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Making Measures Work For You: Outcomes and Evaluation

An outcomes-based approach to evaluation works, proponents say, because it uses straightforward metrics to assess actual impact. How else to know if the work you're supporting is leading to the .....

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Report

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Evaluation

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program Staff

Publication date:

06/2013

... Philanthropy shares practical advice for building better working relationships with grantees, including five essential ... areas where program staff can have a positive impact. Working Well With Grantees: A Guide for Foundation Program ...

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Program Staff

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bloomberg Says His Work Is About "Saving Lives"

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07/14/2014

... he and Bloomberg Philanthropies are doing is about "trying to save lives." Adds Bloomberg: "Particularly, I want the foundation to focus on things that other people aren't focusing on. So...

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Health

Public Policy

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Home Health Workers: All the Work, Half the Pay

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... in the city's textile factories for more than a decade to support her three children after she emigrated from China ... more than a dozen class-action lawsuits against employers to challenge an...

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Health

Ford Foundation's Work Doesn't End with 'Grand Bargain'

Release Date:

01/20/2015

... Saying its $125 million “grand bargain” commitment to Detroit was a beginning, not an end, the Ford Foundation is pledging $10 million in grants to the city for 2015. The New York-based foundation ... provided...

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Ford Foundation

Life and Work of Robert Rauschenberg Profiled in NYTimes

Release Date:

06/04/2015

... in NYTimes Rauschenberg once wrote: “Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” Much of what MacLear ... patches missing or other evidence of...

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Arts

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

NYTimes Examines Hartford Foundation Work on Geriatrics

Release Date:

01/29/2016

... frightened and uncomfortable. She was submitting to the tender scrutiny of Dr. Elizabeth Eckstrom, who scooted her stool so close that she was knee to knee with her patient. . . “One of the greatest ... of the...

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Aging

Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

Release Date:

06/09/2015

Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing Community loan ... families, women, the environment, and small businesses, to name a few. While community loan funds have a 30+ year ... areas,...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Community Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

MetLife

Working with Start-Ups: Grant Makers and New Organizations

Publication date:

04/2003

... start-ups. Find out how they negotiated the path from idea to organization, and what they learned along the way about how to solve problems and help an organization sustain itself ... for capacity-building resources on the Web. Working with Start-Ups: Grant Makers and New Organizations ...

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Grants Managers

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

08 Mar 2012

Straight from the Source - Working with a Living Donor

Thursday, March 8, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

Teleconference

... from the family’s philanthropic focus and mission to the interaction with potential grantees connects to the legacy of the founders. Sometimes these legacies are ... family foundation members. Straight from...