SHAREResources
The Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund is working across a range of important issues and causes to advance and protect fundamental rights and opportunities for all people. In areas from immigrant rights and gay and lesbian equality to education and nonprofit leadership, we’re always learning new things – about innovative approaches and ideas, model initiatives, and more.
In this section of the website, we share some of the resources that reflect what we’re learning and that shed new light on the work we’re doing in partnership with our grantees and others. The resources include materials we have produced ourselves, including slideshows and features about our grantees and the issues we're working on, plus links to important reports, articles and other items. Please keep checking back as we continue to add new resources to these pages.
Scholar john a. powell leads Haas Diversity Research Center
A national voice on race and ethnicity and a civil-liberties scholar, john a. powell has been selected to lead UC Berkeley’s Haas Diversity Research Center and to hold the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion. Berkeley’s Haas Center is the first of its kind in the nation — a multidisciplinary research initiative to study race, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and socioeconomic status across the state, nation, and world. (May 2012)
Experiences of Children with Non-English-Speaking Parents
How can preschool help children become better prepared for kindergarten? This PPIC report examines the relationship of childcare experiences and kindergarten academic skills of four-year-old children. It finds that children attending center-based care significantly improve their early reading skills — including noticeable gains among those whose parents do not speak English. (May 2012)
Through this collection of personal profiles, The Campaign for College opportunity highlights the linkage between the success of our students, the capacity of our workforce, and the strength of our economy. These stories point out the challenges students face in completing college, and also show opportunities to change the current systems to allow colleges to better serve students.
Ruby Takanishi, President of the Foundation for Child Development, presented this insightful Powerpoint presentation for a U.S Department of Education webinar on PreK-3rd as a strategy to improve student achievement. The presentation describes what early learning is, what we know about its effectiveness, and where it is being implemented. (April 2012)
Foundation Leaders Share Bold New Approach to Funder Collaboratives
Ten foundations have come together to explore what communities truly need to successfully address civic participation in underrepresented populations, and to bring a critical mass of support to this work in four strategic counties in California. (April 2012)
California Civic Participation Funders
How can foundations help build movements for opportunity and social change... and win? The 10 foundations that are part of California Civic Participation Funders have set out to answer this question. Read this new report to learn more about what makes this collaborative unique, what it hopes to accomplish, and where it's going. (April 2012)
Investing in LGBT Leaders or Burning Them Out?
This blog post by program director Matt Foreman examines a question central to most social change organizations: how to create the biggest impact with limited resources. The challenge becomes even more daunting for movements in which activists and nonprofits find themselves hugely out-funded by their opponents and fighting on ever-shifting terrain. A case in point is the movement for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender equality. (January 2012)
This new report amplifies the voices of an often unheard chorus, ethnic volunteers in America. Telling the Whole Story is aimed at helping established institutions—nonprofit organizations, foundations, public sector programs—better understand the contributions and motivations of diverse volunteers that engage the voluntary spirit and action at the core of strong communities. (January 2012)
Learning Out Loud, a guest blog by Linda Wood
—When you don’t know what you don’t know, you’re going to fall over yourself and make mistakes, and that’s what we were doing,— shares Kate Kendell, executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights. In this blog post, Haas, Jr. Fund senior director of leadership and grantmaking Linda Wood introduces the first in the Flexible Leadership Award video case studies, and reflects on how learning out loud can help organizations and their leaders emerge stronger than ever. (January 2012)
Season of Sharing Donors Video Profile
For 25 years, the Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund has helped transform lives. Season of Sharing donors give for many reasons: because every little bit helps, because times are hard, because what one person might spend on a single night out could be enough to change another person's life. In this short video, hear donors talk about why they give. (December 2011)
