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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families: Early Lessons From the Work Support Strategies Initiative

Release Date:

06/25/2013

... President, Ford Foundation Over the past half-decade, as the country has suffered through a deep, persistent ... records to certify eligibility. Taking advantage of new technologies,...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund The NoVo Foundation today ... around the world. “We launched the Radical Hope Fund as a radical experiment—can a time of...

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To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked

Release Date:

09/19/2013

... leaders — including Gail B. Nayowith, founding Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund — respond to a ... conclusion on hard questions about whether what they, as leading...

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María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

Release Date:

05/15/2014

... Society Foundations today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism. Ronderos will ...

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Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow

Release Date:

07/17/2014

Noyes Foundation's Zigbi Selected as Loeb Fellow Kolu Zigbi, program director for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems and the ... at the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, has been named one of...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

Release Date:

07/17/2014

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to ... Shriver, whose father Sargent Shriver was the founding director of the Peace Corps and who headed President Lyndon ... Foundation...

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OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug

Release Date:

03/25/2015

OSF Weighs in on High Cost of Heroin Overdose Treatment Drug The drug naloxone can be ... antidote to heroin overdoses. It reverses the effects of heroin and other drugs derived from opium, but does not ... costs...

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ASPCA Responds to Tyson's Move to Ban Antibiotic Use in Chickens

Release Date:

04/29/2015

... operations. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals cautioned that if antibiotics are taken ... industry must take other steps to keep birds healthy, such as giving chickens room to roam...

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29 Oct 2015

Mergers: What is the True Cost of a Merger?

Thursday, October 29, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Part of Our "Beyond the Program Grant" Series. While the 2008 ... to explore a merger. Savvy nonprofit leaders see merging as a possible means to increase impact or achieve other ... time and again...

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Podcast: A Conversation with Gates Foundation's Health Expert Anita Zaidi

Release Date:

11/05/2015

... die before their fifth birthday each year, the majority of whom are children born into poverty. In a recent ... Zaidi, MD, an internationally recognized pediatrician and director of the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller’s Sarah Geisenheimer to Step in for Chen at Fund for Public Schools

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... for Chen at Fund for Public Schools Sarah Geisenheimer, of the Rockefeller Foundation, will replace Iris Chen, executive director of the NYC Department of Education’s...

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HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity

Release Date:

01/04/2016

... that the nonprofit's funds could end up in the hands of terrorist groups, Economic Times writes, citing reporting ... stemmed from Islamic Relief's work in conflict zones such as Syria and Gaza,...

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With Help from Mellon Foundation, the National Gallery Celebrates 75 Years

Release Date:

04/08/2016

... To kick off its 75th anniversary , the National Gallery of Art hosted a black-tie reception Wednesday night for 1,400 ... that it didn’t open until 1941, thanks to the vision of one man. “Andrew Mellon’s idea...

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Stonewall Community Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads

Release Date:

06/20/2016

... Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads Alexander Gardner loves hearing gay people call ... “The gay community has long called itself ‘family’— as in, ‘Oh, him, he’s family,” he says. “It’s...

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments The Rockefeller Foundation is aiming ... social entrepreneurs with capital to finance an array of ventures aimed at mitigating or dealing with the...

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Originally Funded by Open Society Foundations, ACLU Shifts Gears in Campaign to Cut Jail Population

Release Date:

08/04/2016

... across the country, parting ways with the project’s director and shifting its emphasis from the ballot box to the ... Society Foundations, abruptly left the post in late June, as did her deputy, Jill Harris...

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For Noyes Foundation, Fixing Food Means Racial and Economic Justice

Release Date:

11/09/2016

... deep, says Kolu Zigbi. At the root, there's a history of racial injustice—from appropriation of native land to ... past are still being fought today,” says Zigbi, program director for...

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08 Dec 2016

Food as a Community-Building Tool

Thursday, December 8, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... culture, and society that we do not often think about as we make our daily meal choices and eat together or apart from one another. How do we take advantage of that relationship by using food as...

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Food Systems

Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

Release Date:

04/20/2017

... Kye began developing the documentary, they wanted to reach as wide of an audience as possible, they said. A partnership between Zero Point Zero ...