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06/04/2012
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Ford Foundation Appoints Kavita N. Ramdas as Representative in New Delhi

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06/04/2012
The Ford Foundation has announced the appointment of Kavita N. Ramdas as Representative in its New Delhi office, serving India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Ramdas will assume the leadership from Steven Solnick, Representative since 2008, who was recently...

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.

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