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What Is Effective Philanthropy?

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06/05/2019

... operational systems, impact evaluation, and communications are often under-resourced. We design grants that explicitly ... community, we recognize that the things that make us different from our peers (...

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Siegel Family Endowment

Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

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08/01/2012

... many foundations, not just one. And we have to explore ways of working beyond the philanthropic community, and also ... process that draws on the knowledge of people with so many different perspectives and...

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

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04/18/2017

... By Steven Pacheco, inaugural John Jay College of Criminal Justice /David Rockefeller Fund Fellow Steven attended the ... to section 361 of the German Criminal Code , in the event that a person seeking shelter...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Housing and Homelessness

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Why Helping Pets Helps People

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12/05/2013

... Extreme and subtle displays of the human-animal bond are commonplace — perhaps even in your own life — and ... for all people — but especially people at risk — pets are an antidote to isolation, a gateway to...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Animal Welfare

Disaster Relief

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ASPCA

03 Apr 2020

COVID-19 Weekly PNY Member Webinars - Centering Equity in Funder Responses

Friday, April 3, 2020 -

2:30pm to 3:30pm

... forms. From health to workforce, education to juvenile justice , housing to food access, funders across all issue ... to the epidemic and future grantmaking. Learn about the ways that centering equity can...

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Human Services

06 Jun 2018

Stronger Together: New Frontiers in Funders Supporting Social Movements - June Webinar Hosted by HRFN

Wednesday, June 6, 2018 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Human Rights Funders Network, who has extended an invitation to PNY ... Measuring the capacity of social movements May 2 – Are we making smart investments in social...

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Tools & Strategies

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Puerto Rico Youth Fellows

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01/13/2021

... support young Puerto Rican leaders working to elevate justice , promote human rights , and help underserved communities in Puerto Rico. The fellowship program, now in ...

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Community Development

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Open Society Foundations

09 Apr 2014

Shaping the Nature of Work in the New Economy

Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 2:45pm

... further from their real employers, and they and local communities will have even less input into development and ... work schedules, and guaranteed protection and expansion of rights , as well as with...

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Economic Security

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Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy

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03/15/2018

... Sins of Philanthropy Merriam-Webster defines sin in three ways —“as an offense against religious or moral law; an ... of how to respectfully support social change in communities . Whether these transgressions...

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With Support from Citi Foundation, City Accelerator Expands to Five More U.S. Cities

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08/02/2018

... businesses and the creation of additional jobs in their communities . Local initiatives range from ensuring ... an online portal for residents returning from the criminal justice system to access services and...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Community Development

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Citi Foundation

Benchmarking Foundation Governance

On a typical foundation board, what are its members’ most common areas of expertise? How common ... or a family member — to sit on a board? To what extent are board members involved in grantmaking? There are lots of questions out there about foundation governance. ...

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Tides Announces Janiece Evans-Page as New Chief Executive Officer

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10/23/2020

... that Evans-Page’s lifelong passion for social and racial justice and her track record of transformational leadership ... ecosystem to bring about the change and justice that our communities...

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Tides

The Other 95 Percent: How Foundations Can Give All They’ve Got

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05/09/2016

... we agreed that it can be done, and what follows are the key themes that emerged from that discussion. The ... (and counting) in the Divest-Invest movement, there are three reasons to divest: economics, ethics...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Educational Foundation of America

18 Jan 2017

Peer Learning: A Key to Successful Capacity Building

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Building strategies , featuring the experiences of several different grantees, this program will invite a panel of ...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

HR & Operations

Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

... in the United States. Support for groups that take civil- rights grievances to the courts has paid limited dividends in ... Instead, the foundation is likely to push for racial justice in other ways...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... create what its president, Darren Walker, calls a "social- justice infrastructure" reminiscent of the support it provided nonprofits during the civil- rights era.... Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus...

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Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

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06/14/2016

... our republic, citizens have expressed these Constitutional rights to assemble and work around common cause by forming ... they can fulfill their missions by giving back to their communities every day. So what...

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Insights from “2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence”

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06/16/2025

... and state funding negatively affect nonprofits and the communities they serve, many in the philanthropic community are increasing their support of grantees while adjusting ... — Jennifer Pedroni Read Part 2...

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These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?

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01/12/2012

... roles and responsibilities of communications staff members are actually deepening instead of fading away. And that’ll ... since the market collapse.” Let’s be honest: we have a ways to go. Many of the...

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