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Giving Done RightAuthor: The Center for Effective Philanthropy
From the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP), Giving Done Right offers hard-hitting conversations and vital resources to help you make an impact with your charitable giving. Whether youre an individual donor or your job involves making grants, the challenges are universal: Where should I give? How do I know which nonprofits are effective, and how do I best support them? How can I increase the odds that I am making a difference? Join host Phil Buchanan as he welcomes nonprofit leaders, effective donors, and experts to answer philanthropys burning questions and bust some myths. In a time of great challenge for nonprofits and the communities they serve, giving is especially crucial: Giving Done Right cuts through the noise and focuses on what you need to know to be effective. Language: en Genres: Business, Non-Profit Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Building Community Power With Camille Llanes-Fontanilla and Saúl Ramos
Episode 8
Thursday, 5 November, 2026
What does it look like to build durable community power? SOMOS Mayfair, a grassroots organization in East San Jose founded by and for the historically excluded immigrant families of the Mayfair neighborhood, has received more than $20 million in support from Sobrato Philanthropies, the philanthropic arm of the Sobrato Organization. Phil talks with Camille Llanes-Fontanilla, Sobrato Philanthropies' senior vice president of community impact and systems change and SOMOS Mayfair's former longtime executive director, and Saúl Ramos, SOMOS Mayfair's current co-executive director, about what it takes to fund and lead an organization built around resident-led solutions rather than a single programmatic focus. Llanes-Fontanilla and Ramos describe SOMOS Mayfair's evolution from an early-education program into a broader "power-building" infrastructure spanning leadership development, worker-owned cooperatives, and affordable housing organizing, and explain why the perception that the organization "lacked focus" actually reflected a deep commitment to following community need. The conversation also turns to the current climate of fear shaping daily life in immigrant communities amid stepped-up enforcement, the toll that sustained crisis response takes on nonprofit leaders and staff, and why funders should resist retreating into "strategic planning" pauses just when communities need consistency the most. Resources: SOMOS Mayfair Sobrato Philanthropies The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy Center for Effective Philanthropy State of Nonprofits 2026: What Donors Need to Know
