Monthly Archives: May 2021
ComNetworkDETROIT: How to Gain Impactful Media Coverage
by: Natalie Fotias | May. 25th, 2021 Having a media strategy is important for raising awareness about your organization’s work and mission. It can help you attract new advocates, donors, and volunteers; build the credibility of your organization and its leaders; challenge negative perceptions about the people you serve; and help influence public opinion and […]
Read more »Let’s Talk: Supporting Black-Led Nonprofits
by: Terry Whitfield | May. 17th, 2021 A discussion of the funding & leadership development challenges for Black-led organizations and how these opportunity gaps can be closed. About this event Skillman Foundation Program Officer Terry Whitfield moderates a conversation with Allandra Bulger of Co.act Detroit, Nicole Wilson of The Yunion and Black Executive Director Alliance of Detroit, and Shawn H. Wilson of […]
Read more »Youth Employment to Advance Workplace Equity
by: Urban Alliance | May. 13th, 2021 Join Urban Alliance and The Skillman Foundation for a webinar examining how youth workforce development is essential to building more diverse, equitable talent pipelines and sharing best practices from Detroit for effectively implementing this work. Tuesday May 18, 2021 at 11am-12 pm EDT Across the country, companies are […]
Read more »Changing in Place: The Skillman Foundation, Detroit, and the Good Neighborhoods Initiative
by: The Skillman Foundation | May. 12th, 2021 In 2006, the Skillman Foundation committed $100 million to a decade-long investment in six neighborhoods. Through this Good Neighborhoods Initiative, the foundation directed a majority of its grantmaking toward an intensive focus on changing the conditions where, at the time, one-third of Detroit’s children lived. The goal […]
Read more »From Citywide to Neighborhood-Based: Two Decades of Learning, Prioritization, and Strategic Action to Build The Skillman Foundation’s Youth-Development Systems
by: The Skillman Foundation | May. 12th, 2021 This article is informed by evaluation reports and memos, interviews, meetings with foundation staff and community stakeholders, foundation documents, research from the field, and a previous article in The Foundation Review about Skillman’s work (Brown, Colombo, & Hughes, 2009). It chronicles the history, challenges, and lessons of […]
Read more »Changemaking: Building Strategic Competence
by: The Skillman Foundation | May. 12th, 2021 This article aims to capture The Skillman Foundation’s initial lessons about changemaking practice by examining how one foundation with a genuine desire to expand the range and scope of its own practice is building its strategic competence, and by highlighting what it is learning that is likely […]
Read more »Foundation Readiness for Community Transformation: Learning in Real Time
by: The Skillman Foundation | May. 12th, 2021 The article conveys a snapshot of a complex undertaking very much in development; there is value in examining and sharing it now because many of the readiness issues facing this foundation are ones with which others have struggled, not always successfully. Read the report.
Read more »Finding the Fix: Embracing Philanthropy’s Role in Transforming an Urban Education Landscape
by: The Skillman Foundation | May. 12th, 2021 This article describes the events that led to the fundamental shift in strategy and role for the foundation and its partners, identifies the necessary conditions for a successful implementation of a game-changing plan for all schools in an urban center, and examines the challenges of such a […]
Read more »Standardized Testing for Michigan Students Begins, But Debate Carries On
by: Ammara Ansari | May. 4th, 2021 This blog was co-authored with Walter Cook, a researcher with the Detroit Education Research Partnership at Wayne State University Statewide Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress, or M-STEP, has begun for Michigan students, after much debate. There has been a range of perspectives and opinions from school administrators, teachers, policymakers, child advocates, and researchers about the benefits and costs of testing students’ academic […]
Read more »At the heart of education is great educators
by: Teach 313 | May. 3rd, 2021 Brave and Talented Detroit Educators, We continue to celebrate, champion, and honor your hearts, your work, and your passion for teaching, leading, and loving our students and school communities. This year, we hope you have felt and received revolutionary collective love. YOU are children’s and school communities’ essential warriors and frontline champions! Throughout the week, we will be sharing tools and strategies to add to your self-care toolbox. Why? The health pandemic […]
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