Economic Opportunity Funders is creating a Member Directory to help you find and connect with peer grantmakers who share your interests. You must opt-in to have your information included in the directory and to receive your free copy. Funders who work for a qualifying philanthropy are eligible to participate. The deadline to participate is August 1. A copy of the directory will be shared in September. Questions? Contact csiegel@network.org.
Join our 2024 Funder Learning Series to exchange ideas, share grantmaking practices, workshop pressing challenges, and identify opportunities to connect and align efforts around economic opportunity. Connected to conversations from our in-person meetings, these monthly virtual sessions will be held on the second Tuesday of the month. Funders who work for a qualifying philanthropy are eligible to participate.
No call in August.
September 10 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET | REGISTER Strategic conversation on philanthropy's response to national and local retraction on progress made to improve race equity, diversity, and inclusion programs and policies. Guest Speaker: Ben McDearmon, Director, Legal Resources, Council on Foundations
October 8 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET | REGISTER Exploration of the recently-announced America Child Care Partnership, a new philanthropic coordinated effort to leverage federal infrastructure investments (CHIPS) and child care funding to strengthen local child care systems and increase the supply of high-quality, affordable child care in communities. Guest Speakers: Eric Buchanan, Buffett Early Childhood Fund and Katie Beckmann, Packard Foundation
2025 Budget and Tax Briefing
March 25, 2025 | Arlington, VA
EOF hosts an Annual Budget and Tax Briefing to provide funders with the opportunity to network with colleagues and learn about and discuss pressing policy developments, key battles and opportunities at the federal and state level, and emerging policy, communications, and organizing strategies to advance worker justice, social protections, and an economy that works for all. Additional details coming soon. For now, please save the date!
EOF is creating a 2024 Election Funder Strategy Room to provide a table around which funders can gather to share common questions, analyses of challenges and opportunities, and philanthropic strategies post-2024 election. To develop shared knowledge and relationships, participation in the funder strategy room will be limited to up to 25 grantmakers. Funders who work for a qualifying philanthropy are eligible to participate. Participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. The Strategy Room will include four virtual sessions with the possibility of an in-person gathering during our Budget and Tax Briefing in March 2025. Registration opens July 23.
Resources + Announcements
Announcing Public Dollars for Public Good 2024 Cohort
The Marguerite Casey Foundation's 2024 Public Dollars for Public Good (PDPG) funding provides more than $3M in general operating grants to fuel organizations advancing economic justice. PDPG provides support to grant recipients organizing communities or unlocking federal funds in ways that help us all to experience and reimagine what our world could be like if our public dollars were used to build a thriving multiracial democracy.
New Guide to Understanding Racial Disparities in the Federal Individual Income Tax System
This report provides an overview of interactions between the federal individual income tax system and racial and ethnic disparities in the United States. Researchers from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center found that tax benefits and liabilities depend on factors associated with race and ethnicity, including income, wealth, and various demographic characteristics. Read the full report for insights on the potential impacts of several policy options and how each could improve racial equity within the federal individual income tax system.
2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book Now Available
The 35th edition of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT® Data Book examines the unprecedented declines in student math and reading proficiency brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic's effect on education.The latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress reveals that between 2019 and 2022, fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math scores plummeted, representing decades of lost progress. This alarming trend underscores the urgent need for action to address the growing academic disparities among U.S. students.
National Alliance for Caregiving Launches Caregiver Nation Network
The Caregiver Nation Network empowers caregivers to raise their own voices with state and federal policymakers by investing in coalitions in 10 states (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Illinois, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wisconsin) and providing seed funding, collaborative learning, policy education, enhanced data and insights about caregiving, and a national advocacy summit.
Resource for Funders Who Receive Requests for Informational Interviews
Philanthropy New York hosts group informational interviews to explore career paths in the philanthropic sector, as part of their "Interested in Working at a Foundation" series. They invite funders who receive requests for informational interviews from jobseekers to refer those individuals to their upcoming virtual program for the general public, Interested in Working in Philanthropy?, on July 17 at 10 AM ET.
Seeking Candidates for Children and Family Fellowship
The Annie E. Casey Foundation has begun recruiting the next class of its Children and Family Fellowship®, an intensive applied leadership program — now in its third decade — that develops the potential of leaders at the helm of nonprofit, philanthropic and public organizations to improve the life circumstances and prospects of children, youth and families living in low-income communities.
