By Grant Oliphant
Recently I was asked by the Women’s Funders Group to participate on a panel discussing the surge in domestic violence that has occurred in our region since the economic crisis began. Women’s shelters in western Pennsylvania are finding themselves overwhelmed as increasing numbers of women and their children seek refuge from abuse at [...]

By George Heidekat
Aiming to energize civic dialog and encourage a conclusive referendum on city-county consolidation, The Pittsburgh Foundation is developing a multifaceted public education campaign.
“The issues are just too important to ignore,” said Grant Oliphant, the Foundation’s President and CEO. “The community needs to confront them, and we’re willing to take the leadership role.”
In April [...]

The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy recently published a paper, Criteria for Philanthropy at its Best®:  Benchmarks to Assess and Enhance Grantmaking Impact, examining how philanthropy- which it considers to be underperforming in achieving “social benefit or impact”- should re-align its funding programs.
 
In response, Paul Brest, President of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation published [...]