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.
- Guest Speaker: Pedro Morillas, Economic Security Project
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