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Ford Foundation Appoints Alfred Ironside Vice President for Global Communications

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11/21/2014

... the foundation’s president, Darren Walker, and serve as an officer of the Board of Trustees. He joins an executive leadership team that includes the foundation’s ... has helped lead to important progress by...

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Cricket Island Foundation Welcomes New Deputy Director Seema Shah

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07/27/2016

... about our field building and communications work. After an exhaustive search process, Seema Shah, Ph.D. joined the ... design and lead research studies related to international education . Previously she was...

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The Cricket Island Foundation

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31 Jan 2019

How Strong is my Corporate Citizenship Portfolio?: How to Assess to Align Programs and Maximize Impact - A Webinar

Thursday, January 31, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... stakeholder expectations. In this webinar, we will explore an assessment process and tool to help corporate citizenship ... , Partner and Director of the Corporate Practice, TCC Group Designed for Corporate...

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Tools & Strategies

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Council on Foundations Announces Key Appointments to Senior Leadership Team

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08/22/2013

... speech by Gov. Mitt Romney. Previously, Salazar served as an appointee of President Obama at the U.S. Department of ... for developing nationally recognized conferences and education programs. Additionally, he...

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The Burke Foundation Plans to Expand CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting to 50 Sites in the Next Five Years

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04/20/2021

... Centering brings patients out of the exam room and into a group setting where they learn from their providers and each ... Patients receive high quality care and, as part of an ongoing group...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Richard Correia Named as Surdna Foundation’s Assistant Controller

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10/14/2013

... has announced the appointment of Richard Correia, an experienced operations and fund accountant, and C.P.A. ... Correia was most recently a tax consultant at the Carlyle Group , a global asset manager based in...

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... Are Getting Old In the United States, we love to group people into generations. Today, most adult Americans ...

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The Systematic Starvation of Those Who Do Good

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02/28/2017

... highly educated—two-thirds of workers have some college education , and close to half hold bachelor’s degrees or ...

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John A. Hartford Foundation Awards $5.2 Million for Dementia, Senior Care

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12/11/2018

... , which was awarded $2 million over two years to support an expansion of its Hospital at Home care model through ... new implementation tools and resources, a national users group , and new payment strategies;...

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A Letter from Ronna Brown

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09/23/2020

... We must continue to focus, with laser like commitment, to working towards racial justice. And we are facing a ... are committed to intentionally building and nurturing an interdependent philanthropic community...

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Lawmakers Respond to Century Foundation's "Covert For-Profit" Report, Ask for Immediate Action

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10/28/2015

... whip Richard Durbin (IL) sent a letter to Department of Education secretary Arne Duncan and Internal Revenue Service ... take swift action against possibly fraudulent for-profit education companies: “As the...

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02 Nov 2018

Philanthropy 101: Fundamentals of Grantmaking

Friday, November 2, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... does a foundation employ to leverage for impact? This is an opportunity for those new to the sector to map out the core ...

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Tides Announces Kriss Deiglmeier as New CEO

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01/15/2014

... created, and in doing so, actively leads the progressive agenda for the 21st Century. By working collaboratively with existing and new partners, ... field, and we look forward to welcoming her. It has been...

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Common Sense and Reaffirmation of 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Nonpartisanship

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07/26/2016

... community. Those are among the reasons our public policy agenda pledges that the National Council of Nonprofits will ...

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29 May 2025

Budget Reconciliation and the Charitable Sector - A Joint Webinar

Thursday, May 29, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Congress is working furiously to pass “One Big Beautiful Bill”, implementing much of President Trump’s agenda on taxes, health care, energy policy, and more. While ...

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Who Is Hilary Pennington? A Few Questions for Ford's New Executive Vice President

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01/25/2018

... and research firm] Yankelovich, Skelly & White. I started working with him when he was 60 and I was 28. We founded Jobs ... remained a very influential mentor as I transitioned into working in philanthropy...

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Eight Cities Selected to Participate in National League of Cities Project to Build Financial Inclusion for Families (MetLife Foundation)

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01/20/2016

... Mayors' Institute will give the mayors and their advisors an opportunity to engage with national experts and peers to ... to safe and affordable financial services and financial education...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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F.B. Heron and Edna McConnell Clark Foundations Lauded for Granting Unrestricted Funding

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02/03/2015

... using outdated practices that are often more grounded in an inside-out, funder-centric point of view than the external ...

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