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More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups

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07/25/2014

If foundations want social change groups to have more impact, they need to step up investments that will help them make better use of technology, writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Among Backers of Education Post News Site

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09/01/2014

... with initial grants totaling $12 million from the Broad Foundation , Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Walton Family Foundation and an anonymous donor. It will focus on three ...

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Education

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Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

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11/03/2014

Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus Foundation ’s latest effort in support of gay and lesbian ... course for the movement and keep its momentum, the Arcus Foundation launched its My2024...

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LGBTQ

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... The billionaire’s New York-based Peter G. Peterson Foundation will announce a $200 million offshoot next month, ... and his son Michael Peterson, the president of the foundation , are seeking to further slow...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Jonas Center for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare Announces Initiative to Address "Invisible Wounds of War"

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02/12/2015

... for Nursing and Veterans Healthcare and the Bob Woodruff Foundation today announced an expansion of their partnership ... among others. The partnership will fund 20 Bob Woodruff Foundation -Jonas Nursing...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Veterans

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Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

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04/13/2015

... Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford Foundation has a keen interest in empowering women by ... the world, bearing 7.5 children on average. The Ford Foundation recently awarded Medical Women’s...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Gender Justice

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Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... against inequality will take center stage at the Ford Foundation under a sweeping overhaul announced today by the ... doubling of general operating support to 40 percent of the foundation ’s grant-making budget...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

by Chris Cardona, Program Officer for Philanthropy, Ford Foundation This piece originally appeared in Chris' ... an educated guess that there are between 12,000 and 15,000 foundation staff in the U.S. I...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... girls and women of color, everything is fine,” said NoVo Foundation Executive Director Pamela Shifman, who assumed ... was directed toward work in the Global South, which the foundation plans to continue,...

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Gender Justice

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Archives of Atlantic Philanthropies Given to Cornell Library

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10/26/2015

... Manuscript Collections (RMC). A $4 million grant from the foundation – one of the largest gifts to the library in its ...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Meet The Woman Driving Sustainability And Corporate Responsibility At Tiffany & Co.

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01/26/2016

... task is the additional job of running a major corporate foundation . For most companies, these demanding ... ended up with two jobs, and how the synergy between the Foundation and the company has helped drive...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding

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02/02/2016

... Unrestricted Funding The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) and nine other donors announced a new ... The Ballmer Group, Philanthropy The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Stanley and Fiona Druckenmiller The...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... There Goes the Neighborhood has been provided by the Ford Foundation , Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , The New York Community Trust, and the Economic ...

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

... a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum ... sources over the next five years. If the match is met, the foundation will kick in...

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Arts

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

... (NACo) are working with Aetna’s independent charitable foundation on the Healthiest Cities and Counties Challenge , ... healthier. To prompt communities to take part, the Aetna Foundation is putting money on...

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... bout of inchoate elation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a new grant program — the Doris Duke ...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation . Today, the foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with ...

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... States Artists Campaign The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million ... Ibargüen, President & CEO of the Miami-based Knight Foundation , announced the campaign...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’s Water Crisis

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05/11/2016

... from the city’s water crisis. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation , based in Flint, spearheaded the collaboration and ... a sense of hope," said Ridgway White, president of the foundation . "You can’t...

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