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Can Flexible Funding Become Our New Normal?

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07/15/2020

... capital.” A trust-based relationship is established when funders provide GOS, re-balancing power dynamics between ... on the part of the nonprofit in their own potential. It helps overcome a deficit mindset...

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Citi Foundation

25 Sep 2013

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Wednesday, September 25, 2013 -

8:45am to 10:30am

True or false: It ’s permissible for your foundation to advocate for specific public policy or legal ... And, if they do , you may be missing out on a strategy that can advance...

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19 Jun 2019

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... our PNY Core : Policy Core. True or false: It ’s permissible for your foundation to make grants that are used for public policy or ... And, if they do , you may be missing out on a strategy...

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12 Jul 2016

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Watch recorded presentation here: True or false : It ’s permissible for your foundation to make grants that are used for public policy or ... And, if they do , you may be missing out on a strategy...

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New York City

14 Jul 2015

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 -

2:45pm to 4:30pm

True or false: It ’s permissible for your foundation to make grants that are used for public policy or ... And, if they do , you may be missing out on a strategy that can advance...

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These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?

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01/12/2012

... days, everyone is a communicator. After all, how hard is it to send a tweet, post to a blog, or even shoot and upload a video? Many people in charge of foundation and nonprofit communications have taken...

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Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff

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06/2013

... including five essential areas where program staff can have a positive impact. Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff ...

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The Fight Over Immigrants and Refugees Is Going to Intensify. Here's What Foundations Need to Do

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03/06/2018

... voter engagement to ensure that impacted individuals can shape and influence the policies that directly affect ... and the role of immigrants and refugees in our society can either build...

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Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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Immigration

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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

... Wolff, Senior Program Officer, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation The upcoming New York City campaign season is the ... Public Advocate and City Comptroller. As a result, we can expect a particularly lively...

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How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

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12/05/2019

... of youths of color. For the Akonadi Foundation , it means investing up to $12.5 million over the next five ... over the age of 50 . At a time of resurgent overt racism, when communities of...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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What We Do

... stems from systems rooted in inequity. We have both the opportunity and responsibility to engage the ... and privilege to dismantle these systems. What We Don’t Do We don’t tell foundations how to make their...

MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

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10/06/2017

MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well -Being MetLife ... "MetLife Foundation believes that behavioral science can help improve financial well...

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Native American Youth Can't Wait

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08/22/2016

Native American Youth Can 't Wait by Edgar Villanueva, Vice President of Programs & ... and partner on efforts like the Obama administration's My Brother's Keeper initiative. More recently, the...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Do Funders Have the Right to See a Nonprofit’s Management Letter?

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04/19/2016

... not be used, by anyone other than these specified parties. It is by definition a “limited-use” report according to ... controls after the year-end audit would not be reflected either . Private ...

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Eisner LLP Not-for-Profit Services Eisner LLP

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09 Dec 2010

Shareholder Activism: Changing Corporate Behavior

Thursday, December 9, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... York Members Briefing , sponsored by The Nathan Cummings Foundation , Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation , The Overbrook ... bought a company that was a major polluter, would you ask it to clean...

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What Does It Mean to Do Policy Work in a Foundation?

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03/27/2014

... Austin Senior Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The Wallace Foundation For years, The Wallace Foundation has worked ... to define our terms clearly. 2. Public policy is broad; it encompasses...

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What Kinds of Public-Private Partnerships Do We Want?

Release Date:

05/19/2014

... that we’re several months into the new Administration, it is time to consider how we reposition ourselves for this ... focused on our more tangible assets and are disappointed when we decline to simply write a...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Do You Promote or Impede Real Change?

Release Date:

08/21/2017

... that is unique, trademarked or innovative . Nor has it been mastered by any one sector, community or type of ... year’s theme, Giving Voice to Fuel Change , as well as my work and role in...

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