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Our summer research assistants taking a well-earned ice cream break! Thank you Daria, Jin, Haoyan, and Ben for all of your hard work this summer.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for children of all ages. How can funders help children recover learning lost during the pandemic and thrive? Join CHIP and the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading next Wednesday for a free webinar with funders from Vanguard and Maine Community Foundation who have been working to address that question.

Register here: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early-school-success-webinar/

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted learning for children of all ages. For children ages 0 – 8, brain development and social and emotional learning are especially critical. Early school success predicts later school success and a host of positive life outcomes. Unless we can recover learning lost during the pandemic and accelerate gains, we risk losing a generation of children. Here’s how to help.

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Campaign for Grade Level Reading present Early School Success, a primer and webinar to help donors and grantmakers support learning for young children during COVID-19 and in years beyond.
Register for our free webinar to:

-Learn how support the whole child at school and home
-Hear to expand learning opportunities so that learning happens everywhere
-Find strategies to ensure digital equity for all learning communities
-Hear from leaders at Vanguard and Maine Community Foundation about their work on early childhood and K-5 education

Register for the free event here: https://www.impact.upenn.edu/early-school-success-webinar/

Philanthropy News Digest spoke with CHIP's founding executive director Kat Rosqueta about why she'll never say 'nonprofits have to be more business-like'; data for social impact; and the importance of Candid's work for practicing high impact philanthropy.

Kat Rosqueta, Executive Director, Center for High Impact Philanthropy and Candid Board Chair: Helping nonprofits make the greatest impact on society Philanthropy News Digest spoke with Rosqueta about her career, her work with CHIP, and how it all connects with Candid’s 2030 vision....

The third episode of Just Economics, the new podcast from CHIP and Ioana Marinescu of the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice, is now live! Eric Chyn, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, joins Ioana to discuss the impact of school desegregation on political partisanship. Listen here: impact.upenn.edu/just-economics

Just Economics - Center for High Impact Philanthropy - University of Pennsylvania Just Economics In the Just Economics podcast, economist Ioana Marinescu (www.marinescu.eu), associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores what we actually know ab...

Donating directly to citizens in Ukraine through booking Airbnb stays and buying digital files from Ukrainians on Etsy has gone viral, but is it an effective way to help people in need? CHIP's founding executive director weighs in:

Donating to Ukraine via Etsy and Airbnb Is Going Viral. But Is It Effective? "People have this desire to cut out the intermediary — the middle man — and go directly support those in need."

As the U.S. government debates the expansion of the child tax credit, the Canadian child tax benefit can help us understand what impact a child tax credit expansion in the U.S. may have on poverty and work. In the second episode of Just Economics, the new podcast hosted by Ioana Marinescu and Kat Rosqueta, Mark Stabile, an economics professor at INSEAD, discusses his recent working paper “The Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply: Evidence from the Canada Child Benefit and Universal Child Care Benefit.”

Listen here:

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Since the Russian military invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the situation on the ground has unfolded quickly. Ongoing fighting and an escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine has produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe this century. 1 million to 5 million residents – mostly women and children – are fleeing to neighboring countries against a backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and during the cold winter, creating immense needs.

The Center for High Impact Philanthropy offers early guidance to donors and grant makers who want to respond to the most urgent needs: medical care, food, and shelter, both within Ukraine and among refugees, most of whom are women and children. In this guidance, you will find organizations and funds that are set up to meet evolving needs, as well as selected nonprofits already well-positioned to meet those needs. We’ve also included reliable information resources at the end of the page to help you to stay up to date on the situation.

To read the guidance, click here:

Ukraine: How Can I Help? - Center for High Impact Philanthropy - University of Pennsylvania Ukraine: How Can I Help? The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, has produced the largest refugee crisis in Europe this century. In less than a week, 1 million residents – mostly women and children – fled their homes. Every crisis goes through phases. Right now, Ukrainians face urg...

In the first episode of Just Economics, hosted by CHIP’s founding executive director Kat Rosqueta and her colleague Ioana Marinescu, associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice, we hear from Eliza Forsythe, an economics professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about COVID-19’s effects on the labor market.

To learn about how the pandemic and the United States government’s response has impacted inequality in the U.S. as well as the policy and philanthropic implications of that impact, listen here: impact.upenn.edu/just-economics

In partnership with Ioana Marinescu, associate professor of public policy at the School of Social Policy & Practice of the University of Pennsylvania, we’ve launched Just Economics, a podcast exploring what we know about how policies and labor markets work, including the science behind job creation and unemployment insurance. Each episode features a conversation with a scholar whose research provides evidence that empowers us to create a more just world.

Ioana will be joined by Katherina “Kat” Rosqueta, founding executive director of Penn’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy and adjunct faculty at Penn’s School of Social Policy & Practice, to discuss the implications of the guest scholar’s research, with Ioana focusing on the policy implications and Kat focusing on the implications for philanthropy– i.e. private action for public good.

Learn more and listen here:

Just Economics - Center for High Impact Philanthropy - University of Pennsylvania Just Economics In the Just Economics podcast, economist Ioana Marinescu (www.marinescu.eu), associate professor of public policy at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research explores what we actually know ab...

Rihanna’s $15 MM climate justice initiative follows a classic donor trajectory, according to CHIP’s Kat Rosqueta. “Particularly when somebody’s giving was prompted first by a disaster, like a natural disaster or a crisis… it usually starts with immediate relief, then it goes to response, recovery, mitigation and building back better.” Read more at

Rihanna Is Now a Major Climate Justice Donor. Here’s How Her Philanthropy is Evolving — Inside Philanthropy The pop star’s Clara Lionel Foundation got started mainly funding disaster relief, while dabbling in climate resilience. Her latest round of grants puts the focus squarely on root causes of the climate emergency. Get the details.