EOF is hosts monthly virtual calls for members to share ideas, workshop pressing challenges, and identify opportunities to connect and align efforts around economic opportunity.

The 2024 Funder Learning Series has concluded. It has been a pleasure to learn about the grantmaking aspirations, learnings, and challenges of our colleagues over these past few months!

2024 EOF Funder Learning Series

May 14 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET

Supporting advocacy and policy work on tax credits and paid family leave.

Guest Speaker: Kathy Stohr, J.B. and M.K Pritzker Family Foundation

June 11 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET

Lessons from the Raising Child Care Fund, a powerful philanthropic learning laboratory to center racial equity and power-building alongside community leaders most proximate to the country’s most pressing social challenges, including the broken child care system.

Guest Speaker: Rachel Schumacher, Raising Child Care Fund

July 9 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET

Learnings from an open-call RFP to advance state policy and strategies for sharing proposals across the EOF Network.

Guest Speaker: Karina Lewis, The Annie E. Casey Foundation

September 10 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET

Strategic conversation on philanthropy’s response to national and local retraction on progress made to improve race equity, diversity, and inclusion programs and policies.

Guest Speaker: Ben McDearmon, Council on Foundations

October 8 | 1:00-1:50 PM ET

Exploration of the recently-announced Investing in America Child Care Partnership, a new philanthropic coordinated effort to leverage federal infrastructure funding to strengthen local child care systems and increase access to high-quality, affordable child care in communities that house America’s growing infrastructure workforce.

Guest Speakers: Katie Beckmann, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Eric Buchanan, Buffett Early Childhood Fund

2023 EOF Funder Learning Series

April 5 | 1:00-1:45 PM ET

Movement building for a universal publicly supported care infrastructure.

  • Guest Speaker: Anna Wadia, Executive Director, CARE Fund

May 3 | 1:00-1:45 PM ET

Building capacity in the states to support adequate public resources and an economy that works for everyone.

  • Guest Speaker: Caitlin Hamood, Program Officer, Stoneman Family Foundations

June 7 | 1:00-1:45 PM ET

Supporting equitable implementation of federal recovery dollars and infrastructure funds.

  • Guest Speaker: Aimee Ramirez, Manager of Policy & Advocacy, Chicago Community Trust

Sept 6 | 1:00-1:45 PM ET

Supporting advocacy and organizing capacity in the states to expand state tax credits.

Oct 4 | 1:00-1:45 PM ET

Supporting and implementing trust-based philanthropy and participatory grantmaking.

Guest Speaker: Lea Tienou-Gustafson, World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund