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Crisis Philanthropy: Two Responses To The Pulse Tragedy In Orlando, Cindy T. Rizzo
Crisis Philanthropy: Two Responses To The Pulse Tragedy In Orlando, Cindy T. Rizzo
The Foundation Review
This article examines two philanthropic responses to the mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, on June 12, 2016, a tragedy that particularly impacted the region’s growing Latinx LGBT community.
The Central Florida Foundation’s Better Together Fund and the Our Fund Foundation’s Contigo Fund, while organized and operating in different ways, looked to best practices in crisis philanthropy and, in the wake of the massacre, provided the region with resources to address both short- and longer-term needs.
Better Together practiced strategic philanthropy focused on addressing systemic issues. Contigo lifted up new and diverse leadership from the grassroots. Each …