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We Shouldn’t Be Batting 1000

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03/07/2016

... Batting 1000 By Kevin Jennings, Executive Director, Arcus Foundation I am a sports nut. In a recent lunch with PNY’s ... today. The margin for error is zero. Witness the furor over the failure of the renewable...

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ACA Subsidies Are for All States—I Should Know, I Was There

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03/04/2015

by Mark Zuckerman, President, The Centruy Foundation This piece originally appeared on The Century ... subsidies under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to some 6. 5 million individuals in the 37...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Century Foundation

Sheena Wright, United Way NYC President & CEO, named in City & State NY Power of Diversity: Black 100 List of 2021

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10/18/2021

... in 1917. In 1944, the legendary Adam Clayton Powell Jr . took office as New York’s first Black member of ... has had to confront all types of crises since she took over as president and CEO of United Way of New...

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Measuring What Matters

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04/24/2019

... when I joined the ranks of philanthropy overseeing a $3. 5 million fund to find that grant reports like these were read, ... Even when they do evaluate aspects of their work, many foundation...

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Conservative Publications Accuse OSF of 'Bankrolling' Ferguson Protests

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03/30/2015

... Protests New tax filings from Soros’s private foundation link donations and funding for groups in Washington, D. C ., and New York which were bussed into the Missouri town to ... into keeping up numbers of...

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24 Jan 2017

Defending ACA and Making Progress at the Same Time. Is Philanthropy Ready?

Tuesday, January 24, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... David Sandman , President of the New York State Health Foundation , and James Tallon , President of the United ... interested in how healthcare trends will impact government programs , nonprofits services and...

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17 Dec 2025

Responding to Attacks on Afghans, Somalis and the Immigration System - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Wednesday, December 17, 2025 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... Sara Campos (Moderator), Senior Program Officer, Grove Foundation Who should attend? Staff and board members of foundations, corporate-giving programs , philanthropic consultancies, affinity groups, and ...

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Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie

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05/22/2013

A review of the findings from The Century Foundation ’s report on the nation’s community colleges. ... declining share of government spending on higher education over the last decade even as their student bodies...

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund: A 19th Century Fortune Tackles 21st Century Problems

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05/17/2017

... Founded in 1940 by five sons of John D. Rockefeller Jr .–John 3rd, Nelson, Laurance, Winthrop, and David–it ... the stage for productive debate on college campuses and in foundation boardrooms as well as, to a...

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Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform?

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05/28/2014

... when Atlantic Philanthropies bravely committed $27 million to help win passage of the Affordable Care Act? Or when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation upped its already big committment to Enroll ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Grants Awarded To Improve Usefulness Of Research, To Support Junior Researchers of Color

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07/23/2014

... Junior Researchers of Color The William T. Grant Foundation has made $1.6 million in grants to improve the use and usefulness of ... between education research and practice. The Foundation...

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Children, Youth and Families

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First Payment Made Toward Detroit's 'Grand Bargain'

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12/12/2014

... The first “grand bargain” payment — $23.3 million dollars — was sent to two retirement systems this ... week as part of the city’s exit from bankruptcy. The Foundation for Detroit’s Future, a nonprofit created...

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Rockefeller and Lincoln Center Bring Jazz to Young People

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08/01/2016

... Lincoln Center Bring Jazz to Young People The Rockefeller Foundation and Jazz at Lincoln Center are teaming up to put ... Rico; and Sydney, Australia. The tour, fueled by a $1 million foundation...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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As Asian-Americans’ Numbers Grow, So Does Their Philanthropy

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01/08/2013

The Korean American Community Foundation and its Executive Director Kyung Yoon are among ... golf vacations in a charity auction, and gave more than $1 million to a nonprofit group based in New York... As ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Laura A. Robbins Consulting, LLC

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Philanthropy 50—No. 39: Jon Stryker

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02/10/2013

... list of the top 50 donors of 2012 with the $30.1 million he gave to the Arcus Foundation , which he founded 13 years ago. Mr. Stryker is an ...

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The Reckoning Philanthropy Needs Right Now

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08/11/2021

... a more equitable, sustainable, and democratic society. Our programs are guided by the idea that if we understand how our ... of American life. It is not an agenda created to divide us over race (our country...

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Marissa Tirona Named Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees' New President

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11/02/2020

... and philanthropic sectors. She comes to GCIR from the Ford Foundation , where she currently manages a $225 million portfolio and serves as a program officer with the ... Ford in 2017, Tirona led the Blue Shield...

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13 Apr 2022

Thinking Outside of the Box to Address Today’s Challenges

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

The Foundation Administrators Network (FAN) is a Philanthropy ... of topics relevant to HR and operations administration. Over the past two years, the crises of COVID-19 and racial ... How has traditional ways of...

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HR & Operations Staff

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HR & Operations

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