The Los Angeles Chapter of EPIP invites you to their upcoming Spring Leadership Salon:   Philanthropy is changing. Are you ready? EPIP LA’s Spring Leadership Salon will address where philanthropy is heading and the qualifications emerging practitioners should develop to prepare for future leadership positions.                 Please join us and take advantage of the opportunity to ask our speakers your general and specific questions! Space is limited to 20 attendees, so buy your ticket today! When Wednesday, May 1 5:30pm to 8:00pm PT Location Malo 4326 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90029 For more information on this exciting opportunity and to buy tickets, please view the event page at http://www.epip.org/events/epip-la-spring-leadership-salon-philanthropy-is-changing-are-you-ready-2/. Not a member of EPIP? Join now at http://www.epip.org/membership/. Read more

The 2013 EPIP National Conference included an awards ceremony. The EPIP Unity Award, which honors the chapter that has grown the most over the past year, went to EPIP Hawai’i, recognized as a chapter at the 2012 National Conference in Los Angeles. During the awards ceremony, Kevin Chang of the EPIP Hawai’i chapter and Executive Director of the Hawai’i Community Stewardship Network, sang and played the song Hawai’i 78. The following is a series of excerpts from a letter he wrote to the EPIP staff. Mahalo nui (big thank you) for including a sense of Hawaiʻi in your conference and for the opportunity to share a song. For all you knew I was going to do my best Jerry Lewis impersonation so I appreciate the trust you had in us. Although, since Jerry Lewis was a philanthropist, too, maybe it would have gone over quite well! I wanted you to know that my EPIP Hawaiʻi Chapter friends work hard to bring people together here at home to tackle the wicked issues of our time. It was important to us to express that we are not just an island but part of a larger context and we have role to play. The phrase that makes up the song we presented –“Hawaiʻi 78 “- is for some of our community a veiled kāhea (or call) of independence, the chorus: “Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono”- our state motto: “The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness”- relates to […] Read more

As you can tell from our conference reflections, EPIP had a great week in Chicago. NBC 5 Chicago News covered our 2013 national conference; our innovations gallery and awards highlighted the great work of our members; and we worked together with our colleagues of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN) to create a vision for collective leadership. Read more

The following is written by Alexis King, Steering Committee Member of the EPIP-NY Chapter, and staff at Living Cities, Inc.  Priding itself as a space that supports innovation in philanthropy, this year’s EPIP Annual Conference, LEAD!, did not disappoint in the range and depth of knowledge explored. There are three major points addressed during the conference that serve as great takeaways for attendees and the EPIP members unable to attend. Breaking silos. Throughout the conference there were many references to silos that block resources, connections, and opportunities to various communities. This year’s EPIP Conference made strides to not only address these silos but to ensure that the conversation help the next generation of leaders in philanthropy break those silos. From the lunch Plenary Session on Thursday, April 4th that exchanged ideas on how foundations can think outside of the box, to the honest and candid, “The Personal  is Political: Race, Class, and Gender as Ongoing Conversation” and, “‘Doing Good’ in the Twenty-First Century” concurrent sessions, the conversations to create action tools included an emphasis on expanding  allies for your work and thinking with a cross sectored mindset for how to combat these silos were a stride in the right direction as a philanthropic community. Read more

Hi, I’m Efrain Gutierrez. I work for FSG and I’m the brand new co-leader of the Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy  (EPIP) Seattle Chapter. I attended my first EPIP National Conference two weeks ago in Chicago and it was an incredible experience. It was energizing to be among a group of diverse and passionate mid-career professionals that will become the future leaders of the philanthropic sector. As I reflected on what I learned during the conference around this year’s theme – LEAD – I identified four recommendations for current and emerging leaders in philanthropy: be humble, know who you are not, listen, learn and adapt. I believe these recommendations represent the beginning of a paradigm shift in the way we exercise leadership in the sector. Let’s discuss each of them: Read more

The following is written by Nichole Martini, Co-Chair of the EPIP-NY Chapter.  EPIP is Transformative. EPIP inspires me. Through all the ways I have participated in EPIP, I have moved to a deeper understanding that there is a movement building; a movement of an entire generation of philanthropy professionals that will change the world.  EPIP serves the young in philanthropy, but also those new to its circles. Over the years, I have never found such an honest, open, and trusted circle of colleagues as I have at EPIP. The National Conference is always like a homecoming, re-connecting with those who keep returning, and embracing those who are new each year.  We are creating a passionate body of people taking on leadership challenges all throughout the country and the world with a similar commitment to work together and guide philanthropy to a new level of impact. It is through this collaboration and spirit of camaraderie that we can hold each other accountable to the values that we share for ourselves and for our sector. Read more

Job Posting: San Diego Grantmakers is hiring! San Diego Grantmakers is currently hiring for the position of Office Assistant. For more information, click here. Résumés may be sent in response to specific job openings by email to [email protected] or by fax to (858) 202-1762 for future consideration. SDG asks that applicants please do not call about open positions. Read more

It should come as no surprise to you, our EPIP members, that foundations place great emphasis on evaluation.  When done correctly, evaluation can demonstrate that a project or program worked, but also show where there is room for improvement. We have designed the 2013 EPIP National Conference evaluation form with these concepts in mind. Please fill out the form while the conference is still fresh in your mind.  Doing so will help us to make improvements and adjustments to deliver more unique and effective programming. With heartfelt thanks, EPIP HQ Read more

We’re thrilled to partner with the Communications Network for a webinar on how we can all use the power of smart communications to empower lives. Please join us for a webinar, Smart Tech for Smart Communicators, and consider submitting a proposal to lead a breakout session at our 2013 conference in New Orleans.  All of the details are below.  We hope you’ll join us! Smart Tech for Smart Communicators Wednesday, April 17, 11:30 am PDT/2:30 pm EDT Do you find it hard — even intimidating — to keep up with all the fast-changing digital tools available to do your jobs? If so, you’re not alone. It often seems that new ones pop up every day. With many of them available for free, the choices can be overwhelming. But, fortunately, there are organizations out there like the Sunlight Foundation who make it their business to stay on the bleeding edge of web/mobile tools that help them do their work better. That’s why for this webinar, we’ve invited Liz Bartolomeo, the foundation’s media director, to give us an overview of what she calls “Smart Tech for Smart Communicators.” Read more

EPIP Boston is thrilled to offer our community two new programs that provide opportunities for leadership within the chapter and deeper engagement with fellow members. The Ambassador program offers committed EPIP Boston members a greater level of involvement with driving chapter operations. Ambassadors work with Steering Committee officers who oversee our programming, membership, and communications functions to help EPIP fulfill its mission of providing professional development and networking opportunities to philanthropic practitioners working in the Boston metropolitan area...

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