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“Poor” is Washington’s Four Letter Word

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01/21/2015

Language that ignores that fact denies reality. You can’t erase poverty by not talking about it.

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PNY News

Changing the Debate on Education Policy

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06/07/2012

By Lori Bezahler, President, Edward W. Hazen Foundation Over the past 15 years, education policy has gone from a bureaucratic backwater to a topic debated on the front pages of every city’s major newspaper. Where once we had...

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Commentary: “Visibility” and Corporate Foundations

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10/22/2009

As I read “Philanthropy As ‘Invisible Aid'”, I thought to myself that while private foundations need to do a better job of communicating their good works

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Names Terry Fulmer President

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02/10/2015

Terry Fulmer succeeds Corinne H. Rieder, who has led the foundation since 1997.

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Health

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Dyson Foundation’s Leadership to Change in June

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03/19/2015

Andrea Reynolds will replace Diana Gurieva as President of the Foundation.

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More than Test Scores: What Young People Need to Succeed

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03/23/2015

Hilary Rhodes, Senior Research and Evaluation Officer at The Wallace Foundation, examines the importance of social and emotional competencies when measuring student success rates.

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What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

"The world has changed since my grandparents were excluded from getting an education – no doubt about it, but inequality and injustice are still very much with us." - Fred Frelow, Ford Foundation

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Community Development

Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

Annette Lanjouw and Cindy Rizzo discuss how the Arcus Foundation's tri-level approach maximizes the impact of grantmaking.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Animal Welfare

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Arcus Foundation

Want to Create a Movement? Create a Community.

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06/10/2015

ZAC Foundation Executive Director, Cheryl Green Rosario, examines the importance of community building to spur support and create a movement.

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New York Health Foundation

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United Hospital Fund: Goals For State Regulation Of Risk Sharing Between Health Care Providers And Insurers

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11/19/2015

The United Hospital Fund published a report that focuses on the increasingly common “risk-transfer” agreements between health insurance plans and health care providers, along with the policy and regulatory challenges such arrangements present.

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Health

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Doris Duke’s Andrew Bowman to Lead The Land Trust Alliance

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11/30/2015

The Land Trust Alliance, a national land conservation organization, announced that Andrew Bowman will assume the role of president starting Feb. 10, 2016.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

United Hospital Fund Issues Report on Pediatric Primary Care

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01/08/2016

Pediatric primary care is of utmost importance, ensuring that young children have his or her acute needs met, but also promoting the child’s full development—including physical, mental, and cognitive health.

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Health

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Century Foundation Fellow Co-Authors Report on Admission Preferences of Low-Income Students

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01/11/2016

Top higher-education instutions should set an admissions preference for low-income students because such students now face unjustified barriers and constitute only 3 percent of enrollment at the elite schools, according to a landmark report issued...

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Karen Brooks Hopkins Joins the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Board of Directors

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01/12/2016

Longtime president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, current Senior Fellow in Residence at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Karen Brooks Hopkins becomes Greene Foundation Trustee.

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Jerome L. Greene Foundation, Inc.

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Arts

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James Short Named Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management at Carnegie Corp.

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02/09/2016

Carnegie Corporation of New York has named James Short to the position of Program Director of the foundation's Teaching and Human Capital Management portfolio of grants. He will join the Corporation on April 11.

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Philanthropic & Social Enterprise Leader Betsy Fader Joins Surdna Foundation

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02/18/2016

The Surdna Foundation named Betsy Fader, a leader in the philanthropic and social enterprise sectors, as Vice President, Programs.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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After the Election, Building the Beloved Community

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11/23/2016

Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, writes, "As I go through my own efforts to assess and understand the last year in our national life, I find myself asking uncomfortable questions about my own institution and the social sector as a...

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