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Ten Ways for Family Foundations to Consider Diversity and Inclusive Practices

Publication date:

02/2010

... by making their work more effective and more reflective of the communities they serve. By highlighting 10 ways family ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Family Foundation

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Appointments & Transitions

Ford Foundation Appoints Ricardo Castro as General Counsel

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02/01/2013

The Ford Foundation has announced the appointment of Ricardo Castro as Vice President and General Counsel. He will also serve as an officer of the foundation. Castro joins the foundation following an ... who...

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Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

... Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors at Measure of America, described how their American Human Development ... look at how people are faring in fundamental areas of life. We’re pleased to have them...

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Insights

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Human Services

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Philanthropy New York

Mapping Change: Using a Theory of Change to Guide Planning and Evaluation

... Grantmakers ask evaluation questions like these of their grantees and themselves. This brief guide explains why grantmakers use theories of change to guide their questioning, unearth assumptions ... Contributors to the guide also describe how a theory of change sets the stage for evaluation by clarifying goals, ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The State of Foundation Performance Assessment: A Survey of Foundation CEOs

Publication date:

09/2011

... and communities they seek to address. Data-driven forms of measurement have become more widely used to judge the results of programs, as part of a broader range of information used, as CEOs place great ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Financial Know-How for Nonprofits Online

Release Date:

02/18/2013

... the website strongnonprofits.org, which covers all facets of financial management, from budgeting to oversight to working with a board on financial accountability. The ... are designed to help charities become...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Finance Staff

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The Wallace Foundation

Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund Launches $15 Million Healthy Foods Initiative

Release Date:

02/15/2013

... Food & Community Change initiative with a commitment of $15 million over five years to healthy food initiatives across New York City – making it one of the largest donors addressing these problems in New...

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At Ford Foundation, Vice President Rises to Top Job

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07/24/2013

Darren Walker will become the 10th President of the Ford Foundation this September. Darren Walker was born ... worked as a nurse’s aide and he was enrolled in one of the first Head Start programs. He went on to...

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Open Society Foundations Announces 2014 Soros Justice Fellows

Release Date:

05/15/2014

... The Open Society Foundations has announced the 2014 class of Soros Justice Fellows. The fourteen fellows from six states will receive a total of $1.25 million in support of their work on a...

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Social Justice

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Investing for Real and Permanent Good

Release Date:

06/06/2014

... for Real and Permanent Good Carnegie Corporation of New York's co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew and .....

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Finance & Asset Management

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Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack

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04/14/2015

Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack Dan Osheyack will be leaving and beginning his retirement from Time Warner at the end of April. Starting May 1st, Diahann Billings-Burford ... career...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Funded Study Suggests New Way of Preventing Diabetes-Associated Blindness

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05/26/2015

In people with diabetic retinopathy, growth of abnormal, leaky, fragile blood vessels in the eye can ... VEGF have shown some success delaying the development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy, but they don’t...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

Release Date:

10/20/2015

... gotten nearly the attention it deserves – and it is one of our great opportunities to make a difference. Traffic ... why, since 2007, Bloomberg Philanthropies has been working to help other cities and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies

Release Date:

03/28/2016

... painting houses and as a grocery store clerk. One of John’s first jobs was in a summer camp in a high-needs community in Boston. It is part of the reason that he became a school teacher. ... you’re just...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Workforce Development

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Deadline approaching: NYSHealth's 10th Anniversary Awards Program Nominations/Applications

Release Date:

06/01/2016

... created two special awards programs to recognize a total of ten influential organizations and/or leaders working to improve health in New York State... Deadline ...

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RFPs Etc

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Health

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New Report in Wallace Series on Building Arts Audiences Looks at Successful Jewish Museum

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06/23/2016

... in family visitors and helped build the next generation of the museum’s supporters. The report describes ...

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Arts

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Funded by Mellon Foundation, Emerging Architectural Historians Win Awards

Release Date:

08/30/2016

... Win Awards Three scholars have been named as recipients of the 2016 SAH/Mellon Author Award, which supports scholars working on their first book. The award is an initiative of the Society...

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