The Kendeda Fund will be remembered for both what we accomplished and how we worked. We will have created new pathways to solve seemingly intractable problems, supported transformative leaders, and…
The following commentary was written by Diane Ives, Kendeda's fund advisor for People, Place and Planet, and Marjorie Kelly, senior fellow and executive vice president of The Democracy Collaborative. It…
With the arrival of the new year, we wanted to provide our grantees, peers and partners with an update on the status of The Kendeda Fund’s plan to spend out…
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…
