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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

One of Europe’s largest foundations, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation agreed to donate $150 million to a joint research, education and public policy program with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that is intended to promote the ideal of...

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

... in Schools (CIS) is the largest and most effective US organization dedicated to keeping disadvantaged kids in ...

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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

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06/30/2017

... ratify a deeply held value in American culture. They allow us denizens of the current moment to hold onto one of the ...

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Social Justice

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

If a foundation’s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, what better place to start than with their own internal partnerships? For Peter and Jennifer Buffett of the NoVo Foundation, developing their own partnership as a couple...

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Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste

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07/25/2017

Food Tank, in partnership with Rethink Food Waste Through Economics and Data (ReFED) and with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and The Fink Family Foundation, will present a one-day summit on September 13, 2017, at the WNYC Greene Space in...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, ...

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New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer

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08/04/2017

... We couldn’t be more excited. Mr. Rahamatulla comes to us from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program ...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced.

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... a nonprofit sector, to recognize the complexity that makes us unique. All nonprofits are not the same; the sector is ...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to provide elementary school teachers with ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Education

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... are the millennials, who the Pew Research Center tells us were born between 1980 and 1997 and, in 2015, surpassed ...

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... believe simplified and consistent date labelling will help us get one step closer to meeting our resolution to halve ... by 2030. "The Sustainable Development Goals have given us a historic opportunity...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... improves our fiscal outlook. This framework doesn’t tell us how or whether tax reform will be paid for. Going forward, ...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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30 Oct 2017

Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum

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1:00pm to 2:00pm

... take action now to support a fair and accurate count. Join us to learn more about options for you and your organization ...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

It is well known that one of the keys to a high-quality education system are excellent teachers. Research has consistently identified effective teachers as the most important school-related factor influencing student achievement. Recognizing this,...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... corn and soy for cheap meat and processed food, which make us fat and sick. While we can talk about the extent to which ...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

For the first time in several years, the Ford Foundation disclosed the investment performance of its $12.1 billion endowment, saying it generated a return of 7 percent in 2016. By comparison, the median return of more than 5,700 foundations that...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

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10/03/2017

The Wallace Foundation’s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: Pathways, Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls the “field of scale-up studies.”

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Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One

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10/04/2017

Is New York City significantly better prepared for the next big one? My answer is “No.”

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