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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Two New Trustees

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07/01/2013

The Board of Trustees of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has announced the election of two new members to its Board: Dr. Cynthia Barnhart and Dr. Michael Purugganan. Dr. Barnhart is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering...

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Sheryl Goldstein Joins the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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07/01/2013

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has welcomed Sheryl Goldstein as the Foundation’s new Program Director for the Foundation’s U.S. Education grants work. Goldstein takes the position vacated by Amy Gross, who left the Foundation in May to...

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Art Groups Fear Losing a Mayor, and His Money

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07/01/2013

With less than six months remaining in Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and the recent end of a two-year grant program from Bloomberg Philanthropies, many artists and art-supporting organizations have grown concerned.

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5 Questions for...Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation

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06/28/2013

PhilanTopic’s Laura Cronin talks with Kimberleigh Smith about the Rapoport Foundation’s decision to spend down by 2015, what they’ve learned about the spend down process and how they are helping their grantees navigate a difficult funding...

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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families

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06/25/2013

Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...

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Workforce Development

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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families: Early Lessons From the Work Support Strategies Initiative

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06/25/2013

by Luis A. Ubiñas, President, Ford Foundation Over the past half-decade, as the country has suffered through a deep, persistent economic downturn, America’s work support programs have served as an essential backstop for millions of...

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Participate in the 2013 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Survey

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06/20/2013

Each year, Philanthropy New York partners with the Council on Foundations and the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers for an annual survey on compensation and benefits costs across community, private, and public foundations.

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HR & Operations Staff

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Reshaping the Business of Social Change

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06/20/2013

We’re pleased to have Monique Villa, CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, discuss her organization’s unique approach to giving, the principles of shared value and the Foundation's many initiatives geared towards supporting women’s rights and...

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Reshaping the Business of Social Change

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06/20/2013

by Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation As the Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the corporate charity of the world’s leading source of news and information, I run an international, award-winning...

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Your Foundation in Crisis: Will You Be Ready?

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06/18/2013

Temin and Company CEO Davia Temin recently led our members through an interactive “crisis case” seminar where they could gauge their own reactions and share experiences and feedback with their peers. She talks about that session and the lessons...

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