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Ford’s President Highlights Government’s Role in Reducing Inequality

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10/30/2015

... grantees. In the near future, Ford plans to articulate a more detailed grant-making strategy to combat racial, gender, ...

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board

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06/02/2016

... and visual storytelling, can contribute to a fairer and more just society... Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander .....

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Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education

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09/13/2016

... vision" for the humanities. It's interesting stuff and, more to the point, this funder is hugely important given its large footprint in higher ed grantmaking . If you're hustling for one of its...

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Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

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12/21/2016

... provide money and technological capacity. New York-based grantmaking foundations distributed about $10.7 billion of the more than $60 billion given to grantees across the United ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Where Have Conrad Hilton Foundation's Global Grants Been Going Lately?

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12/22/2016

... size and reach, it keeps a relatively low profile. It's more of work horse than a show horse as a funder. Even it ... claims to be on the cutting edge of this or that fancy grantmaking trend... Where Have...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

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09/09/2014

... top philanthropists, heading a new foundation with more than $2 billion in assets. Operating out of one of ... a person familiar with its activities, and currently has more than $2 billion of assets. That...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Three Essential Insights on International Impact Investing

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09/08/2014

... impact investments. Arabella recently hosted a series of webinars focused on impact investing in Sub-Saharan ... investment environment. Though the region is becoming more economically stable, 70 percent of...

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15 Leaders of Color Selected for Pinkerton Leadership Network

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03/03/2021

... at the hands of the police, the initiative includes a series of grants to organizations doing exceptional work on ... • Shauwea Hamilton, Bottom Line To learn more about these leaders, click here ... * The...

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Program Recap—Perpetuity or Limited Life: How Do Family Foundations Decide?

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07/29/2009

More than 30 grantmakers gathered on July 9th for a ... that while spending down doesn’t inherently affect grantmaking strategy, for them it did mean that the Fund ... payout. UPDATE: Anita Nager was gracious...

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Recording: The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Half-Day Convening Focused on How Philanthropy Can Make All the Difference

... of Behavioral Health Laurel Dumont , Senior Director, Grantmaking , the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Panel 3: ...

Mike Bloomberg Publishes Annual Letter on Philanthropy

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05/23/2018

... is underway, Bloomberg writes: "As Washington has grown more dysfunctional, American cities have grown more dynamic. Mayors in both parties are leading .....

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

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03/15/2017

... change in the world. Programming will include strategic grantmaking , cross-sector convenings and ... strategic area for investment. The 2016 #PopJustice report series , supported by Unbound Philanthropy and...

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For Profound Change in America, Think Local

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01/29/2014

... transparency, create new models to facilitate access to legal representation in civil cases and launch initiatives to ... authentic community engagement and partnerships that are more than skin deep. Without...

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Your Foundation in Crisis: Will You Be Ready?

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06/18/2013

... Do we hire an external crisis manager? What does our legal counsel suggest? Assumptions of how to act under a ... to learn, in my opinion! Over time, I have developed more than 125 rules of crisis management...

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Pfizer and the Avon Foundation for Women Support Patients Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer

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01/21/2015

... totaling $1 million in funding to support and educate more than 5,000 metastatic breast cancer patients, their ... and integrative services, support, financial, and legal support Distribute resources and...

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17 Sep 2015

How U.S. Funders Can Respond to the Current Global Refugee Crisis - Webinar

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... in the countries of origin and of first asylum Relevant legal and policy frameworks The direct and indirect impacts ... on the United States What philanthropy is doing and what more can be done to respond—in...

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What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

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01/30/2017

... their status. Through this program, the INS interviewed more than 80,000 people and placed over 13,000 in deportation ... our grantee partners like DRUM , as well as national legal groups like the ACLU, in...

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Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems

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09/06/2017

... the information needed to alter voter information through legal means, Sweeney said the dark Web offered one major ... of changes appear, but what if the number is only a few more a day? A computer program...

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NoVo Foundation Announces The Life Story Grantee Partners Addressing Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Girls Across the U.S.

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01/28/2020

... WJRJ Industries – Northside Healing Space Collective Legal Aid Chicago and Mujeres Latinas En Accion ... brilliance, power and leadership of survivors. To learn more please visit novofoundation.org/...

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