Week of December 18, 2017 1. Launching Statewide Campaigns When funders pool their resources, they have the ability to expand their impact on a statewide level. This Funder Huddle mini-plenary delved into partnerships created in Mississippi and North Carolina that ultimately resulted in statewide campaigns. In this session, the discussants described the role funders played through the Mississippi Association of Grantmakers in planning, designing and implementing the MS Campaign and how they worked with the public sector to build a public-private partnership. Representatives from North Carolina detailed how they have been exploring opportunities for shared funding and collective advocacy in the state. • Moderator: Sammy Moon, Mississippi Association of Grantmakers 2. Save the Date: GLR Week 2018 Mark your calendars, you don't want to miss GLR Week 2018, July 23-27 in Philadelphia. You'll reconnect with old friends and meet plenty of new ones while gaining new insights on effective strategies to achieve bigger outcomes, larger impact and sustainable scale for children's early school success. Keep an eye out, we'll be launching registration after the new year. In the meantime, take a moment to browse the GLR Week photo gallery and relive the experiences you and your peers shared last June! 3. Modern Day Robin Hood "1.8 million New Yorkers — one in five of us — are living in poverty. That's something you hear Robin Hood say a lot. In this, my first year-end letter to you, I want to emphasize the statistic in the context of the most vulnerable victims of poverty. Most troubling, nearly 30 percent of the 1.8 million New Yorkers living in poverty are children. A big part of the reason this work is so important to me is that it is so personal. My father died shortly before my fourth birthday. My mom had to move my two sisters and me from Baltimore to the Bronx to be closer to her family. She struggled, even working three jobs. The Bronx, in the 80s and 90s was a hard place to grow up, but what we lacked in prosperity, we made up for in love. I beat the odds thanks in large part to investments other people made in my family and in my future that created just enough opportunity for me to get where I am today — proudly leading Robin Hood in this fight against poverty." — Wes Moore, CEO, Robin Hood WHAT WE'RE READING! • How Philanthropy and the Media Could Work Better Together (Philanthropy Journal) • GLR Honors Portal and Council of Champions (GLRHuddle) • Teamwork: The Funder Encouraging Collaboration to Solve Complex Problems (Inside Philanthropy) ! QUICK REMINDERS ! Save the Date: Funder Roundtable: Gary Community Investments & OpenIDEO's Early Childhood Prize GLR Week 2018 — Save the Date! |