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Janet Robinson is New Chair of Carnegie Corporation Board, Kurt Schmoke is New Vice Chair; The Honorable Ann Claire Williams and John S. Hendricks Join Board

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03/01/2012
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced that Janet Robinson, former President and CEO of The New York Times Company, has agreed to serve a one-year term as Board Chair and Kurt Schmoke, Dean of Howard University Law School and former...
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Cassius Johnson, Education Policy Expert, Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York

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06/04/2012
Cassius O. Johnson, an education policy analyst, will join the Carnegie Corporation of New York as a Program Officer working on the foundation’s New Designs for K-16 Pathways program. Johnson is an experienced education reformer, whose tenure at...
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How Foundations Use Communications to Advance Their Public Policy Work

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05/2010
This study examines how foundations that wish to engage in public policy are using communications to expand the reach and impact of their work. It reveals that communications is at the very center of successful policy engagement for the foundations interviewed, which make use of ten distinctly different strategies to boost their policy engagement. Among the foundations included in the study are The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Georgetown University President, Vice-Chancellor of St Andrews (Scotland) and Former President of Portugal, Join Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees

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01/01/2013
John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University; Louise Richardson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of St Andrews (Scotland); and Jorge Sampaio, United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC) High Representative and former...
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Surdna Foundation Names George Soule As Director Of Communications

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06/03/2013
The Surdna Foundation has announced George Soule as its first-ever Director of Communications. Bringing more than 20 years of communications and foundation experience, Soule joined the Foundation on June 11 to lead the organization's internal and...

Grow the Craft: "What's the right relationship between philanthropy and government?"

Publication date: 
05/2010
In a recent survey, GrantGraft shared reflections from eight foundation leaders on this question (including Karen Davis of The Commonwealth Fund; M. Christine DeVita of the Wallace Foundation; Vartan Gregorian of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Gara LaMarche of The Atlantic Philanthropies; Gail Nayowith of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; and Luis Ubiñas of the Ford Foundation) and then asked their users to weigh in. This survey report shares the results.

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