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Both Sides of Social Justice

November 27, 2013 | by

Winter 2013 Letter from the President

Fund president Ira Hirschfield reflects on why the road to justice must also include emergency support for struggling families.

In my role as president of an established family foundation, I am often approached for advice by generous and caring people who want to help make critical changes in the world through philanthropy. Thoughtfully, the…

Terrence Park

Questions at Harvard: Did you come here legally, or illegally?

Terrence Park doesn’t like the term “illegal.” A Dreamer at Cal, he thinks instead of asking about someone’s legal status, “we should be thinking about why people come here.”

When Joon-Suk Park was 10 years old, his mother brought him and his sisters from Seoul, South Korea to the United States on a tourist visa that soon expired. His parents were recently separated at the time, and his…

The Leadership Development Disconnect

November 7, 2013 | by

A challenge to funders: leadership support is more than a “nice-to-have”

In this CEP blog post, Linda Wood looks at the leadership support disconnect between grantmakers and grantees.

Last month I was struck to see that less than half of nonprofit leaders surveyed in CEP’s recent study, Nonprofit Challenges: What Foundations Can Do, believe that foundations are aware of the various challenges the…

Huyen “Kiki” Vo

After a devastating fire, a new life in the U.S.

After a horrific fire killed her mother and injured her, Kiki came to the U.S. for medical care. Read about her incredible journey, including being an undocumented student at Cal.

Huyen “Kiki” Vo was born in 1991 in a small village in Vietnam. After her mother died in a devastating fire in their home, Kiki and her father and two of her sisters came to the United States for medical care. Their…

Matthew Vines

Dismantling the religious argument against gays and lesbians

How did a conservative Christian from Wichita, Kansas, become an advocate for LGBT rights?

Matthew Vines was born and raised in Wichita, Kansas. Throughout his youth, Matthew’s family was deeply involved in a conservative evangelical Presbyterian church. After Matthew came out as gay while attending Harva…

We Still Have Miles to Go

June 24, 2013 | by

Summer 2013 Letter from the President

We are at a historic time for marriage equality in this country. Now, how will we build on these victories?

Today’s Supreme Court’s decisions regarding the freedom to marry are groundbreaking advances for the movement to secure equality under the law for gay and lesbian people. This remarkable – indeed, extraordinary – pr…

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