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12 May 2022

Designing Effective Board Meetings: Purpose, Outcomes, Process, and People - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, May 12, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

The National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and ... family members and decision-makers to come together in service of a collective giving effort—to make choices about ... Board...

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Family Foundation

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Governance

Patricia L. Francy and Susan Butler Plum Join Guttman Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... Ferris Foundation . She also was the Associate Director for the Environmental Defense Fund. She is a member of the ... Fellowship, the Advisory Board of The Kathryn A. McDonald Education Advocacy Project at...

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Booth Ferris Foundation

Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

Botwinick Wolfensohn Foundation

Peterson-Kaiser Dashboard Provides Key Data on U.S. Health System Quality, Spending, Access, Outcomes

Release Date:

05/25/2017

A new feature launched this week on the redesigned Peterson-Kaiser Health System Tracker website provides quick and easy access to the latest key data measuring quality, spending, access and outcomes in the U.S. health system.

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Research Funded by the William T. Grant Foundation Finds Bonding Exercises Cut Discipline Disparity for Students of Color

Release Date:

04/04/2019

... Finds Bonding Exercises Cut Discipline Disparity for Students of Color Exercises that address middle school ... reduced teacher reports of discipline issues—such as for disrespect, defiance, or insubordination...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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State-by-State Impact of Opioid Epidemic on Children - New Report from the United Hospital Fund

Release Date:

11/13/2019

... by United Hospital Fund (UHF) and Boston Consulting Group and released today. The analysis, The Ripple Effect: ... billion in additional spending on health care, special education , child welfare, and criminal...

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PhilTV: "Giving Grants is Not Enough; The Question is 'Did You Make Things Better?'"

Release Date:

09/30/2016

... Family Fund and Executive Director of the Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare, a philanthropic ... by Rob Lott, Deputy Editor of Health Affairs Journal, for the recent program, “ Healthcare Crisis...

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Insights

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

Workforce Development

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Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk

Release Date:

05/13/2020

... in companies that offer affordable insurance products for smallholders and microenterprises exposed to ... of a broader effort, launched in November 2017 by the G20 group of industrialized nations, known as...

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Economic Security

Food Systems

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Open Society Foundations

29 Oct 2015

Mergers: What is the True Cost of a Merger?

Thursday, October 29, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... anticipated efficiencies actually materialized. Learn why funders continue to support merger activity, and why ... Managing Director and Co-Founder, KrasnePlows Designed for All interested funders...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The Affordable Care Act: Keeping Our Eyes on the Ball

Release Date:

10/24/2013

... over the next year. How will we really know if the law is working as intended, and if and when its provisions need to ... central goal is to guarantee affordable insurance coverage for nearly all Americans. It...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Simons Foundation Provides Annual Grants to Scientists in Ukraine

Release Date:

01/25/2023

... zone. But as a department head at the Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyiv, responsible for a staff of ... invaded their country last year. The foundation, which is based in...

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Disaster Relief

Science

Technology

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Tides Announces Kriss Deiglmeier as New CEO

Release Date:

01/15/2014

... and most recently was the founding Executive Director for the Center for Social Innovation (CSI) at Stanford ... leads the progressive agenda for the 21st Century. By working...

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Appointments & Transitions

JPB Foundation-Funded Research Reveals Potential Target For Alcohol Liver Disease

Release Date:

08/22/2017

JPB Foundation-Funded Research Reveals Potential Target For Alcohol Liver Disease Drinking too much alcohol can ... and mice have similar responses, mice may be a good model for studying this further."...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Release Date:

12/10/2019

... Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the ... creates a recording of the memory so it can be stored for the long term. This process...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Science

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Century Foundation Scholar Releases Report on The Future of Statewide College Promise Programs

Release Date:

03/07/2018

... While a handful of states have run Promise-like programs for decades, the 2014 launch of the Tennessee Promise and the ... decline in the percentage of state budgets going to higher education , 3 Promise...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

18 Feb 2020

Immigration: When Something So Personal Depends on Policymakers

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... continents—who took that plunge to make a better life for themselves and future generations. That emotional ... below: CCNY-PNY 021820 Recording - Immigration Event .mp3 Designed for All...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Legal Issues

Public Policy

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Immigration

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Social Justice

21 Jul 2016

Documenting Impact featuring “The Look of Silence” (OVEE screening, featuring clips and live chat)

Thursday, July 21, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Join us for an online OVEE screening featuring clips and conversation ... We hope you'll join us for this thought-provoking online event and participate in our live conversation. --- If you...

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Film Screening

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Social Justice

17 Apr 2019

"Giving Done Right" with Phil Buchanan

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

This program is co-hosted with our partners, Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) and Ford Foundation. Space ... and Ford Foundation, we invite you to join this special event celebrating the release of Giving...

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