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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

The foundations weigh in on the challenges and strategies in reaching a diverse audiences and using art to build positive, relevant, and inspiring forces in the daily lives of diverse communities.

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Mellon Foundation

The Wallace Foundation

Race Forward Announces Roster of Participants for NYCT-funded Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab

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06/09/2017

Leading racial justice non-profit Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation has selected 59 New York City arts and cultural organizations to participate in their Racial Equity in the Arts Innovation Lab, a yearlong training program to...

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

Rockefeller Foundation-Backed Executive Survey Finds Continued Bias No. 1 Reason Women Don't Make It To The Top

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06/08/2017

Continued cultural bias was cited as the top reason for the dearth of women CEOs.

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Gender Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation

With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool

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06/08/2017

The new study, which examined the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical intervention strategies like financial incentives side-by-side, found that nudges often yield particularly high returns at a low cost when it comes to boosting retirement...

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Public Policy

Science

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Pershing Square Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

New United Hospital Fund Report Finds AHCA Ill-Suited and Destructive for New York

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06/08/2017

New report details how American Health Care Act would increase costs for consumers, wipe out coverage gains, and destabilize New York’s individual market.

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

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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IBM Corporation

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