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On April 15, 2025, Don Chen, president of the Surdna Foundation, spoke at the Global Impact Investing Network's West Coast Impact Forum and Investor Training on Surdna's intentional decision to apply our social and racial justice values to…
The Surdna Foundation is proud to sign onto the Council on Foundations' public statement from philanthropy. We invite all charitable giving organizations to join us in this effort to protect our freedom to express ourselves, to give, and to…
A letter from Don Chen, president of the Surdna Foundation: In recent months, the nonprofit sector has faced unprecedented challenges, particularly the loss of funding from government agencies, fear rippling through communities and the…
The Surdna Foundation announced today that Jeffrey Jiménez-Kurlander, learning and impact officer, is moving on to a new position as manager of strategic learning and evaluation at the Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of arts and humanities…
Center for Effective Philanthropy’s Phil Buchanan makes the case for supporting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), and highlights ways in which funders and nonprofits can stand by their commitments to justice. The below is an excerpt that…
The follow is an excerpt from Freedom Dreams in Philanthropy's Becoming The Vision podcast where hosts Dr. Chera Reid, Efraín Gutiérrez, and Dr. Trinel Torian talk with those who "embrace the tradition of freedom dreaming in service to racial…
In September 2024, Surdna President Don Chen joined a panel of philanthropic leaders—Flozell Daniels, Jr. (CEO of the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation), Mayra Peters-Quintero (executive director of Abundant Futures Fund), and Vanessa Mason…
The Collective has previously awarded $1 million to local organizations New York, NY (September 4, 2024) - Small businesses are a vital economic driver in NYC, and the NY Small Business Funders Collective is dedicated to strengthening and funding…
Safety Jacket: A Mourning in Chinatown, 2018. Terence Nicholson. Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum, 2022. This sculpture was made by artist Terence Nicholson (b. 1968), a 19th-generation disciple of the Wudang Longmen (Dragon Gate) lineage.…
Last month, Don Chen spoke with Dennis Price of Impact Alpha about the Surdna Foundation's impact investing strategy. Below is an excerpt—Read the full conversation on Impact Alpha. Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen: High-risk, high-reward impact…