Meet HEFN’s three newest Steering Committee members, Vanessa Daniel (Groundswell Fund), Carolyn Fine Friedman (Fine Fund), and David Fukuzawa (Kresge Foundation). Their leadership adds more brains, more heart, and more experiences to help philanthropy maximize its impact on environmental health and justice.
Heeten Kalan, Senior Program Officer at the New World Foundation and HEFN Steering Committee member, authored this week's blog post. In it, he reflects on the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, and the potential for philanthropy to leverage them for a more just, democratic, clean and fun future.
From our social media desk: reflections on understanding philanthropy's cautiously optimistic approach to social networking and how we want to help more funders make the social media leap.
HEFN's resolutions to make everyone's lives more clean and green in 2013.
Margaret Waldock of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey reflects on life after Sandy and shares how the Dodge Foundation and other philanthropists are helping New Jersey rebuild smarter and stronger.
David Fukuzawa of the Kresge Foundation shares what the Kresge Foundation and the Health and Housing Funders Forum are doing to encourage funding at the intersections of health and housing in this blog post
Several ideas for funders to help organizations find more resources beyond their known philanthropic networks.
Vanessa Daniel of the Groundswell Fund and Phil Johnson of the Heinz Endowments reflect HEFN’s 2012 Annual Meeting on how philanthropy can overpower polluter influence to win healthier conditions for people and the environment.
Giving thanks for the service and leadership of three funders rotating off of HEFN’s Steering Committee this year in this blog post.
Rebecca Ruggles, Coordinator for the Maryland Environmental Health Network (MEHN), and Consultant to the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers’ Green Funders shares the significant (and sometimes serendipitous) conversations and events that helped launch MEHN, a cross-sector forum dedicated to protecting human health and the environment in Maryland.
