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We Won’t Forget, But We Will Move Forward
We Won’t Forget, But We Will Move Forward

Subways are creeping back to pre-pandemic ridership levels, sports arenas have fans cheering on their teams, airplanes are full of travelers, malls have shoppers carrying bags filled with purchases, restaurants are bustling with energy, laughter, and happy tummies, and increasing numbers of people are back in their offices.

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Funders: It’s Time to Talk to Our Legal Teams About Power, Compliance, and Trust-Based Philanthropy
Funders: It’s Time to Talk to Our Legal Teams About Power, Compliance, and Trust-Based Philanthropy

For philanthropy to have more equitable practices, we must examine and reimagine the way we do our work.

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Chronicle of Philanthropy, Covid-19, Face Plant, FFIS, Flexible Funding Impact, Foundation, Getting to Know You, New York City Leadership, Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy, Robert Sterling Clark, Social Justice, Sterling Network NYC, Trust-Based PhilanthropyBrenda Solorzano, CEO of the Headwaters Foundationpandemic, racial injustice, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, NetLab, COVID-19, civil rights, community, NYC, Charity Navigator, Grantcraft, Endowments, leadership, Funding, funding collaboratives, Foundation, trust, grantmaking, grantee, Genral Operating Grants, General Operating, governance, organizations, foundation, philanthropy, social justice, New York City, Networks, Getting to know you, Sterling Network NYC, social and systems-level change workComment
April: All The Fellows Are Weavers, And Some Of Us Are Guardians
April: All The Fellows Are Weavers, And Some Of Us Are Guardians

Several weeks ago during a network committee checkin, I introduced myself to a consultant who had joined us in this way, “I’m Trish and I serve as the Sterling Network Organizer.

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Getting Back to Normal-ish? So Many Feelings.
Getting Back to Normal-ish? So Many Feelings.

Here in New York City we’re enjoying a verdant and vibrant Spring season – leaves in all tints of green, magnolias, cherry blossoms, forsythias, daffodils, tulips, bluebells and hostas are all poking out of the soil.

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For All of Us in Philanthropy, the Moment of Rebuilding Is Here
For All of Us in Philanthropy, the Moment of Rebuilding Is Here

Last year I spent the first Passover of the pandemic quarantined in my bedroom racked with a fever and body aches.

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Chronicle of Philanthropy, Covid-19, Face Plant, FFIS, Flexible Funding Impact, Foundation, Getting to Know You, New York City Leadership, Nonprofit Sector, Philanthropy, Robert Sterling Clark, Social Justice, Sterling Network NYC, Trust-Based PhilanthropyLisa Pilar CowanChronicle of Philanthropy, community, COVID-19, Covid-19, racial injustice, grantmaking, Grants, grantee, Getting to know you, organizations, General Operating, governance, pandemic, Racism, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, travel, Trust-Based Philanthropy, trust, NYC, social impact, social justice, social change, Sterling Network NYC, Funding, Endowments, democracy, Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, equity, New York City, Networks, new year, human rights, philanthropy, New York City Leadership and Professional Development Directory., social and systems-level change workComment
What One Grant Maker Learned in This Pandemic Year: Keep Asking Questions
What One Grant Maker Learned in This Pandemic Year: Keep Asking Questions

I did not intend to become a columnist for the Chronicle of Philanthropy, nor did I imagine becoming a cartoon character.

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