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To Serve Racial Equity, What Are You Doing Less Of?

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10/28/2020

... Research and Strategy. A few weeks back, I was running a workshop on tools to address institutional ... me. How do you create this necessary foundation to not just bring the tools to the organization but...

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Simons Foundation Supports CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education

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02/09/2022

... have shown the benefits of diversity in STEM fields, but making the science, technology, engineering, and math fields ... will be able to attend the master’s program tuition- free . “By making...

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Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

... support for the North Star Fund and the Alliance For A Just Rebuilding’s ongoing relief and recovery efforts in ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Disaster Relief

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North Star Fund

Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field

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12/2009

... can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results). Evaluation in Philanthropy: .....

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Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

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05/05/2020

... By the 1990’s the Foundation’s grantmaking was focused in the fields of early childhood and the ... of government. Once an economic powerhouse, the region was stalled. To get started it needed to come together...

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Community Development

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Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century Foundation

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07/22/2020

While we have known for decades that the United States is failing in its commitment to provide equal educational opportunity, there is far less consensus and understanding of how to reverse these trends.

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Education

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The Century Foundation

A Letter from Surdna President Don Chen on Solidarity and Support to Grantees

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05/13/2020

... is to continue to invest in our partners to foster just and sustainable communities. We have been developing and ... communities, so that they are central in the decision making regarding public sector...

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Surdna Foundation

02 May 2013

Philanthropy in Emerging Markets: Russia as a Case Study

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... country or the global south), or if you’re just starting to consider such grantmaking, make plans to ...

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Issue-Based

Asked and Answered, With Implications for Philanthropy

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12/16/2015

... Remaley, SVP, Public Policy & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article of the ... that tell us, yes, overhead is definitely having more than just a moment. On October 15,...

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PNY News

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Carnegie Among Funders of STEM Learning Ecosystems, 17 Regional Partnerships Focused on STEM Education Pathways Added

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05/25/2017

... has grown to encompass 54 regional Ecosystems that are making a significant impact on STEM education and workforce ... News STEM Solutions National Leadership Conference. In just two years, the STEM Learning...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

26 Feb 2018

What Happens After the “Win”? - Lessons Learned from State and Local Money in Politics Campaigns - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, February 26, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... getting a ballot measure or piece of legislation passed is just one step of many towards creating meaningful and lasting ... A discussion of what more could happen if there was increased philanthropic support...

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Tools & Strategies

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27 Nov 2018

Achieving Equity: Do We Know Who We’re Serving?

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... grantmaking institutions are challenging themselves to not just talk the talk, but walk the walk, when it comes to ... data should be used to assess practices and drive decision making . Less than half of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective Increases to $15 Million Commitment to Support BIPOC-Owned Businesses

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02/02/2021

... its previous commitment by $3 million. The announcement was made during at event with former President Bill Clinton ... Va.; and Oakland, Calif. “The Covid 19 pandemic showed just how deadly the inequities...

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Community Development

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Philanthropy New York Members Celebrated in Crain's New York Business's '50 Most Powerful Women in New York' List

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12/02/2021

... governor to account for his alleged misdeeds. These are just two examples of the ways women in this state have made ... version of the list, Crain’s editors picked the women making the biggest waves in their...

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The New York Community Trust

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Welcomes Janna Oberdorf as Director of Communications

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08/03/2022

... and leaders working to advance our vision of a more just and equitable New Jersey. Janna (she/her/hers) comes to ... a focus on gender and racial equity. Most recently, Janna was the Vice President of External...

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Citi Joins the Economic Opportunity Coalition as Founding Member to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for All

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07/28/2022

... wealth gap and increase economic mobility in the U.S. In just the first year of a three-year commitment, Citi has ... financial services facilitating financial health, and 4) making infrastructure investments...

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Economic Security

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For Jobseekers: What is a foundation?

Publication date:

04/2014

Foundations are just one type of nonprofit organization that make up a ... or charitable trust, with a principal purpose of making monetary awards, known as grants, to unrelated ... funds primarily from the contributions of a profit- making business. The company-sponsored foundation often ...

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Ford Foundation

Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know

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09/10/2014

... debt hits broadly but unevenly. Student debt is not just about young people. A new nationally representative ... compared with 16 percent for whites. 2. It’s not just how much debt you have that matters. Yes,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ford Foundation

Ford’s Walker Says ‘Unusual Coalition’ Won’t Be Last of its Kind

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02/20/2015

by Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation This piece was originally sent as an email to Ford Foundation staff ... organizations that have courageously championed reform, making the case and building awareness...

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