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Now Available: Video from the final Expanding the Table session - Dr. Manuel Pastor

Release Date:

07/10/2018

The final session of 2018's Putting Racism on the Table: ... and discussion guides. Now Available: Video from the final Expanding the Table session - Dr. Manuel Pastor ...

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Racism

Racial Equity

Putting Racism on the Table

How Washington area funders can support Baltimore

Release Date:

05/01/2015

... that many here in the Washington region would want to support our neighbor Baltimore, WRAG reached out to the ... Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers The local funding community has expressed deep sadness at the death of ... of Baltimore Area Grantmakers has been reaching out to public sector partners to determine how we can be most ...

Apr 2015

Northern Virginia LEG: The Art of Successful Site Visits

10:00am to 12:00pm

Location Title:

Offices of the Scheidel Foundation

... information about their grantees and the causes they support, and can cultivate positive relationships between ... participants are invited to a lunch conversation on funding education at a nearby restaurant. Individuals are ...

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2021 WRAG Year In Review

Publication date:

06/2022

WRAG's A Year in Review 2021 details our work and accomplishments during the year. Highlights include our Strategic Framework and implementation, working group highlights, convenings data, membership breakdown, and our fiscally sponsored programs.

Type of resource:

Publication

Oct 2016

CANCELED: Public Education Speaker Series: The First Three Years

9:30am to 11:30am

... Child Development Award for Distinguished Contribution to Public Policy for Children, the Ireland Prize for Scholarly ... philanthropies, and the media. CANCELED: Public Education Speaker Series: The First Three Years ...

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Public Education 2016

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Jun 2016

Public Education Speaker Series: The Role of Background Knowledge in Literacy

9:30am to 11:30am

Location Title:

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers

This is the second event in WRAG's 2016 public education speaker series . How do we ensure that ... to confirm eligibility and register. Public Education Speaker Series: The Role of Background ...

Event type:

Public Education 2016

Audience:

WRAG Members

Non-members

Topic(s):

Education

Sep 2019

Public Education Learning Series: Meeting the Mental Health Needs of Students in Trauma-Informed Schools

9:30am to 11:30am

Location Title:

1400 16th Street NW

... Center Panelists : Michael Cordell , Principal, KIPP DC: The Learning Center Dr. Marcia Jackson , Executive ... Services, Alternative Programs and Equity, Alexandria City Public Schools Cynthia Robinson-Rivers , Head of School, Van ... Emotional Wellness This program is generously sponsored by Public Education Learning Series: Meeting the Mental Health ...

Event type:

Public Education 2019

Audience:

WRAG Members

Topic(s):

Health

Education

Sep 2019

GCIR Webinar | A Threat to Health & Wellbeing: Public Charge's Expected Impact and How Philanthropy Can Respond

10:00am to 11:15am

Location Title:

Webinar

... filed and officially published its “Inadmissibility on Public Charge Grounds” final rule. Unless blocked by litigation, the rule will go ... Gaps in field capacity and opportunities for philanthropic support to protect families and advance belonging will be ...

Event type:

Webinar

Audience:

WRAG Members

Topic(s):

Immigration/Immigrant Families

DC: America's Black Mecca: First in Freedom, First in Leadership (Putting Racism on the Table 2018 kick-off)

Publication date:

02/2018

... why we have to understand the racial history of DC and the US in order to address the root causes of the inequities we see today . Watch the video below: DC: America's Black Mecca: First in Freedom, First in ...

Type of resource:

Video

Topic(s):

Racism

Racial Equity

Putting Racism on the Table

Dec 2016

Our Region, Your Investment: The Impact Note and the Greater Washington, D.C., Area

1:00pm to 1:30pm

Location Title:

Online

... million – with an additional $1 million committed – to support affordable housing in the Greater Washington, D.C., ...

Event type:

Webinar

Audience:

WRAG Members

Non-members

Topic(s):

Our Region, Your Investment

Impact Investing

Housing

The Weekly WRAG - March 31st

Release Date:

03/31/2021

... graduate student in the master’s program in public relations and corporate communications at Georgetown ... Initiative Foundation invests in vaccination sites.

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Member News

Sep 2014

Site Visit to the Evergreen Cooperatives (Cleveland, OH)

Thursday, September 25, 2014 (All day)

... In a one-day experience, funders will visit the business sites, hear from the employee owners, have an opportunity to ...

Event type:

Program

Audience:

WRAG Members

Non-members

Topic(s):

Community Wealth Building

ALL Alexandria: One Community’s Race and Social Equity Journey

Release Date:

02/10/2021

... are immigrants, and children in Alexandria’s public schools speak more than 132 native languages. The ...

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A Voice from Philanthropy

Jan 2021

Corporate Philanthropy in the New Year Discussion

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Location Title:

Zoom Video Meeting

... their internal processes for giving, enabling them to support the community where it was most needed. CareFirst ...

Event type:

Webinar

Audience:

Corporate Philanthropists

Corporate Giving

Funding Area:

Health

Mar 2021

March 12th Friday Philanthropy Call

10:00am to 11:00am

Location Title:

Zoom Video Call

... gender-expansive people, largely remaining out of sight in public discourses and funding. Join us for March’s Friday Philanthropy Call to ...

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WRAG signs on to GCIR's Joint Foundation Statement on Immigration

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... with Immigrants and Refugees' (GCIR) Joint Foundation Statement on Immigration. Its basic belief is that immigrants ... to the fabric of our society. As such, all signatories support diversity and inclusion, reject discriminatory policies, and commit to support our communities. Over 200 foundations and ...

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Immigration/Immigrant Families

Advocacy

Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers' Statement on the Events in Charlottesville

Release Date:

08/22/2017

... 12th in Charlottesville came about as a result of a very public and clamorous manifestation of racism and white ... and the like. Dr. David Williams, professor of public health, sociology and African-American studies at ... Washington Regional Association of Grantmakers' Statement on the Events in Charlottesville ...

May 2014

Brown Bag Discussion: LGBTQ Funding in the Greater Washington Region

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location Title:

WRAG

... and to learn about a new fund that has been created to support LGBTQ health and wellness. Michael Bigley of the ... Gretchen Greiner-Lott . Brown Bag Discussion: LGBTQ Funding in the Greater Washington Region ...

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Brown Bag

Audience:

WRAG Members

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Brown Bag