March 2019 Newsletter Interview: Nikki Foster, Program Officer, and Margie Jo Eun Joo Andreason, Diversity Equity Inclusion (DEI) Manager at the Northwest Area Foundation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach March 6, 2019

Interview with a Funder In what ways are the Northwest Area Foundation’s program goals around achieving sustainable prosperity grounded in a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion? At the program level, we’ve had a version of this conversation for many years. In recent years, however, we’ve embarked on an intentional diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI)…

December 2018 Newsletter Interview: Ria Pugeda, Senior Program Officer at the Consumer Health Foundation

2018 Newsletters, Funder Interviews, NewslettersBy Sabine Schoenbach November 30, 2018

Interview with a Funder Why is supporting economic security and asset building essential to your mission? The Consumer Health Foundation’s (CHF’s) website reflects our view on the intersection of health equity, economic justice, and racial equity. It reads “Health inequities are unjust and preventable differences in health between groups of people. They are created and…

September 2018 Newsletter Interview: Erica Williams, Senior Director of State Policy Initiatives at Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach September 18, 2018

Interview with a Researcher The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) recently released a brief that discusses ways state EITCs make work pay for people of color and women. We followed up with Erica Williams, Senior Director of State Policy Initiatives, to learn more about the role of tax credits in helping to advance…

June 2018 Newsletter Interview: Laura Speer, Associate Director, Policy Reform and Advocacy at The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach June 7, 2018

Supporting Immigrant Families in a Shifting Policy Landscape *Edit Added on 10.30.18: The proposed “public charge” rule was published in the Federal Register on October 10th, triggering a 60-day public comment period. Under this proposed rule, immigrants seeking admission to the U.S. or applying for lawful permanent residency could be denied if family members, including U.S. citizen children, receive…

March 2018 Newsletter Interview: Isabel Barrios, Program Officer at the Greater New Orleans Foundation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach March 6, 2018

Tell us about the Greater New Orleans Foundation’s economic opportunity work. The Foundation’s economic opportunity work was born out of our post-Katrina work on housing and community development, which included a five-year, $25 million initiative to support the organizations and systems that repaired or created new affordable housing. We organize our grant programs into nine categories…

December 2017 Newsletter Interview: Cynthia Miller, Senior Fellow at MDRC and Project Director for the Paycheck Plus Evaluation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach December 7, 2017

MDRC, a nonprofit, nonpartisan education and social policy research firm, is testing and evaluating a demonstration project – Paycheck Plus – that offers workers without dependent children an enhanced Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The program is being implemented and evaluated in two U.S. cities – New York, New York and Atlanta, Georgia. The…

September 2017 Newsletter Interview: Joseph Sanberg and Josh Fryday of the Golden State Opportunity Foundation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach September 13, 2017

In 2015, California became the 26th state to establish a state EITC and in 2017, Governor Jerry Brown signed into a law a major expansion of the state credit. The Golden State Opportunity Foundation has been at the forefront of California’s EITC advocacy and outreach efforts and…

June 2017 Newsletter Interview: Susan Mason, Director of the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach June 12, 2017

What is the current focus of the Intuit Financial Freedom Foundation (IFFF)? The purpose of the Foundation is to make a meaningful impact on the financial lives of lower-income and underserved taxpayers, individuals, small businesses and the nonprofits that serve them. The Foundation, founded in 2002, executes its mission through public-private partnerships between Intuit and…

March 2017 Newsletter Interview: Lori Seibel, President and CEO of the Community Health Endowment of Lincoln

Funder Interviews, NewsBy Sabine Schoenbach March 6, 2017

Tell us about your organization’s work and how family economic security fits into your priorities as a philanthropic organization focused on community health. Our vision is to make Lincoln, Nebraska the healthiest community in the nation. For the past 18 years, the Community Health Endowment of Lincoln (CHE) has worked to fulfill this vision which was…

December 2016 Newsletter Interviews: Robert Greenstein of CBPP and Elizabeth Kneebone of the Brookings Institution

2016 Newsletters, Funder InterviewsBy Sabine Schoenbach December 6, 2016

In the wake of the 2016 election, we turned to two federal EITC policy experts to tell us their views on what’s next for the federal EITC. Robert Greenstein, Founder and President of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Elizabeth Kneebone, Fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institute, provided their thoughts in response to…

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