{"id":6271,"date":"2012-08-17T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/?p=6271"},"modified":"2013-02-22T10:33:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T15:33:32","slug":"giving-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/giving-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Policy Initiative included in video library for philanthropists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has given the Prison Policy Initiative a great platform to tell funders about what we do. On Tuesday, the foundation launched the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.givinglibrary.org\/\">Giving Library<\/a>, which features video presentations by 250 non-profits, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.givinglibrary.org\/organizations\/prison-policy-initiative\">including the Prison Policy Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the site, each organization is featured in a short introductory video, and a &#8220;virtual meeting&#8221; allows donors to hear the answers to 10 questions about the organization\u2019s history, success, challenges, myths and future plans. I filmed our video in February, and the Giving Library website went live earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The Laura and John Arnold Foundation produced the Giving Library to make it easier for philanthropists examine a large number of potential recipients.  Meredith Johnson, director of Communications for the foundation, explained in a <a href=\"http:\/\/inr.synapticdigital.com\/LJAF\/GivingLibraryLaunch\/\">press release<\/a> that going online to meet potential new grantees streamlines philanthropy:  \u201cWhat would have taken months or even years of meetings and travel can now be done in a matter of days, from anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>We were particularly thrilled to participate in the online Giving Library because, while our work is national in scope and impact, we are located in a part of the country where networking with potential donors often requires expensive and time consuming travel. <\/p>\n<p><span class=\"pullquote\" title=\"Making the videos was a great opportunity for us to present our vision for the future of the criminal justice and democracy reform movements.\"><\/span>Making the videos was a great opportunity for us to step back and explain how the Prison Policy Initiative <a href=\"\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/2011\/09\/14\/10-years\/\">came to be<\/a> and present our vision for the future of the criminal justice and democracy reform movements.  The Laura and John Arnold Foundation has made a great tool that will bring philanthropy and non-profits together, and I&#8217;m honored that they choose the Prison Policy Initiative to participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Making the videos was a great opportunity for us to explain how the Prison Policy Initiative came to be and present our vision for the future of the criminal justice and democracy reform movements. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[29],"class_list":["post-6271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6271"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prisonersofthecensus.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}