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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

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06/25/2014

... the suggestions: Start rewarding failure so long as people can tell you what they learned from it. One executive ... executive director noted that new ideas often come from people and activities that aren’t...

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Arcus Foundation

Investing in Advocacy Work Is Good — for Everyone

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04/03/2014

... states chose not to do so, leaving millions of low-income people stranded without an affordable option. Medicaid ... their Medicaid programs. The ACA is complicated, so most people need some assistance to...

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The Direct Care Alliance

Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

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12/12/2013

... harsh discipline in schools provided credibility to young people sharing their personal experiences, situating them in ... such as data on the personal transformations of young people as their experiences are...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Excellence is the Best Strategy

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12/10/2013

... of hiring and training. BronxWorks BronxWorks helps people in need, from senior citizens to foster children. It ... programs that led to a 72 percent reduction of homeless people on Bronx streets since 2005. A...

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The New York Community Trust

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From India to Africa: A Quest to Learn about Reducing Food Loss

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01/15/2015

... but indisputably necessary goal— feeding 9 billion people by the year 2050 —the need for an integrated ... According to the World Bank , more than 60 percent of people in India and across Africa rely on...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Communications During a Disaster: Five Lessons Learned

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11/23/2012

... could easily manage questions, potentially from a lot of people . Even though we did not have our email system, we were ... like this is pretty simple: When you have a great team of people who are determined to...

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New Tech, Renewed Trust and a Less Lunatic Political Process

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10/12/2012

... users. OpenCongress is used by tens of thousands of people every day to learn, track, share and comment on bills ... magnified by this incredible increase in platforms that people have… one user getting a...

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The Business of Philanthropy: “Exit Interviews” with Former and Departing Foundation CEOs

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06/30/2011

... the luxury—and the responsibility—to take chances on people and programs that may, over that glacial time frame, ... individual leader can make a profound impact on the people they serve. Therein lies a...

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Random Reflections By A New Author

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05/24/2010

... results while maintaining the engagement of one’s soul. People want to KNOW that they are making a difference while ... Most of us don’t recognize that we are the first people to experience four generations...

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Urban Farms and Gardens are Critical for a Healthy and Sustainable Food System

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03/31/2015

... community and to be able to track and share with the people that fund and support them. By streamlining and making ... efficient, they can also better serve a wider group of people . Design Trust's work...

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Food Systems

Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... is almost surely less than 10,000. Where do those people learn how to do their jobs? Philanthropy is not a ... mode of learning – and what do you get? A field of people hungry for connection who can’t get what...

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Children, Youth and Families

Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

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10/15/2015

... to improve opportunities and outcomes for vulnerable young people in Brooklyn. “We want to create a new model for ... “Suspensions and in-school arrests are often young people ’s first brush with the criminal...

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Brooklyn Org

Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

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10/29/2015

... Foundation’s dedication to poor and vulnerable people and supports our method of addressing the root causes ... than two thirds of The Rockefeller Foundation trustees are people of color and just under half of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Win 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards (New York Community Trust)

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11/11/2015

... mentorship and intensive career development. BRC helps people reclaim lives lost by restoring hope and dignity and ... these nonprofits achieve incredible results for the people and causes they serve.” “These...

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