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When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

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03/15/2012

... institution guided by Jewish values to create change far beyond the confines of our own community. But it was Jaimie’ s response when asked what NCF saw as philanthropy’ s...

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National Service and Grassroots Youth Organizing Groups: A Strategy for Building Diverse Nonprofit and Civic Leadership for New York

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01/14/2010

... social analysis, and political engagement that lasts beyond high school. Youth organizing is a development model ... Unfortunately, many grassroots youth organizing groups do not consider applying for national...

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Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting

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02/19/2020

... ways and get to know what makes them tick. That’ s one of the best things we have learned by operating an ... remarkable projects are poised to make a big difference, it is the 1,354 ideas submitted to us in...

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation Appoints Bess Rothenberg as Director of New Office of Strategy & Learning

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01/08/2016

... human rights—this new division reflects the foundation’ s commitment to continuous learning as it refines its approach to challenging inequality in all its ... directly to the president, Darren Walker. “We...

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Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

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11/11/2015

... New Approaches to Community Wealth Building When it comes to economic development, what images and feelings ... trying to attract companies, rather than growing what’ s already there.” Kelly is executive vice...

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Community Development

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... programs inCalifornia. Reich will guide the foundation' s BUILD efforts in the United States and across its 10 .....

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Unbound Philanthropy, Nathan Cummings, Ford and JPB Foundation Supported Pop Culture Lab Accelerates Justice Through Entertainment

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07/25/2017

... field, with a career spent advising many of the nation’ s most influential entertainers and changemakers. Tracy Van ... Director, has led at the intersection of media and movement -building for seventeen years...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism Sometimes it ’ s the smaller foundations that take on the most audacious ... Global Fund’ s incubation of the fossil fuel divestment ...

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Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

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09/22/2017

... A framework for understanding the roles you can play in a movement for social change. In this article, we build on ...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... hear a lot about the lack of diversity in philanthropy’ s upper leadership, and also about the lack of support to ... Fund has expanded to support broader movement building by women of color, low-income women...

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25 Feb 2019

The Making of a Dream: DACA Then and Now

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12:00pm to 2:00pm

It has been nearly 20 years since the DREAMer movement began with individual young people who risked ... movement and the toll of leadership in these times What’ s next for...

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

... scholar, educator, advocate, and author, focusing on U. S . urban policy, immigration, and workers’ rights. In ... affiliations in the policy, political science, and women’ s studies departments. She is co-...

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Mandy Van Deven Joins the Nathan Cummings Foundation as Director of Communications

Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

... After decades of decline and political indifference, the U. S . manufacturing is getting fresh attention. “American Manufacturing Is Having a Moment ,” declared CNN in a recent headline. During his ... from...

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