Friday Rewind

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.

1. A Rural Philanthropy Toolkit was recently released, which compiles emerging practices and resources to support rural communities seeking to build relationships with philanthropies across the United States. Philanthropies provide a critical source of funding for community-based health programs. However, it can be challenging for small and rural communities to build relationships with philanthropies, particularly when they are not located in the same geographic area. This toolkit presents practical strategies that can help rural communities build successful partnerships with philanthropies. In particular, it focuses on:
   • Preparing for Partnerships with philanthropies
   • Conducting outreach to philanthropies
   • Establishing and sustaining partnerships with philanthropies
2. A second federal judge has issued a court order to block the Trump administration’s plans to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census. U.S. District Judge Richard Seeborg of California found that the administration’s decision to add the question violated administrative law. The judge also ruled that it was unconstitutional because it prevents the government from carrying out its mandate to count every person living in the U.S. every 10 years. Read more here
3. In today’s data-driven world, as funders look to understand the impact of their investments, executives from youth-focused nonprofits must communicate program value as it relates to key outcomes. Learn how to use data to tell your story of impact. In this free guide you’ll learn:
   • How to understand participation and dosage
   • How to tie participation data to key outcomes
   • How to tell your story with impact data
   • Best practices from UpMetrics’ work with partner “just keep livin'” Foundation
4. The New York State Health Foundation on Monday published a review of the state’s law regarding surprise bills, implemented in 2015, to highlight its successes and limitations. Under the law, patients are responsible for their in-network payment only in cases when they did not give written consent to be treated by an out-of-network provider, including in emergencies. The law also created a dispute-resolution process for providers and insurers to enter binding arbitration over bills. Read more about the implications here
5. The fifth post in a six-part series on what nonprofit leaders think foundation funders could improve upon in their work, this new post from CEP discusses how modifying grantmaking characteristics so that they are more reflective of grantees’ needs — and the outcomes funders desire — is the fourth most common suggestion they saw in a survey of nonprofit leaders, cited by 14 percent of respondents.