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Heeten Kalan, Senior Program Officer at the New World Foundation and HEFN Steering Committee member, authored this week's blog post. In it, he reflects on the philosophies of Martin Luther King Jr. and Mohandas Gandhi, and the potential for philanthropy to...
Margaret Waldock of the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in New Jersey reflects on life after Sandy and shares how the Dodge Foundation and other philanthropists are helping New Jersey rebuild smarter and stronger.
David Fukuzawa of the Kresge Foundation shares what the Kresge Foundation and the Health and Housing Funders Forum are doing to encourage funding at the intersections of health and housing in this blog post
Vanessa Daniel of the Groundswell Fund and Phil Johnson of the Heinz Endowments reflect HEFN’s 2012 Annual Meeting on how philanthropy can overpower polluter influence to win healthier conditions for people and the environment.
Giving thanks for the service and leadership of three funders rotating off of HEFN’s Steering Committee this year in this blog post.
Rebecca Ruggles, Coordinator for the Maryland Environmental Health Network (MEHN), and Consultant to the Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers’ Green Funders shares the significant (and sometimes serendipitous) conversations and events that helped launch...
HEFN's Program Manager Ramtin Arablouei shares his perspective on and hopes for diversity in philanthropy.
An interview with our colleagues at the Environmental Grantmakers Association. Rachel Leon and Franny Canfield share insights from EGA's latest grants tracking report, Tracking the Field, and what it tells us about environmental health philanthropy.
Making the case for why friendly disagreement among funders can often lead to successful collaboration.
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Steering Committee Member
Ryan Strode is the Senior Program Officer for Climate Equity at the Builders Initiative. Ryan has spent more than a decade in environmental philanthropy, most recently as the Program Director for Philanthropy at the Franciscan Sisters of Mary (FSM), a faith-...