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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

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07/05/2016

... the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ infrastructure ... President of the Ford Foundation, has gone so far as to issue this brave statement about...

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Robin Hood Issues Call for Applications for New Grant-Ready Insights and Training Project (GRIT)

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08/10/2016

... organization, has issued a call for applications for its new Grant-Ready Insights and Training project (GRIT) which is set to launch this fall. GRIT is a program for nonprofit ... are due on August 11. The...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

... the dance field. NEFA commissioned Metris Arts Consulting to complete the report, entitled Moving Dance Forward: ... of the 20th anniversary of the program. In addition to an evaluation of NDP’s grantmaking...

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Hazen Foundation's Bezahler in EdWeek: Are We Criminalizing Our Students?

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12/09/2016

... that a budget is a statement of policy, the surest way to determine the values and priorities a society embraces. ... for the past three decades, investing trillions of dollars to expand a criminal-justice...

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Century Foundation Report Praises Morris School Merger, As District Faces New Tests From Immigration

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12/13/2016

... and an edict from New Jersey’s education commissioner to force the merger of Morristown and Morris Township schools ... surviving early racial unrest and shifting demographics, to become an anchor of...

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Aetna Foundation Looks Beyond the Doctor's Office in a Quest for Better Health

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03/17/2017

... Aetna recently announced a new RFP for the latest cycle of its Cultivating Healthy Communities grant program. The grants are from $50,000 to $100,000 and come out of the $2 million program. "This funding...

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Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste

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03/24/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Joins Effort to Curb Hotel Food Waste Food waste is increasingly garnering ... from governments, businesses and private individuals as its impact on both environmental health, food security...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia When Doris Duke first took up ... of foreign adversaries than they do today. Now, through its Building Bridges...

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Atlantic Philanthropies' Report Examines the Effectiveness of the Limited-life Approach

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05/01/2017

... return, and that return compounds at a higher rate than its financial assets would, then making the grants sooner ... social value a philanthropic initiative can be estimated to generate — taking into account...

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Schott Honors Rev. Dr. William Barber II, Kavitha Mediratta and Landmark Education Campaign at 25th Anniversary Awards Gala

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05/12/2017

... Education (@schottfound) marked 25 years of fighting to end educational inequities in America’s public schools ... for equitable funding for New York City schools, and its work led to a...

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Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

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06/01/2017

... underfund the social service organizations they depend on. To stop this invisible crisis, philanthropists need to start giving the suburban nonprofit sector the ... providing just $89 per person in poverty,...

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Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School

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06/01/2017

Soros Hits Back at Hungary’s PM for Attempting to Shutter a Soros-Founded School Investor George Soros hit ... Prime Minister Viktor Orban over the leader’s attempts to shut down a Budapest university which Soros...

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Philanthropy vs. Tyranny: Inside the Open Society Foundations' Biggest Battle Yet

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08/21/2017

... more money, OSF has a larger footprint worldwide thanks to its many local offices, including throughout Africa. OSF’s ... he got into philanthropy decades ago. Nevertheless, thanks to his...

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Trump Denies He Made A Deal With Democrats On DREAMer Protections

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09/14/2017

... said they struck a deal with the president Wednesday night to pass legislation that would protect the about 800,000 ... Action for Childhood Arrivals program is scheduled to end in March. "No deal was...

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Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital

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09/20/2017

... giving comes from individuals and donor pyramids continue to grow steeper to the point that, today, as much as 95 percent of dollars ... of donor communications and stewardship for World Wildlife Fund...

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Insurers Come Out Swinging Against New Republican Health Care Bill

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09/21/2017

... forcefully on Wednesday against the Senate’s latest bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, suggesting that its state-by-state block grants could create health care ... states that have been successful in...

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Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing These days, to achieve maximum buzz, a policy idea needs the right ... mix, for both the political and philanthropic class. In its purest form, the idea is to...

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State Officials: N.Y. Will Help Enroll People in Insurance through Obamacare

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09/29/2017

... — The recent announcement by the Trump administration to slash funding for enrollment assistance and marketing of insurance policies offered to individuals through the Affordable Care Act will not ... them...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

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09/29/2017

Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline Since President Donald Trump’s ... for the worst.“With DACA being rescinded and nothing in its place, we will probably see poverty levels...

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