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Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

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02/17/2017

Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees ... Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the ... to the...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington and Martín Abregú as Program Vice Presidents

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09/05/2013

... Abregú as Vice President for its Democracy, Rights and Justice program, filling two key leadership roles under ... around the world, next generation media policy and journalism , support for arts and culture,...

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07 May 2020

COVID-19, Democracy and the Importance of Local Journalism - A Webinar

Thursday, May 7, 2020 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... to receive webinar information the day before the program. From 2008 to 2018, newsroom employment dropped by 25% , with ... us for a timely and insightful conversation about local journalism with funders who...

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Ford Foundation’s Build Initiative is Hitting Its Stride

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08/14/2018

Ford Foundation ’s Build Initiative is Hitting Its Stride In ... set out on an experiment—give $1 billion to social justice nonprofits, with all funds going to a combination of ... starting to see...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Multiyear Grantmaking for Justice and Social Change

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07/22/2021

... Community Foundation Announces Multiyear Grantmaking for Justice and Social Change Today, we are excited to announce ... will receive $70,000 per year for the next five years through the...

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U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits

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06/04/2015

U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits Those who work on Cuba-related grants ... Barnes, a program officer overseeing coastal and marine grant making at the MacArthur Foundation , which...

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24 Oct 2012

Meeting Strategic Objectives through Persuasive Writing: The Grant Write-Up

Wednesday, October 24, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... concise and purposeful language. A foundation ’s internal grant recommendations or write-ups depend on these qualities, ... session as Citi Foundation ’s Jasmine Thomas walks us through...

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Dodge Foundation Launches First-Ever Open Call for Racial Justice Organizations

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05/04/2023

Dodge Foundation Launches First-Ever Open Call for Racial Justice Organizations A Letter from Tanuja Dehne, President & CEO, The Geraldine R. Dodge ... We have been supporting these types of...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Lourdes Lopez to Board of Trustees

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03/12/2014

The Ford Foundation has announced the election of Lourdes Lopez ... Ford Foundation . “She shares a deep commitment to social justice and has continually broken...

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Insights from “Resilient Resolve: Supporting Justice in NYC’s Nonprofit Crisis”

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10/24/2024

... makes nonprofits serving those affected by the criminal justice system particularly vulnerable to fluctuations in ... legal system face particularly unreliable financing through government contracts, which on...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Twenty Puerto Rican Writers Receive the Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship

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11/16/2021

... Puerto Rico who have endured and continue their practice through repeated natural disasters and ongoing political ... a queer mother, poet/writer, performer, cultural manager, grant writer, and educator. She...

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Mellon Foundation

23 Jan 2012

Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic Change

Monday, January 23, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:45am

... employ new models to alleviate poverty, develop social justice initiatives, and fill in gaps within the system. ... , the William Randolph Hearst Foundation , and the Ford Foundation...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Ursula Burns to Board of Trustees

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02/20/2015

... at Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineer intern, and through the years assumed many positions that led her to ... a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of NYU and a...

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New Journal From The Russell Sage Foundation Reimagines Approach to Eradicating Poverty

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02/21/2018

New Journal From The Russell Sage Foundation Reimagines Approach to Eradicating Poverty What ... It’s the work of three researchers and professors from University of Wisconsin-Madison : Lawrence...

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Surdna Foundation, Open Society Foundations and Ford Foundation Collaborate to Start Amplify Fund

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01/05/2018

... In 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), a social justice -focused membership organization of community ... development grantmakers, will roll out its own grants through its latest project, the Amplify Fund...

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Ford Foundation Expands Flagship BUILD Program to Provide $1 Billion to Hundreds of Organizations

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04/07/2021

... provided $1 billion dollars in flexible funding to social justice organizations around the world to help them more ... edition of BUILD will disburse another $1 billion in grant dollars spanning all of...

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

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03/13/2015

... they represent in exchange for financial support from wealthy outside donors. The divide stems from a disagreement over whether new net-neutrality rules ... to regulate them more strictly. National Journal...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Achieving Financial Equity and Justice for HBCU's

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09/14/2021

... Releases Report on Achieving Financial Equity and Justice for HBCU's Historically Black Colleges and ... sciences, nursing, and allied health). Various proposals from legislators and the Biden...

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24 Jan 2018

Through the Eyes of the Caregiver: “Care” Screening & Panel with Ai-jen Poo

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... JustFilms/ Ford Foundation , NBC Universal Impact Grant , and others. The one hour screening will be followed by ... on the intersection of workforce development, quality care through...

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The Ford Foundation's $1.0 Billion Bond - A Briefing Note from SeaChange Capital Partners

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06/22/2020

The Ford Foundation 's $1.0 Billion Bond - A Briefing Note from ... was not the extra grants; it was the plan to finance them through the issuance of a $1.0 billion, AAA-...