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Fewer Rocks & a Traffic Light = Greater Effectiveness & More Success

Release Date:

12/14/2010

By Judy Plows, Principal, KrasnePlows & Jeanne M. Haws, COO, Wellspring Advisors Foundations worry a lot about their grantees. Which of the many struggling organizations do they help and how do they do it? Equally important,...

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23 Sep 2015

The Skills to Pay the Bills: Boosting Nonprofits’ Financial Management - Webinar

Wednesday, September 23, 2015 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Founder, Fiscal Management Associates Polly Singh, Program Officer , The Wallace Foundation John Summers, Director, ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Nonprofit Financials

Common Sense and Reaffirmation of 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Nonpartisanship

Release Date:

07/26/2016

If individual organizations came to be regarded as Democratic charities or Republican charities instead of the nonpartisan problem solvers that they are, it would diminish the public’s overall trust in the sector.

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31 Aug 2016

Hacking Immigration: Funding Technology for Advocates - Webinar

Wednesday, August 31, 2016 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... Network Navin Moul (Moderator), Immigration Program Officer , Silicon Valley Community Foundation Kavitha ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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10 Jul 2017

Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, July 10, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... Family Fund Elizabeth Guernsey (Moderator), Program Officer , Open Society Foundations Designed for All interested ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Civic Engagement

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Digitization Of 19th Century Navy Deck Logs

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01/29/2018

A grant recently awarded to the University of Washington will allow the digitization of National Archives holdings including logbooks, muster rolls and related materials from U.S. naval vessels focusing on the period from 1861 to 1879.

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Arts

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01 Jun 2018

Overstepping? When Should Foundations Weigh In On Grantee Governance

Friday, June 1, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... heard this sentiment uttered by a foundation program officer in the past. Maybe you've said it yourself. Chances .....

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Marc Benioff to Dedicate Salesforce Tower With Speech on Civic ‘Priorities’

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05/22/2018

Benioff and his wife, Lynne, have donated millions of dollars to causes from schools to hospitals, with $250 million alone going to the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals in San Francisco and Oakland. Salesforce and Salesforce.org, the foundation arm...

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Rockefeller Foundation and EPIC-Africa Launch the First African Civil Society Organization (CSO) Excellence Awards

Release Date:

10/16/2018

The Awards highlight the importance of organizational capacity for civil society organizations to achieve program impact. Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are awarded for excellence across eight (8) major elements of organizational capacity.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Open Society Foundations to End Operations in Turkey

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11/27/2018

Open Society Foundations is closing its offices in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused OSF founder George Soros of attempting to destabilize the country, Reuters reports.

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