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Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

Publication date:

07/2005

Grantmakers tend to be cautious about funding advocacy, and for good reason - yet advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation 's mission. In this guide, contributors explain that advocacy includes a lot of opportunities to improve public policy through work that .....

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Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens: Using a Racial Equity Analysis

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11/2007

... equity can increase your effectiveness at every stage of the grantmaking process. Blending experience and candid ... get people talking, and nourish change inside your own foundation . Grantmaking With a Racial Equity Lens: Using a ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Grants Managers

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Leadership Development

Saying Yes/Saying No: Strengthening Your Decision-Giving Skills

Publication date:

06/2004

... they can recommend for funding. Decision making about what to fund is challenging and so is decision giving to hopeful applicants. How do you say Yes, or No, so that grant applicants understand your foundation 's rationale, feel that they've been treated .....

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Working with the Business Sector: Pursuing Public Good with Private Partners

Publication date:

06/2004

... the push and pull between sectors from the vantage point of those working in independent and corporate foundations, this guide examines efforts to partner with and influence the business world. Grantmakers ... promoting corporate philanthropy. They also explore ways to bridge cultural and philosophical differences between the ...

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As Use of Libraries Grows, Government Support Has Eroded

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01/08/2013

Compared to 21 other major American library systems, New York City's ... according to a new study funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation . To see how New York City’s...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Arts

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As Asian-Americans’ Numbers Grow, So Does Their Philanthropy

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01/08/2013

The Korean American Community Foundation and its Executive Director Kyung Yoon are among ... in November in a ballroom in Midtown Manhattan for one of the year’s more elegant galas. They dined on beef ... in a...

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Laura A. Robbins Consulting, LLC

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Philanthropy 50—No. 39: Jon Stryker

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02/10/2013

Mr. Stryker made the Chronicle’s list of the top 50 donors of 2012 with the $30.1 million he gave to the Arcus Foundation , which he founded 13 years ago. Mr. Stryker is an ...

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President, Again, Attacks Charitable Deduction

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04/11/2013

This examination of President Obama’s federal budget proposal includes comments from Michael Peterson, President of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation . President Barack Obama’s federal budget ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Public Policy

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What It Means To Be A Philanthropist -- Gen Xers and Millennials Weigh In

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04/01/2013

... discuss their recent report on the philanthropic vision of the next generation of donors. $100 million to Newark schools. $200 million to a family foundation...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Unveils Web Site and Priorities

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04/30/2013

... which provides detailed information about its areas of focus, a letter from Mayor Bloomberg and an annual report on the foundation ’s activities. Just a few years ago, New York ... Bloomberg kept his...

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Philanthropy as Field Builder

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04/25/2013

The second in a series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’s ... can crowd in with their own resources and carry the work to scale. A second point of difference and...

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Our Schools, Cut Off From the Web

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06/16/2013

An op-ed on the need for all people to have access to a fast and open Internet by Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas. ON June 6, at a middle ... school in Mooresville, N.C., President Obama...

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Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities

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06/07/2013

... the Cure has cancelled the Race for the Cure events due to economic uncertainty and competition from other nonprofits. The Susan G. Komen foundation canceled its signature 3-Day walk in Washington ... and six...

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Businesses With a Social Conscience Reach a Tipping Point

Release Date:

08/01/2013

An op-ed by Phillip Henderson, President of the Surdna Foundation . To my undiscerning palette, a blueberry muffin made with King ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Schools Rake In Private Funds

Release Date:

07/28/2013

... the record $47 million in pledges that the fundraising arm of the New York City public-school system received this past year quotes Rick Smith, president of the Pinkerton Foundation , which...

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