This learning area seeks to improve understanding of maternal and child health and health care issues in the children, youth and family sector of private philanthropy, and build and strengthen public and private partnerships to improve maternal and child health outcomes.
This learning area seeks to explore issues of inclusiveness and diversity. It provides tools and resources for philanthropy to identify and understand opportunities for building constituencies in diverse communities to address critical issues that have a disproportionately negative impact in communities of color.
This learning area recognizes the growing diversity of children and youth in our communities and the unique issues and needs faced by children and youth in immigrant families.
This learning area explores issues of poverty, the supports families need to achieve economic independence and the role that philanthropy can play in supporting vunerable families.
Initiated following the Gulf Coast hurricanes, this learning area provides resources and feedback from and for grantmakers on understanding the long-term impact of trauma and crisis on children, youth and families, and grantmaking in times of crisis.
GCYF is committed to identifying and disseminating best and promising practices in grantmaking for children, youth and families. Learn more about GCYF's work with the Promising Practices Network.
This learning area recognizes the role of private philanthropy in informing policy and practice to meet the needs of children, youth and families. As advocates in their communities, grantmakers give a voice to children, youth, and families at the local, state, and national level.
This learning area seeks to raise awareness of the short- and long-term negative effects on children as a result of their parents' incarceration, to understand the needs of these children and their families, and to explore the role grantmakers play in improving outcomes for this vulnerable population.
This learning area is a network of grantmaking institutions and individual donors committed to increasing the strategic investment of philanthropic dollars to improve the disproportionately negative life outcomes of men and boys of color and low-income communities.
