The Friday Rewind offers a snapshot of PhilanthroNews — that means news stories, articles, events of note, or information updates — from around our network and throughout the broad world of philanthropy. Whether you take a quick skim of the material or a deep dive through each item we hope to help inform your work and inspire your thinking.
- Communities across the country breathe a collective sigh of relief this week as the federal government re-opens. What should nonprofits take away from the historic 35-day partial federal government shutdown that National Council of Nonprofits called “an unnatural disaster created by the President and Congress”? Understanding the full impact of this political crisis will take time and recovery will be slow. Even as they return to work this week, nonprofits remind us it will take time for many federal employees to regain their financial footing – Read More Here
- In October 2018, the Health Foundation for Western and Central New York brought together about sixty central New York community partners that play a role in providing and paying for services for family caregivers for an event called “Connecting to Caregivers.” Part of the purpose of the event was to announce two new respite care initiatives that the Health Foundation plans to award in spring 2019. But it was also to begin framing a new conversation around how the community might better address the unmet needs of family caregivers across western and central New York, and particularly how we can enhance community respite and support services while better connecting family caregivers to the community. Read more about their efforts to advance respite care for family caregivers here
- All around the country, philanthropy is mobilizing to ensure a fair and accurate 2020 Census. Although philanthropy cannot and should not supplant the government’s responsibility to conduct a good census, funder engagement in support of the constitutionally required enumeration is more important than ever.As your foundation considers how it should get involved, the Funders Census Initiative (FCI), a working group of FCCP, has created this companion document to our Key 2020 Census Milestones resource to help guide your participation through 2020. These milestones were designed to help funders identify the timing and scope of activities in relationship to census preparations and operations over the next two years. Specific timing of milestones may vary depending on your state’s census engagement progress – Read More Here
- Little research currently exists examining the identification and placement of low-income students in special education, in part, because states are not required to report special education data by students’ income status. This report finds that students from low-income families are more often identified in more subjective disability categories, and that once identified as such, students from low-income families are more often placed in substantially separate classrooms where expectations for success tend to be lower, education outcomes tend to be worse, and stigma associated with special education is higher – Read More Here
- Megan Bell, Executive Director of NY Funders Alliance member the Wilson Foundation, writes about one of their strategic focus areas in this blog about Collaboration Funding. “We believe collaboration is essential to break down the structural barriers our community face. Let’s work together to achieve a common purpose. This means having a clear reason to meet, deciding on a goal(s) to achieve together, and a way to know if you’ve achieved the goal(s). This is very much intentional—a way to work together to help serve the community in stronger ways. Collaboration is more than linking resources—it’s about finding long-lasting ways to break down communication and service barriers to strengthen the client.” Read the rest of the blog here
Friday Rewind is published each Friday by NY Funders Alliance staff. To submit a story for the Friday Rewind, please email programs@nyfunders.org.
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