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How Apple and the Ford Foundation take on the World’s Biggest Problems.

Release Date:

10/23/2018

... Biggest Problems Darren Walker joins Lisa Jackson, vice president , environment, policy, and social initiatives, ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Appoints Tara Strome as Chief Operating Officer

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04/28/2021

Milbank Memorial Fund Appoints Tara Strome as Chief Operating Officer Tara Strome, managing editor of The Milbank Quarterly , has been appointed chief operating ... 32 years of service for the...

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Oct 22 White House Conference on Criminal Justice Reform with Funders to be Live-Streamed

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10/22/2015

... to be Live-Streamed Bill Keller, Editor-in-Chief of The Marshall Project, will moderate a conversation on criminal justice reform featuring President Barack Obama and two law enforcement leaders. The ... to...

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Teagle Foundation's Connor on Asserting the Value of the Humanities

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04/22/2016

Teagle Foundation President on Asserring the Value of the Humanities A friend ... arts college told me that she had met the president of the institution walking across campus...

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What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality

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01/05/2016

What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality The urge to change the world is ... of money. Lack of money is a stubborn obstacle, but not as...

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Social Justice

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Heineken Just Put Out the Antidote to That Pepsi Kendal Jenner Ad

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04/27/2017

... views meet in this Heineken ad, which gets political in a way that Pepsi would do well to consider next time. WHY WE ... a couple weeks later with an ad that gets to the heart of political engagement in a...

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Hilton Humanitarian Prize Calls Attention To Growing Need For Global Humanitarian Aid

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10/12/2017

... ongoing on multiple continents. More quietly, millions of children still die in poor countries from preventable ... up their hands. How can the relatively paltry resources of private philanthropy possibly make...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Build Up Advisory Group Shares Part III of How to Build an Effective Grant-Making Process

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03/26/2021

Build Up Advisory Group Shares Part III of How to Build an Effective Grant-Making Process Recently, ... principles into their grant making. We know the issue as soon as we see the request and we...

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04 May 2021

What's the Role for International Grantmakers in Decolonizing Philanthropy?

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... will lift up the experiences, vision, and leadership of Thousand Currents, as an illustrative example of the ways in which foundations are taking bold and ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

13 Feb 2024

Cultural and Faith-Based Funding Approaches in Family Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Tuesday, February 13, 2024 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... values can shape and inform the mission and impact of your family’s philanthropic endeavors. Faith has been ... their faith and giving, while others use their faith as quiet motivation. Panelists will share...

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Americans' Wait Time To See Doctors Is Longer Than in Many Other Countries

Release Date:

07/05/2014

... see a doctor when they are sick and need care, ranking the United States toward to the bottom in a Commonwealth Fund study of wait times for treatment in 11 countries. In ... more financially lucrative for...

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Health

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Ford Foundation Works to Promote Government Action on Income Equality

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11/18/2014

... Action on Income Equality Economic inequality in the United States has become a hot topic in the public ... lowering the deficit outrank reducing income inequality as policy priorities. The messages that anti-...

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Economic Security

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Bloomberg and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population

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06/01/2015

... and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population Tobacco use represents the leading cause of death and disease in the world. Today, approximately 1.3 ... to tobacco use...

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Health

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Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana

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07/09/2015

... information and share their ideas concerning the future of Ghana's development. The leaders will discuss a broad array of challenges related to water and sanitation, education, ... Partnership Platform...

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Foundation for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants

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09/10/2015

... for Child Development-Backed Research Examines the Effects of Discrimination on the Children of Immigrants Research ... whether they are themselves immigrants or were born in the United...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Century Foundation: A Post-Paris Agenda for Climate Security at the UN

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02/11/2016

... Security at the UN After much build-up, and two weeks of grueling negotiations, the international community left the Paris Conference of Parties (COP) of the United Nations...

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Commentary from Rockefeller Foundation: A Solution to Hunger? Stop Throwing Dinner Away

Release Date:

03/15/2016

... Any field in the world, it doesn’t matter: an acre of cassava in Nigeria, a rice paddy in Indonesia, some amber waves of grain in the United States. Now harvest this imaginary field, and toss...

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