In a recent article for Grantmakers in Health, Rick Ybarra, senior program officer at the Hogg Foundation, explores how philanthropy can contribute to supporting and building a stronger, more robust, and durable nonprofit sector.
Philanthropy has forever espoused the term “sustainability.” We ask in grant applications and in our conversations with grant partners: “What’s your sustainability plan?” and “How do you plan to sustain your program once the grant ends?” Read more…
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own notions about how we should be...
Too Human: An Investigation of the Language We Use to Talk About Mental Health and Illness
Since I came on board as communications manager at the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, two and half years ago, I've been struggling to reconcile the language the foundation and its allies use to talk about mental health with my own...
Illustrating Hogg
As an organization, the Hogg Foundation is tactful about the public stands it takes. Whenever possible, we try to walk that fine line between blandly universal pronouncements (i.e. "mental health matters!") that hardly merit an op-ed and chasing after "relevance" in a...