👏🎉 It's our great pleasure to announce that Lily Tomson has joined the John Ellerman Foundation Trustee Board. We're looking forward to working with Lily in support of our strategic ambitions, particularly on responsible investing! Welcome to the team, Lily! ellerman.org.uk/uploads/Lily-T…

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Out a couple of days ago and well worth a read - really clear and accessible with practical examples and ideas as to the ‘what’ and ‘how’ of a just transition for endowed foundations (US centred but would argue the principles/framework can be applied elsewhere):

The CharityComms Salary and Organisational Culture report came out today and it makes for really interesting reading for anyone leading or working for a #charity. I would encourage you to read it in full but here are a few points that stood out for me 🧵:

I met some amazing people who are working with their communities and giving them power and voices. It was truly inspiring. *This was the C O O L table* Thank you to @CivicPowerFund and Joseph Rowntree Foundation for hosting this space We Belong Migrants in Culture (inactive account) Marzena Zukowska Migrants Organise

LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP! Why not give #GGMCoffeeRoulette a go this Spring? Deadline is Tuesday 11th April, details below ⬇️ Once matched, you can meet up in person or online any time between now and June… ☕️💬 #peertopeerlearning #grantmaking #networking #matchmaking

Our banks are in a hidden relationship with oil companies. Together, they’re fuelling climate change 🔥 Watch our powerful new film today and help them break up 💔 makemymoneymatter.co.uk/hiddenrelation…

🚨London Funders #FestivalOfLearning2023 has begun! Our joint session w/ @SufinaAhmad, Director of John Ellerman Foundation is on Mon 15 May 2:30pm. Join us as we discuss the learning from JEF’s fascinating History Project and our #EthicsOfPhilanthropy report ✍️ …stivaloflearning.londonfunders.org.uk/programme/why-…

We’ve been talking about our #TimeHorizon John Ellerman Foundation which has been a topic of debate for a number of institutional grantmakers of late - read about our discussions via the link below ⬇️ #Grantmaking #LongTerm #Perpetuity #Sunsetting

Last chance to sign up to the summer version of Grant Givers #GGMCoffeeRoulette ! Deadline today ⬇️

Just seen this, just signed up!

"The means ARE the ends. How we do this work is as important as what we do. If we are moving at a pace that is not conducive to our collective well-being, then we are not going to build a world that is." Nikishka Iyengar #NextFrontiers

If you haven’t already, it’s not too late to sign up to #BAMEonline 2023 which is happening this Thursday. See Martha Awojobi or jmb-consulting.co.uk/bameonline to book. Even though I sadly can’t make the live timings I’ve signed up anyway so I can watch later - it’s THAT good 💥

Independent residencies and other opportunities at the fantastic Deveron Projects based in my home town of Huntly - have a look and share if you know of anyone!

Britain is under attack. A 🧵 Distinguished lawyer Jacqueline (Jacqui) Mckenzie is known for her work on the #Windrush scandal, for which the govt claims to be sorry She even worked with the Home Sec to review these unjust deportations, an act of good faith many of us would nt have managed

All of us John Ellerman Foundation are very pleased to share our Annual Report and Accounts for 2022/23. It was a year of change and the first year of delivering to our new strategy. Read it in full here: ellerman.org.uk/uploads/John-E…

✨✨WE ARE LIVE: Come Rehearse Freedoms with us! Oct 11-Nov 11 -month long pan-London festival of community health, healing, movement building, arts and culture. Something for everyone, as we practice together, touch and grow liberation in troubled times. Spread the word Pls RT

Sign up below by tomorrow, Tuesday 7 Nov if you want to meet new people involved in grantmaking!

Today those notorious eco-zealots the International Energy Agency have published another report on how irreconcilable expansion of oil and gas exploration and production is with staying within 1.5°C. 🧵on how this squares with what's happening in the UK iea.org/reports/the-oi…

RIP Amp Fiddler.. listening to Waltz of a Ghetto Fly in his memory 🕊️