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17 Sep 2015

How U.S. Funders Can Respond to the Current Global Refugee Crisis - Webinar

Thursday, September 17, 2015 -

4:00pm to 5:30pm

... Last summer, unaccompanied children fled Central America for safety in the U.S. This summer, hundreds of thousands of ... Migration Initiative, Open Society Foundations Designed for All interested funders...

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All Funders

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Immigration

International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

Children, Youth and Families

Insights from “Racial Pay Equity: Putting Your Money Where Your Values Are”

Release Date:

09/08/2022

... or what skills everyone in the organization should have. For instance, many equity-focused organizations interpret ... their values to mean eliminating any requirements for formal degrees, as this requirement...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Finance & Asset Management

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

23 Mar 2010

Change Philanthropy: Stories of Successful Policy Work and Collaboration

Tuesday, March 23, 2010 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... – citizen action, litigation, and advocacy – enables a foundation to effect historic increases in education funding in New York. A small family foundation influences other funders to champion one of the nation...

Philanthropy New York Members Among 15 Major Funders Committing More Than $100M to the Tribal Nations Conservation Pledge

Release Date:

03/21/2023

... Tribal-led conservation are: The Alaska Conservation Foundation , The Christensen Fund , The Decolonizing Wealth Project , The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation...

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Community Development

Social Justice

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Doris Duke Foundation

The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now

Release Date:

11/19/2012

The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s new report paints a bleak ... current rate of progress, it would take nearly fifty years for black males in the United States to graduate at the same...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Philanthropy as Backer of Brains

Release Date:

05/02/2013

The third in a series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’s reflections on the ... field-builder, drawing from the stories of the Rockefeller Foundation ’s history of creating, defining and advancing...

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Governance

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Charitable-Industrial Complex

Release Date:

08/26/2013

An op-ed by Peter Buffett, Co-Chair of the NoVo Foundation . I HAD spent much of my life writing music for commercials, film and television and knew little about ... foundations that my parents had created years...

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NoVo Foundation

05 Oct 2012

Public Policy Communicators NYC: Twitter Today

Friday, October 5, 2012 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... Communicators NYC is an informal group of nonprofit and foundation communications executives that has been meeting ... meetings bring members into close contact with experts for full conversations that...

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13 May 2013

As the South Goes: Philanthropy and Social Justice in the U.S. South

Monday, May 13, 2013 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Grantmakers for Southern Progress (formerly the Southern Organizing ... the Open Society Foundations in partnership with the Ford Foundation and the Ms. Foundation for Women ...

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Issue-Based

The Possible Philanthropic Response to Trayvon Martin

Release Date:

08/19/2013

... from the Open Society Foundations and the Schott Foundation for Public Education are cited in a Nonprofit Quarterly ... justice, equity, and civil rights, outrage is the fuel for civic action...

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

The Schott Foundation for Public Education

B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City

Release Date:

11/28/2013

... New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, ... and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation . There was...

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Altman Foundation

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

Release Date:

05/28/2014

Who's Been the Biggest Superstar in the Fight for Health Reform? [Atlantic Philanthropies] A few ... the Affordable Care Act? Or when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation upped its already big committment to...

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Health

Public Policy

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

The California Endowment

Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers

Release Date:

07/07/2014

Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers Some of the most exciting ... in medicine is taking place at the New York Stem Cell Foundation , and almost all its work is being paid for...

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Former Atlantic Philanthropies CEO LaMarche Questions the Power Philanthropy has over Policy

Release Date:

09/25/2014

... have on affecting public policy. He cites the tax breaks for endowments and charitable giving as one of the benefits ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

First Payment Made Toward Detroit's 'Grand Bargain'

Release Date:

12/12/2014

... week as part of the city’s exit from bankruptcy. The Foundation for Detroit’s Future, a nonprofit created specifically to ...

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Ford Foundation

10 Sep 2015

Planning for an Influx of Assets - Webinar

Thursday, September 10, 2015 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

*This webinar is limited to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* An influx of ... already doing: making a difference according to your foundation ’s mission. With more money come increased...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

Schott's Villanueva Comments on Native Leadership in Institutional Philanthropy

Release Date:

05/27/2016

... Valorie Johnson, a program officer at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation , was planning to retire. As one of the few Native Americans working at a foundation , I celebrated her many accomplishments in the ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Individuals Addressing Open Society Challenges Invited to Apply for Fellowship

Release Date:

11/07/2016

... Addressing Open Society Challenges Invited to Apply for Fellowship A program of the Open Society Foundations, ... within the Open Society Foundations network and globally. For the current application round,...