A new milestone for "Our Region, Your Investment"
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08/15/2017
This summer, the "Our Region, Your Investment" initiative hit a new milestone - its first ever return investor: The Richard E. & Nancy P. Marriott Foundation.
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Tamara Copeland appointed Visiting Nielsen Fellow at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy
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06/20/2017
She, in partnership with Dr. Kathy Kretman, director of the Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership and research professor at the McCourt School, will explore the role of philanthropy in addressing racial equity in the DC region and co-teach a graduate seminar on philanthropy and racial justice.
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Watch the latest Putting Racism on the Table video
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06/19/2017
Last week, Philip Walsh of Maine Initiatives presented on his foundation's approach toward advancing racial justice: participatory grantmaking.
New Release: A Guidebook for Increasing Housing Affordability in the Greater Washington Region
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06/13/2017
The Housing Leaders Group of Greater Washington has released a guidebook compiling planning and policy tools that local governments, nonprofit and for-profit developers, and advocacy groups in the region are using—or could be using—to promote the production and preservation of housing affordable to all.
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Will Sabbaticals Be Commonplace in the Social Profit Sector One Day?
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06/05/2017
Tamara Copeland, WRAG’s president, ponders the lack of sabbaticals in the social profit sector and discusses the benefits of taking an extended break. Tamara will take her own sabbatical this summer.
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Jordan Edwards
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05/03/2017
WRAG's president Tamara Copeland reflects on the killing of Jordan Edwards by police in Dallas.
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"My racial identity, deconstructed"
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04/24/2017
WRAG's president Tamara Copeland discusses perceptions of racial identities while reflecting on her own, and challenges others to confront their unconscious biases.
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Advocacy Update: The Johnson Amendment
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04/06/2017
WRAG's Gretchen Greiner-Lott updates the community about advocacy efforts on behalf of the Johnson Amendment.
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WRAG’s Philanthropy Fellows program is powering future leaders
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04/05/2017
WRAG’s Philanthropy Fellows program, our partnership with the Do Good Institute at the University of Maryland, has had a real impact on the students and the organizations that host them. We followed up with some former fellows to find out how their experience working in philanthropy as students has influenced their careers.
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Keeping the Social Profit Sector Above the Political Fray
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03/29/2017
WRAG's Gretchen Greiner-Lott encourages funders and nonprofits to use their voice in support of the Johnson Amendment.
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