The Ford Foundation Takes Another Stand On Census
Release Date:
10/19/2018
The Ford Foundation has created a new video, Stand Up for the Count, to explain the importance of the census data.
Public Policy
MTV Plans to Partner With Ford Foundation to Create a Mobile Voting Registration Unit
Release Date:
08/20/2018
MTV plans to partner with the Ford Foundation to create a mobile unit where people can register to vote and encourage their friends to register to vote if they see they aren’t signed up. The network also plans to host events across the country on...
William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action
Release Date:
04/13/2018
This spring, the William T. Grant Foundation announced two new grant programs focused on getting social research out of the ivory tower and into actual policy and practice.
Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates
Release Date:
04/06/2018
Pete Peterson played large on the national stage, in business, politics, and policy. In recent years, he focused much of his energy—and his money—on the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.
Listening for Bits of Truth in DC
Release Date:
03/22/2018
If you’ve ever spent a day or two pounding the hard terrazzo floors of the U.S. House and Senate office buildings talking with legislators and their staffs, you know that the artifice of political exchange presented in the now classic HBO television...
The Issues We’re Taking to the Hill
Release Date:
02/21/2018
Last month, I wrote in this column about Philanthropy New York’s 2018 Policy Slate, which outlines the federal, state and local issues and actions that are top priorities for the year. Now, we’re looking toward Foundations on the Hill, the annual...
Philanthropy New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Its Two-Year Public Policy Fellowship
Release Date:
01/25/2018
Philanthropy New York Is Now Accepting Applications For Its Two-Year Public Policy Fellowship The Philanthropy New York Public Policy Fellowship program aims to identify early-career professionals who will benefit from learning...
Get It Right, Right Now
Release Date:
10/18/2017
It is no coincidence that the communities that are hardest to reach in the decennial census count are also those that are under-resourced and under-represented in federal, state and local government. Systematic undercounting of hard-to-reach...
Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?
Release Date:
09/08/2017
How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy co-creation.
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."
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