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Paula Luff Named New Director of Sustainability & Impact at the Inherent Group

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03/07/2017

... fighting global poverty. Luff holds a bachelor’ s degree from the University of Wisconsin and master’ s degrees from New York University and the New School ... She has served on the boards of the UN Global...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

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07/03/2017

... in the Netherlands, where she oversaw one of the world’ s largest public funds that supports the rights of women, ... In her early career as an activist and fundraiser, Nicky’ s work focused on affordable and...

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Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

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04/18/2017

... answer is yes. Before we discuss possible solutions, let us fully understand the far-reaching repercussions of the ... to incarceration cycle. At Philanthropy New York’ s Prison is the Most Unaffordable...

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NY Community Trust to Assist More New Yorkers on the Path to Citizenship

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05/22/2017

... eligible immigrants in New York State with becoming U. S . citizens. The initiative provides comprehensive support ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Immigration

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

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06/27/2017

... An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’ s exit from the European Union followed by the unexpected victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 U. S . presidential election has sent shock waves throughout...

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

Ford Foundation Suggests that It’ s Time to Reboot Grantmaking Communities in Schools (CIS) is the largest and most effective US organization dedicated to keeping disadvantaged kids in ... no reserves in the bank...

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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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Gender Justice

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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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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Food Systems

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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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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Education

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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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Economic Security

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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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