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Due Diligence Done Well: A Guide for Grantmakers

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11/2010

Learn about effective due diligence and how to create a grantee-friendly approach to information ...

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Imagine, Involve, Implement: A GEO Action Guide

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01/2008

... Effective Organizations' Change Agent project describing how a diverse assortment of grantmakers are changing core .....

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Invest in Your Brand Endowment for Exponential Returns

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11/22/2016

... health and the strength of their endowment. That’s a good place to start, but if it is the only place you look, ... them to magnify the impact of their grant-making. So how can you make best use...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Stonewall Community Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Launch a Global Plan to Save Coral Reefs from Extinction

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02/23/2017

... temperatures. The latest global mass coral bleaching event is responsible for the worst coral die-off ever ... around the world to record and reveal a global bleaching event (the imagery taken with their...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Initial Funding From Ford Foundation, New York Community Trust Supports New Council on Criminal Justice

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07/23/2019

... ideological spectrum. The Council on Criminal Justice will use its invitation-only membership to form ad hoc task forces ... in working groups, Gelb said. The Council’s governing board of directors and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

22 Jan 2015

Learning to Write Code: The New Literacy?

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7:45am to 11:00am

... into writing code itself, can help students understand how being computer literate is important in any career and ... December 2014, Code.org hosted Hour of Cod e, a worldwide event for anyone who wants to...

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Rita Allen Foundation Joins Science Philanthropy Alliance

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04/06/2018

... the foundations will be represented on the Alliance’s board of directors. Elizabeth Good Christopherson, president and CEO of the Rita Allen ... of the Heising-Simons Foundation, will join the Alliance...

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Science

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Rita Allen Foundation

Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

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09/17/2014

... performance of our investments, we also care a lot about how enterprises deliver value to society through the economic ... through their core businesses and thinking about how they use their...

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

... in filling these gaps in knowledge. The research describes how the stimulation of a single region of the brain affects ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Health

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Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

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10/04/2017

... will try to manipulate that data. But it’s unclear how effectively states have prepared for that possibility, or ... recently wrote an analysis finding that 36 states plan to use chronic...

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Jeffrey D. Selberg Joins Peter G. Peterson Foundation to Lead Health Care Initiatives

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01/15/2014

... Medical Center, and Executive Vice President for Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center in Oregon. Selberg currently serves on the board of the National Center for Healthcare Leaders, and ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Nonprofit Excellence Awards Application Process Helps Organizations Improve Management Practices

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09/09/2014

... eight key areas, including: management focus on results; governance structure; financial management; diverse and ... process (top areas of improvement include: communications, board governance...

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The New York Community Trust

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WNYC Radio

Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges

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07/18/2017

... We send and receive more emails than many of us know how to conveniently organize. That’s no major obstacle when ... our children and grandchildren about who we were and how we lived. Our ability to access...

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Mellon Foundation

Carnegie UK Trust Announces 2013 Andrew Carnegie Medals of Philanthropy Honorees

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09/24/2013

... have dedicated their private wealth to the public good . (Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan ... of Philanthropy, the award which recognises those who use their private wealth for public ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Philanthropy Must Prioritize Democracy Beyond Election Day

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11/17/2020

... in this direction required the foundation’s staff and board to learn more about the linkages between civic ... our colleagues in philanthropy to join us in considering how civic participation impacts their...

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Miriam Nelson Named President and CEO of Newman’s Own Foundation

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01/12/2021

... as acting president and CEO since January 2020, and as a board member of Newman’s Own, Inc., from 2015 to 2019. An ... of founding a business that gives away all profits to good causes,” Dr. Nelson said. “His...

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Newman's Own Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

... by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and federal ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Open Society Foundations

Blended Finance "Plus”: Enhancing Support With Blended Knowledge

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09/04/2018

... global development financing success stories that effectively harnessed the power of public and private ... agenda will lead to true, sustainable impact. The good news is that the talent, expertise and passion...

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Health

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Johnson & Johnson

Open Society Foundations Seek Clarification on Pakistan NGO Ruling

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12/14/2017

... may lodge an appeal within 90 days, but it is not clear how this process will be managed. According to the ... operations in Islamabad in 2008. Guided by an advisory board led by prominent Pakistani thought...

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