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Boys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds

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11/29/2017

A Wallace Foundation report released in October, “Raising the Barre and Stretching the Canvas: Implementing High-Quality Arts Programming in a National Youth Serving Organization,” examined how large multipurpose youth organizations can best...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

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11/29/2017

The nonprofit’s Quill Connect tool, designed to improve students’ writing skills through online exercises, uses machine learning to help them create better sentences.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Launch US 2050

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11/29/2017

The Peter G. Peterson Foundation and the Ford Foundation launched US 2050, an initiative that will engage leading scholars to examine and analyze the multiple demographic, socioeconomic, and fiscal trends that will shape the nation at mid-century.

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Ford Foundation Launches Effort To Diversify Art Museum Leadership

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11/29/2017

Walton Foundation and Ford Foundation announced today they are each committing $3 million over three years to support creative solutions to diversify curatorial and management staff at art museums across the United States.

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New York Women's Foundation Awards $1 Million for Resilience

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11/28/2017

The New York Women's Foundation has announced grants totaling $1 million to twenty-two grassroots organizations in New York City working to foster advocacy, leadership, and civic engagement.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Exploration Into Labor and Civil Rights History at National Park Service

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11/28/2017

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation provides a nearly $1 million grant to the National Park Foundation to establish the National Park Service Mellon Humanities Fellows, three new research positions that will allow the service to expand its storytelling...

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Awards More than $2.5 Million to South Florida Nonprofits in 2017

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11/28/2017

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced today that 125 nonprofits in South Florida have collectively been awarded more than $2.5 million in grants in 2017.

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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

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11/28/2017

MetLife Foundation and ideas42, a nonprofit behavioral design lab, created a partnership to innovate financial services based on the latest research from the science of human behavior.

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.

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Exchanges, Scholarships, and Fellowships: Examining a Century of Foundation Funding of Individuals

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

For over a hundred years, foundations have embraced giving to individuals via fellowships, scholarships, and exchanges. Funders have long recognized the value this type of giving brings: to connect individuals and their ideas across national,...

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23 Jan 2018

Designing Programs to Maximize Impact - How Behavioral Science Can Help

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9:00am to 11:00am

Humans can be quirky. Yet many foundations and nonprofits design interventions that assume humans will act “rationally,” which can undermine program effectiveness.

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Newman's Own Tax Break Matters Far Beyond Just One Foundation

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11/27/2017

The carveout, sponsored by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Dave Reichert (R-Wash.), could spare another 20 to 30 foundations that would face a similar fate in the future.

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" designed "to create an outside enemy to distract citizens."

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SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia

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11/27/2017

The report touches on universal themes—among them, the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the importance of contingency planning by nonprofit executives and boards, and the need for funders to support nonprofit overhead—its natural focus was on...

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Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees

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11/27/2017

The Russell Sage Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of sociologist Mario Luis Small to its board of trustees. Small is currently Grafstein Family Professor at Harvard University. He is a contributor to the RSF volume The Colors of...

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Russell Sage Foundation Issues RFP for Research on Effects of Affordable Care Act

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11/26/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Issues RFP for Research on Effects of Affordable Care Act The Affordable Care Act (ACA) of 2010 represents the most significant reform of the U.S. health care system in decades. It was enacted with the goals...

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Russell Sage Foundation Issues RFP for Research on Effects of Affordable Care Act

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11/26/2017

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Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Issues Consensus Report On Diabetes In Association With The ADA

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11/22/2017

American Diabetes Association Issues Consensus Report to Standardize Definitions and Outcome Measures Beyond HbA1C for Type 1 Diabetes in Special Diabetes Care Section

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Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities Helping Cities Grow More Powerful

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11/22/2017

The world is becoming more and more city (as opposed to any other word that may rhyme with the word "city"). And that could be good for your health, if the impact of the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities continues to grow.

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker, One of Rolling Stones 25 People Shaping the Future

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11/22/2017

Under the leadership of Darren Walker, the Ford Foundation is taking a different tack.

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