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Open Road Alliance - Roadblock Analysis Report
Roadblock Analysis Report In 2017, Open Road conducted an analysis of 102 applications from the past five years to assess trends in its portfolio. The analysis looked at multiple variables, including the size of the organization, project type, sector focus, geographic focus, legal status, and type of original funder. The analysis also coded each application under a taxonomy of “roadblocks” that describe 22 specific challenges that these organizations faced, divided into three broad categories: Organization Misfortune, Acts of God/Market Economics, and Funder-Created...
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"All Immigration Is Local": Philanthropy's Role in State and Local Advocacy - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 -
1:00pm to 2:15pm
... national headlines are dominated by federal immigration policy —family separation, the border wall, the Muslim ... to advancing fair working conditions for farmworkers, policy and organizing efforts are...
Proteus Fund and Proteus Action League Elect Three New Board Members
Release Date:
07/08/2015
... success in nonprofit management, philanthropy, and policy advocacy and has held leadership positions in both the ... Foundation. Here she funded grassroots organizing and policy advocacy, specifically in the...
Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation
Release Date:
03/29/2017
... is her strong commitment to connecting research with policy and practice. She is nationally and internationally ... initiative on the use of research evidence in policy and practice. This groundbreaking...
Rachel Block Joins Milbank Memorial Fund as Program Officer
Release Date:
04/03/2017
... other organizations focusing on federal and state health policy issues, she has served in numerous executive roles in ... she held several senior management positions directing policy development and...
Elizabeth J. Fowler to Join the Commonwealth Fund as Executive Vice President for Programs and Melinda Abrams Promoted to Senior Vice President
Release Date:
07/16/2019
... York, NY, July 16, 2019 — Liz Fowler, a leading health policy expert in both the public and private sectors, will ... the Delivery System Reform and International Health Policy programs. Fowler most recently...
2024 Operational Reports
Publication date:
04/2024
1/20/2015 - The Power of Micro Aggressions and Micro Affirmations Live stream & Presentations
Publication date:
01/2015
View materials and the live stream recording of the program, The Power of Micro Aggressions and Micro Affirmations .
Capping the Charitable Deduction
... to enhance and expand philanthropy, PNY supports public policy that encourages charitable giving. PNY recognizes the role that tax policy plays in encouraging and structuring gifts that ... deductions. Date of...
Paid Leave Seen As Way To Stop Decline in Women in Workforce
Release Date:
07/28/2014
... not to offer paid maternity leave as part of federal policy . An earlier study by researchers at Cornell University ...
Century Foundation Announces Janice Nittoli "Forward Thinking" Award
Release Date:
11/03/2014
... under thirty years of age in the research and writing of a policy paper on a topic that is central to TCF’s agenda. ... the foundation’s endowment and adding sixteen new policy experts to TCF’s roster. Under...
New York State Health Foundation Sponsors Report on All-Payer Database & Consumer Transparency
Release Date:
09/17/2015
... future resource for price transparency, quality oversight, policy research, and health systems transformation. The State ...
John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine
Release Date:
08/25/2016
... awards recognizes contributions by individuals in health policy , public health, clinical practice, biomedical research ... including as Vice-Chair, and her active engagement in the policy work of the Academy,...
Diversity in Philanthropy: One Small Thing You Can Do
Release Date:
09/22/2016
... Thing You Can Do by Michael Hamill Remaley, SVP, Public Policy & Communications This piece was originally published ... of the September 2016 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. What...
William T. Grant Publishes How Social Science Research Can Improve Youth Outcomes In The Real World
Release Date:
05/17/2017
... knowledge; either it is for academics or for users in policy and practice; either it is scientific or practical. ... real world. Researchers who want their work to matter in policy and practice should begin by...
Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave
Release Date:
08/29/2017
... our organization has a comprehensive paid parental-leave policy . I am extraordinarily lucky. While an overwhelming ... made this a priority. Yet a comprehensive national policy likely wouldn’t cover someone...
Pete Peterson and Our Chaotic National Debates
Release Date:
04/06/2018
... toward efforts to find sensible, consensus solutions to policy challenges. Pete Peterson played large on the national stage, in business, politics, and policy . In recent years, he focused much of his energy—...
William T. Grant Foundation Announces Three New Rapid Response Research Grants to Combat Youth Inequality Exacerbated by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Release Date:
10/22/2020
... grants synthesize existing research to inform smart public policy that can positively impact the lives of young people. ... UnidosUS and the Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy at Brandeis University...
William T. Grant Foundation Awards Rapid Response Research Grants to Address Pressing Issues Facing Young People in the U.S.
Release Date:
03/28/2018
... research, conducted by researchers in collaboration with policy partners, aimed at reducing inequality in youth ... “The unique aspect of these awards is that the research- policy teams are focused in areas...