A Conversation with Rosemary Veniegas, Senior Program Officer, Health; Rosie Arroyo, Senior Program Officer, Immigration; and Ellah Ronen, Senior Program Officer, LA n Sync of the California Community Foundation. Tell us about the EITC-related work you are currently supporting, and the path that led you to invest in this work? The California Community Foundation made…
United Way Worldwide (UWW) supports, funds, and helps to grow VITA networks across the country. We recently spoke with Laura Scherler, Senior Director of Economic Mobility and Corporate Solutions; Barbara Saverino, Director of Public Policy and Advocacy, and Bryndan Stueve, Manager, Community Impact and Economic Mobility about United Way Worldwide’s program and policy strategies in…
Tell us about The Rockefeller Foundation’s Equity and Economic Opportunity Initiative. How does investment in the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC) advance the goals of this program? Using the tools of policy, data, technology, science, innovative finance, and the power of convening to identify and scale up solutions to address…
Tell us about Tax Justice is Gender Justice, the new series of reports on achieving gender and racial equity by harnessing the power of the U.S. Tax Code. How does this work fit into the National Women’s Law Center’s mission? Taxes play a fundamental and underappreciated role in women’s economic security. The tax code funds our…
Over the last several years, the EITC Funders Network has partnered with Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) on issues at the intersection of tax credit access, immigration status, and racial and ethnic equity. Although the EITC is no longer on the list of benefits and services under the recently issued public charge rule,…
Tell us about The Piton’s Foundation strategy and how Get Ahead Colorado and Tax Help Colorado fit into your work of supporting families and driving social change for low-income communities. For more than 40 years, The Piton Foundation, which is part of Gary Community Investments, has been investing in the Colorado community with a specific…
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)…
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…
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…
Supporting Immigrant Families in a Shifting Policy Landscape *Edit Added on 9.5.2019: In August 2019, the Department of Homeland Security finalized its “public charge regulation,” which will go into effect on October 15th, 2019. Under this rule, immigrants seeking admission to the U.S. or applying for lawful permanent residency can be denied if family members,…