COVID-Response Funding

Episode Highlights

• Sprucing up for video calls means putting on earrings these days.
• Some foundations are rising to the occasion and others…well…aren’t.
• Notes to Foundations:
• Make the applications easier.
• Stop requiring hard copies. It’s ridiculous and dangerous!
• When rapid response really means rapid applications, but not funding.
• Stop pulling funding or shifting funding away from organizations who are relying on it.
• RELEASE ADDITIONAL FUNDING. You have the GD funds.
• Recognize that the impacts of this crisis will be felt for a long time and that we need our nonprofit sector around for it.
• Communicate! Let your grantees know that you’re not worried about reporting, numbers, etc.

Resources

·      Anna Wintour in Sweatpants

·      Donor Advised Fund giving surges as pandemic spreads

·      Letter urging foundations to grant at significantly increased levels during the COVID crisis

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