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Rockefeller Foundation Launches Conversation-for-Action Series, Insight Dialogues

Release Date:

04/28/2016

... global conversations and action around the most pressing issues of our time. The new series will facilitate an exchange of ideas and inform the Foundation's ongoing work to...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic Agendas

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05/06/2016

Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic ... the country. However, these efforts are only one piece of a more comprehensive approach to...

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16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* ... donors. But now they’re asking for help with tougher issues such as preparing heirs...

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Leadership Development

03 Aug 2017

FAN Brown Bag Lunch: The Work Life Juggle

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

In addition to quarterly meetings, the Foundation Administrators ... informal group discussions that can be shaped by current issues on members’ minds and desks. Ensuring that you are a ... Is your staff supported...

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

HR & Operations Staff

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HR & Operations

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09 Mar 2017

Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

This program is a part of our new Climate Change Series. We invite you to join co-sponsors, Media Impact Funders and the ... can best use media to raise awareness about important issues...

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Arts

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Open Society Foundations Releases Video Showing A New Outlook on Growing Up Intersex

Release Date:

02/27/2017

... In Uganda, growing up intersex makes you a target — of discrimination, abuse, even violence. It can be viewed as a curse, something to purge. When the identity of an intersex man named Julius...

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Gender Justice

International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Paula Luff Named New Director of Sustainability & Impact at the Inherent Group

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03/07/2017

Paula Luff Named New Director of Sustainability & Impact at the Inherent Group Philanthropy ... Group believes in the power of for-profit business models to address societal challenges—which...

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Doris Duke Foundation Awards 17 Physician Scientists DDCF’s 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards

Release Date:

07/27/2017

... receiving the 2017 Clinical Scientist Development Awards of $495,000 each over three years. Selected from a highly ... the rigor of their research endeavors and their commitment to future...

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Schott Welcomes Mark Paley and Roger Vann to the Board of Directors

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08/15/2017

Schott Welcomes Mark Paley and Roger Vann to the Board of Directors CAMBRIDGE, MA — The Schott Foundation is proud ... Roger helped win critical victories on a range of issues...

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Education

The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Are Getting Old In the United States, we love to group people into generations. Today, most adult Americans fit into one of four generations. There is the silent generation—born ... focus groups, and one-on-...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System The food movement has a problem: ... For these purposes, we’ll call it the loose coalition of sustainability-minded people calling...

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Food Systems

Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... Congress has long been bitterly divided over the subject of health care. A few weeks ago, Senate Republicans failed to pass the Graham-Cassidy bill, one of many attempts to...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Grantee Brings Star Tortoise Back From Extinction

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10/12/2017

... central dry zone, has been brought back from the brink of extinction thanks to an aggressive captive-breeding effort spearheaded by a ... team of conservationists and government partners...

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Animal Welfare

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy Somewhere beneath Rockefeller Center, in a ... workroom with the bare fluorescent lights and tall shelves of a big discount warehouse, auction-house employees...

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Edwin Gould Foundation Supporter Online Tool Quill Connect Helps Students Become Better Writers

Release Date:

11/29/2017

... Better Writers Just like the students Quill.org aims to help, the writing assistant’s algorithms get smarter the ... executive director — enabling it to address the big issues of...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

Release Date:

11/30/2017

JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35 If current trends in child ... in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School...

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Freedom Together Foundation

New United Hospital Fund Report Says Enrollment Dropping, Rates Rising, and Risk Score Highest in Nation

Release Date:

12/07/2017

... the “sickest” among all states that year, according to a HealthWatch report from United Hospital Fund (UHF) ... administration could undermine longstanding state efforts to preserve the stability of...

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United Hospital Fund

Courtney Bryan Joins JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region Global Philanthropy invests $250 million annually to promote inclusive economic growth across the globe. ... of work...

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Senators Fight To Save Tax Break For Newman's Own Foundation

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01/19/2018

Senators Fight To Save Tax Break For Newman's Own Foundation Over the past ... Own Foundation in Westport has donated $512 million to charities. But a provision in ongoing federal budget ... the nonprofit...

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Newman's Own Foundation

Rauch Foundation Releases Report, Minding the Gaps, On Early Childhood Development

Release Date:

02/01/2018

... That waiting-room questionnaire has become a standard part of pediatric checkups at Nassau County’s community health centers, thanks to the efforts of an Astoria, NY-based nonprofit called...

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