Click here to meet the 2013 PLACES Fellows.

The PLACES Fellows are blogging about their Fellowship year.

From the Miami site visit:

Two Ways to Leverage Structural and Cultural Impact (in Philanthropy) by Juan Sebastian Arias, Living Cities

A View from Different PLACES by Susie Seidelman, The Johnson Foundation at Wingspread

(Coming Soon!) From the Memphis site visit.

The 2012 PLACES Fellowship Year

Postcard from Miami

Postcard from Seattle

PLACES Seattle Site Visit Highlights Video

Postcard from Chicago

Background

In 2008, the Network launched PLACES (Professionals Learning About Community, Equity and Smart Growth), its first philanthropic leadership development initiative. PLACES is designed as a year-long fellowship program that offers tools, knowledge, and best practices to enhance funder grantmaking decisions in ways that are responsive to the needs and assets of low-income neighborhoods and communities of color. As a result of participating in the PLACES program, fellows develop:

• An in-depth knowledge of how decisions about growth and development relate to issues of race/ethnicity/class;
• Tools and resources to help them increase their effectiveness as grantmakers;
• Exposure to best practices of grantmakers working in this field;
• Leadership development and skill building opportunities; and
• Expanded networking opportunities.

Resources

Click here for the Media Resource List compiled by PLACES Fellow Mark Hallett of the McCormick Foundation.