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American Express Grant Supports Student Filmmaking

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08/11/2017

... Parque, a bilingual movement created by the National Park Foundation to inspire people to connect with, celebrate and ...

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One Difference between Katrina and Harvey: Availability of Information Resources

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09/06/2017

... Harvey swept across the Houston area brought back for many the unforgettable images of Katrina. These last few ... Hurricane Sandy when we joined with CDP, CNJG and the Foundation Center to produce “...

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Are Artists the New Interpreters of Scientific Innovation?

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09/13/2017

... the city’s American Academy, and Donald Judd’s Chinati Foundation , in Marfa. To be an artist in residence means ...

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Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts

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09/13/2017

Gates Report Stresses Need for Philanthropy Amid Aid Cuts The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation issued a report card today meant to underscore ... call previewing the report. . . Gates Report Stresses Need...

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Bloomberg Among Top Donors Who Give Largest Share of Wealth to Charity

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09/19/2017

... pledged more than $36 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006, and the three friends joined forces a ... former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg comes in third for giving more than 10...

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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Seattle headquarters will incorporate a shelter for homeless families. It's an unconventional move for a tech giant, but Schoettler’s statement hit the right ... than that, in fact. With funders like the...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... McGalliard, the executive director of the Imagination Foundation , a nonprofit that sponsored the Imagination ...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... few years ago, the Hudson River Park Trust floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a ... space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order. Opinion: How Parks Lose Their...

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

... improve cost-effective and adaptable aid delivery. The UPS Foundation is one major funder we've written about often that's a leader in this area. It's been working for years to improve methods...

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Advancing The Mental Health And Well-Being Movement Through Grant Making: Engaged Philanthropy

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10/02/2017

Investing in the health of a nation requires thoughtful deliberation and vision. Grantmakers, especially those with a focus on health, play a unique role in helping support community innovation that can advance health.

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

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10/13/2017

... Megan Tompkins’s research, using the National Science Foundation ’s ADVANCE program at the University of Michigan, ... they show genuine understanding of the cost of inequality for everyone (not to mention the...

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OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" designed "to create an outside enemy to distract citizens."

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The House and Senate Tax Bills Are Terrible for Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve

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12/06/2017

The House and Senate Tax Bills Are Terrible for Nonprofits and the Communities They Serve By Ronna Brown, ... Philanthropy New York and Mike Pratt, President, Scherman Foundation and Board Chair of Philanthropy...

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... Conference In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of ... quo is an important motivator leading youth to clamor for transformative change—if it’s harnessed...

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Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact

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06/20/2018

... Responsibility at Pfizer and President of the Pfizer Foundation *, joined other luminaries to showcase the impact ...

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Video: Celebrating 20 Years of Open Society Institute–Baltimore with Patrick Gaspard and the 2018 Open Society Institute Community Fellows

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04/01/2019

... our tagline, “Bold Thinking, Strategic Action, Justice for All.” At this final event, we presented “Justice for All” awards to Kurt Schmoke, former mayor of Baltimore ... Lois Feinblatt, therapist, activist,...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300M Salesforce.com Inc. has made a somewhat unusual ... with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation , an independent nonprofit...

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DDCF Announces Inaugural Awardees of Child Well-being Leadership Development Grants

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04/23/2019

... New York, April 23, 2019 – The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) today announced the five inaugural ... and diverse social sector leadership is critical for ending intergenerational cycles of poverty and...

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Welcomes Marcus F. Walton as President and CEO

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07/16/2019

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Welcomes Marcus F. Walton ... and CEO (WASHINGTON, D.C. July 16, 2019)—Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) announced today the ... of practitioners and...

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