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Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

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10/26/2015

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA Want to know more about the Ford Foundation’s new focus on inequality? Have questions about how we’re ... questions in a Facebook Q...

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

... to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness The majority of the alcohol industry’s actions around the world to ... lack evidence of effectiveness or haven’t...

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Bloomberg Report: 'Data Gap' at City Halls Across the Nation

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03/10/2016

... development and affordable housing, according to a new report by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works ... and 39 visits to municipalities in 2015—representative of about 40 percent of all...

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Community Development

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Would John D. Rockefeller Opt for an LLC? A Conversation With Judith Rodin

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06/23/2016

... Foundation may be one of the most venerable names in philanthropy , but during her 11 years as its president Judith Rodin worked to ensure the $4.2 ... government and corporate chieftains...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Launched First Program to Accelerate Reforms in Education For Health Professionals

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06/30/2016

... healthcare focuses on coverage and how to pay for it, as well as how to lower costs and improve quality. But ... page: how to teach medical providers. Similarly, most of philanthropy...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter

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08/08/2016

... a detailed and ambitious policy agenda, with a long list of “demands” that are attempts to match systemic problems ... planning on studying and underwriting what it calls a “ new and dynamic form of...

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Justice Reform

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Ford and #ReasonsforHope Foundations Want You To Know They Make A Difference—Not Just Write Checks

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08/10/2016

... "HOPE." That’s the one-word message at the center of a new awareness campaign backed by 39 charitable groups in ... to give voice to a collective concern that we all have in philanthropy...

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With Federal Funds Shrinking, Math and Science Funders Including Simons Foundation Step Up

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08/28/2017

... Simons Foundation Step Up While STEM giving is one of the hottest funding areas in higher ed philanthropy , most of the gifts we profile are earmarked for tangible and conventional goals—a...

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its ... international expansion, is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Patrick Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations

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09/13/2017

... Gaspard, Former U.S. Ambassador to South Africa, to Serve as Acting Leader at Open Society Foundations Billionaire ... a former U.S. ambassador to South Africa will become the new acting president of...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Opinion: What’s Holding Philanthropists Back?

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10/06/2017

... how it shows up — and how it doesn’t — in philanthropy and the nonprofit sector, I wonder what’s holding us back. Improving the capacity of funders to invest more equitably will involve larger, .....

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Where You Live, How You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors

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10/06/2017

... You Give: What a Fidelity Study Says About U.S. Donors A new study sponsored by the nation’s second largest ... Fidelity Charitable, highlights regional differences of giving in the United States. The scope...

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A Conversation with Rockefeller Foundation’s Rajiv Shah

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01/12/2018

... Foundation’s Rajiv Shah Rajiv Shah took the helm of the Rockefeller Foundation in March 2017. He recently ... with more than $4.2 billion in assets, the role of philanthropy in times ...

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Excellence is the Best Strategy

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12/10/2013

by Lorie Slutsky , President, The New York Community Trust Many of New York ’s nonprofit groups ... about losing a mayor who shared his management expertise...

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03 Apr 2019

The Road to Capital Is Well Before The Brick

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... campaign or run for the hills. In partnership with New York Grantmakers in the Arts, join us for this session to ... forms. Sometimes the preparation for a campaign can be as valuable...

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Stavros Niarchos & Leon Levy Foundations Supported Research Finds Common Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Autistic Traits

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09/06/2017

... white matter match up consistently with the severity of autistic symptoms not only in children with autism ... who also have autistic traits. This is the finding of a new study, published...

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14 Dec 2016

Unconnected Prisoner Re-Entry Services? There’s a Collaborative Solution For That

Wednesday, December 14, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... the cost of this service. Watch recording here: Join us as we invite a panel of experts to share their collaborative ... solution to working with individuals in selected New...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awarded More Than $84 Million in Grants in First Half of 2021

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07/27/2021

... Awarded More Than $84 Million in Grants in First Half of 2021 The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton ... $800,000 to support the Child Welfare Reporting Project in New...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Housing and Homelessness

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Ford Foundation announces five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers

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11/16/2021

... recovery for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers NEW YORK – Today, the Ford Foundation announced a five-year, ... protections for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers as a central...

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