This 2008 Noyes News blogpost, contains a re-publication of Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation’s statement of support for AB 624, following the agreement between California legislators and funders that led to the withdrawal of the proposed legislation. The Foundation’s continued dissemination of the statement is intended to support continued dialogue.
This 2010 blogpost written by Rosetta Thurman discusses the Florida law “that prohibits government officials from requiring that foundations disclose the race, religion, gender, income level, sexual orientation, or certain other characteristics of their employees and board members, as well as those of their grant recipients” and the effect of this law on those encouraging […]
This 2010 report prepared by the Foundation Center for Grantmakers of Oregon and Southwest Washington uses the most comprehensive database ever assembled on Oregon foundation giving. It examines the extent to which grantmaking by Oregon’s 779 foundations reached the state’s communities of color, providing important baseline data about foundation giving in the context of the […]
This 2008, Keeping a Close Eye, blogpost by Aaron Dorfman, executive director of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy discusses the need for foundations to increase the effectiveness of grantmaking in the community and the controversy surrounding proposed legislation in California (AB 624).
This 2010 article written by Caroline Preston in the Chronicle of Philanthropy discusses the law “that prohibits Florida government officials from requiring that foundations disclose the race, religion, gender, income level, sexual orientation, or certain other characteristics of their employees and board members, as well as those of their grant recipients.”
