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Funders Launch National Conversation on A ‘Common Purpose’

Release Date:

10/01/2013

... six other major foundations — including the Rockefeller Foundation , the Open Society Foundations and the Carnegie ... New York — are funding a "National Purpose Initiative" to engage hundreds of...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Making IT Decisions

Publication date:

12/2012

... infrastructure. Whether you outsource or insource your foundation ’s technology needs, it is critical to understand how to approach projects so you make decisions ... Services Operations Manager at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , guided members through key elements to making ...

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Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

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12/02/2013

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation President Nancy Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works. In 2005, Nancy Roob became...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Sharon B. King, Noted Philanthropic Leader, Dies at 68

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10/27/2014

... as a program officer at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation , served as president of the Edward B. Hazen Foundation , and worked as a philanthropic advisor in the ... Rockefeller Family Office. Sharon then led...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties

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02/05/2015

Ford, OSF and Others Join Forces to Safeguard Internet Liberties Over the past two decades, ... to a global communications phenomenon. Now, say a group of foundation leaders, it’s time to...

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Founding Members of Open Research Funders Group Include Three PNY Members

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12/16/2016

... Group Include Three PNY Members TheAlfred P. Sloan Foundation , the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , and Open Society Foundations form the Open Research Funders Group, an effort to promote...

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TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change

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05/28/2013

We’re pleased to have Vincent Stehle, the Executive Director of Media ...

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Far Rockaway Leaders Look Ahead

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02/12/2013

New York Foundation Executive Director Maria Mottola talks about a recent funder trip to meet nonprofit leaders in Far Rockaway and what she and ...

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Community Development

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Resilience Begins at Home

Release Date:

07/30/2013

Rockefeller Foundation Vice President of Global Communications Neill ...

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Disaster Relief

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Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field

Publication date:

12/2009

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the Council on Foundations explore how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results).

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Smarter Grantmaking in Challenging Economic Times

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05/2009

As grantmakers look ahead to make tough decisions for 2010 and beyond, this Grantmakers ... and examples that we hope provide some useful insights for foundation leaders. Smarter Grantmaking in Challenging ...

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Lessons learned from Sandy

Release Date:

01/14/2013

Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin appears on Andrea Mitchell Reports to talk about the most crucial infrastructure changes New ...

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Disaster Relief

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Breadth, lack of checks distinguish NSA surveillance

Release Date:

06/10/2013

In this video Century Foundation Senior Fellow Barton Gellman discussed his ...

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Public Policy

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The Century Foundation

De Blasio unveils 60-person transition team

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11/20/2013

... including Alexa Avilés, Program Officer at the Scherman Foundation ; John Banks, Vice President of Government ... at Con Edison; Peter Madonia, COO of the Rockefeller Foundation ; Ana Oliveira, President and CEO...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

What is Venture Philanthropy? Rockefeller Foundation explains in Nonprofit Quarterly. Venture ... These are some of the names that are being used to describe philanthropic models that go far beyond the ... local...

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Community Philanthropy: Using Both Sides of the Brain

Release Date:

09/07/2012

... using top-down approaches instead of nimbly responding to emergent and changing community needs. I wrote about this issue in my recent article for the Foundation Review, “ The Best of the Humanistic and .....

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... On the Way For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its ... have filed their tax returns for 2016 was 7.24, according to Foundation...

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The New Nonprofit: A Model for Innovation Across Sectors

Release Date:

03/14/2013

... Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Nonprofits play a critical part in the national ... organization as a leading force for innovation has started to emerge. New York based-...

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