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How Social Innovation Labs Contribute to Transformative Change

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11/07/2014

... is growing quickly in response to increasing demand— about 70 percent of the labs were founded in the last five ... With the recent release of a couple of books and articles about social innovation labs, The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Seven Things Foundations Can Do to Shape Public Debate in the NYC Election Season

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02/21/2012

... out to candidates, beginning now , and help inform them about the legal parameters of doing so. With certain caveats, ... their constituents to attend, candidate forums and ask about candidates’ positions and...

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Random Reflections By A New Author

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05/24/2010

... the book and on the road, we are most comfortable talking about the Philanthropies’ big blunders. I am fortunate to ... Third, I don’t think we in the field are harsh enough about the inefficiencies on the...

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18 May 2016

Can Failure Be a Success?: Dissecting the Rikers Social Impact Bond Experiment

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Mission? At their core, social impact bonds are about learning from and scaling what works, and discontinuing ... serving over 4,000 16- to 18-year-olds detained at Rikers. Join us for a conversation with...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Justice Reform

What Am I Doing Here?

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03/01/2016

... who contributed to helping make this fellowship happen about what I’m actually doing. And, we’re also getting ... so we thought it would be good to do an Insights column about what it’s really like in the...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropy Should Focus on the Assets of Aging

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04/22/2016

... Arts Can Improve Aging from Aroha Philanthropies . Think about the language you hear everyday: geezer, old lady, ... intelligent, educated people using equivalent language about people of color or people with...

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An Old Idea is New Again: Tackling Large Complex Problems by Investing in Communities

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04/10/2018

... someone handed me a dusty box of reports from the 1980s about immigrant students. I was surprised to see that, ... immigrant neighborhoods taught parents and young people about the school system. These diverse...

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The New York Community Trust

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Education

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How Foundations Can Make a Difference After Puerto Rico’s Latest Natural Disaster

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02/26/2020

... darkness, we took to the streets to speak to our neighbors about what was happening and how to respond. We quickly ... we have sometimes seen confusion among major grant makers about their responsibility to...

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Philanthropy Can Help Bridge the Gap Between the Idea of Disability Rights and the Reality

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11/05/2021

... Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about 1 in 1,200 people in the United States has Down ... support physician scientists now explicitly ask questions about accommodations participants...

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Disabilities

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Doris Duke Foundation

Surdna Foundation Announces a Reorganization and Promotions

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07/11/2023

... and Promotions Dear Friends, Today, I want to share news about a recent reorganization at Surdna and celebrate some of ... the more I realize that movement building isn’t about finding your tribe—it’s ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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17 Sep 2025

NYC Charter Amendments on the Ballot: Housing, Democracy, and the Future of the City

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... as on democracy and increasing voter turnout. Please join us to learn more about these key amendments, their potential impact, and how ...

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Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline

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02/02/2017

As the Trump administration threatens to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement and double up on efforts to revive a slowing fossil fuels industry, the rest of the world is pulling out of coal projects and redirecting investment towards renewables...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Trump Administration Makes ACA’s Health-Insurer Payments for September

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09/22/2017

White House declines to block ‘cost sharing’ funds this month amid renewed GOP health-care push.

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Sector News

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The Andy Warhol Foundation Partners With Calvin Klein

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11/29/2017

... 30 years after the passing of Warhol, Simons aims to renew this relationship between Calvin Klein and Warhol ...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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Support From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Continues College Access and Success Program of American Indian College Fund

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05/02/2019

Native American and Alaska Native students are in a college-going and completion crisis.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Mellon Foundation

With Support from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Nature Conservancy Invites Applications for Natural Climate Solutions Accelerator Grant

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06/11/2019

Through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Nature Conservancy has issued a Request for Proposals for two additional rounds of grant funding.

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RFPs Etc

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Doris Duke Foundation

25 Mar 2021

Federal Immigration Policy Scorecard and Playbook - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, March 25, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... for many—from working DACA recipients seeking to renew their status, to families longing to reunify with loved ...

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Improving the Accuracy of Wikipedia’s Medical Information

Release Date:

01/06/2015

... the first place that millions of Americans go to learn about specific health conditions, problems, and treatment ... the overuse of certain medical procedures. Concerns about the volume of unnecessary tests...

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New York Health Foundation

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

... , a Senior Research Fellow at Free Press (who will join the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at ... with Smart Assets . Nicholas Lemann: These days I speak about this topic quite often, at least...

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