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Informal But Important: Improving the Lives of Informal Workers

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08/19/2014

... safety nets like health care. Their families tend to live in informal communities or slums. In many ways, they live off-the-grid. As the number of ... the formal world to understand and connect to them. But...

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PNY Announces New Racial Equity Working Group

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12/02/2021

... among philanthropic professionals who seek to build practice , shift power, and change systems to advance racial ... to identify, name, negotiate and affect equitable changes in areas of their professional...

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Don’t Say “When Did You Stop Caring About Children?” and Other Guidance for Child Advocates

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09/23/2010

... a message such as “Parents need to test their homes for lead paint” places responsibility solely on parents and ... at www.childadvocacy360.com , and I’m looking forward to your input. Since starting his...

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Goldman Sachs Announces First Round of Capital Investments and Philanthropic Grants for One Million Black Women Initiative

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05/21/2021

... racial equity and economic opportunity by investing in Black women. The One Million Black Women Advisory ... on the scope and impact of the investments and grants. In partnership with Black-women-led...

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Building and Strengthening Partnerships Across New Jersey: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants

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08/25/2022

... R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants See grants listed on our website . In our most recent round of funding, the Dodge Foundation ... months on our new website at grdodge.org . We look...

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Moving Interprofessional Education into the Mainstream of Health Professions Education

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06/20/2012

... students to learn side-by-side, so that when they begin practice , they have the skills to work collaboratively and as ... not yet translated into enduring and widespread changes in health education or ...

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Yi-Ching Lin

... of nearly 300 philanthropic organizations. PNY develops forward -thinking guidance, programming, and advocacy to ... and convenes funders to strengthen ties across the sector. In her role, Yi-Ching directs and...

Reimagining Service: Helping Grantees Increase Volunteer Capacity to Maximize Program Impact

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02/14/2012

... a strong case for the return on philanthropic investments in volunteers. As moderator, I opened the session by noting ... that the research shows that Service Enterprises not only lead and manage better than...

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CEP Announces First Director of Advisory Services

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02/24/2015

... Leonard comes to CEP with more than 30 years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. She will lead the strategy and implementation of CEP’s advisory services practice ,...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Uprooting Racism to Advance Health Equity

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01/04/2022

... Wood Johnson Foundation Culture of Health Blog . In 1966 our nation’s great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin ... proclaimed that of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and...

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25 Jan 2012

International Grantmakers Network: Providing Capacity-Building Support for International Grantees (Part I)

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1:45pm to 5:00pm

... on how we define and approach “capacity building” in an international context. Part II will build on this ... and go deeper into the strategies we employ when engaging in sustainable capacity building work...

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Markle Foundation Initiative, Skillful, Is Going Coast-to-Coast

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07/03/2018

... without college degrees and now more states are joining in this effort to transform hiring practices and workforce development. The initiative, which was launched in 2016 by the Markle Foundation , has...

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Wallace Foundation Names New Director of Arts, Bahia Ramos

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08/16/2018

... L. Knight Foundation. As Director of Arts, Ramos will lead both the arts program unit and the interdisciplinary ... design and implementation of Wallace’s initiatives in the arts. “We are delighted to have...

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Elon University Joins Multi-campus Collaborative Initiative Funded by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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06/20/2019

... Elon University has been selected to participate in a collaborative, community-based humanities and civic ... engagement initiative launched by the Bringing Theory to Practice project. A multi-campus...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release "Impact Investing Handbook: An Implementation Guide for Practitioners."

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07/22/2020

... helping asset owners turn interest into action. Two years in the making, this practical publication features case ... practitioners. The Handbook comes at a pivotal moment. In the midst of urgent social,...

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Impact Investing Handbook from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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08/2020

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Wendy Liscow to Leave The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation After 17 Years

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11/13/2020

... other opportunities. During her tenure, Wendy has worked in Dodge’s Arts grantmaking area, then went on to lead Dodge’s Education and Technical Assistance programs. ... and the Newark STEAM coalition. She is a...

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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

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08/22/2013

... Brazilian human rights advocate, will head up its work in Latin America. Abramovay will join the Foundations as Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean in September. In 2012,...

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