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Wielding Your Power to Advance Equity and Justice: An NCRP Workshop for Funders – Buffalo
June 11, 2018 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
June 11th, 2018 | 12:00pm – 2:00pm
Buffalo, New York – Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo office (726 Exchange Street)
How does your foundation exercise public leadership beyond grantmaking to create catalytic change? Traditional assessments often overlook a unique aspect of true and lasting impact: how grantmakers use their power to achieve their goals.
Join the NY Funders Alliance for a peer discussion and presentation on an exciting new resource from the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP), Power Moves: Your Essential Philanthropy Assessment Guide for Equity and Justice, that helps grantmakers examine how well they build, share, and wield power. Lisa Ranghelli, senior director of assessment and special projects, will lead attendees through an interactive workshop designed to support peer learning and provide practical tools.
Grounded in 40 years of research on strategic social justice philanthropy and the innovative foundation assessment initiative, Philamplify, the free sector resource is available for download at www.ncrp.org/initiatives/philamplify/power-moves-philanthropy.
Please Note: Staff and Trustees of all NY Funders Alliance members are welcome to attend. Please RSVP by June 6th as spots are limited.
About the Presenter
Lisa Ranghelli is NCRP’s senior director of assessment and special projects. She directs the Philamplify initiative, is developing NCRP’s new work to influence the giving of ultra high net worth donors and oversees the organization’s internal learning and evaluation. She developed the Power Moves philanthropy self–assessment tool for Philamplify based on the methodology she developed for this innovative initiative to assess foundations on strategic, social justice philanthropy measures. She conducted Philamplify assessments of Winthrop Rockefeller, William Penn and John S. and James L. Knight foundations and co-authored assessments of the New York Community Trust and Oregon Community Foundation. Previously, she directed NCRP’s Grantmaking for Community Impact Project, which culminated in her report, Leveraging Limited Dollars that documented a return on investment of $115 for each dollar foundations invested in advocacy, community organizing and civic engagement. For that project she developed a methodology for measuring the impacts of advocacy, organizing and civic engagement and authored or co-authored five of seven reports in the related Strengthening Democracy, Increasing Opportunities series. Prior to joining NCRP in 2008, Lisa spent 15 years promoting advocacy and civic engagement, both in the nonprofit and public sectors. This included serving as deputy director of public policy at the Center for Community Change, where she helped grassroots organizations mobilize successfully in response to federal and state policy issues. Based in Western Massachusetts, Lisa graduated from Wesleyan University and holds a master of regional planning degree from Cornell University.