Posts in 'Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility'

Friday, September 4, 2020

Philanthropy Cannot Be Expected to “Fill the Gap” in Rental Assistance Need Caused by Lack of Government Support

Reposted from the Funders Together to End Homelessness website, available here . A statement from Amanda Andere, CEO, Funders Together to End Homelessness and Jeanne Fekade-Sellassie, Project Director, Funders for Housing and Opportunity, on the September 1 CDC eviction moratorium notice. On Tuesday...

Thursday, August 6, 2020

HealthSpark Offering 10 Scholarships to GPLEX 2020

Posted on behalf of Russell Johnson, President and CEO HealthSpark Foundation is pleased to offer tuition support for up to 10 Montgomery County community leaders who apply and are accepted to participate in the 2020 Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange (GPLEX) Conference. This year’s GPLEX...

Monday, June 29, 2020

Stepping Up Our Advocacy for LGBTQ+ Rights

By Russell Johnson, President and CEO Earlier this month, after years of advocacy work, the United State Supreme Court issued a ruling protecting LGBTQ+ people from workplace discrimination. It was a long overdue ruling. The ruling resonates personally for me. I serve as president of a private...

Anti-Racist Organizational Change: Resources & Tools for Nonprofits

Many nonprofit organizations talk about the importance of diversity, inclusion, and equity, but many find it difficult to truly integrate these concepts into their work and how they operate. In March 2016, CommunityWise Resource Centre started a process of Anti-Racist Organizational Change (AROC)...

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Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Community Partners Join HealthSpark in Building Back a Better Safety Net System

Together with forty-one community partners, HealthSpark Foundation has launched an effort to rebuild the social safety net post-pandemic called Build Back Better . Partner organizations, which represent nonprofit safety net providers, universities, faith groups, advocacy groups, elected officials...

Tuesday, June 2, 2020

A Call for Bold Action on Racial Justice

The murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and the ensuing protests are the manifestation of the deep, longstanding pain of racism in our country. Frustration, anger, and violence at this scale happen when peaceful forms of protest aren’t listened to, when calls for action and...

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Early lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic

By Russell Johnson, President and CEO The Covid-19 pandemic caught the world by surprise. While epidemiologists created scenarios of how a pandemic might impact local communities, the reality of its length is just starting to sink in. Many of us are sheltering in place and practicing social...

System Leadership Capacity Building Program

Today's nonprofits require leaders who are more than managers - they need to be boundary-spanners, innovators, and collaborators to meet today's challenges. However, traditional leadership programs often neglect the unique skills necessary to position one's nonprofit for success in a systems change environment.

In 2021, HealthSpark Foundation supported the development of the Racial Equity Learning Community in partnership with the Bucks-Mont Collaborative, TriCounty Community Network, and Interagency Council of Norristown.