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For Foundations, Succession Planning Should Be a High Priority

Release Date:

03/31/2016

... Fund You are a Board member of a private foundation. Your President has been bringing up the possibility of ... go about replacing them? Rational thinking would say don’ t wait. You should already have a well-...

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Governance

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The Commonwealth Fund

Capital One Seeks Innovative Programs to Increase Digital Proficiency

Release Date:

10/06/2014

... world, community-based organizations risk missing out on the most innovative approaches to solving social ... This challenge is most profound in our workforce, as “ out of over 200 million adults in the U.S...

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Workforce Development

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Capital One Foundation

Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth

Release Date:

08/05/2015

... and in their own way. “When my daughter first came out as transgender almost three years ago, my wife and I had ... with seed funding from the Palette Fund, will roll out more videos and resources over the...

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Children, Youth and Families

LGBTQ

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The Palette Fund

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

Release Date:

12/07/2015

... America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks One out of every seven Americans relies regularly on food banks, ... Jersey, the ratio is smaller but still significant — one out of 10. But for the...

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Food Systems

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

NonProfitTimes Calls on Foundation Leaders to Demand Presidential Candidates Address NP Issues (Rockefeller Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund)

Release Date:

02/04/2016

... as to how the presidential nominating process will turn out from those three exercises in democracy hasn’ t been watching closely enough. One or two of the Republicans running for president surely will be...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Rockefeller Foundation

Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance

Release Date:

03/17/2016

... living in poverty. But according to new research out today from TCF’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering ... children age 6 and above) would lift 3.2 million children out of poverty. . . Century Foundation...

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The Century Foundation

New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the Universe over a volume of 650 cubic ... University, a co-leader of the scientific team carrying out this effort. “This map...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... the most part, state and local health departments haven’ t quite figured out how to incorporate population health-focused programs into their overall efforts. To try to find out why, a couple...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

Release Date:

06/07/2017

Ford, John D. and Catherine T . MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted In 2015, the United Nations laid out its Sustainable Development Goals to track global ... is that, in just a year...

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Ford Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation

Opinion: The Urban Revival Is Over

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... over the past decade or two may be in danger. As it turns out , the much-ballyhooed new age of the city might be giving way to a great urban stall- out . Starting around the turn of the millennium, young, ...

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Community Development

J.J. Watt's Hurricane Relief Fundraising Closes at More Than $37 Million

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... up) organizing of a charitable endeavor, born partially out of a kind heart and partially out of desperation when he couldn' t be there to help in person. And in the end, it can be .....

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This Is How NYC Plans To Solve Its Homeless Problem

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... As a start, the Human Resources Administration sent out a letter to all city shelter providers this week to ... assisted 6,400 homeless people in buying one-way tickets out of New York City, Gothamist reported...