Empower resilience:
Nonprofit worker well-being is more important than ever
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
Adventures in Silo-Busting and Trust-Building
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
Aiming to be an Equitable Learning Organization
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
Healthy Goodbyes: Exiting Grantee Relationships With Care
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
Gen Z Is the New Beginning
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,
Results of the Fund’s JEDI Snapshot
How our grantmaking is — and isn’t — addressing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Back to School in a New Normal
As we finally return to in-person instruction around the Bay Area, let’s listen to the needs of our students and make those concerns central to education’s new normal.
#FixTheForm!
If you’re a grantseeker, please know we’re committed to making our grant application process easier.
Walter & Elise Haas Fund 2019 Annual Report
Here’s what the Fund worked on in 2019.
