Ashley Enrici recently joined the faculty of the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy in a new role dedicated to examining issues at the intersection of the environment and philanthropy.
Also, Cisco has committed $50 million to offer scholarships to students at historically Black colleges and universities, and the Annenberg Foundation has given a challenge grant of $25 million to protect wild cougars in Los Angeles.
This former movie theater might be one of the Bay Area s most overlooked gems
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HanaHaus is at 456 University Ave. in Palo Alto. The structure, which was completed in 1927, first opened as a single-screen movie theater. Esther Guerrero
The Cliff House is arguably one of San Francisco’s most iconic and recognizable buildings. The architects behind its 1909 iteration also designed another historic Peninsula structure that is less known but was once compared to the Louvre.
A series of columns, arches and tejaban roof tiles are the first thing many will notice of Palo Alto’s Varsity Theatre. Among the other surrounding buildings on University Avenue, the Varsity Theatre stands out on its own for its ornate architectural design. The building, of course, is a skeleton of its past. Long before HanaHaus, a co-working space by the software and technology giant SAP, moved into the building, the Varsity Theatre attracted a different crowd altogether.
Two Silicon Valley Foundations Launch $10 Million Effort to Support Local Latinx Communities
The LatinXCEL Fund seeks to increase investments in Silicon Valley’s Latinx leaders and organizations
May 18, 2021 15:56 ET | Source: Silicon Valley Community Foundation Silicon Valley Community Foundation Mountain View, California, UNITED STATES
Mountain View, California, May 18, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Silicon Valley Community Foundation in collaboration with Castellano Family Foundation today announces the launch of the LatinXCEL Fund, a $10 million initiative created to support Latinx leaders and organizations in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. Through targeted investments, the fund will strengthen Silicon Valley’s ecosystem of Latinx-led organizations, ensuring that they have the long-term resources they need to unleash the full potential of the communities they serve.
Long before the pandemic hit, it was clear philanthropy needed an overhaul. But the health and economic crisis, combined with a national racial reckoning, forced grant makersâ hands. Foundations largely rose to the challenge by speeding up their grant making, increasing flexibility, and reducing funding restrictions.
But now it appears those changes may be short lived. In the most recent of its Foundations Respond to Crisis reports, the Center for Effective Philanthropy found that âmost foundations do not plan to undertake these new practices in the future to the degree they are doing so now.â
How can that be during a time when people in and outside of philanthropy are speaking up every day about the need for such changes? Why wouldnât foundations lean into this progress?