The Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Melissa Bradley and Daniel Tellalian to its Board of Trustees
New York, NY – The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) announced today that Melissa Bradley and Daniel Tellalian will become the foundation’s newest Independent (non-family) Trustees. Melissa is the founder and managing partner at 1863 Ventures, a business-development company and family of venture funds that delivers content and connections to New Majority entrepreneurs to foster responsible …
NCF, Interference Archive Showcase Art from the Contemporary Climate Justice Movement
A vast movement for climate justice continues to rise worldwide, directly challenging the powerful interests of those most responsible for the climate crisis, while working towards building a just and equitable response that ensures the health, safety and dignity of all people. At its center, the climate justice movement is driven by an understanding that …
Making Impact for Racial Equity: The Investment Industry Can and Should do Better
Via Confluence Philanthropy : “Many foundations are committed to social justice – yet they continue to rely on a “business-as-usual” approach in their investment practices. Maintaining the status quo is often counterproductive as it produces some of the same barriers that mission-focused organizations are attempting to tackle through grantmaking.”
Webinar: It’s About Time: A Call to Advance Racial Equity in the Investment Industry
Save the date: On Sept. 10, at 12:30 PM ET, NCF’s Bob Bancroft joins W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Cynthia Muller to explore Confluence Philanthropy’s new report (buff.ly/2YvUr3G) and how foundations are using a racial equity lens in impact investing. Register now: https://buff.ly/2NrbFse
Confluence’s Racial Equity Initiative – New Report Release
Confluence Philanthropy released a new report today that offers a strong call to action to advance racial equity in the investment industry. The report, “It’s About Time: A Call to Advance Racial Equity in the Investment Industry,” is the result of a year-long listening tour and research effort.
Interview: Culture Change Leader Bridgit Antoinette Evans: A Conversation with NCF’s First Fourth-Generation Board Chair Jaimie Mayer
Executive Director of Pop Culture Collaborative and 2015 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans sat down with our first fourth-generation Chair of the Board of Trustees Jaimie Mayer for a wide-ranging conversation about next generation leadership, building a culture of accountability in philanthropy and the power of narrative change. These are the edited excerpts …
How Philanthropic Collaborations Succeed, and Why They Fail
Via SSIReview: “And Sharon Alpert, president and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, noted a related challenge: ‘When you have collaboratives, you essentially create gatekeepers. You don’t have as many one-to-one relationships between funders and grantees.’” Read more: Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Dominance of the White Male Critic
“It’s 2019 and we are in the middle of a renaissance in black artistic production. And you are telling me the best people to evaluate that are the same ones who basically ignored black artists for decades?” the art critic Antwaun Sargent tweeted in May. He was referring to reviews of this year’s Whitney Biennial, which will …
Millennial Rising: A Prominent Family Foundation Has its First Fourth-Generation Board Chair
Via Inside Philanthropy: “Nathan Cummings has a fourth-generation chair of its board of trustees, as Jaimie Mayer, great-granddaughter of the founder, takes over from Ruth Cummings.”
2019 Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Each Awarded $150,000 to Tackle Climate Crisis and Growing Inequality
The three emerging leaders will use their awards to transform policing policies to protect people of color, build clean and inclusive economies in Navajo communities, and economically empower LGBTQ youth of color to lead their own lives. NEW YORK — Addressing the climate crisis and reversing growing inequality calls for bold, courageous leaders like Chas …
Jaimie Mayer Named Board Chair of The Nathan Cummings Foundation’s Board of Trustees
The Nathan Cummings Foundation (NCF) announced Jaimie Mayer has succeeded Ruth Cummings as Chair of the Board of Trustees. The great-granddaughter of NCF Founder Nathan Cummings and granddaughter of NCF’s first board chair, Beatrice “Buddy” Cummings Mayer, Jaimie was imbued with NCF’s core values from an early age. This is the first time a fourth-generation Cummings family member has run …
The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project
“The Black Futures Lab’s Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.” Read it at BlackFuturesLab.org.
Why we need more diverse critics at film festivals
For decades, the critics who have covered this country’s major film festivals have looked like most of the people who make the films: white and male. This means that white men have been at the premieres, writing the all-important first reviews. They have defined the discourse, deciding which films matter and which films don’t, and …
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