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Partner Resource
Built for Texas: Creating a More Connected and Resourced Future for our Nonprofit Sector
Bush School Center for Nonprofits and Philanthropy at Texas A&M University
November 2023
Partner Resource
The American Dream Prosperity Index
January 2023
Resource for members only
General Resource
CPS 101 Webinar and Slides
Texas Child Welfare Funders
September 2022
General Resource
TCWF Child Welfare Resource List
Texas Child Welfare Funders
September 2022
Disaster Response Resource
COVID-19: Steps The Colorado Health Foundation is Taking to Support Coloradans
The Colorado Health Foundation
March 2020
Disaster Response Resource
Community Foundations Nationwide Launch Coronavirus Relief Efforts
March 2020
Public Policy Resource
UBIT Coalition Sign-on Letter
March 2019
Partner Resource
Community Foundations Express Training
February 2019
Giving Study
Philanthropy Southwest's 2016 Giving Study
November 2016
General Resource
State Priorities Partnership
June 2015
Resource for members only
Presentation
What’s Next for Southwest Community Foundations
October 2015
Webinar Recording
Webinar: Understanding and Influencing Policy (without Getting in Trouble): What Philanthropists Need to Know to Maximize Investments in Programs and Advocacy
July 2015
Research
Achieving a Sustainable Texas
July 2015
General Resource
Mental Health Awareness
June 2015
Member News
Making History

Largest gathering of Texas philanthropy on any State Issue Held at the 3rd Texas Education Grantmakers Advocacy Convening.

March 19, 2015
Guide
Oklahoma Conference on Nonprofit Law & Finance - Resources
March 2015
Member News
Philanthropy Southwest Member Profiled in GEO Publication
Becky Pastner talks about the St. David's Foundation’s history in capacity building and its new Capacity Academy, an opportunity for St. David’s grant partners to develop and implement targeted capacity-building efforts over a period of several years.
February 12, 2015
Presentation
2015 Grantor - Grantee Dialogue: Boards for a New Era
January 2015
Guide
2015 Grantor - Grantee Dialogue: Boards for a New Era
January 2015
Template
Abell-Hanger Foundation - (grant) Guidelines and Policies
January 2015
Sector News
Senate Approves 2014 Tax Extenders

The Senate voted last night to extend the tax extenders—including the IRA charitable rollover—for 1 year, retroactive for 2014.

December 17, 2014
Member News
Inasmuch Foundation Awards $5.79M to Oklahoma Communities
Inasmuch Foundation (Oklahoma CIty, OK) recently awarded $5.79 million in grants to 28 organizations, all serving Oklahoma communities. The grants include more than $1 million to KIPP Reach to expand and grow a five-school model serving over 2,500 students per year. Another $500,000 was awarded to the Kiwanis Special Activities Fund to replace the old Carver Mark Twain Head Start building with a birth-to-school continuum campus next door to the newly renovated Mark Twain Elementary.
November 14, 2014
Member News
ORIX Foundation Grants $1.3 Million to Nonprofits
Through a more than $1.3 million donation, ORIX Foundation (Dallas) has given money to 82 North Texas nonprofits in an effort to help children at risk, families in poverty and veterans.
November 14, 2014
Inside Outside Storytelling: Strong Leaders, Strong Teams
October 2014
Guide
Cracking the Network Code: Impact through Empowerment
September 2014
Member News
Windgate Charitable Foundation Funds Visual Arts Facility
Fort Smith, Ark. —On Monday, The University of Arkansas at Fort Smith breaks ground on a brand new $15.5 million facility for the visual arts program. The new facility will house graphic design laboratories, space for photography, painting,...
April 21, 2014
Blog Post
Will 2014 Be the Year Tax Reform Arrives?

Tax reform has been a hot topic in Congress over the past year, and seemingly everything is on the table, including nonprofits' activities. Even with the recent release of a formal legislative proposal, real progress on a bill seems unlikely in...

April 17, 2014
Tax Extenders in Limbo

The House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing last week to discuss the perennial issue of the tax extenders, the temporary tax provisions that expire year after year and are usually renewed. However, dozens of provisions that expired at the...

April 17, 2014
Presentation
Toward a Common Good: Maximizing Economic Opportunity, Access to Education, and the Contributions of New Americans in Texas
April 2014
Video
Finding the Balance in High Tech Times
April 2014
Video
From the Gridiron to Granting Wishes: 2014 Mid-year Plenary Speaker Jeremy Bloom
April 2014
Member News
Texas Tech Law Professor to Receive Texas Bar Foundation Award

The Texas Bar Foundation has announced that Brian Shannon, the Charles B. “Tex” Thornton Professor of Law at the Texas Tech School of Law, along with Dr. Victor R. Scarano, a psychiatrist and attorney in Houston, will receive the 2014 Outstanding...

April 04, 2014
PSW News
Breaking News from Oldest Grantmaking Association in U.S.

Denver, CO – The Conference of Southwest Foundations, the oldest membership association for grantmakers in the U.S., today announced the organization is now Philanthropy Southwest. The 65-year-old association is made up of more than 200 member...

April 09, 2014
Member News
San Angelo Health Foundation Announces Grants

San Angelo, Texas - Last week, the San Angelo Health Foundation announced grant Awards totaling $1,269,788. Six area non-profit organizations were selected to receive project funding:

Alcohol & Drug Abuse Council for the Concho Valley $1...
April 02, 2014
Sector News
Wyden to Nonprofits: “You are on the right side of history”

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), speaking April 1 at the annual member meeting of the National Council of Nonprofits, made his clearest statement of support for charitable giving tax incentives and for the work of charitable...

April 02, 2014
Member News
Beaumont Foundation Announces 2014 Excellence in Education Awards

Beaumont, TX — The Beaumont Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 Excellence in Education Awards as part of its ongoing commitment to support education. The Awards were created to celebrate and recognize superior contributions...

March 27, 2014
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