These days, you’ve probably heard the term Impact Investing in the field of philanthropy. Have you ever wondered what it means? Have you wanted to become better acquainted with how philanthropy and social justice work plays a role? Join EPIP DC on Tuesday, September 11th to hear from Cynthia Muller, an expert in the field of Impact Investing. She leads Arabella Advisors’ impact investing practice and draws on her extensive background in social enterprise and mission investing to help our individual and institutional clients use impact investing to accomplish their social and environmental goals. Please register here. Read more

Join EPIP Hawaii for their September lunch meeting! Friday, September 7, 2012 12:00 – 1:30 pm YWCA Laniakea, 1040 Richards Street, Downtown Honolulu We will be hosting a panel of innovative leaders in the arts.  Rich Richardson, the Executive Director of HAPA, Marilyn Cristofori, the Executive Director of Hawaii Arts Alliance, and Louise King Lanzilotti, the Executive Director of El Sistema Hawaii will be sharing their perspectives on social transformation and creativity. Space is limited! RSVP or send questions to [email protected] Read more

The EPIP office is located just one block from the Empire State Building. Given the close proximity to today’s tragic shooting, we wanted to report that the EPIP staff is safe and unharmed. Our office neighbors in The New York Foundation are also safe. Read more

Just had a great meeting with Philadelphia’s most respected watchdog group, Committee of Seventy, to develop a program focused on the presidential election! We’re working on a debate format… Tuesday, October 30… stay tuned! Read more

Former Atlantic Official to Lead Membership Group for Young Philanthropy Workers By Caroline Preston New Job: In September, Rahsaan Harris, 38, will join Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy as its executive director. He succeeds Rusty Stahl, who started the group a decade ago to serve younger people in a profession dominated by older employees. Read the full profile on the Chronicle of Philanthropy website (requires subscription access). Read Rahsaan’s bio. Read more

Here’s an upcoming event that may be of interest to EPIP’ers! Also, don’t forget to RSVP for EPIP’s Summer Networking Event on August 30th! Join us for boating and networking on Lake Union! Giving With Goals When: August 22, 2012. Workshop: 5:30-7:30pm. Food, wine & mingling: 7:30-9:00pm Where: Farestart, 700 Virginia Street, Seattle RSVP here or to: [email protected] This event is co-sponsored by: Resource Generation, The Seattle Foundation, Seattle Works, Social Justice Fund Northwest, and SVP Seattle. For more information, please see the event listing. Read more

Come down to EPIP San Diego’s September Happy Hour: Thursday, September 6, 5:30pm-8:00pm NIBBLES and SIPS at D Bar 3930 Fifth Avenue San Diego, CA 92103 We will discuss The New Generation of Community Foundations. (Find it here: http://coady.stfx.ca/tinroom/assets/file/HodgsonKnightMathieNGCF.pdf) Take a look and join the conversation! Read more

This month Rusty Stahl completes his 10-year term as Founder and Executive Director at EPIP. To commemorate his service to the organization and its national network of constituents, earlier this week EPIP launched a “Recognizing Rusty” drive to raise a modest $5,000 in his name for the future of the organization...

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Rusty Stahl, our founder and first Executive Director, established EPIP in 2002. As part of a planned transition, Rusty has stepped down as Executive Director, working with EPIP’s board to identify and bring on Rahsaan Harris, EPIP’s new ED. How can you recognize Rusty’s decade of service? By helping us reach our goal of raising $5,000 by Thurs., Aug. 9. Read more

If you’ve been following the latest EPIP news, you will know that EPIP has just appointed a new Executive Director, Rahsaan Harris. And if you’re reading this post on epip.org, you will notice our new, snazzy website design. Clearly, there are a lot of great things going on at EPIP and we want you to be part of it! 

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