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Beyond the Glass Cliff: Reimagining Executive Transitions in the Sector

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04/06/2023

... to making this a reality. I am here to work with all of you – and many who are not yet part of our BoardSource ... in. On my best days, I am full of hope for what these new...

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F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

... often more grounded in an inside-out, funder-centric point of view than the external realities of the grantees, programs, and systems we seek to change. ... below), but this work begins with the most...

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing Community loan funds are ... While community loan funds have a 30+ year track record of successfully lending in underserved areas, investors and .....

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... electricity systems and get on the right side of the politics of development -- philanthropy just hasn't realized it yet. ... the board. Our investment is woeful -- only 2 percent of all...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

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07/09/2015

... The Rita Allen Foundation has named its 2015 class of Rita Allen Foundation Scholars, honoring seven ... holds exceptional promise for advancing the frontiers of knowledge about how biological systems function...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $64 Million to 100 Resilient Cities

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07/29/2015

... Foundation has announced an additional commitment of $64 million to the 100 Resilient Cities network and the launch of its third and final partner city challenge. The final cohort of...

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The Nation Asks if Child Protective Services Has Gone Too Far

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10/05/2015

... hotline, and Felix received a visit from the Department of Children and Family Services. According to legal filings ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

... to School Discipline Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend Emmanuel was suspended from ... the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it "...

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Jane Forbes Clark of Clark Foundation Speaks at Baseball Hall of Fame on Family Legacy and Generosity

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01/11/2016

Jane Forbes Clark of Clark Foundation Speaks at Baseball Hall of Fame on Family Legacy and Generosity A crowd of more ... that Clark had agreed to give her talk again, and the names...

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F.B. Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Writes About Building a Foundation for the 21st Century

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06/08/2016

... (and that includes the U.S. economy) has felt the effects of three related long-term trends, widely reported and acknowledged. They are: first, a weakening of the pull of place (geography has...

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Warren Buffet Pledges$2.9 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Others

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07/15/2016

... The billionaire investor gave away $2.9 billion worth of stock in his holding company Berkshire Hathaway ( BRKA ... 19.6 million Class B shares to five charities. The bulk of the money, $2.2 billion, will go...

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NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation

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11/03/2016

NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation Mention the name Paul Newman and ... whose Newman’s Own food brand has raised hundreds of millions of dollars for charity. “We used to get...

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The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"

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12/12/2016

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a ... and “visionary” are two terms the Bank of America Charitable Foundation uses to describe the organizations that earn its support. In the realm...

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MAC AIDS Fund Supports Efforts to Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women

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01/27/2017

... them sexual health options and also embarking on a path of research,” says Linda Blout, president of Black Women’s Health Imperative, a nonprofit ... the capital’s first citywide program to promote use...

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

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03/20/2017

... around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on Monday morning at his home in ... bank, though the family never owned more than 5 percent of its shares. But Mr. Rockefeller...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What lessons can it offer?...

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

... democratic institutions are under attack. The legitimacy of the press is being questioned and critical public ... in anti-Semitic acts. They are organizing vast groups of people who are showing up at airports...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles

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05/08/2017

... Six Things Cities Need to Know About the Future of Autonomous Vehicles Wired magazine named 2016 “the year of autonomous driving,” and CNN says we’ve reached “a ... Vehicles could change the way we live and...

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Columbia Law School Receives $15 Million From Greene Foundation

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05/12/2017

... million for the Greene Scholarship Challenge fund, a first- of -its-kind matching scholarship fund designed to encourage ... to learn and practice essential legal skills as part of their clinical education.....

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Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

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08/10/2017

Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded jails, tense courtrooms, and cops on the beat is a ... are inclined to agree. In fact,...

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