Most companies have huge amounts of data – on customers, vendors, employees, click histories, online purchases, and much more. What if you could harness this data for social good?
Given that two out of three net new jobs in the US are created by small businesses, many funders are thinking outside the box around how to help new businesses take off and/or give a boost to existing businesses, so they can grow.
In the Greater Washington region, a conversation about racism and racial equity must cross geographic jurisdictions and racial and ethnic lines. Is the Greater Washington region ready to hold a summit on racial equity?
Join us for our second quarterly New Working Group Member Orientation to learn more about REWG’s goals, priorities, and group culture and find out how you can get involved in the work.
A full day professional development workshop for Mid-Atlantic grantmakers taught by experienced practitioners. Presented by the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers each year.
Join the Healthy Communities Working Group for its June meeting.
Are you a grantmaker with a funding focus in Northern Virginia? Then please join Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, the Potomac Health Foundation, ACT for Alexandria, and the Land Family Foundation for this peer-led opportunity to meet your colleagues and explore opportunities to collaborate.
Elevated equity evaluations, low yields, and the expectation of higher volatility as we head into 2018 make alternative investments an attractive option for investors. However, a number of issues need to be discussed before a foundation considers adding alternative investments to its portfolio.
Are you a grantmaking organization with few or no staff working in the Greater Washington region? Then, please join us for this peer-to-peer conversation as we explore practical options for evaluating your organization’s operations, governance, management performance, diversity, equity, inclusion, and more.
Across the country, state and local governments are beginning to take the lead on addressing racial inequity. What are examples of how this has happened? What is the role of community leaders in shaping these conversations?
The Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility offers CSR practitioners the opportunity to earn a Professional Certificate in Corporate Social Responsibility from Johns Hopkins in just six months.
At the root of so many racial disparities in our society – be it wealth, health, education, or employment – is housing segregation.
There is growing recognition of the critically important role that teachers of color play in improving educational outcomes for students of color. However, nationally, and here in our region, the teacher workforce doesn’t reflect the demographics of their classrooms.
For the first Funders' Roundtable luncheon of 2018, we will open up the floor so you all can share and learn from each other about your philanthropic priorities for the year.
Join more than 100 nonprofit and fundraising professionals for this two-day workshop to learn HOW and WHY companies give back to their communities.
The Racial Equity Working Group is a group of WRAG members dedicated to continuing to better understand how structural racism manifests in our region – and to collectively take strategic actions toward dismantling it.
CSR professionals are constantly pushing themselves to find new ways to achieve social impact. With limited philanthropic budgets, the need to leverage additional company resources has become imperative.
Join us for our first quarterly New Member Orientation to learn more about the Racial Equity Working Group's goals, priorities, and group culture and find out how you can get involved in the work.
Do you want to engage more confidently in impact investing in the Greater Washington region?
Dr. Devine and Dr. Cox, two scientific leaders in the study of stereotyping and implicit biases, developed and empirically tested this training designed to break the “prejudice habit.”
