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.
Investing in Kids' Lives Through Sports
Haas, Jr. Fund and Team-Up for Youth Chair Walter J. Haas talks to a young reporter about the transformative power that youth sports can have in changing lives for underserved children.
New Poll Finds Majority Support for Same-Sex Marriage in California
A new survey released by Public Religion Research Institute examines the role that religion plays in structuring attitudes toward same-sex marriage and a range of other issues related to rights for gay and lesbian people. The poll found that only one-in-five Californians believe the passing of Proposition 8 was a "good thing". (July 2010)
Truth-Telling and Candor in Philanthropy
Drawing on the importance of developing strong leaders in order to create strong social movements, senior director of leadership and grantmaking Linda Wood connects the Fund’s leadership work to the larger conversation about transparency in philanthropy. She shares her thoughts on the Center for Effective Philanthropy’s blog, addressing the question, “What would it take for truth telling and candor to catch on in philanthropy?” (July 2010)
Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.) Receives Today Show Award
Real Options for City Kids (R.O.C.K.), the lead agency partner at Visitacion Valley Beacon Center and a long-time grantee of the Fund, was awarded the NBC Today Show’s Lend a Hand Award, which aims to shine a national spotlight on the good work of select nonprofit organizations laboring to improve the living conditions in their communities. (June 2010)
Video on Early School Success
Aimed at educators and policymakers, PreKindergarten-3rd Grade: A New Beginning for American Education, highlights PreK-3rd in action at the South Shore School, a PreK-8 public school in Seattle.
Thoughtful investments in Pre-K through Grade 3 can help close the staggering achievement gaps in our schools and provide a fair chance for all kids in our communities to succeed. This report demonstrates the need for aligning education in the early years, outlines the elements of an aligned PK-3 system and highlights promising grantmaking strategies.
Since 1998, ballot measures regarding the legal status of same‐sex couples have been placed before voters in 33 states. To what extent did voter intention change over the course of these campaigns? This study examines polling data to find out how well polls reflect ultimate election results.
The Palm Center
The repeal of the Pentagon’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy would have far greater consequences than allowing several thousand gay people to serve openly in the U.S. armed forces. In the same way that President Truman’s decision to integrate the armed forces is credited with laying the foundation for many subsequent civil rights advances, the end of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” would shatter persistent myths and stereotypes about gay people in American society.
Slideshow: Rob Hill Campground
Children and families in San Francisco don’t have to leave the city to go camping. At Rob Hill Campground, they can experience the joy of sleeping under the stars in the heart of the Presidio.
Rashad Robinson, Senior Director of Media Programs at the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and a 21st Century Fellow, writes about finding his voice as a leader. The 21st Century Fellows program works to increase the number of people of color working within and leading the country's LGBT rights, service and advocacy sectors.
