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Nobody Needs a ‘Shark Tank’ in Philanthropy

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03/27/2015

Maria Mottola, Gail Nayowith, and Jon Pratt give their thoughts on the Council on Foundation competition for nonprofit organizations.

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

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03/15/2017

The Nathan Cummings Foundation is so pleased to announce the new leadership team for the Pop Culture Collaborative, which includes 2016-2017 NCF Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans as Executive Director.

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Building long-term partnerships with nonprofits to scale impact: Lessons from sustained funding relationships

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10/25/2021

... for projects overseas, where there are additional complexities . Honest communication The Lavelle Fund takes ...

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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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Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

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05/16/2013

By Ramtin Arablouei, Program Manager, Health and Environmental Funders Network The word “fracking” has been all over the media over the last few years. Hydraulic fracturing , or “fracking,” is the technical shorthand for the...

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Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project

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04/20/2010

... seeks to respond to a number of well-known management and reporting challenges faced by service providers: Different funding streams mandate overlapping or divergent reporting requirements, creating expensive...

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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 discussion of family foundation lifespan considerations co-sponsored by the Foundation Center and Philanthropy New York. We asked David R. Wolcheck, Research Associate at the Foundation Center, and...

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Foundations and Peer Review: Time to Reconsider the Process?

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05/02/2017

Betsy Myers, Ph.D., Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Director for Medical Research, says foundations should challenge, reconsider, and improve the peer review process.

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Nature and NYC Communities Can Thrive Together Through These 5 Goals

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04/19/2018

Bram Gunther, Co-founder, Natural Areas Conservancy writes "One of the many ironies of modern New York City is that nature, whose functions enable us to enjoy healthy lives, has been neglected in municipal agendas and resource allocations. We take...

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How Foundations Use Communications to Advance Their Public Policy Work

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05/2010

This study examines how foundations that wish to engage in public policy are using communications to expand the reach and impact of their work. It reveals that communications is at the very center of successful policy engagement for the foundations interviewed, which make use of ten distinctly different strategies to boost their policy engagement. Among the foundations included in the study are The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

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What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

Why should people give money to nonprofits responding to the Gulf Coast oil spill? Isn't BP paying for the clean-up efforts? Penny Fujiko Willgerodt, the Executive Director of the Prospect Hill Foundation and an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

What Foundations Can Do to Help Primary Care Succeed

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03/13/2012

On February 8th, Philanthropy New York held a program, presented by our Health Policy Working Group, which focused on strengthening primary care and the biggest challenges facing primary care providers.

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The Business of Philanthropy: “Exit Interviews” with Former and Departing Foundation CEOs

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06/30/2011

... techniques affected the world of philanthropy? Can corporate tools effectively measure success at foundations ...

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The Wallace Foundation

Foundations Moving On: Ending Programmes and Funding Relationships

... of a family foundation that runs its own programmes, a big corporate grantmaker, a small venture philanthropist, an NGO ...

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President Putin: Restore Openness to Nonprofit Involvement

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01/11/2013

Deana Arsenian, Vice President for International Program and Program Director for Russia and Eurasia at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, writes an open letter to Russian president Vladimir Putin.

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Grantmakers Play an Important Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Efforts

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02/20/2013

The Carnegie Corporation of New York’s Geri Mannion is quoted in this article examining the work of funders (including the Open Society Foundations and the Ford Foundation) supporting immigration reform.

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Philanthropy 50—No. 39: Jon Stryker

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02/10/2013

Mr. Stryker made the Chronicle’s list of the top 50 donors of 2012 with the $30.1 million he gave to the Arcus Foundation, which he founded 13 years ago.

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