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20 Oct 2021

Impact Investing, Picking Up Where Philanthropy Leaves Off

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... racial reckoning, foundations are increasingly interested in various forms of impact investing. Over time, this should ... and overcome the barriers What impact investing vehicles funders are using to get into...

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A Consequential Myth

Release Date:

04/09/2019

... black people are five times more likely to be incarcerated in this country than whites. It is common to associate ... from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist ideas in America , argues that is not...

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Ford Foundation

Kathryn Hall Succeeds Danielle S. Allen as Board Chair of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Thelma Golden and Joshua Friedman Join the Board

Release Date:

03/06/2019

... of Trustees. Kathryn Hall joined the Foundation's Board in 2012. She has served as the Board's Vice Chair since March ... and Investment Review Committee. Before founding the firm in 1994, Hall was a...

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2024 PNY Organizational Budget

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04/2024

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Sean Gibbons Named Communications Network Executive Director

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04/28/2014

... 3. Gibbons was previously at Third Way, a think tank in D.C. focused on advancing moderate policies and ideas, ... which followed his distinguished producing career in broadcast news with organizations like...

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Boards as an Accountability Mechanism

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06/2014

This paper examines board functioning in relation to both legal and broader conceptions of ... and empirical evidence from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute National Survey of Nonprofit ... to improving them, including regulation, self-regulation, policy -oriented strategies, and management-oriented ...

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Open Society’s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List

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09/16/2014

... Power Index is a ranking of the top global billionaires in terms of overall political power. There are a number of ... has assessed their overall political influence globally or in particular countries around...

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Commonwealth Fund Research Shows Elderly in U.S. Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills

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11/21/2014

Commonwealth Fund Research Shows Elderly in U.S. Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills The Commonwealth Fund surveyed older adults in 11 nations and found that the U.S. leads the pack in the .....

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NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning Self-control, curiosity, “grit” — these ... than intelligence when it comes to students’ success in school. But critics worry that the...

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HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America For all the frantic, often chaotic political ... involving taxes, gun rights, religious liberty and foreign policy , Americans may well be overlooking an...

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Economic Security

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JPMorgan Chase Launches Global Think Tank Dedicated to Delivering Data-Rich Analyses and Expert Insights for the Public Good

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05/21/2015

... data from JPMorgan Chase to provide one of the most in -depth views into how Americans’ income and spending ... Council and Deputy Assistant to the President on Economic Policy from 2009-2011.... JPMorgan Chase...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population

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06/01/2015

... use represents the leading cause of death and disease in the world. Today, approximately 1.3 billion people use ... tobacco use epidemic. To inform tobacco use research and policy formulation, the CDC...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Terry Fulmer Takes the Helm as President of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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06/11/2015

... EdD, who led the Foundation from 1997 until her retirement in 2015. Dr. Fulmer served most recently as a University ... Bouvé College of Health Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs...

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Are Student Debt Forgiveness Scams The Next Mortgage Meltdown?

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09/22/2015

... are paid by the federal government. Sam Adler-Bell, a policy associate for The Century Foundation, who focuses on ... with one company, Student Debt Relief, and how it operates in a regulatory grey area. Mary...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs

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10/14/2015

Hartford and Atlantic Funded Study Finds Four in Ten Older Adults Have Trouble Managing Health Needs Nearly four in 10 older adults say that managing their health care needs ... PhD, an associate professor...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

Release Date:

12/01/2015

... time and again, that the vast majority of us want to live in our homes and communities as we age, and, if possible, to ... goal requires that we design and provide good care in our hospitals and clinics, and...

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Largest-Ever Study of Cornea Condition Reveals Hidden Risk Factors, U-M Team Reports (Research To Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

01/13/2016

... Kellogg Eye Center and the U-M Institute for Healthcare Policy and Innovation, are published online ahead of print in the journal Ophthalmology. . . Largest-Ever Study of ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust

Release Date:

02/04/2016

... soda and wheeling around on a motorized tricycle covered in roosters and adorned with a banner hailing his Puerto ... Block and Ruth Finkelstein, an anthropologist and health policy expert. The project, which...

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