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Newsletter: Roots & Wings Newsletter—Spring 2025
In this issue: We are excited to highlight our Safety & Justice work with a pair of remarkable partner stories. The Alliance for a Safe Oregon is helping write a new playbook as they work to reduce firearm suicide in rural communities. And the Wisconsin Impact Network reveals what it takes to build a trustingcollaborative learning community among like-minded nonprofts.
Media: Judy Faulkner Made $7.7 Billion From Healthcare Software. Here’s Her Unusual Plan To Give It Away.
Led by her youngest daughter Shana Dall’Ostothe Epic founder and CEO’s family foundation Roots & Wings will soon be granting around $100 million to hundreds of nonprofits each year.
Newsletter: Roots & Wings Newsletter—Summer 2024
In this issuewe welcome two new Roots & Wings team members and profile the Tenant Resource Centera Madison nonprofit helping to build thriving communities by advocating for housing justice.
Newsletter: Roots & Wings Newsletter—Fall 2023
In this issue: giving thanks for all our hard working partners—including 23 new ones—a spotlight on community healthcarestaff profilesand more.
Media: To Start Children on the Right PathFunders Seek to Strengthen Earliest Relationships
Pediatrics Supporting Parents has grown into an extensive effort to elevate the routine doctor visit into an opportunity to support parents in any number of waysthereby strengthening the critical bond between parent and child that has such a profound impact on early development.
Media: Wings Not Strings
In this Madison Magazine feature storywriter Maggie Ginsberg provides an inside look at the origins of Roots & Wings’ trust-based approach to philanthropy and how it is making a difference in the work of several Dane County nonprofits (April 2023).
Newsletter: Roots & Wings Newsletter—Winter 2023
Growth and learning in our first 1000 days. Prenatal care designed byforand with Black people. Program updatesstaff profilesand more!
Media: The New Gun Control Movement
Embracing the view of experts that gun violence is a public-health crisisadvocates say they now study the root causes and potential remedies of gun suicidesunintentional shootings of childrenand weapons-related domestic violence.
Newsletter: Roots & Wings Newsletter—Summer 2022
In our second issueyou’ll find news about early childhood developmentinfant mental healthstaff updatesand more.
Media: Roots & Wings: A Self-Made Billionaires Family Foundation Takes FlightFocusing On Children
In 2019four years after signing the Giving PledgeJudy and Gordon Faulkner established the Roots & Wings Foundation with a focus on supporting low-income children and families through four priority areas—early childhood educationaccess to healthcarebasic needs and human rights.
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