Leveraging Partnerships

Living Cities, a network of major foundations and financial institutions aiming to reengineer America’s cities, asked Marga to assess multi-stakeholder partnerships in cities and regions. Consistent with Marga’s philosophy, Living Cities recognizes that critical social issues require resources and thinking from multiple sources in order to be adequately addressed. Today’s complex environment...

Policy for Higher Education Engagement

As noted in Maurrasse’s Beyond the Campus in 2001, a movement has been emerging to enhance the depth and quality of the engagement of institutions of higher education in their localities and regions. The advent of the new Administration...

Workforce Development Partnerships in New Orleans

New Orleans native, Joe Givens informed Marga of his new organization’s efforts to tap institutional resources to improve the conditions in the city’s most devastated neighborhoods. Givens pointed out that those neighborhoods that were able to redevelop in the wake of 2005’s Hurricane Katrina were able to leverage their local institutions to turn around the fortunes...

Interactive Guide to Your Giving

New Report: Lessons-Learned in Addressing Racial Equity in Foundations (May 2009)

This report emerges out of a partnership between the Diversity in Philanthropy Project and the Race and Equity in Philanthropy Group (REPG). It reflects the learning of REPG members about what it takes to effectively incorporate racial equity into a foundation’s priorities and systems. The paper also addresses the various ways in which approaches to racial equity relate to other aspects of diversity and philanthropy in general.

Changes at Marga

Cynthia Jones, who has been Marga’s Vice President for Client Services, is now Marga’s Chief Executive Officer. Jones has been working with Marga in its various capacities from the very beginning. Marga’s Founder...