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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 ... of the experiment? Does this experiment say anything about the amount of evidence an...

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Finance & Asset Management

Impact Investing

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Justice Reform

Peterson Foundation President Comments on State of the Union Address

Release Date:

01/13/2016

... season is a perfect time for a serious conversation about how to put our nation on a better long-term fiscal ...

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Economic Security

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

The Robert Bowne Foundation Spends Down

Release Date:

01/15/2016

... most we ever had was back in around 2000, and it was about $22 million. So when we lost so much money, we had a ...

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Member News

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Robert Bowne Foundation

Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

Release Date:

01/26/2016

... Nature Microbiology shows that there's much less certainty about the size of these viral populations than scientists had .....

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Environment and Climate Change

Science

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The Simons Foundation

15 Jun 2016

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Effective Methods of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 -

8:45am to 10:45am

... knowledge and resources, to test complex ideas with peers about administrative issues related to managing a foundation, ...

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Network Building

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Workshop

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All Funders

HR & Operations Staff

Topic(s)

HR & Operations

Case Study: Designing More Affordable and Effective Health Care (Commonwealth Fund)

Release Date:

02/09/2016

... clinical excellence, and that’s what is distinctive about what we’re doing,” says Arnold Milstein, M.D., ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Peterson Foundation Says Obama Budget Doesn’t Address Unsustainable Debt

Release Date:

02/09/2016

... conversation between Americans and their candidates about solutions to our nation’s fiscal and economic ...

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Member News

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Economic Security

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Coalition of Women’s Foundations Release Statement Supporting Key Elements of Obama Budget

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation. About Prosperity Together Prosperity Together is a ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

The New York Women's Foundation

Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

Release Date:

02/17/2016

... goal of the fellowship program is to foster new discourse about arts and culture that reflects the diversity of the ...

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Member News

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Arts

Communications/Media

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

Release Date:

02/17/2016

... and leadership training to help tech executives think about the role technology and open collaboration play in ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Technology

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... is regulated--a process that we know surprisingly little about despite its clear importance. In the long term, the ...

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Member News

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Health

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Rita Allen Foundation

JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech Training

Release Date:

03/09/2016

... communication technology (ICT) jobs – raises questions about how best to classify and understand these programs and ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

Technology

Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships

Release Date:

03/14/2016

... the initiative, we are eager to share what we have learned about our program model with the broader college access and ...

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Five Questions for Pamela Shifman, Executive Director, NoVo Foundation

Release Date:

04/01/2016

... with Pamela Shifman, the foundation's executive director, about the investment, the structural inequities faced by .....

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Philanthropy Should Focus on the Assets of Aging

Release Date:

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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Insights

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

Release Date:

04/22/2016

... Making himself look good because, in fact, he was not about to let the teaching of ancient Greek end on his watch ...

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Member News

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Artstor President James Shulman Joins Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow in Residence

Release Date:

05/02/2016

... importance. Among his projects, Shulman will write about high-impact philanthropy, the future of liberal arts ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Nathan Cummings Urges Firstenergy Shareholders to Vote for Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Lobbying Expenditures

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... are subject to reversals by regulators. We are concerned about the impact of this strategy on the Company’s business ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

UHF Medicaid Conference to Focus on Value-Based Payment

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... NYC UHF is pleased to announce new program details about its upcoming Medicaid conference, which will focus on ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

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United Hospital Fund

Top 8 Ways Philanthropy Can Make Space at the Table for Immigrant Women Leaders

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... to learn from women leaders at organizations we support about what their specific challenges are and how we can help. ... have a panel, program, or meeting, we should ask ourselves about the diversity of...

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Insights

Funding Area

Gender Justice

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Unbound Philanthropy

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