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Pivot - 8,000 Law School Graduates & the Bar Exam on Hold

Pivot - 8,000 Law School Graduates & the Bar Exam on Hold

What to do if you graduated from law school in California only to learn the state’s summer bar exam is suspended due to the coronavirus? What to do with a growing demand for low-cost legal services within the state? You pivot.

Within 13 days the Legal Services Funders Network, developed and launched its first collaborative funding project: a Post Graduate Law Fellows Program.

June 24, 2020 blog post on Exponent Philanthropy by Claire Solot. How We Catalyzed a Fellows Program to Meet Legal Services Needs During COVID-19.

Pivot - Raising up Nonprofits Operating in Communities of Color

Pivot - Raising up Nonprofits Operating in Communities of Color

What is a side benefit of COVID-19? A recognition of systemic inequalities among communities of color particularly as it relates to access to food, healthcare, and health outcomes. What is the pivot? Raising up nonprofit organizations in these communities that until now have gone largely unnoticed by philanthropy.

For more, click here for a June 18, 2020 article on FWD>DFW, a forum that connects companies, causes, and communities to the short- and long-term economic advancement of North Texas.

Image by Omar Flores @omarg247.

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A Resource for Lean Funders Responding to COVID-19

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A Resource for Lean Funders Responding to COVID-19

Are you wondering how fellow funders are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic? Exponent Philanthropy is hosting weekly live discussions each Friday at 1:00 CT designed to connect lean funders around their responses to the pandemic and to provoke ideas for your own giving.