What's in Store for 2024
Annual 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 held on March 18-19, 2024 in Arlington, VA. Registration for our 2025 Budget and Tax Briefing — scheduled for March 24-25, 2025 in Arlington, VA — is now open!
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 2024, the Fund made rapid response awards to five states and launched the Missouri Public Policy & Advocacy Funder Network in partnership with Philanthropy Missouri.
Law & Social Policy Legacy Award: Launched in 2021, a $10,000 award will be given annually, through 2030 to recognize organizations defending and advocating for low-wage workers’ rights. Congratulations to our 2024 winner, Make the Road New Jersey! The 2025 call for nominations has closed. A winner will be announced in early 2025 and recognized at the 2025 Budget and Tax Briefing in March 2025.
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. Read our report and view our online, searchable table of projects that provide 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.
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].
Funder Learning Series: EOF hosted monthly virtual calls between May and October 2024 for funders to share ideas, workshop pressing challenges, and identify opportunities to connect and align efforts around economic opportunity.
Funder Networks: EOF supports time-limited funder working groups to support information sharing and learning as well as the coordination and alignment of investments among identified areas of interest. EOF is supporting a 2024 Election Funder Strategy Room this Fall. Registration for the Strategy Room has closed.