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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

... classroom settings, students do not spend a lot of time honing their problem-solving skills or considering ... McGalliard, the executive director of the Imagination Foundation , a nonprofit...

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Education

Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... reached by two narrow bridges, replacing the remains of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where the Lusitania used to ... whose corporate headquarters are nearby, to cover most of the construction and operational...

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Community Development

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender

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09/25/2017

Opinion: Powered by Women - Philanthropy in the Age of Trump Needs to Address Gender Attacks on women and gender ... identity have been central to the policies coming out of the Trump White House. Whether it...

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Gender Justice

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

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09/29/2017

... that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places ... moving parts and can easily break down. To keep the stream of critical supplies moving...

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UJA-Federation of New York Receives $20 Million Gift

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10/02/2017

UJA-Federation of New York Receives $20 Million Gift The UJA-Federation of New York has announced a $20 million legacy gift from the Jack S. & Shirley M. Silver Foundation in support ...

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

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10/13/2017

Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in ... male allies tend to have three things in common as agents of organizational change. Debra Meyerson and Megan Tompkins’s research, using the...

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Gender Justice

OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

... a "national consultation" survey mailed by the government of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán to Hungarian voters in ... it called the "Soros Plan" — including the resettlement of "at least...

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Rockefeller Releases Findings from Intergenerational Conference

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12/20/2017

... Findings from Intergenerational Conference In the summer of 2017, The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center brought together a group of residents around the theme of “Youth...

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ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications

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03/08/2018

ComNetworkNY: Leadership and the Art of Communications At a recent ComNetwork session panel ... to arrive at four unique perspectives on the importance of building smart communications skills for leadership. ... D...

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Communications/Media

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Ford and PBS Partner on Documentary Series

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06/15/2018

... Series On Friday, June 15, 2018, PBS will premiere Ford Foundation funded BREAKING BIG, a 12-episode documentary ... series, explores the unexpected journey to success of some of the world...

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Arts

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Salesforce.org Announces Advancements to the Salesforce.org Education Cloud Platform

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09/20/2018

... Cloud Platform Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of Salesforce, today announced advancements to the ... lifecycle. Today, higher education institutions aren' t only serving students who are on...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Education

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations are pleased to announce the appointment of Alethia E. Jones as director of the Open...

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Bloomberg Awards $10 Million to Address Opioid Crisis in Michigan

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03/17/2019

... has announced a $10 million commitment in support of efforts in Michigan to address the large number of opioid overdose deaths in the state. Michigan is the ... Charitable Trusts, Johns Hopkins University, and...

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Health

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Commonwealth Fund Launches A New Tool for Comparing ‘Medicare for All’ Plans

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03/15/2019

... Plans The Commonwealth Fund, a non-partisan health care foundation , introduced an interactive tool this week that ... congressional bills introduced by Democrats reveals a set of far more nuanced approaches to...

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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

Video: Celebrating 20 Years of Open Society Institute–Baltimore with Patrick Gaspard ... Fellows Open Society Institute-Baltimore hosted the last of three special events marking our 20th anniversary on October 30...

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

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04/16/2019

... with the $300 million going to the Salesforce.com Foundation , an independent nonprofit organization that plans ...

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Technology

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The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation

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10/23/2019

The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation By Kate Seely, Leadership, Culture, ... of two foundations, Kresge and the Oregon Community Foundation , who are testing the...

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Evolution of the Work Place in Hybrid Times

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12/2022

The Foundation Administrators Network (FAN) is a Philanthropy New York professional peer network of HR and operations professionals at member grantmaking ... FAN hosts quarterly meetings on a broad range of topics relevant to HR and operations administration. In ...

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