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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation

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03/17/2015

... One size does not fit all. But over the years, we have made some general observations and learned some lessons that we hope policymakers, funders, and nonprofit practitioners ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Close That Gap: William T. Grant Foundation Zeroes in on Inequality and Kids

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03/30/2015

... an issue is so galvanizing that it can entirely shift how we think about a crucial problem. The recent publication of ... which lately has been zeroing in on kids and inequality. We recently talked with the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Howard Gilman Foundation Helps Bring the Arts to Public School Children

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04/24/2015

... all children and motivate them toward excellence. " We are elated, humbled and filled with gratitude to receive ... was deeply devoted to the arts during his lifetime, and we are honored to celebrate his...

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Ford Foundation Provides $500 Thousand for Relief Efforts in Nepal

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04/30/2015

... has supported development work for over 60 years. " We are deeply concerned for the well-being of millions of ... president of the Ford Foundation. "With these grants we express our solidarity with...

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Ford Foundation

New York Foundation and Brooklyn Community Foundation Lauded for Nimbleness

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05/27/2015

... by being able to respond to the issues of the day. " We don't limit our grant-making to particular issues areas," she said, "and so we 're able to be fairly nimble when issues shift and...

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Brooklyn Org

Pershing Square Foundation Establishes $10 Million Endowment To Support Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Life Science Research

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06/02/2015

... respective industries. “With unrestricted endowment, we can be nimble in our decisions to support pioneering ... and game-changing discoveries to improve human health. We are grateful to have Bill and Karen...

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women

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07/01/2015

... team to choose—and rank—the 50 women on this list. We weighed many factors, from their job titles and chains of ... to their civic engagement. In the following profiles we salute them all—and hope that anyone...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

Release Date:

07/09/2015

... City, Chicago and Detroit. "Through our philanthropy, we invest more $200 million every year for communities across ... president for JPMorgan Chase. "Jersey City is a community we are especially to...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

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10/09/2015

... to the Commonwealth Fund findings. "Time and again, we see evidence that the amount of money we spend on health care in this country is not gaining us .....

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The Commonwealth Fund

The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

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10/2015

... organization behaves. Over the course of our exploration we have become convinced not only that a positive internal ... is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, habitually neglected this ...

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HSBC Cuts Links With Big Muslim Aid Charity

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01/04/2016

... the charity's British director, said its work "means we are committed to operating in complex conflicts where ... It appears that this is deemed a risk too far by HSBC, but we continue to be trusted...

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HSBC Bank USA

Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

... play multidimensional roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly ... and the adoption of an expansive worldview. Globally, we are well over 19 million strong...

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Johnson & Johnson

Ford Program Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy

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07/25/2016

... Program Officers on Why Black Lives Matter to Philanthropy We are living in anxious, often frightening times. Earlier ... Michael J. Smith, Brent Thompson, and Patrick Zamarripa. We ’ve seen reductive attempts...

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Doris Duke Earmarks $2M to Address Climate Change in Hudson Valley

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08/03/2016

... that rising temperatures affect the Hudson in many ways. " We see sea level rising; we see more intense storms," he continued. And he said .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

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10/06/2016

... the Trust's long-standing work with immigrant communities. We also speak with Donna Lawrence, President and CEO of the I Have A Dream Foundation. We discuss her nonprofit's work serving students from...

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The New York Community Trust

January 11 Is Deadline to Submit a Letter of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants

Release Date:

12/14/2016

... of Inquiry for William T. Grant Foundation Research Grants We support high-quality research that is relevant to policies ... lives of young people ages 5 to 25 in the United States. We fund research that...

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William T. Grant Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund Convenes Health Policy Leaders to Create A Bipartisan Agenda for New Administration

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01/19/2017

... and to a much lesser degree, the medical care we receive. State leaders understand that as a society we are spending our health care dollars in the wrong ways for ...

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Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments

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04/05/2017

... contested, conversation about “impact”—both how we measure it and how we deliver it. More recently, this discussion—in the Ford ...

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PIMCO Foundation Supports Skating to Success in Harlem

Release Date:

04/18/2017

... gender equality and empower all women and girls.” We combine our approach of servant leadership with our ... their transformational potential, it’s imperative that we close the persistent gender gap prevalent...