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Funded by Teagle Foundation, Comparative Assessment Project Demonstrates Enduring Power of a Core Curriculum

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01/26/2017

... Based on hundreds of interviews with faculty members, students and alumni at various stages of their lives, the ... cultivated in these courses provide a key resource for subsequent professional and personal...

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Education

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Nonprofit Supporting NYCHA Adds to Early Fundraising & Programs

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08/29/2017

... & Programs More than a year-and-a-half after the Fund for Public Housing officially began soliciting donors, the ... Rasmia Kirmani-Frye, the founding president of the Fund for Public Housing, said the...

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Housing and Homelessness

The Back-of-the-Envelope Guide to Communications Strategy

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09/12/2017

... published earlier this year, we asked nonprofits to stop raising awareness, and instead focus on super-strategic ... playbook that takes weeks to write. You don’t have time for that, and you have to work with...

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The New Corporate Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs

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09/12/2017

... Recruitment Pool: Workers in Dead-End Jobs Pressed for workers, a New Jersey-based software company went hunting for a U.S. city with a surplus of talented employees stuck in ... attractive subset of college...

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Workforce Development

Camilo Mendez Announced as Chief Financial Officer of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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01/28/2020

... Cynthia Evans, who has served Dodge and its grantees for 25 years, most recently as chief financial officer and ... that Camilo is joining our team at this exciting time for the Dodge Foundation,” said Tanuja...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation promotes Aaron Merki to role of Chief Program Officer

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09/27/2021

... to four core focus areas—Housing, Health, Jobs, and Education —enabling the Foundation to focus greater ... a program director at the Foundation and was responsible for grantmaking focused on aging and older...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... learning materials, such as textbooks, were delivered to schools in a timely manner. Monitoring teacher absenteeism ... Now with the click of a button, the Ministry of Education is receiving information about...

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Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

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03/16/2016

... Strong principals are critical components of successful schools , and yet school leaders usually receive far less ... attention than teachers in the national conversation about education . The Wallace Foundation...

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Philanthropic Consultants/Advisors

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Education

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11 Sep 2017

The Pence-Kobach Commission's Potential Impact on Voting Rights - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, September 11, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Funders ' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an ... response to the commission Designed for All interested funders...

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Public Policy

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Susan G. Komen Names Dr. Judith Salerno as President and Chief Executive Officer

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07/01/2013

... of the National Academy of Sciences and is widely regarded for her expertise in medical research and healthcare policy, ... serving millions of women through community health and education programs all around...

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Grant Foundation Shifts Research Focus, Invites Studies that Improve Use of Research

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12/17/2015

... considerable distance between the research we support and youth outcomes. The stakes of omitting or misusing research ... is absent from deliberations about programs and practices for youth ...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

... of Social Workers (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers to ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Health

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Inaugural Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Tackle Problems with Creative Projects

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05/01/2013

... work.” Saqib Bhatti will draw upon his experiences working with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) ... across the country as cities cut budgets for services like education ,...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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01 May 2013

CEO Interview Series: Christopher Stone, Open Society Foundations, with Phil Henderson

Wednesday, May 1, 2013 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... , President of the Open Society Foundations , is our guest for the third session in our CEO Interview Series. Chris came ... School of Government and Director of the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces Appointment of Sindy Escobar Alvarez as New Program Director for Medical Research

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03/16/2021

... of Sindy Escobar Alvarez as New Program Director for Medical Research New York, March 16, 2021 – The Doris ... deeply rooted in the work of the Medical Research Program for more than 10 years, with extensive...

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Forum Tells Congress to Keep Johnson Amendment, Quotes PNY Official Statement

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04/05/2017

... that protects nonprofit organizations from being hounded for partisan political contributions and endorsements. The ... this vital protection to leave existing law in place for nonprofit organizations and the...

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PNY News

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

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Alison Bernstein, Longtime Ford Foundation Official, Dies at 69

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07/12/2016

... on to become a vice president managing other grant makers for the organization’s Education , Creativity and Free Expression Program (which is ... referred to as Creativity and Free Expression). She worked...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Lessons Learned from a Journey to Impact Investing

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03/13/2017

... get started in our exploration, we created a board-staff working group to learn more about the state of the impact investing ... taking a similar step. Our top recommendations for fellow...

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Rahima Nasa, Named First FRONTLINE Fellow of Tow Foundation Journalism Program

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02/06/2019

... has been selected as the first Newmark J-School fellow for FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary ... Foundation, which also underwrites the Tow-Knight Center for Entrepreneurial Journalism, the...

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