Register Now! Closing the Wealth Gap: Why Black-owned Businesses Are Key to Economic Success | July 11
By: TFN Staff
A strong entrepreneurial spirit among black Americans has spurred the creation of untold numbers of black-owned businesses going back centuries and, at certain times in history, has resulted in thriving communities of enterprise such as the “Black Wall Street” of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the bustling Shaw neighborhood of Washington, D.C.
However, today, black-owned businesses…
This Boston teacher defended his ancestral Mississippi home from bulldozers. Hear his story at #TFN Houston | Sunday Night at the Movies
By Tere Figueras Negrete, Director of Communications
How did a young Boston teacher become an unlikely activist fighting to keep developers from bulldozing his ancestral Mississippi community?
Join us for Sunday Night at the Movies as we kick off TFN’s 2018 Annual Conference in Houston with a special screening of the gripping documentary Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey…
TFN Launches CEO Candidate Search
For nearly two decades, the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) has worked to inspire, strengthen and expand funding and philanthropic leadership in order to help create environmentally sustainable, socially equitable, and economically prosperous regions and communities.
Now, as TFN heads toward our 20th anniversary in 2019, we are excited to open recruitment for a…
On Self-Care and Resiliency in Racial Equity Work
Bina M. Patel of Saathi Impact Consulting and former PLACES fellow shares some brief tips on doing racial equity work from her module at the PLACES alumni gathering at The Funders’ Network 2017 Conference in Saint Paul, Minneapolis.
The point of self-care is to create the conditions for you to continue taking action towards progress everyday – to keep coming back. Self care is about creating…
Renewable Returns: And the Prize Goes to…
How a small incentive showed it can pay big to invest in renewable energy.
In the summer of 2014, I read that George Washington University, American University, and The George Washington University Hospital were going to buy 52 megawatts of power every year from a North Carolina solar farm. At the time, it was the largest non-utility solar power purchase in the U.S. and the largest solar project…