PLACES (Professionals Learning About Community, Equity & Smart Growth), is a year-long fellowship program that offers tools, knowledge, coaching, and best practices to build leadership skills and enhance funder grantmaking decisions in ways that are responsive to the needs and assets of low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. PLACES builds the skills and knowledge of a diverse cohort of professionals in philanthropy, allowing them to grow as leaders and better understand issues of equity and inclusiveness as it relates to growth and development issues and to translate what they have learned into their grantmaking practices. Read more

In preparation for the 2013 EPIP National Conference, EPIP National is soliciting nominations from members to serve on the 2013 Conference Committee. Members can nominate either themselves or an eligible peer/colleague. The role of the Conference Committee is to manage outreach, sustainability efforts, and the Open Call for Sessions which will solicit workshop proposals from practitioners in the field. Subcommittees will be devised to project manage. Committee members will be expected to participate in 3-4 full committee calls between September 2012 – April 2012, and likely 1-2 subcommittee calls. Read more

Rahsaan K. Harris has been selected as the Executive Director of Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy. “Rahsaan’s experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector will serve the organization well as we harness the potential of emerging professionals to create social change,” said Trista Harris (no relation), EPIP Board of Advisors Chair and Executive Director of the Headwaters Foundation for Justice. “His laser-like focus on strengthening the value proposition of EPIP, and amplifying the voices of our members, will take our work to the next level.” Read more.

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Join EPIP Boston for an informal conversation over breakfast on the morning of Friday, July 20 from 8:30-10:00 am at the GMA Foundations (77 Summer Street, 9th Floor in Downtown Crossing in Boston). We will eat, network, and discuss the 2012 Millennial Impact Report, recently highlighted in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, on how trends in giving impact philanthropy and how the landscape is changing over time.

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Living Cities has announced an opening for a Program Assistant position at its New York office. For more information, check out the job description. Read more

Welcome to the new EPIP-NY blog! We hope our readers like this new format and will continue to check us out for the latest news and updates from your EPIP-NY community! Read more

Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families and The Atlantic Philanthropies will host two learning events, a webinar on July 9 and a conference call briefing on July 19. Read more

EPIP Boston works to strengthen the next generation of grantmakers and advance the field of philanthropy in the Boston area. We provide local philanthropy professionals with opportunities for networking and professional development, connecting members with their peers and providing access to senior leaders for learning and development.

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Lauren Tulp, our most recent Co-Chair of EPIP Bay Area and Impact Planning and Analysis Associate at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, shares one of her highlighted experiences from this year’s EPIP National Conference: At this year’s EPIP National Conference I had the opportunity to present a workshop called “Do Nothing About Me Without Me: Engaging Stakeholders for Better Results” with two fantastic staff members of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Andy Freeze and Jason Twiss. Read more

One of our Steering Committee members, Ginger Hintz, attended the Learning Tour of LA Ports at this year’s EPIP National Conference. She shares her reflections here: Philanthropy is about relationships. I think good philanthropy supports and builds long-term connections. These axioms were reinforced on a learning tour to the San Pedro Bay ports (the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach). Patricia Castellanos, Deputy Director and Director of Ports Project at LAANE, and Angelo Logan, Co-Executive Director of East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, were our guides into a system that most people never see but are affected by every day. Read more