Perspectives | Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund

How Are We Doing?

January 21, 2016 | by

Grantees Assess the Fund’s Impact and Performance

Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of the Haas, Jr. Fund’s grantees identifies strengths, areas for improvement

The Haas, Jr. Fund recently commissioned the Center for Effective Philanthropy to conduct a survey of the Fund’s grantees. The Center’s Grantee Perception Reports provide an opportunity for foundations to get anonym…

Ira Hirschfield to Step Down as President

January 14, 2016 | by

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Longtime Haas, Jr. Fund President Recognized for His Bold, Visionary Leadership

From the transformation of San Francisco’s Crissy Field to the national campaign for marriage equality, Ira Hirschfield has played a key leadership role in major initiatives reflecting the Fund’s commitment to advancing rights and creating opportunities.

Ira S. Hirschfield, President and Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund in San Francisco, will be stepping down at the end of 2016. During his 28 years of visionary and highly effective leadership, the Haa…

Ira Hirschfield, Walter J. Haas, Betsy Haas Eisenhardt, and Robert D. Haas at Crissy Field

Reflecting on Ira Hirschfield’s Leadership

January 14, 2016 | by

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The Fund’s Trustees describe our departing President’s passion for philanthropy and for “lifting aspirations.

In a letter to the Fund’s partners and colleagues, Trustees Walter J. Haas, Robert D. Haas and Betsy Haas Eisenhardt offer their perspectives on Ira Hirschfield’s “visionary and highly effective” leadership. Ira “has dared so many of us to dream,” they write.

Ira Hirschfield will be stepping down in December 2016 as President and Trustee of the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund after 28 years of visionary and highly effective leadership. Ira has been a constant source of…

Marriage Equality from Coast to Coast

December 15, 2015 | by

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Winter 2015 Letter from the President

President Ira Hirschfield reflects on how marriage equality is a fitting reminder of what it takes to achieve real and lasting progress in advancing rights and creating opportunities for all people.

The past year will go down in the history books as a year when fairness and justice prevailed for gays and lesbians across the country. It was a year when a movement of hundreds of thousands of people across the cou…

What Does It Take to Create a “Culture of Philanthropy”?

September 23, 2015 | by

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We asked the question, and here’s what we heard

Nonprofit and philanthropic leaders strive to unpack what it really means to change the way we think about—and do—fundraising.

In June, this blog raised the issue of whether social sector organizations needed to move from fundraising to developing a culture of philanthropy. We wanted to know what people on the ground thought about this appr…

What’s Changed About the American Dream Today

September 8, 2015 | by

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On the new immigration climate and what immigrant communities can do

Program Director Cathy Cha reflects on the importance of creating more avenues for civic participation—and collaboration.

This piece was originally published by Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, here. Why are you passionate about advocating for AAPI communities? As the daughter of Korean immigrants, I’ve witnes…

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