Want to Make a Change in the United States? Look Abroad!
Release Date:
10/23/2017
Karabi Acharya, Director, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation shares how global ideas translate to local solutions.
Civic Engagement
The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Recognizes Young Volunteers from Every State
Release Date:
10/17/2017
Prudential sponsors the United States' largest youth recognition program based solely on volunteer community service.
Harlem Women Honored for Leadership by New York Women’s Foundation
Release Date:
09/22/2017
The New York Women’s Foundation (The Foundation) honored four inspiring Manhattan women at its Neighborhood Dinner on September 19th.
Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems
Release Date:
09/06/2017
Online attackers may be able to purchase - for as little as a few thousand dollars - enough personal information to potentially alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard...
American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking
Release Date:
08/11/2017
American Express grant of $100,000 to Reel Works supports filmmaking aimed to inspire a younger and more diverse audience to explore roles in conservation.
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Names Meghan Jambor Interim Informed Communities Program Officer
Release Date:
07/12/2017
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation is pleased to announce that Meghan Jambor has been named interim Informed Communities Program Officer and Communications Director.
Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"
Release Date:
06/22/2017
Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voice Heard, tells funders in this PHIL Talk that "basebuilding is a contact sport... change movements are built by a small cadre of people."
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC's Katy Rubin and Devyn Mañibo on the Importance of Fun in Community Engagement
Release Date:
06/22/2017
In this tag-team PHIL Talk, Katy Rubin and Devyn Mañibo discuss the importance of fun in engaging communities in social justice work, and the power of "spect-acting" in humanizing policy proposals to elected officials.
Our Demographic Destiny is Not Our Democratic Destiny
Release Date:
05/16/2017
Sayu Bhojwani, Founder and President of The New American Leaders Project, challenges funders to "prove to yourself that demographics is indeed not destiny, not in democracy and not in access."
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio
Release Date:
04/25/2017
In addition to changing the portfolio’s name from ‘Global Governance’ to ‘Global Challenges’, the newly articulated strategies shift the emphasis from improving the democratic practices of formal global governance institutions and procedures to...
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