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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.

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Zuckerberg May Sell Up to $12.8 Billion in Facebook Stock to Fund Work in Education, Science, and Advocacy

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09/25/2017

... plans for the three-for-one stock split he announced last year that would have reclassified some stock as nonvoting ...

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Skoll, Ford and Others Work with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors on How to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less

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09/26/2017

... to Listen More to Nonprofits & Speak Less Over the past year , the Skoll, Draper Richards Kaplan, Ford, and Porticus ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

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09/27/2017

... almost every health bill that Republicans proposed this year called for subjecting the program to caps, so that idea ...

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

The Trump Administration's decision to end DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent corporate leaders. But what are foundations doing to protect undocumented young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of...

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Immigration

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What a Corporate Funder Is Doing to Meet Urgent Humanitarian Needs Through Technology

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09/29/2017

Delivering humanitarian aid can be enormously complex. It requires far-flung logistical efforts that involve moving, tracking and delivering huge amounts of material. And all this needs to happen quickly in places where infrastructure may be...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

The tech donor’s latest major grant is right in the sweet spot between the two fields, a $4 million commitment that will back the deep ocean probes monitoring how ocean temperatures are changing.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

The prospect of Social Security running out of money in their lifetimes haunts the vast majority of Americans over age 50.

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Economic Security

Student Sues Columbia Over ‘Deliberate Indifference’ to Harassment Claims

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10/03/2017

... University has been accused of forcing himself on a 29- year -old female doctoral student and disparaging her to ...

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After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

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10/03/2017

... bullying was reported. Last Wednesday, Abel Cedeno, an 18- year -old student at the Urban Assembly School for Wildlife ...

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A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... has become more laser-focused in its approach. Last year , it announced its Artist as Activist program would focus ...

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Forest, Forest Everywhere. But Not an Acre to Touch.

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10/10/2017

In November, voters statewide will face a more expansive question — whether to amend the State Constitution to allow towns to use small pieces of land in the “forever-wild” preserves in the Adirondacks and Catskills for small, but critical public...

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Six Useful Tips For Nonprofits To Keep Marketing Automation Personal

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10/13/2017

With 79% of top performing companies using marketing automation for at least two years, according to a report by Pardot, it only makes sense that this email technology would make its way to nonprofit organizations across the U.S.

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William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

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10/26/2017

... in all but 15 states since 2004. When the 2014 school year began, at least 10 percent of K-12 students in nine ...

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"Be the Change" an Interview with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler

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11/21/2017

... workers’ kids, day care , several weeks of vacation per year —and generally created an atmosphere in which employees ... the company in 1998 for a reported $750 million, then 26- year -old Kessler had the...

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

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12/13/2017

... into autism research—seventy-five million dollars this year alone... Jim Simons, the Numbers King ...

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Science

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With Funding From The JPB Foundation, Cities Connecting Children to Nature, Engages Second Cohort of Cities in 2017-2020 Phase

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12/18/2017

The Lates phase initiative from 2017-2020 will engage a second cohort of cities in 2.75 years of technical assistance to develop and implement strategies that equitably connect children to nature, with support of $75,000 in planning and...

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Civic Engagement

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Winners Announced for the 2018 Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards

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01/03/2018

Matching grants will bring free outdoor concerts to 15 small- to mid-sized towns and cities across America

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Arts

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Surdna Foundation, Open Society Foundations and Ford Foundation Collaborate to Start Amplify Fund

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01/05/2018

In 2018, Neighborhood Funders Group (NFG), a social justice-focused membership organization of community development grantmakers, will roll out its own grants through its latest project, the Amplify Fund which aims "to shift local power structures...

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