On July 23, 2020 – with COVID spiking, the national economy in grave distress, and racial tensions boiling over in America – Kendeda’s executive director Dena Kimball and fund advisor Tené Traylor…
The COVID-19 crisis has had a deep and immediate impact on the work of the Kendeda Fund and our grantee partners, revealing new challenges and unforeseen threats that were unimaginable…
Quick, can you name one film that had the greatest impact on your worldview? A movie that, when the credits rolled, you realized that you would never be the same…
This article was originally published in "Philantopic: A Blog of Opinion and Commentary" from the Philanthropy News Digest on March 12, 2020. It is reposted here in unabridged form with…
The following remarks were delivered by Kendeda's executive director Dena Kimball at the dedication of the Kendeda Building for Innovative Sustainable Design on October 24, 2019. Thank you. My name…
Last spring I had a chance to visit two of the Evergreen Cooperative Corporation businesses in Cleveland, Ohio – Green City Growers and Evergreen Cooperative Laundry. This was not my…
While the harmful practice of child marriage has endured for millennia, action by philanthropy, nonprofits, and others to confront this complex human-rights problem have gained significant traction during the past…
In 2013, the Kendeda Fund initiated a focused 10-year spend out strategy across all of our core programs, with the goal of dispersing all remaining assets and wrapping up our…
In the Broadway musical Hamilton, writer Lin Manuel Miranda asks us to consider “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” This question of "authentic voice” has long been one of interest to The Kendeda Fund, across many of our program areas. And ultimately, we come down on the side of favoring stories being told by those who are most intimately connected to a situation.
The issue of early and child marriage has evolved tremendously in recent years as global awareness has been raised and community solutions have been developed. Nowhere was this more evident…
