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Ford Foundation's Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy

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06/30/2017

Ford Foundation' s Darren Walker on the Perils of Meritocracy American culture ... by his bootstraps, but by his hair. And Horatio Alger’ s stories, as well, while often remembered collectively as ... ratify...

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NoVo Foundation is Built on Partnership; Founders Champion Gender Equality

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07/19/2017

... Founders Champion Gender Equality If a foundation’ s mission is to build more healthy partnerships in the world, ... City. Spouses Jennifer and Peter Buffett serve as NoVo’ s co-presidents. They are highly...

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Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste

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07/25/2017

Rockefeller Supports Food Tank’ s Sold-Out NYC Summit on Food Waste Food Tank, in partnership ... Times; Stephanie Strom, The New York Times; Tom Vilsack, U. S . Dairy Export Council; Luca Virginio, Barilla; Brian...

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, ... budgets should not exceed 33 percent of the organization’ s total annual budget. In the case of...

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New York Foundation Welcomes Altaf Rahamatulla as Program Officer

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08/04/2017

... We couldn’t be more excited. Mr. Rahamatulla comes to us from the Ford Foundation where he served as a program ... and migrant rights. Mr. Rahamatulla earned his master’ s degree from the Bloustein School of...

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The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

... 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced. This year’ s awards are special because of the challenging environment ... funder of the reproductive justice movement in the U. S ., is being honored for its...

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Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... nonprofit organizations as if they are all the same? It’ s time, as a nonprofit sector, to recognize the complexity that makes us unique. All nonprofits are not the same; the sector is ...

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IBM Joins With Stavros Niarchos Foundation, Ford Foundation, And Carnegie Corporation to Help Students Tackle Math

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09/14/2017

... intelligence technology– trained by some of the nation’ s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states – to provide elementary school teachers with ... teaching...

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

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09/20/2017

... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... are the millennials, who the Pew Research Center tells us were born between 1980 and...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... question is how tax reform will affect our nation’ s unsustainable fiscal outlook, and that question remains ... tax reform must be fiscally responsible. Tax reform that’ s unpaid for would actually be anti-...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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30 Oct 2017

Census 2020 - Time to Act - A Webinar Hosted by United Philanthropy Forum

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1:00pm to 2:00pm

... the funding and planning challenges facing Census 2020, it' s imperative that philanthropy take action now to support a fair and accurate count. Join us to learn more about options for you and your...

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Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What's Needed Now?

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09/29/2017

Millions In Grants Have Gone to Teacher Preparation. What' s Needed Now? It is well known that one of the keys to a ... place, but that much work remains to be done. The report' s conclusions are...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

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10/02/2017

... Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’ s right about what’ s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But ... corn and soy for cheap meat and processed food, which make us...

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Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

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10/02/2017

... foundation averages. What that means is that as a group, U. S . foundations, which have a collective $800 billion in ... Individual foundation returns vary, of course, and it’ s possible that actively managed...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

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10/03/2017

... to Scale: The Elusive Goal.” The Wallace Foundation’ s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: ... the preface of the Wallace report echoes Rockefeller’ s title, declaring, “Scaling what works...

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Opinion: Disaster Preparedness Requires a 211 System; New York City Still Doesn’t Have One

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10/04/2017

... and information management practices to improve a city’ s resilience. With new technologies coming out all the time, ... preparedness efforts is never easy. In New York City’ s case, however, it’ s...

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SVdP-USA Launches Disaster Services Corporation

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10/05/2017

... in recent weeks in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico and the U. S . Virgin Islands. The corporation, which will remain under the auspices of SVdP-USA’ s national council, represents a necessary change in legal ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

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10/10/2017

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Just prior to that, Vermont S enator Bernie Sanders introduced a single-payer “Medicare for all” bill into the S enate with sixteen co-sponsors. Both pieces of legislation .....

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

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10/19/2017

Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’ s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’ s Fines Library books are free, until they aren’t: Patrons ... according to library officials. “They shouldn’t block us...

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