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The Outdoor Industry Association has released their 2024 Outdoor Participation Trends Report to provide insights and narratives around who’s doing what, when, and how outdoors. The full report is available to OIA members, but you can view the Executive Summary via the link below. Some key takeaways: • Outdoor participation grew 4.1% in 2023 to a record 175.8 million participants nationwide • For the first time ever, more than half of American women are participating in outdoor recreation • Members of the LGBTQ+ community continue to be the most active adult cohort https://lnkd.in/gfHhJPe7

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It’s time for every billionaire to join Melinda French Gates in this investment in women and girls. “…there will always be people who say it’s not the right time to talk about gender equality...the second the global agenda gets crowded, women and girls fall off.” With the war raging against women, NOW is the time for such significant investments. “…Decades of research on economics, well-being and governance make it clear that investing in women and girls benefits everyone. We know that economies with women’s full participation have more room to grow. That women’s political participation is associated with decreased corruption. That peace agreements are more durable when women are involved in writing them. That reducing the time women spend in poor health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040.” We sure could use less corruption and more progress. And humanity.

Melinda Gates is a role model. Not just for women, but anyone who values giving to others as a citizen in your own communities, your home country and/or around the world. One of the statements in her announcement that stood out to me is this: "Recently, I offered 12 people whose work I admire their own $20 million grant-making fund to distribute as he or she sees fit." I've had many years directly or indirectly involved with nonprofits and what I've seen over the years is that somewhere along the line, private money was no longer given to the experts to figure out the best way to spend it. It became the norm to impose performance metrics or other requirements on how or where it should be spent. In other words "with strings attached". While it is noble and understandable that when we (individuals/corporations/religious and community funds/foundations) give our $$, we want them to go directly to the services that support the client (or to the actual client), the very reason every giving organization is able to provide services is the staff - how many in particular and daily administration/operations - things like light bills, office supplies, air conditioning, rents etc. Without those things, there are no services to provide. The best people to decide where the money should be spent are those that are on the ground doing the hard work everyday. I hope the 12 people she chose, take the same approach when awarding their grants. My hats off to Ms. French-Gates.

This gives me hope. Note how much Melinda French Gates is giving to each organization focused on women and girls. 20 million dollars each! Where are the male billionaires? From her piece: Decades of research on economics, well-being, and governance make it clear that investing in women and girls benefits everyone. We know that economies with women’s full participation have more room to grow. That women’s political participation is associated with decreased corruption. That peace agreements are more durable when women are involved in writing them. That reducing the time women spend in poor health could add as much as $1 trillion to the global economy by 2040.

ICYMI - @Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting featured a conversation that reminded me that if we can't imagine a different future, we've already lost. Manuela Arciniegas, Executive Director, Communities for Just Schools Fund Yamani Yansà Hernandez, CEO, Groundswell Fund Alli Jernow, Vice President of Social Justice Program, Arcus Foundation Saida Agostini-Bostic (Moderator), CEO, Funders for LGBTQ Issues Power At The Core: What are the ways foundations can move beyond traditional models of philanthropy by fostering cross-sector collaboration and building community power? Power shapes our leadership inside and outside of our institutions. In this panel, we will unpack formal and informal power structures that characterize our work at the individual, institutional, and ecosystem levels. We will delve into the ways that funders are re-evaluating their strategy to support the consolidation of power with communities, rethinking practices to shift power into the hands of their nonprofit partners, and re-imagining the power dynamic internally within their organizations to empower staff to have a greater impact within their individual spheres of influence. Recordings of Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future

For 25 years the Urgent Action Funds, a consortium of four autonomous feminist funds, have supported the resilience and advocacy efforts of feminist activists across the world. Guided by our Feminist Principles of Philanthropy we strive to transform philanthropy and move towards a more just and equitable world. Alliance Magazine published a series of articles highlighting how we are working to transform philanthropy with our feminist principles. Find this article and a few others detailing how we are practicing these principles in our work here: https://ed.gr/efpbt

ICYMI - @Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting featured a conversation that reminded me that if we can't imagine a different future, we've already lost. Manuela Arciniegas, Executive Director, Communities for Just Schools Fund Yamani Yansà Hernandez, CEO, Groundswell Fund Alli Jernow, Vice President of Social Justice Program, Arcus Foundation Saida Agostini-Bostic (Moderator), CEO, Funders for LGBTQ Issues Power At The Core: What are the ways foundations can move beyond traditional models of philanthropy by fostering cross-sector collaboration and building community power? Power shapes our leadership inside and outside of our institutions. In this panel, we will unpack formal and informal power structures that characterize our work at the individual, institutional, and ecosystem levels. We will delve into the ways that funders are re-evaluating their strategy to support the consolidation of power with communities, rethinking practices to shift power into the hands of their nonprofit partners, and re-imagining the power dynamic internally within their organizations to empower staff to have a greater impact within their individual spheres of influence. Recordings of Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future

ICYMI - @Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting featured a conversation that reminded me that if we can't imagine a different future, we've already lost. Manuela Arciniegas, Executive Director, Communities for Just Schools Fund Yamani Yansà Hernandez, CEO, Groundswell Fund Alli Jernow, Vice President of Social Justice Program, Arcus Foundation Saida Agostini-Bostic (Moderator), CEO, Funders for LGBTQ Issues Power At The Core: What are the ways foundations can move beyond traditional models of philanthropy by fostering cross-sector collaboration and building community power? Power shapes our leadership inside and outside of our institutions. In this panel, we will unpack formal and informal power structures that characterize our work at the individual, institutional, and ecosystem levels. We will delve into the ways that funders are re-evaluating their strategy to support the consolidation of power with communities, rethinking practices to shift power into the hands of their nonprofit partners, and re-imagining the power dynamic internally within their organizations to empower staff to have a greater impact within their individual spheres of influence. Recordings of Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future