Following the joint session, we will have a series of facilitated conversations separately with grantmakers and nonprofit leaders.
Following the joint session, we will have a series of facilitated conversations separately with grantmakers and nonprofit leaders.
Following the breakout sessions, grantmakers and nonprofit leaders come back together to discuss ideas for work together to better drive impact.
We have conducted a series of workshops with grantmakers and nonprofit leaders in cities around the country and interviewed nonprofit leaders working in communities hit hardest by persistent poverty and racial inequity. The outcomes of these conversations reaffirmed the importance of changing both grantmaker and nonprofit practices that ultimately don’t support shared equity goals and priorities.
In conversations around the country, funders recognized that restricted program funding, overhead limits and short-term funding were not setting their grantees up for success. Nonprofits recognized that asking for what they think funders want to fund vs asking for what they need, training donors to expect 95 cents out of every dollar to go to programs and tolerating ineffective boards was not going to get them to where they want to be. And everyone agreed that it is time to move beyond just conversations between funders and grantees, that it is time to have the uncomfortable, exploratory types of conversations that get at deeply ingrained barriers to changing how we work.
The Full Cost Summits are designed to help build a common understanding and shared language around full costs as well as identify clear steps to overcome the barriers to changing practices and culture.
Sylia current leads Asian Americans Advancing Justice, one of the nation’s largest legal and civil rights organization. Prior to her current role with AAAJ, Sylia guided the creation of a significant new charitable funder in Los Angeles as the first Chief Executive of the Roy & Patricia Disney Family Foundation. Previously, Sylia served as the second most senior executive at the Annenberg Foundation, where she helped build and create the Annenberg Space for Photography, launched LA n Sync, and created Annenberg Alchemy, a capacity-building program that has served more than 2,000 nonprofit CEOs and board chairpersons.
A nationally recognized speaker, author and consultant on creating a more financially sustainable and effective social sector, David Greco brings more than 25 years of experience in driving the growth and impact of social sector organizations. Most recently, David led the Real Cost Project in California, a statewide initiative that aims to increase the number of funders providing real cost funding. He also served as Interim President and CEO for Northern California Grantmakers and led their efforts to launch a new strategic direction and business model. Previously, he was the Vice President of the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) for more than 5 years and Vice President of the Youth Leadership Institute.
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