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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $76 Million in Grants in Third Quarter of 2021

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10/26/2021

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $76 Million in Grants in Third Quarter of 2021 The board of directors of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation announced today that grants totaling more than ... the capacity of...

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Arcus Foundation Names Kevin Jennings Executive Director

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07/02/2012

The Arcus Foundation has announced that Kevin Jennings has been named ... as Arcus’ Interim Executive Director, will remain at the Foundation in her ongoing role as Vice President, Strategic ... for justice and...

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Ford Foundation Launches 'Art of Change' Fellowship Program

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04/10/2015

Ford Foundation Launches 'Art of Change' Fellowship Program Over the next twelve months, the foundation will bring together thinkers, artists, cultural ... of conversations to help determine how the...

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Wallace, Mellon Foundations Embrace Identity and Race

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04/21/2016

... Mellon Foundations Embrace Identity and Race The Wallace Foundation aims to spend $52 million on a study identifying ways arts organizations can expand audience engagement while the Andrew W. Mellon ... the...

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Finding the Right Balance: Thoughts on Advocacy and Direct Service Funding from Ashley Blanchard

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07/09/2010

... what they want to achieve, and how they plan to achieve it . Among the strategies we typically discuss are advocacy ... services seem too “simple,” merely plugging a hole when the core of the social problem...

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09 Jul 2015

International Grantmaking for Small- to Mid-Sized Foundations

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2:45pm to 5:00pm

... not have a panel discussion or a formal agenda. Rather, it will begin with a set of questions that participants will ... lawyers, associations and case studies – that can help make international grantmaking...

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The Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban Institute Evaluate Rebuild by Design

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09/04/2014

The Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban Institute Evaluate Rebuild by Design ... Design competition was limited to the Sandy recovery area, it has the potential to transform the way disaster recovery ... that...

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Simons Foundation Funds Groundbreaking Autism Research

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12/15/2014

Simons Foundation Funds Groundbreaking Autism Research While many different combinations of genetic traits can cause autism, brains affected by autism share a pattern ... included data from 72 autism and control...

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Rita Allen Foundation Supports Digital Democracy Platform

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02/07/2017

Rita Allen Foundation Supports Digital Democracy Platform Digital ... software to keep track of who’s speaking. Voters can search the transcripts by speaker and subject while at ... effort launched in California...

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Surviving COVID-19: 6 Recommendations for Nonprofits and Funders

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03/17/2020

... are expected to be canceled this month. Thousands of event registrants are being notified almost weekly of ... started to set in. Unfortunately, no one knows exactly when this pandemic will end. I do...

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Rauch Foundation Strives to Restore Long Island's Water

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10/08/2014

Rauch Foundation Strives to Restore Long Island's Water There is ... address the problem has been missing at the state level. It 's become customary in American politics to put off tough ... rock - that...

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Noyes Foundation President Featured in Philanthropy News Digest

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06/30/2015

Noyes Foundation President Featured in Philanthropy News Digest ... that public charity as to where those dollars should go. It 's a simple process. You just contact the fund-holder, ... answer some questions...

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New Report from The Century Foundation: 11.4 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff Starting March 14

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02/10/2021

New Report from The Century Foundation : 11.4 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff ... faced a similar benefits cliff just this past December, when , according to research by The Century Foundation...

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Getting Beyond Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/05/2013

... of what he calls “Philanthropic Colonialism”: when “a donor [and, I would add, many a foundation ] had the ... 2010 . Much, much more has to be done, of course. As I see it , we can...

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Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Launch the Tipping Point Fund to Help Scale the Impact Investing Field

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12/05/2019

Ford Foundation , Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Launch the Tipping ... challenges. “The impact investing industry is where it is...

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Surdna Foundation’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures

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08/25/2016

Surdna Foundation ’s Cordery: Communities Should Define Their Futures When people have asked me what compelled me to join the team at the Surdna Foundation more than a year ago, I’ve often shared...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation: Our Compelling Interests

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10/03/2017

Andrew Mellon Foundation : Our Compelling Interests In his essay for the first installment of the Mellon Foundation ’s Our Compelling Interests book series, ... diversity is critical. The initiative comes at a time...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR Lata N. Reddy, the ... is also the chairperson and president of The Prudential Foundation , said that CSR with Prudential was done through ... outside help...

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Surdna Foundation's Board Announces Phillip Henderson’s Departure

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11/14/2017

Surdna Foundation 's Board Announces Phillip Henderson’s Departure ... we are a family foundation , spanning six generations. It 's for this reason that when our...

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Deutsche Bank, Newman's Own, MetLife, Fortitude Fund, and FB Heron Foundation among list of Funders Supporting the Nonprofit Investing Directly in Poor Families

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01/26/2018

... Bank, Newman's Own, MetLife, Fortitude Fund, and FB Heron Foundation among list of Funders Supporting the Nonprofit Investing Directly in Poor Families It ’s not often that a nonprofit touts how much .....