Register Today for the EOF 2024 Funder Learning Series!
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 and are open to grantmakers who work for a qualifying philanthropy.
Lessons from the Raising Child Care Fund, a powerful philanthropic learning laboratory to center racial equity and power-building alongside community leaders most proximate to the country’s most pressing social challenges, including the broken child care system.
Guest Speaker: Rachel Schumacher, Raising Child Care Fund
Learnings from an open-call RFP to advance state policy and strategies for sharing proposals across the EOF Network.
Guest Speaker: Karina Lewis, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The EITC Pooled Fund has made five rapid response awards to state organizations working to help build public support for state EITCs, CTCs, and other tax credits in 2024.
Connecticut Voices for Children was awarded $25,000 to advance the creation of a Connecticut Child Tax Credit and necessary progressive tax measures to fund it.
DC Fiscal Policy Institute was awarded $25,000 to advance the creation of a DC Child Tax Credit.
Economic Progress Institute was awarded $25,000 to increase the state’s refundable Earned Income Tax Credit in Rhode Island.
Espacios Abiertos was awarded $25,000 to support a policy education campaign to communicate the need for increased federal support of Puerto Rico’s Earned Income Tax Credit program.
Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center was awarded $25,000 to advance the expansion of the state Earned Income Tax Credit to ITIN filers.
Economic Opportunity Funders and the Tax Equity Funders Network administer and oversee the EITC Pooled Fund to increase public support for the federal and state EITC, CTC, and other tax credits.
Resources + Announcements
Transforming Our Tax Code To Deliver A Liberation Economy
This new report from Liberation in a Generation offers a profound distributional analysis of the tax code and how to transform it from a tool for growing elite individual wealth into a mechanism for building the nation’s collective wealth.
SNAP Supports Health Equity: Recommendations for the Reauthorization of the Farm Bill
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a new brief outlining recommendations to ensure the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) remains strong and effective as part of the 2024 reauthorization of the Farm Bill.
A Guide for Philanthropy on Partnerships to Equitably Shape Public Funding
The Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) recently released a new playbook and video series exploring how Michigan foundations are building partnerships for equity-centered investments with the support of CMF’s Statewide Equity Fund (SEF).
The Guarantee: Inside the Fight for America’s Next Economy
In her first book, Natalie Foster, co-founder of the Economic Security Project, explores a bold vision in which housing, health care, higher education, dignified work, family care, and an opportunity to build generational wealth are guaranteed for all by our government.
New Multi-year Initiative to Change the Narrative on Work and Labor
FrameWorks Institute has just launched Work/Shift -- an ongoing investigation into how Americans are thinking about work and what it will take to create more just labor systems.
How Funders Can Accelerate Vital Progress on Caregiving
Grantmakers In Aging, with support from th Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation, has released a new guide that shows how funders, policymakers, advocates, and those in technology, entertainment, venture capital, and private industry are stepping up to promote caregiving strategies.
Care Matters: A 2024 Report Card for Policies in the States
The Century Foundation and Caring Across Generations released a new report that provides state analysis of essential care policies, including early learning and paid family and medical leave with federal and state-level recommendations to build a care infrastructure.
Raising Child Care Fund 2023 Reach and Influence Report
The Raising Child Care Fund (RCCF) is an active philanthropic partner in the national movement to transform child care. RCCF's new report highlights the reach and influence of their grantee partners in 2023 and amplifies the lessons they are teaching them.
Supporting Native Workforce Development: A Guide for Funders
Workforce Matters created a new guide for funders that explains how they can support Native workforce development.
Invitation to Join Think Big: A Narrative Learning Community
Think Big brings together advocates and communicators across issue areas to think big, learn together, and share strategies on using narrative to create change. Join the Learning Community to be added to the email list, get access to the resource library, and receive invitations to ongoing meetings.
Bellagio Center Convening Program: Call for Applications
The Rockefeller Foundation has launched the 2025 Bellagio Center Convening Program open call. The application deadline is June 14, 2024, by 5:00 pm EDT. Applications themes include: addressing climate change; building vibrant, connected, and resilient societies; and a general open call.
Announcing the 2024 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner
NFG's Funders for a Just Economy and the Jobs With Justice Education Fund have announced Rosario Ortiz of Arriba Las Vegas Worker Center as the 2024 Discount Foundation Legacy Award Winner. Through public recognition and a $20,000 stipend, the Award annually recognizes individuals who have demonstrated leadership and contributed significantly to workers’ rights movements in the United States.
Deborah Aubert Thomas Named New United Philanthropy Forum CEO
United Philanthropy Forum (the Forum) has announced Deborah Aubert Thomas as its new President and Chief Executive Officer, effective June 24, 2024. Deborah joins the Forum from Philanthropy Ohio, where she has served as President & CEO since 2019.
