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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... use to the easing of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation has donated about $200 million to drug reforms since 1994, double what most people ...

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Coalition to Support Grieving Students Launches GrievingStudents.org

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01/13/2015

... Grieving Students, convened in 2013 by the New York Life Foundation , is a collaboration among the National Center for ... and school nurses. It is a lynchpin in the New York Life Foundation ’s longstanding...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

... America’s education system.” The name refers to the 74 million children in the United States under age 18. As it ... The funders include the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation , the Walton Family ...

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Technology

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

... project that was selected to receive a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund. After a call for entries in March, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , along with the Democracy...

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Google Critic Ousted From Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

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08/30/2017

... with its enormous wealth is criticized. The New America Foundation has received more than $21 million from Google; its parent company’s executive chairman, Eric Schmidt; and his family’s foundation...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

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10/03/2017

... it would fund and help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World. The tobacco giant plans to donate about $80 million a year for 12 years to this new organization with a ... entities. The...

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Robert G. Ottenhoff Stepping Down as President and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

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09/05/2019

... the Center for Disaster Philanthropy WASHINGTON, DC (Sept. 5 , 2019) — The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) ... board and president and CEO of the Irene W. and C .B. Pennington Foundation...

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Bloomberg Spins Off Group That Spurs Volunteerism in Cities

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01/30/2014

... efforts. Michael Bloomberg is spinning off one of his foundation ’s programs into a stand-alone nonprofit that will expand its ...

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14 Dec 2017

Funders Summit on Justice Reform: The Nation’s Eyes on Rikers

Thursday, December 14, 2017 -

9:00am to 3:30pm

... and sentencing reform, decriminalization and diversion programs , ending school-to-prison pipelines, ending the cycle ... the convening will conclude with discussion among foundation and justice reform leaders...

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The Power of Bridging Issue Silos Through Funding Collaboratives

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11/13/2019

... financial transparency, and independent media; The Kresge Foundation , which seeks to expand opportunity for low-income ... join the economic mainstream; and the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation , which supports,...

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The School That Will Get You a Job

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02/13/2014

TIME Magazine examined Chicago's Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy, where every student graduates with a promise of ... but "innovators." They receive a hardcore focus on STEM skills (that's science...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

... and standing up for the most marginalized. They are: Foundation for Louisiana The “Mover and Shaker” Award for bold peer organizing This community foundation based in Baton Rouge is being honored for using...

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22 Jul 2019

How CEOs and Trustees Build a Culture of Trust - A Webinar Hosted by Philanthropy Northwest

Monday, July 22, 2019 -

10:30am to 11:30am

... in instituting a culture of trust -- with each other, with foundation staff and in all of your foundation ’s grantmaking practices? And how can a ... effectively to institute a culture of trust within your...

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Arabella Launches Special Consulting Practice on Food Philanthropy

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12/04/2015

... conditions More and better food on the table for the 49 million Americans who currently go hungry, or who don’t get ...

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Food Systems

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A Look At Bloomberg's Latest Move on Public Art

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02/26/2018

... And in a philanthropic climate in which the Wallace Foundation allocated $52 million to study "engagement," public art promised to spark ... and since then, other funders, including the William Penn...

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Arts

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Edna McConnell Clark Scales Up Support for Communities in Schools

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05/21/2018

... its new strategic plan. The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) recently announced a four-year, $17 million grant in support of the plan, which involves scaling ... won support from other heavy hitters,...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Media Development Investment Fund Launches Blended-Value Media Loan Fund

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11/16/2016

... first-loss protection. The fund will provide up to USD6 million in affordable debt to small- and medium-sized ... Organisations and Policy Support. “We are quite excited over this possibility to help MDIF...

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Media Development Investment Fund

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24 Jun 2020

Service for Impact: Results of Corporate Volunteering

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... stronger proof of business impact of employee volunteer programs that meet community needs, thus moving the employee volunteer programs from a nice to have to a need to have for internal ... roundtable series...

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04 Apr 2024

A Conversation for Funders on Reforms for Disaster Assistance to Help Survivors Recover Faster - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, April 4, 2024 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... concerns and pressed for simpler, more straightforward programs to assist individuals across the country as they ... per organization for select professional development programs . Please email register@...

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