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Understanding and Benchmarking Foundation Payout

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09/2012

This report demystifies the concept of foundation payout while addressing common misperceptions. ... largest U.S. foundations. Understanding and Benchmarking Foundation Payout ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Essentials of Foundation Strategy

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12/2009

What separates more strategic foundation leaders from less strategic ones? This research explores the state of strategy at foundations today and identifies behaviors and ... report highlight strategic best practices. Essentials of Foundation Strategy ...

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Learn Foundation Law

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04/2012

... Betty Moore foundations have developed this free, first- of -its-kind online resource, which covers the basic legal ... what staff are allowed to fund and engage in at a private foundation , including how lobbying laws apply to private ... projects when advocacy and lobbying are involved. Learn Foundation Law ...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which ... crucial topics related to evaluation at foundations, such as evaluation staffing and structures, investment in ...

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The Legitimacy of Foundations in Perpetuity

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10/14/2014

... and Leisle Lin, SVP, Finance & Operations, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Chair of the Board, Philanthropy New York This post was written as a Letter to the Editor for recent New York...

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19 Feb 2014

Interested in Working at a Foundation?

Wednesday, February 19, 2014 -

2:15pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York

Learn about the field of philanthropy from two foundation staff members’ personal ... Service , part of our "Grantmaking/Grants Management as a Career Series." This...

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Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

We’re pleased to have Brooklyn Community Foundation President Marilyn Gelber share the lessons she’s ... communities well following Hurricane Sandy. Foundations as First Responders? ...

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Disaster Relief

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Reflections from Foundations on the Hill

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03/24/2011

... Ibrahim, shares her experiences from this year's edition of Foundations on the Hill and talks about ways to effectively promote the work of the philanthropic sector to elected officials. Reflections .....

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Public Policy

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Philanthropy New York

Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

Inside the Russell Sage Foundation Russell Sage made his wealth in America's first Gilded Age— as a financier and railroad executive. Lately, that fortune ... has bankrolled a remarkably deep dig into the...

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The Foundation Center's IssueLab

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11/2012

The Foundation Center has launched the next generation of IssueLab, a website that provides free and open access to ... contains more than 11,000 documents and represents one of the largest collections of social sector knowledge, ... areas, from agriculture to immigration to welfare. The Foundation Center's IssueLab .....

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11 Apr 2018

Foundation Effectiveness: What It Takes

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9:00am to 11:00am

Foundation effectiveness is deceptively difficult. Drawing on ... latest Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) research, as well as CEP’s experience working with hundreds of...

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Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

By Marilyn Gelber, President, Brooklyn Community Foundation When I was in city government (a quite ... to people and communities most affected by this type of unexpected event. Our office was located in a .....

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All Funders

Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable Yes. At The Rockefeller Foundation , we believe some of the biggest challenges that limit the lives or prospects ...

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The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation

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01/05/2018

Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and human & disability rights ... grantmakers are including a disability lens in their areas of work. The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation ...

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Disabilities

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Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy

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06/2014

... such funding, and allows users to quickly grasp, in terms of both major trends and detail, who is funding what and where, across the nation. Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy ...

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The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... One theme that has arisen time and again is the importance of creating and nurturing an organizational culture that ... bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, habitually neglected this important contributor to our success. . . The Source Codes of Foundation Culture ...

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