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Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... victory on the issue this past June. (Highlights of the event included the premier of a short film and release of a ... publication. Two questions that came up during the event seemed to be worth some further...

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Civic Engagement

LGBTQ

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Public Policy

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

Release Date:

12/05/2019

... when communities of color and immigrants are facing new challenges and new threats every day, the status quo in philanthropic ...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Citi Foundation Pledges $10 Million To "My Brother's Keeper"

Release Date:

07/21/2014

... Million To "My Brother's Keeper" As part of a group of funders making additional commitments to the White House's ... college preparedness for minority populations. Other funders signing on...

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Citi Foundation

Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

Release Date:

07/29/2016

... of this series. Crucially, the quality of relationships funders have with nonprofits and communities is central to ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Collective Impact Without Borders

Release Date:

08/29/2017

Successful, multi-national, collective impact efforts require that organizations carefully consider two dimensions of their approach.

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Sector News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bloomberg and Gates Back A $225 Million Effort to Save 100 Million Lives Over Five Years

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... receive nearly as much attention from global health funders as high-profile dread diseases like malaria, ... lives. The question now is whether more global health funders will turn their attention to helping...

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Health

International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

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

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... of these young people has long concerned a range of funders . For example, a few years ago we reported on the ... Trump administration's announcement on DACA, a number of funders are scrambling. . . Open...

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Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Unbound Philanthropy

16 Aug 2018

What’s Next for the Families Separated by U.S. Policy—and How Are Those Policies Evolving? - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, August 16, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:15pm

... Tahirih Justice Center Designed for All interested funders . Please note that calls are open to GCIR members, ... is required by August 15th. Members and Non-Member Funders : Please click on the "Register...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Legal Issues

Public Policy

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Immigration

Public Policy

Children, Youth and Families

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release Scaling Solutions toward Shifting Systems: Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change Report

Release Date:

07/22/2020

... challenges are becoming more complex, many philanthropic funders are reflecting on how to create more transformational ... organizations that had scaled solutions and how funders had helped or hindered the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Supports NeuroBioBank for Autism Research

Release Date:

11/18/2015

... Multiple brain tissue repositories in the NIH NBB network , located in academic research sites across the ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Mario Luis Small Joins Russell Sage Foundation Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/27/2017

... a Boston Barrio (2004) and Unanticipated Gains: Origins of Network Inequality in Everyday Life (2009), both of which ...

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Economic Security

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Russell Sage Foundation

BNY Mellon and Ashoka Launch Social Innovation Challenge

Release Date:

05/09/2018

Unlocking ¢hange: Innovations for Financial Wellbeing, Resilience and Freedom is a nation-wide competition to seek and support leading social entrepreneurs and innovators across the United States.

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BNY

Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces Additional Support to Local Food Banks Across the United States

Release Date:

05/17/2018

... our longstanding partnership with Feeding America and its network of local food banks to ensure every child has access ... out of every seven people turning to the Feeding America network each year for extra...

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Food Systems

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Morgan Stanley

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

Release Date:

07/03/2018

... expanded to 19 more states through the Skillful State Network . “Millions of Americans need to get connected to ... CEO and President. “Forming the Skillful State Network is a way to share our approach, tools...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

With Support From the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Cleveland Museum of Art Announces Establishment of Center for Chinese Paintings Conservation

Release Date:

07/25/2018

... its role as a critical node in this professional network . We value and support the museum’s leadership in ...

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Mellon Foundation

Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

Release Date:

03/22/2010

Like many funders , the F.B. Heron Foundation experienced a decline in ...

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

Economic Security

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by ...

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Report

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Grants Managers

Program Staff

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

29 Apr 2015

Measuring Impact: Joys, Monsters and Opportunities in Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation - Webinar

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... of the state of the evaluation field in peacebuilding, how funders can support better learning and impact in their grantmaking, and how both funders and grantees can begin to think about systemic ... Alliance...