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Can Philanthropy Support the Transformation of Society?

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03/06/2014

by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Co-Chairs, NoVo Foundation When was the last time you ate a tomato? ... guess, since tomatoes are ubiquitous in most people’ s diets. But did you stop to consider who picked it for...

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Taking a Stand for New York

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04/12/2018

... ago, I was traveling the state extensively meeting with foundation leaders from Jamestown to Lake Placid, from Albany ... on how to implement advocacy strategies. Many of the large national foundations are...

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... for reports, presentations and other materials. Family Foundation Resources : Family foundation members have access to the National Center for Family Philanthropy' s...

Noyes Selects Four New Board Members

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04/01/2013

... and Gregg Houston have all joined the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Board of Directors. Brook Beardsley is the ... and the Fannie Lou Hamer Student Internship program. A national and international spokesperson...

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Stephen McConnell Appointed Country Director for the United States at The Atlantic Philanthropies

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09/03/2012

... In this position, McConnell will oversee all of Atlantic’ s U. S . programmes—including work focused on Aging, Children ... & Youth and Reconciliation & Human Rights—as the foundation...

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Key Themes From Our 36th Annual Meeting

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07/01/2015

... (2011 Nobel Peace Laureate and President, Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa), Jan Eliasson (Deputy Secretary-General, ...

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Funders For Justice Launch New Funder Toolkit — Divest/Invest: From Criminalization to Thriving Communities

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09/19/2018

... if we do not also proactively work to divest this nation’ s resources from criminalization. As Zachary Norris, FFJ ... Funders for Justice is co-chaired by Luna Yasui, Ford Foundation ; Molly Schultz Hafid, TCC...

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If Elite Colleges Want to Address the College Admissions Bribery Scandal — Accept More Low- and Middle-Income Strivers

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03/18/2019

... Rivera Weissblum President and CEO of the Edwin Gould Foundation The admission scandal is a stain on the ... on their outreach to Strivers. I am referring to America’ s Strivers — the talented and prepared low...

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16 Oct 2019

2019 Grantmakers in Aging Annual Conference

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 - 8:00am to Friday, October 18, 2019 - 4:00pm

... its Annual Conference, with more than 200 top local and national funders, in one of America’ s great cities. For 2019, they are excited to bring the ... benefit older adults. For example, The John A. Hartford...

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New York State Census Equity Fund Awards $1.4 Million to Community Organizations for 2020 Census Outreach

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12/05/2019

... York Community Trust, brings together local, regional, and national foundations and individual donors to support a ... from foundations across the state advise on the Fund’ s grantmaking in their areas. “We...

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Siegel Family Endowment Publishes New Whitepaper Outling New Framework for Understanding and Funding Infrastructure

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10/07/2020

... the remarkable system that runs above and below the city’ s streets. It was the discovery of this shared passion for ... Having seen the decline in investment in the country’ s physical infrastructure, and...

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23 Feb 2021

Preview of the Knight Media Forum: Polarization in America - A Webinar Hosted by Media Impact Funders

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... support it, address polarization in America? This year’ s Knight Media Forum will examine how local news ... some of these forces, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the national reckoning over systemic racism,...

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14 Oct 2021

Mismatched: The Philanthropic Response to the Call for Racial Justice - A Webinar Hosted by PRE

Thursday, October 14, 2021 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... and political momentum in 2020, a sea change in U. S .-based grantmaking for racial issues appeared to be ... Small family foundations, mainstream and progressive national foundations, and corporations of all...

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PNY Smart Assets Blog Posts on Hurricane Sandy

... Vice President, Global Communications, The Rockefeller Foundation Risk, Resiliency and Super Storms: What’ s Food Got To Do With It? by Amara Foster, Community Food ... Hurricane Sandy , by Dr. Irwin Redlener...

For the Success of Boys and Men of Color, A Call to Action

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02/14/2014

by Kenneth H. Zimmerman , Director, U. S . Programs, Open Society Foundations In the State of the ... Sons and Brothers campaign, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ’ s Forward Promise initiative...

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16 Jul 2015

IT Security: Combat Advanced Persistent Threats

Thursday, July 16, 2015 -

11:30am to 1:00pm

... at 2014 TAG Annual Conference , David Roth, the Ford Foundation ’ s Chief Technology Officer, will discuss the foundation ’ s experiences in mitigating an Advanced ...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness Launch Low Vision Research Initiative

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08/07/2015

Reader' s Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness ... Partnerships with Reader’ s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation and Lions Clubs International Foundation...

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29 Oct 2018

Is It Time to Embrace Participatory Grantmaking? – A Webinar Hosted by PACE and GrantCraft

Monday, October 29, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

... have practiced participatory grantmaking at the local and national levels. Explore What participatory grantmaking is ... Jen Bokoff , Director of Stakeholder Engagement, Foundation Center Chris Cardona ,...

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Building Trust and Following the Field

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02/11/2020

... Director of Programs, The Jacob & Valeria Langeloth Foundation . This article was originally published by The ... of what their work — and the movements in which it’ s situated — needs to thrive. While the...

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