high rates of new teacher attrition, and skyrocketing costs of living in comparison to teacher pay. There are ways we can and will combat these factors, however.
Hear the Cypress String Quartet Play Farewell
Violinists Cecily Ward and Tom Stone, violist Ethan Filner, and cellist Jennifer Kloetzel celebrate their 20th and final season as the Cypress String Quartet with a series of free concerts. We hope you will be able to attend at least one performance.
Illuminating Philanthropy: Data, Art, and Transparency
Spectra: A Counting is a curtain of beads. In this curtain, each individual bead represents $10,000 of the Fund’s grantmaking. Taken together, they visually encapsulate the past 30 years of Fund grantmaking. Spectra, in the language of art, reveals the complex story of a foundation responding to changing times while maintaining its core values.
Mission Asset Fund in the Paper of Record
The Fund happily noted grantee Mission Asset Fund on the front page of the New York Times on Saturday. The write-up focuses on MAF’s lending circle program, which helps borrowers access affordable loans, build credit history, and set them up for a financially stable future. MAF is part of the Fund’s Economic Security cohort of grantees, addressing
Sharing Grants Data with Foundation Center’s Reporting Commitment
Today, the Walter & Elise Haas Fund’s feed goes live, sending grants data to Foundation Center’s Reporting Commitment. We’re supplying real-time information on our grantmaking via our custom-built, open source tool: Open hGrant for WordPress. Your organization can use this plug-in, too, for free. Read our press release and check out Fund Director of Administration Suki O’Kane’s post about it at Glasspockets, where
New Grants in July
The Fund’s Board of Trustees met in July and approved $1.23M in grants to 20 organizations. With these decisions, the Fund’s 2014 support of vital organizations working in the arts, economic security, education and Jewish life comes to nearly $7.1M. Details are here, along with information about all of our grants made or renewed in the past two years or
Open hGrant: The Little Plug-in for Philanthropy’s Big Data
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund’s overall mission is to foster a healthy, just, and vibrant society. We’ve mostly carried out that mission through grantmaking and leadership in our various fields of interest. But, recently, we found a new, and unlikely, way to advance our mission – through the development of a piece of open-source
