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.
Fall Meeting: EOF holds a second meeting each year in Washington, DC on emerging topics of interest identified by our voluntary Steering Committee and membership. Our 2023 Fall meeting is TBA.
EOF Member Peer Learning Series: Our 2023 Peer Learning Series will provide 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 will be held on the first Wednesday of the month from 1:00-1:45 pm ET, starting in April 2023. Each session will include 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 will recognize and celebrate 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 will open in September.
Care Economy Narrative Change Project: A group of six philanthropy support organizations – EOF, Asset Funders Network, Early Childhood Funders Collaborative, Grantmakers In Aging, Grantmakers In Health, and Disability and Philanthropy Forum – have agreed to collaborate to develop a national landscape analysis of narrative change efforts across the care economy, including child care and early learning, paid leave, long-term services and supports for older adults and people with disabilities, and supports for paid care workers, including higher wages, benefits, and workplace rights and protections. Final products may include a searchable table of projects and publications, short summary of findings with data visualizations, and a national webinar to share the project findings.
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 csiegel@eofnetwork.org.