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Calls for Nominations for 2018 Casey Excellence for Children Awards

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06/08/2017

Please nominate a hero — a foster care alumnus, birth parent, foster or adoptive parent, or kinship caregiver — who is committed to building hope for children, families and their communities.

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RFPs Etc

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy IBM is channeling its science and tech expertise into tackling some of the world's biggest problems. On Wednesday, the tech giant announced the launch of...

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Technology

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Participation and Double Entendre

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06/07/2017

Philanthropy New York’s 38 th Annual Meeting next week won’t be all business. When we named the program “The Power of Participation,” we knew it had double meaning. This year’s annual meeting has even more time for networking than last year.

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Impact of Silicon Valley Community Foundation on Education around the Country Noted

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06/07/2017

In San Francisco’s public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” and encouraging them to behave more like start-up founders and less like bureaucrats.

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Education

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Legacy Foundations and Risk-Taking: Different Approaches to Empowered Philanthropy

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06/07/2017

Dara Major, philanthropic and social sector advisor, challenges funders to "embrace the power of philanthropic diversity, and work together toward more empowered philanthropy."

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

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06/07/2017

Financial giants, in addition to supporting urban youth and employment, are also steady funders in an area even closer to home: community development and housing.

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

New York City's Community Foundation Carries Out Charitable Legacies of Brooke Astor and Many Others

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06/07/2017

The New York Community Trust recently approved more than $12.3 million in grants to support 65 nonprofits that will help domestic violence victims find housing, strengthen arts groups, feed the hungry, and more.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"

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06/06/2017

When Healing Arts Initiative, formerly Hospital Audiences Inc., declared bankruptcy a year ago, it was the last in a series of tragic events that was seemingly the death knell for the 47-year-old nonprofit.

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Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...