Philanthropic Leadership

• Supporting Grantees in Times of Crisis: What Funder Collaboratives Can Learn from the Arts Forward Fund (2005) – The Arts Forward Fund provided two rounds of grantmaking in 2020 and 2021 to serve BIPOC-led organizations in the arts and culture space in the DC Region. As a funder collaborative, the Fund provided relief to traditionally underserved nonprofits during COVID recovery. This case study is an examination of the Arts Forward Fund and their success in introducing equity-focused approaches to philanthropy in a time of crisis. It also provides recommendations on what current and future funder collaboratives can learn from this two-year grantmaking effort. 
• Case Study: Rethinking City Government and Nonprofit Relationships: Office of Strategic Partnerships in Jacksonville, Florida (2024)
• Rethinking Philanthropic Partnerships (2024)
• Case Study: Headwaters Foundation – Redefining How Philanthropies Evaluate (2023)
• Case Study: Let’s GO DMV! The Power of Funder Collaboratives in Philanthropy (2023)
• Case Study: Funders Together to End Homelessness (2023)
• Beyond Window Dressing: A Call for Reform of Private Philanthropy to Address the Race-based Wealth Gap (2021)
• The Role of Foundations and Nonprofits in the 2020 Census (2019)
• Role of Philanthropy in Advancing Racial Equity (2018)
• Case Study of the Horning Family Fund (2018)
• Case Study of the Weissberg Foundation (2018)