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The Rockefeller Foundation

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values, ... said 3,000 homes were sold in Detroit in 2015, and only about 500 involved mortgages...

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Community Development

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... labeled “how to do” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental sets of assumptions related to the ... if needed, revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an...

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Poll Supported by Ford Foundation Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence

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08/08/2016

... Finds Young Adults Back New Efforts to Curb Gun Violence About 9 in 10 young adults say they support criminal ... gun laws are supported by 9 in 10 young adults, including about 9 in 10 whites, Asian-Americans...

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Justice Reform

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... late, as we've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about , private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 ... in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we've written about a long list of...

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Education

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their ... these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing can be informative and ...

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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

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01/23/2017

... Another group passed by. Then a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to ... refugee emergency. Tsartsanis didn’t have to think long about what he should do. He ran and...

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Video

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

... culture as a strategy to advance policy. Full information about this Request for Proposals is available here . ... to share this Request for Proposals with others. Questions about the proposal process should...

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RFPs Etc

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The New York Community Trust

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... and socialite in the 1930s and 1940s, Americans worried about a very different set of foreign adversaries than they ... Every year, the Building Bridges program awards about $1 million to $3 million to...

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Arts

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Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Questions about how to handle nuclear waste have long eluded consensus ... nuclear waste? Is it possible to change the narrative about nuclear waste from a burden to a...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... and Other Charities The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & ... to Reuters. But even with the new donation, he still owns about 17%. In addition to...

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Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress

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07/31/2017

... breathtaking landscape. Yet I could not stop thinking about my initial discomfort. It nagged at me. What had caused ... of power but also requires a constant state of alertness about my own place of privilege...

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Social Justice

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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... legal aid websites provide users seeking information about civil legal matters with important tools and resources. They provide basic information about common legal issues and connect users to legal aid ...

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Justice Reform

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines Much has been written about big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders ... critical business insights faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of...

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United Hospital Fund Report Examines Ramifications of Eligible Adults Refusing Prescribed Home Health Care

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08/24/2017

... includes a fear of losing control and privacy, concerns about finances, and the belief that family caregivers alone ... beginning with educating the patient and family caregivers about the illness or injury at...

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Aging

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... grant-making arm of the internet search-engine giant gives about $100 million to charity each year; in 2016, $50 million ... and two California nonprofits that gather and share data about courts and prisons,...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is this gem: Nonprofit ... when the budget starts imploding. The unfortunate thing about this research is that...

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US States Embrace Baby Boxes

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09/08/2017

... taking the opportunity to also educate families about safe sleep for infants. Finland has one of the lowest ... the program instead as an opportunity to educate parents about safe sleep for newborns. Parents...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Congress Rejects Trump Proposals to Cut Health Research Funds

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09/12/2017

... spending on biomedical research — and have bragged about it. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a ... increase for the agency, amounting to an increase of about 20 percent over three years. . ...

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Health

Charter Schools Are Losing the Narrative But Winning the Data

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09/12/2017

... New Orleans, New York, Florida and Texas. The anecdotes about failed charters are real, but they’re not the norm.” The most striking thing about the coverage of charter schools is the contrast between ...

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