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Reshaping the Business of Social Change

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06/20/2013

by Monique Villa, CEO, Thomson Reuters Foundation As the Chief Executive Officer of the Thomson ... goal: action for impact. The organization no longer gives grants . Instead, it has taken the lead in...

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Funders as Fellows: The Seeding Power Experience

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04/01/2025

... Community Food Funders Director, North Star Fund We’re in a moment—politically and culturally—where it can be ... Our experiences with the Seeding Power Fellowship teach us to fight that urge, engage, and...

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Four New Reports that Examine Their Grantmaking Successes, Failures and Lessons

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02/26/2020

... Philanthropies, has shared a note and four reports on the foundation 's successes, failures and lessons learned as the foundation prepares to close it's doors in October. "As we...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Will Cordery Joins Wellspring's Racial Justice Program

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05/04/2017

... grantmaking designed to increase justice for low-income communities of color across the country and internationally. ... at advancing equity. As a Program Officer at the Surdna Foundation in...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Social Justice

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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

Philanthropy and the ACA: Helping People Engage in Their Own Health and Health Care

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08/08/2012

... a policy leader— in mid-July for a discussion, led by a foundation leader and witnessed by both on-site and online ... factoring in patient engagement to the change models they ...

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To Be Brave and Radical in Arts Philanthropy

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02/20/2019

... Trust is a learning network and collaborative fund to support arts and cultural organizations that are led by, ... among collaborators and colleagues and establishing a new grants program to direct more...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

Doris Duke Foundation

Virtual Employee Engagement through Virtual Conversational Leadership

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01/20/2023

... remain completely remote, others have decided to return to in -person, while others still are exploring the possibilities ... renamed as conversational communityship, a term coined by Henry Mintzberg after...

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Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity: Thoughts from Maya Wiley

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01/07/2010

... enough to expand on her ideas for Smart Assets . Communities of color, an unprecedented economic crisis, and ... so that communities of color can compete for competitive grants programs—these...

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27 Apr 2021

How Philanthropy Can Help Avoid A Tsunami of Evictions

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10:00am to 11:30am

... the pandemic has been disproportionally felt by low-income communities and BIPOC households. Experts are warning that we ... data tells us and what the philanthropic sector can do to support...

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Macquarie Group Launches $A50 Million Philanthropic Award to Mark Its 50th Anniversary in 2019

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10/10/2018

... Million Philanthropic Award to Mark Its 50 th Anniversary in 2019 Macquarie Group today announced the Macquarie 50th ... The winners will be selected by the Macquarie Group Foundation who will also manage the...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?

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09/12/2013

by Lukas Haynes, Vice President, Mertz Gilmore Foundation and Nancy Lublin, CEO, DoSomething.org Lukas ... and grant applicant. Having recommended foundation grants for 11 years, I am familiar...

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Surdna Appoints Shuaib Siddiqui, Director, Mission Related Investing

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06/30/2016

... Siddiqui, Director, Mission Related Investing The Surdna Foundation announced that Shuaib Siddiqui, an investment ... policies and practices with its mission. He will support the foundation...

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22 Apr 2025

Protecting New York City’s Immigrant Small Business Ecosystem - An Event Hosted by Asset Funders Network

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10:30am to 12:00pm

... exclusion, and lack of familiarity with business support structures combined with anti-immigrant rhetoric call for focused support from non-profit and philanthropic communities to improve the...

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National Grid Commits $500,000 to Assist Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island Families Impacted by COVID-19

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03/18/2020

... by COVID-19 National Grid is directing $500,000 to support customers affected by the health impacts, financial ... need and bolster efforts by local organizations to assist communities across Massachusetts,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Disaster Relief

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National Grid

06 Jan 2016

Beyond Coverage: Getting Healthcare to Neighborhoods in Need

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... disparities in primary care access for residents living in underserved New York City neighborhoods. The two-year, $20 ... with costs that are not funded by current federal grants...

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Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

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01/27/2023

... Lisa Piilar Cowan, Vice President, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and Michelle Flores, Consultant. This piece was ... that keeps donors separate, above, and apart from the communities they ostensibly...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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NYC Cultural Agenda Fund Places Marker on Racial Justice Initiative Ahead of City’s Cultural Plan Release

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10/12/2016

... Trust is making more than half a million dollars in grants to support efforts to increase cultural and racial equity in the ... last year," says Cultural Agenda Fund co...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... has been that of Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation and keeper of its $12-billion-plus endowment, who ... shift: doubling Ford’s commitment to unrestricted grants for nonprofit operating ...

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