EPIP News & Events

Welcome New EPIP Board Members!

Fall greetings from EPIP!

As we enter the last months of 2024 and look ahead to 2025, we are reminded of the work yet to come. Like all of you, we are wading through this season of uncertainty and staying open and curious about the possibilities ahead for EPIP and our broader philanthropic ecosystem. Despite all we may still be unsure of with elections and beyond, EPIP is looking forward to entering the new year with renewed purpose, and a clear goal to see through our forthcoming strategic framework, which we’ve been hard at work on for the last many months.

Next week, the EPIP board and staff are gathering for a retreat to help us build out a vision for bringing our forthcoming strategic framework to life. We are thrilled to be joined by six new members who have joined our Board, each of whom will be integral to our work over the coming months and years. Please join us in welcoming:

• Brandi Collins-Calhoun, Senior Movement Engagement Associate, National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy 
• JC De Vera, Director, Third Plateau
• Allistair Mallillin, Executive Director, Peace Development Fund 
• Dominique Morgan, Director of the Fund for Trans Generations, Borealis Philanthropy
• Adela Ruiz, CEO/Principal, Build on Purpose 
• Rupal Soni, Consultant and Writer
  

Learn more about our Board of Directors on the EPIP website.

Surviving and Thriving through the DEI Backlash - Philanthropy’s Role

As a follow-up to one of our most well-attended sessions at EPIP 2024, we will be offering an online workshop to all EPIP members: navigating and surviving the DEI backlash. Please join us on November 19 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST for this interactive and guided workshop that will help you strategize and build relationships as we think through our roles as practitioners in philanthropy during this most recent DEI backlash. What do we need to thrive? How can we come together? We will hear from EPIP members actively engaging in these questions, but please plan to come together to work through scenarios, engaging in visioning, and sharing strategies for moving forward as the DEI backlash continues at local and national scales.

Learn more and register today.

Communities of Practice

EPIP’s Communities of Practice give emerging professionals a space to grow, learn, and connect with their peers. Available Communities of Practice are:

• The People of Color Network: The People of Color Network (PCN) is a professional development and peer support network for EPIP members who identify as people of color. The PCN is designed to address the intersections of challenges and opportunities that are unique to emerging people of color in the sector. The spaces we provide, whether in person or virtual, are places where we hope you can show up in your wholeness to connect, vent, share strategies with peers, and learn key skills. 
  • The next People of Color Network gathering is coming up! Join us for “Voices from the Lower Economic Community in Philanthropy” on December 3 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST. Learn more and register.
• The Emerging Women of Color Community of Practice: The Emerging Women of Color (EWOC) community of practice was launched in 2022, focused on leadership development and network weaving for early- and mid-career women of color in philanthropy. Created in response to member requests, this community provides leadership development through the lens of race and gender. It also works to connect early-career women of color with a network of peers so that it takes less effort to ‘find your people’ in the field.
• White Affinity Community of Practice: EPIP launched this space in 2021 to provide a rigorous and supportive environment for members who identify as white to deepen their knowledge of antiracism and develop skills and strategies to advance racial equity and inclusive leadership practices in philanthropy, unpack and process the harmful effects of white privilege and white supremacy culture including how both show up within individuals and institutions, and discuss shared challenges and experiences. The latest cohort concluded this summer. Stay tuned for the next cohort announcement!

Contact [email protected] with any questions or to express interest in getting involved as a facilitator for future sessions.

Chapter News & Events 

EPIP LA x PEAK Grantmaking | Coffee + Co-Working

EPIP LA is excited to partner with PEAK Grantmaking for our coffee and co-working time. We'll be at With Love Market & Cafe, members are invited to drop by any time! Coffee and pastries provided.

Register now.

EPIP Michigan & PEAK Mideast | Driving Equity: Opportunities and Pitfalls of AI 

Join EPIP Michigan and PEAK Mideast Chapter for a deep dive into artificial intelligence (AI), which is rapidly changing the world, including grants management. AI can potentially revolutionize how we work but using it responsibly and ethically is essential. This session will explore the opportunities and pitfalls of using AI in grantmaking and include an actionable set of guiding practices that can be applied immediately.

Learn more and register today.

EPIP CO | Coffee Chat

Join fellow EPIP-CO members for the next in-person coffee chat at Pikes Peak Community Foundation in Colorado Springs. We'll continue the conversation around Philanthropy's relationship to power, and how we can build power as philanthropic professionals alongside the communities we serve.

Learn more and register today.

