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Before Strategy Was Strategy
By Crystal Hayling Crystal Hayling’s long and committed career in philanthropy includes a stint as the program director for the Los Angeles Women’s Foundation. The Los Angeles Women’s Foundation and...
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Six Years: Six Lessons Learned
By Surina Khan, Vice President of Programs, Women’s Foundation of California It’s hard to believe, but at the end of this month I will leave the Women’s Foundation of California after six wonderful...
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Amazing Women, Inspiring Stories
By Emma Mayerson, Development Assistant In high school I traveled to Guatemala with Where There Be Dragons, a study abroad program . For six weeks we lived in a small village in the mountains where we...
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Change Begins At Home
By Victoria Chan I’ve always wanted to travel the world. When I was a child, my mom would read me her journals describing her travels in Europe when she was in her 20′s. I was determined to leave the...
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New Podcast: In March we awarded $500,000 in grants!
In this interview, Grants Manager Mavis Gruver (shown left) describes some of our new grants and grant partners. Learn about and Sojourn to the Past, Maitri, and Girl Scouts of Northern California Got...
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People’s Momentum Award: Nominate a nonprofit to win our $10,000 grant!
Today we launched our first online contest, the People’s Momentum Award. A qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with the most votes come noon PST, Thursday, March 28, will take home a $10,000...
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Alexandria House wins our $10,000 grant!
We are honored to announce the winner of our first ever People’s Momentum Award contest: Congratulations, Alexandria House! To win the contest, they garnered 3,280 unique votes from their community of...
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Heartwarming interview with People’s Momentum Award Winner, Alexandria House
Our first ever People’s Momentum Award contest ended at noon on March 28. Some minutes later, we announced the winner on Facebook and Twitter, and a couple of hours later we made the announcement on...
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Giving Circles: A Recipe for Collective Learning, Strategic Philanthropy and...
With our upcoming Giving Circle Network Conference on the horizon, we sat down with Gretchen Sandler, incoming chair of the Board of the Directors of the Women’s Foundation of California, and a member...
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