When I Was Homeless: How It Scarred Me, and What the City Must Do to Help More People Lift Themselves Out
Release Date:
08/15/2018
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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?
Release Date:
05/06/2014
... I’ve been privileged to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different sectors – much ... disease, the environment, education reform, you name it – that have dogged our communities...
3/24/2016 - "Legal Series: Best Practices in International Grantmaking" Live Stream & PPT Presentation
Publication date:
03/2016
View materials and recording of the program "Legal Series: Best Practices in International Grantmaking."
Note to Funders: If You Believe in the Importance of Leadership, Fund What Leaders Want to Do
Release Date:
07/08/2014
... seems intent on making decisions about how and what it will fund in a way that ignores this vast body of ... she or he really needs or wants to use the money. In my experience, almost 100 percent of nonprofit...
Foundations as the "Brain Trust" for City Officials
Release Date:
04/15/2014
... resources are obviously important. I really see you all as my potential brain trust." To hear that from Dr. Bassett was ... was that of Program Director for the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation . So she...
Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice Welcomes Joy Chia as New Executive Director
Release Date:
07/20/2021
... as our new Executive Director on September 20, 2021! When we relaunched our search process in February 2021, we ... an opportunity of a lifetime, and I am not quite sure it has really sunk in that I will be...
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Dec
2015
Catching Up: What High Schools Are Doing to Move Kids from Elementary Knowledge to College Ready
Friday, December 4, 2015 -
9:15am to 11:30am
... the enormous and complex challenges high schools face when they take in students who have low-level math and ... or advocacy around policy changes. Explore: How can schools identify students who need extra...
New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration and Education
Release Date:
12/07/2015
New York Community Trust President: Donors Can Make a Difference on Homelessness, Heroin, Incarceration ... seen that well -targeted grants make a huge difference. It ’s even more effective...
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Feb
2019
Census Jobs: How Do You Mobilize a Temporary Workforce of Half a Million People in Less Than Two Years?
Monday, February 25, 2019 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
... progress toward a full and fair 2020 Census count. How Do You Mobilize a Temporary Workforce of Half a Million ... how to connect jobseekers to the right job opportunities can be helpful. We are pleased to co-...
10/20/2015 - More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation - Recording and Presentation
Publication date:
10/2015
... of the program, " More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation ." 10/20/2015 - More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation - Recording and Presentation .....
5 Questions for…Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation
Release Date:
06/28/2012
... That has always been at the core of PRF’s giving and it has not changed in the years since Paul’s passing. But ... funding over a five-year spend-down period ending in 2015. Can you describe the thinking...
Foundations Team Up to Fund Invisible Transgender Communities
Release Date:
07/12/2016
... Just as important as what we do is how we go about doing it . Going into this process, we knew that despite the ... either inaccurately reported or go unreported altogether. When...
Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?
Release Date:
08/29/2017
Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing? Do you know who is going to care for you when you are old and frail? By...
Four Practices to Help You Work (and Sleep) Better
Philanthropy is so resource-rich it is hard to acknowledge that the work can be difficult. Whether you are helping to advance equity ... and decided to dig a little deeper into how they did it . Four Practices to Help You Work (and Sleep) Better ...
3/10/2015 - Supporting Grantee Capacity - Live Stream Recording & PowerPoint
Publication date:
03/2015
View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "Supporting Grantee Capacity."
What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality
Release Date:
01/05/2016
What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation 's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality The urge to ... change, the resistance of people who would benefit from it , the seduction of activities other than...
Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap
Release Date:
10/21/2016
Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap Recent advances in data analytics have revolutionized the way many companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages...
Ford Foundation Asks if Capitalism Can be Made to Work Better for Society
Release Date:
10/02/2014
Ford Foundation Asks if Capitalism Can be Made to Work Better for ... of the capitalist economic system, Walker asks, “How do we support efforts to change a system in which our own ...
Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices
Publication date:
09/2016
... For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align ... How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from ... are based on survey responses from individuals who were either the most senior evaluation or program staff at ...
Why U.S. Foundations Should Take the Global Sustainable Development Goals Seriously
Release Date:
06/21/2016
... him through his extraordinarily successful business life. It was “Think Big. Dream Big. Act Big.” The Sustainable ... community’s ability to create a common agenda. When that impasse finally thawed, more...