What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully?
Publication date:
08/2015
Increasing numbers of grantmakers are opting for a spend-down strategy - meaning they intend to ...
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Founder and CEO of Viso Strategies Corporation Paula Luff Says CSR Improves Operations
Release Date:
04/18/2016
... risks and footprint. Defined this way, quite a few people are impacted by CSR. The breadth of stakeholders is vast..." .....
Wallace Report Connects the Dots of Data Use in Afterschool Systems
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... Data Use in Afterschool Systems A growing number of cities are building afterschool systems to provide low-income ...
National Service and Grassroots Youth Organizing Groups: A Strategy for Building Diverse Nonprofit and Civic Leadership for New York
Release Date:
01/14/2010
... host of issues from public school reform to environmental justice . These groups deserve…a national service plan that ... their own skills and capacities. Service and organizing are both important to civically...
Artists at the Center: A New Doris Duke Initiative
Release Date:
12/21/2012
... of grant funds and project schedules disserve artists in ways we have yet to fully understand? How could artists be ... national grants, prizes or awards for at least three different projects during that same...
Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures
Release Date:
01/11/2017
... only about one out of every eight of us feel we actually are making such a difference. What’s behind this ... impact with professional performance in the worst ways — in ways that limit us...
With Support From Ford, Media Foundation for West Africa Holds Meeting on Peaceful Elections
Release Date:
10/11/2016
... electoral process. It was held to deliberate on ways to ensure that this year’s general election was ... in a peaceful manner. Institutions represented at the event , held in Tamale with funding support from...
Casey Family Programs Backs Initiative Giving Kids a Camera — and a Voice
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... N. 27th St. A reception and a talk will be a part of the event ... Casey Family Programs Backs Initiative Giving Kids a ...
Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Two New Board Members, Names New Chair
Release Date:
06/14/2023
... using sports as a way to eliminate racism, champion social justice , and improve race relations. She has spent her career working in and lifting up diverse communities . At Time Warner, she served as Executive...
Video: Time Warner Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility Discusses Women of Color in Leadership
Release Date:
05/17/2016
View the entire dialogue featuring Melody Barnes, NYU Vice Provost and former Director of White House Domestic Policy, and Diahann Billings-Burford, Executive Director of Corporate Responsibility at Time Warner Inc.
University of Pennsylvania Receives $6 Million Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gift to Launch Paideia Program
Release Date:
03/15/2019
... civic leaders and members of local, national and global communities practice productively engaging across ideological ... the inability to talk across them in constructive ways —straining the very fabric of...
For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together
Release Date:
05/30/2017
... lessons have guided our foundation’s journey to a social justice -focused mission, and how those lessons can inform our ... and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. These conversations are detailed in the recently...
Most Funders Don’t Think About Disaster Until It Strikes
Release Date:
07/05/2016
... first reaction is to determine how we can best help those impacted . Our second thought is often: How can we be ... is a complicated question with no single answer. There are resources, however, to help funders...
Borealis Philanthropy Introduces Alicia Bell Announced as the new Director of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund
Release Date:
11/04/2021
... and through organizing with journalists and with communities around journalism. That took me through building ... work. There was a lot coming up in my work around the ways that journalism and news has harmed...
Classic and Cutting Edge
Release Date:
12/05/2014
... by return on investment. At the same time, many new donors are choosing scholarships as the vehicle for entering ... even as it also fills in a larger picture. Scholarships are both an end and a strategy for...
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2018
Bringing a Racial Equity Lens to Capacity Building
Thursday, January 18, 2018 -
9:00am to 11:00am
... help nonprofits grow stronger and make progress in their communities , we must work to address the ways in which structural racism and our implicit biases influence our ways of assessing...
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Dec
2018
Stronger Together Part II: Building the Capacity of Social Movements – December Webinar Hosted by HRFN
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
*This program is hosted by our partner, Human Rights Funders Network, who has extended an invitation to PNY ... movement’s capacity with an example from the US Juvenile Justice movement Presenters Jamaica Maxwell...
UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges
Release Date:
07/10/2019
... the topic back into the headlines. For foundations that are concerned about the census, this new threat means that ... question—to strengthen enforcement of the Voting Rights Act — was false (“contrived”). The...
Mission Possible: Supporting Returning Veterans (No Matter What Your Mission)
Release Date:
01/10/2013
... employment, housing…the list goes on and on. People are often surprised to hear that we at the New York State ... to get health care and mental health services in their own communities . It makes sense: a huge...
Towards an Equitable NYC Cultural Policy in 2017: What We Can Learn from Seattle and Nashville
Release Date:
01/09/2017
... experiences managing programs aimed at advancing racial justice in their cities’ cultural sectors. By providing ... You can check out the full program video . Meanwhile, here are three lessons that can guide...