EPIP Boston | Getting to Know Your Local Landscape

Join EPIP Boston and Philanthropy Massachusetts for breakfast, networking, and learning where you’ll:

• Connect and build relationships with funder colleagues from across the sector and at varying levels of seniority
• Hear from panelists on their varied career paths
• Reflect on the region’s philanthropic landscape
• Gain insights on how Philanthropy Massachusetts can support you and your work

This event is suitable for foundation staff across job roles, foundation types, and tenure in the field.

Learn more about the event and register now.

EPIP Bay Area | The 2024 Election: Impacts on Bay Area BIPOC Communities (Part 2)  

Part two of EPIP Bay Area’s 2024 Election Series: Impacts on Bay Area Black & Indigenous People of Color (BIPOC) Communities, in partnership with The Black Funders Network of the Bay Area (BFN) and Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP), is coming up on November 14.

This virtual event will serve as a post-election debrief, and will provide philanthropic professionals, nonprofit leaders and other community members with information about critical issues impacting BIPOC communities in the Bay Area and how the 2024 election may affect them. 

Register now!

EPIP DC | Dreaming Forward: Imagining a Liberated Future Together

Join EPIP DC on December 5 for a transformative conversation on healing and hope as we close 2024. Inspired by Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal, this event invites philanthropy professionals to come together and reflect on the power of dreaming and imagining a liberated world.

We'll engage in an interactive activity that encourages attendees to envision what liberation looks like—one year, five years, ten years, and even twenty years into the future. Together, we'll explore how philanthropy can be a vehicle for transformative change. What can each of us do right now to move closer to the world we imagine?

Learn more and register.

Sector News & Events 

Save the Date: AAPIP 35th Anniversary Conference 

Celebrating 35 years since its founding, Asian Americans / Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) will be hosting its National Network Convening in Chicago, IL May 19-21, 2025!

The Convening will offer spaces for funders to deepen their understanding of AANHPI community needs and what role they can play in supporting AANHPI movements, spaces for connection and community building across AAPIP’s national network, and spaces for joy and celebration in the face of the many struggles our communities are grappling with.

Learn more.

Apply Now for the Northern California Grantmakers 2025 Rising Leaders Cohort

The Rising Leaders Cohort offers emerging leaders the technical and transformational skills to move into your power within philanthropy. The 6-month cohort is designed for individuals working within the broader field of philanthropy who are committed to advancing your impact and leadership journey. 

The experience offers training around growing in your self-awareness, emotional intelligence, power mapping, relationship management, values alignment, facilitation, and conflict management and transformation.

Learn more about and apply now.

Join Funders for Louisiana for Transforming Philanthropy: Principles of Movement-Accountable Intermediaries Webinar

Moderated by Foundation for Louisiana’s CEO and President Charmel Gaulden, this engaging panel discussion will feature Sonya Childress, Co-Director and Co-Founder of Color Congress, alicia sanchez gill, Executive Director of the Emergent Fund, and Jules Goins, Institutional Giving Officer at Foundation for Louisiana. Over the course of the webinar, they will collectively explore the critical role of movement-accountable intermediaries and how these principles can strengthen philanthropic efforts for more impactful community support.

The webinar will be live-streamed on Tuesday, October 31, 2024, from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. CST.

Register today!

Save the Date! Funders for LGBTQ Issues Funding Forward 2025

Funders for LGBTQ Issues is proud to announce that Funding Forward 2025 is coming to Houston, Texas from March 31 – April 3 with March 31 being a pre-session day! Funding Forward is the annual gathering of grantmakers committed to LGBTQ issues organized by the affinity group Funders for LGBTQ Issues. 

Learn more about Funding Forward.

What We’re Reading, Watching & Listening To

• Fall 2024 Issue: Responsive Philanthropy - National Center for Responsive Philanthropy 
• Leadership & Race: A Call to Each Other - Leadership Learning Community 
• The Giving Done Right Podcast: Investing in Nonprofit Leaders with Yolanda Coentro - Center for Effective Philanthropy 
• The Call of Leadership Now: BIPOC Leaders in a Syndemic Era - Neha Mahajan and Felicia Griffin, The Nonprofit Quarterly 
• Palestine and Israel | Towards a New Philanthropy - Funders4Palestine, The Forge

Job Board 

Looking for a new opportunity?

The positions below are just the beginning. Check our Job Board for more opportunities from around the country! 

• Chief Financial Officer - Xiente, Philadelphia, PA
• Chief Operating Officer - Xiente, Philadelphia, PA
• Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship - Howard University, Washington, DC
• Coordinator, Programming and External Relations - Center for Effective Philanthropy - Cambridge, MA
• Program Associate, Environment and Science - The David and Lucile Packard Foundation - Los Altos, California

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