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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

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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Surdna Foundation

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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Immigration

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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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Environment and Climate Change

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The Overbrook Foundation

Should You Agitate, Innovate, or Orchestrate?

Release Date:

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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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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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Gender Justice

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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Open Society Foundations

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

Release Date:

09/10/2019

... Rights Funders Network and Philanthropy Advancing Women’ s Human Rights, that strive to create more diverse ecosystems for movement building. “Mandy is a creative communicator, ...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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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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New Tech, Renewed Trust and a Less Lunatic Political Process

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10/12/2012

... No matter what issues your organization focuses on, it ’ s likely they’re affected broadly by the federal branch ... which I think are important,” Chris said during the event . “One of the...

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DC Dysfunction Isn’t the Whole Story

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04/20/2016

... asked myself a lot in the month leading up to last week’ s annual Foundations on the Hill event , which aims to educate Congress about philanthropy, ... was my fifth year attending Foundations on the Hill, and...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Announces New Staff and Board Members

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10/15/2020

... about a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. It ’ s also a pleasure to introduce you to our new program ... Walk. Previously, she was a Taproom Manager and Event Coordinator at Eight...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

... the most influential documentaries about the civil rights movement and the black American experience, will leave the ... Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’ s JustFilms ...

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Social Justice

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Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity

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03/2015

... look at recent victories in a number of different issues, it ’ s undeniable that leadership has played a key role in ...

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National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy

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Arcus Announces 13 Executive Directors to Participate in Arcus Leadership Fellowship

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05/15/2015

... United States. The fellowship is part of the foundation' s commitment to advance the strength, diversity, and effectiveness of leadership in the LGBT movement .... Arcus Announces 13 Executive Directors to...

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Arcus Foundation

Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board

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06/02/2016

Ford Foundation' s Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board ... to a fairer and more just society... Ford Foundation' s Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board .....

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Arts

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Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum

Release Date:

03/02/2017

... of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism. It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and ... from the primarily white, middle-class mainstream feminist movement —in order to reorient...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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