What's in Store for 2023
2023 Budget and Tax Briefing: EOF hosts an annual Budget and Tax Briefing to provide funders and philanthropic advisors with a unique opportunity to learn about and discuss why federal and state budget and tax work matters to national, state, and local philanthropy. This year’s Briefing was be held on April 20 in Arlington, VA.
2023 Fall Funder Series: A Vision for Economic Democracy: Join us to explore efforts to redistribute power among government, businesses, workers, and communities to build a more democratic economy that works for all of us.
- Brief: Economic Democracy: A Framework for a More Equitable Future. This brief provides context on the current economic and democratic crises and lays out the framework of economic democracy as a means of addressing them. It then introduces three areas of focus that solve for the challenges we face: expanding public options of goods and services, building power for workers and communities through shared ownership and co-governance, and rightsizing corporate power.
- Field Expert Q&As: COMING SOON! Field experts share insights on why the expansion of public options, empowerment of workers and communities, and rightsizing of corporate power is important to an equitable economy and how recent historic federal investments provide an opportunity to advance worker and community-centered investments and help lay the foundation for a more just, inclusive, and democratic economy.
- Funder Meeting: Delivering for Workers and Communities: Philanthropy’s Efforts to Ensure Equitable Implementation of Federal Investments
December 7 @ 9:00 – 3:30 pm | New York
EOF Member Peer Learning Series: Our 2023 Peer Learning Series provided opportunities for EOF members to exchange ideas, share their grantmaking practice, workshop pressing challenges, and identify opportunities to connect and align efforts around economic opportunity. Connected to conversations at our in-person meetings, these monthly virtual sessions were held on the first Wednesday of the month from 1:00-1:45 pm ET, between April – October 2023. Each session included an EOF member to kick off the conversation.
EITC Pooled Fund: Launched in 2012, the EITC Pooled Fund supports rapid response, campaign and policy development efforts to help build public support for the federal and state EITCs, other tax credits and cash support for struggling families. In 2023, the Fund will also support an update of the Program Participation Dashboard (providing state-by-state data on participants in the EITC, SNAP, Medicaid and CHIP and SSI), and explore opportunities to EITC policy and grassroots organizing funders together to share strategies, questions and learnings.
Law & Social Policy Legacy Award: Established in 2020, a $10,000 award will be given annually, through 2030 to recognize organizations defending and advocating for low-wage workers’ rights. We recognized our 2023 winner, New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty, at our Annual Budget and Tax Briefing on April 20, 2023. The 2024 call for nominations has closed. A winner will be announced in early 2024 and recognized at the 2024 Budget and Tax Briefing.
A Snapshot of the Care Narrative Change Landscape: With support from the Care for All with Respect and Equity (CARE) Fund and coming together for the first time across issues and constituencies, Asset Funders Network, Disability & Philanthropy Forum, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Economic Opportunity Funders, Grantmakers In Aging, and Grantmakers In Health worked together to develop a national landscape analysis of care economy narrative-change efforts. Online research, field interviews, a funder survey, and a funder focus group were conducted in January-June 2023. The results reflect a snapshot in time on organizations supporting narrative change strategies and tactics, where the most significant gaps and opportunities are, and how philanthropy can best support this work. Final products iinclude an online searchable table of organizations and project and report.
Member Q&As: Learn more about how our members are addressing economic equity and opportunity, the work they are most proud of and questions they’d like to engage with funder colleagues on. Interested in participating in a member Q&A? Contact Cema Siegel at [email protected].