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Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families

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01/20/2021

Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families By: Caroline Kronley, President, Tinker Foundation. You probably remember the recording from 2018: leaked audio of a 6-year-old girl from El Salvador crying...

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Tinker Foundation Inc.

Democracy is a threat to white supremacy—and that is the cause of America’s crisis

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01/14/2021

I have long believed that inequality is the greatest threat to justice.

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Ford Foundation

How One Foundation Became The First (Trust-Based) Follower

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01/06/2021

Trust-based philanthropy is about acknowledging and ceding power, which typically resides with the funder.

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It's Time for More Foundations to Fund Democracy - Here's How

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12/10/2020

The missions and priorities of America’s nearly 120,000 foundations are as diverse as the country itself, yet here is one thing all in common: each suffers when our democracy fails.

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Convening Virtually: Embracing Change and Community

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12/03/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced us to rethink and readjust the way we do work. We have very quickly learned to adapt and be kinder to one another for the personal “intrusions” that come into our professional lives. And we’ve learned to welcome it!

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Philanthropy Must Prioritize Democracy Beyond Election Day

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11/17/2020

As the world grapples with several compounding crises, foundations and philanthropy are finding their place in the response, working alongside government, nonprofit and for-profit organizations.

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To Serve Racial Equity, What Are You Doing Less Of?

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10/28/2020

I was running a workshop on tools to address institutional racism within our organizations when I was asked, how do we to create buy-in to fund these tools in the first place?

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Reimagining Learning (From This Moment and With Each Other)

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10/21/2020

We are in the midst of deep adaptation. At Philanthropy New York, while we accept a host of unknowns, we also seek new discoveries for the way we can work and respond to our new realities.

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Ending Whack-a-Mole Philanthropy

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10/08/2020

Too often in philanthropy we achieve progress or a reform, but don’t think to look around the corner. We thereby create - or exacerbate - another problem. It’s whack-a-mole philanthropy.

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

Philanthropy in Focus

Release Date:

10/07/2020

This time last year was drastically different for us all. Personally, I was just three months into my fellowship and quickly becoming aware of just how busy fall at PNY can be. Reflecting back on that time now often feels like a distant memory - a...