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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... entered into an agreement with the National Institutes of Health to align two of the world’s largest repositories of donated postmortem ... shared standards and strict criteria that...

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Pershing Square Awards $5.4 Million to Oxford MBA Scholarship Program

Release Date:

02/16/2016

... Square Foundation has announced a supplemental gift of £3.7 million ($5.4 million) gift to the Oxford Pershing Square Graduate Scholars Program at the University of Oxford's Saïd...

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

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08/12/2016

... Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status The U.S. Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by a Utah-based ... well as an online degree program, will have to continue to meet financial aid and...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

Release Date:

08/25/2016

... news sites ready to get serious about collaboration to meet the demands of increasingly picky readers? There have been several ... the rule. But next week the Center for Cooperative Media at...

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

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05/11/2017

Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At -Risk Kids the Services They Need The ongoing debate over ... healthcare providers and policymakers. Often at the core of this problem are resource...

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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

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09/22/2017

... UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend At the United Nations, His Excellency Prof. Alpha Condé, President of Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union, convened a high...

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Opinion: Tax Reform Has Potential To Unlock Giving

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... To Unlock Giving Tax reform is once again the focus of many discussions, debates and deliberations taking place ... most agree that an updated tax code is needed — but not at the expense of...

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03 Nov 2022

Building Partner-Centered Grantmaking Infrastructure (PEAK Oral and Alternative Reporting Working Group)

Thursday, November 3, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... team formed a grantmaking infrastructure reflective of its mission and vision. Kataly moves resources to support the economic, political, and cultural power of Black & Indigenous...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Grants Managers

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism

Release Date:

07/17/2018

Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism In an uncertain time in ... business, Quanta Magazine has flourished as a source of deeply reported, well-crafted...

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23 Mar 2020

POSTPONED PACNet – Peer Coaching Session

Monday, March 23, 2020 -

8:30am to 10:30am

... any inconvenience. This program is being offered as part of the Philanthropic Assistants and Coordinators Network ... quarterly and seeks to develop a community for the purpose of sharing questions, experience...

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Biggest Givers of 2012

Release Date:

03/04/2013

Melissa Berman, President & CEO of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is quoted in this analysis of 2012's top donors. A forecasting outfit called Atlas of .....

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Sequestering the Sector

Release Date:

02/28/2013

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman ...

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What It Means To Be A Philanthropist -- Gen Xers and Millennials Weigh In

Release Date:

04/01/2013

... Sharna Goldseker and the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy ’s Michael Moody discuss their recent report on the philanthropic vision of the next generation of donors. $100 million to...

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Art Groups Fear Losing a Mayor, and His Money

Release Date:

07/01/2013

... Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and the recent end of a two-year grant program from Bloomberg Philanthropies, ... and renovations — while quietly contributing hundreds of millions of...

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How to Determine If a Charity Is Effective

Release Date:

11/10/2013

... Principal & Managing Director Bruce Boyd and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman are ...

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What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully?

Publication date:

08/2015

Increasing numbers of grantmakers are opting for a spend-down strategy - meaning they intend to give away all of their philanthropic resources within a specific, limited ... to "give while living" and be personally involved in their philanthropy . Others see spending down or sunsetting as a way .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

In Time Magazine, Ford’s Walker Says Giving Back Is a Birthright

Release Date:

06/30/2016

... impulse–is a timeless and borderless virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching. Philanthropy as we understand it today, however, is a ...

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Macquarie Announces 2016 David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships

Release Date:

11/15/2016

... Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, today announced the 2016 winners of its four David Clarke Social Innovation Fellowships. ... adults, vulnerable women and children, and in...

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Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... uncertain what the Trump administration’s influence on philanthropy will be. But the odds are good that the number of huge gifts to nonprofits in America will continue to ...