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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Release Date:

07/05/2016

Ford’ s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are ... gone so far as to issue this brave statement about Ford’ s historical practice of only allowing 10% of their project ... service program that was...

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Ford Foundation

New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... team carrying out this effort. “This map has allowed us to make the best measurements yet of the effects of dark ...

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

Release Date:

07/15/2016

Ford Foundation’ s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice In ... a black person home to dinner. This complacency among us white Americans has been a historical constant. Even in ... has always been...

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20 Sep 2016

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months. Join us for an opportunity to share important updates, network ...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Arts

Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

Release Date:

08/11/2016

... on Family Homelessness, one in every 30 children in the U. S . does not have a home to sleep in regularly or is living in a temporary shelter such as a car or a motel. That’ s why A Way Home America, an...

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Casey Family Programs

Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

Release Date:

08/12/2016

... on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status The U. S . Department of Education on Thursday denied a request by a ... a crackdown on for-profit colleges), said the department’ s decision on the...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

Release Date:

08/22/2016

... rhyme of history can be heard in the federal government' s proposal for Small Area Fair Market Rents (FMRs), which, if ... New Yorkers in the poorest ZIP codes. The Big Apple' s bitter experience...

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Housing and Homelessness

Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/06/2016

... The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the NERC/DFID Future Climate ...

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

Release Date:

09/09/2016

... are vital to health, as the metabolic processes that keep us alive have evolved to operate within a narrow temperature ... hypothalamus (POA) as the site that detects the body’ s warmth. But because this...

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Health

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Klingenstein Philanthropies

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

... senior evaluation or program staff at foundations in the U. S . and Canada giving at least $10 million annually, or ...

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

Release Date:

09/28/2016

Andrus Family Fund' s Peguro Praised in NCRP' s Reflections on Resilience and Community Building ... the topic of “community resilience” panelists reminded us that there’ s...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

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09/29/2016

Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South' s Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long ... blacks its research shows were killed by lynching in the U. S . from 1877 to 1950. The nonprofit'...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

Release Date:

10/07/2016

Atlantic' s Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A ... puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U. S . philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck ... is...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

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11/16/2016

... Gathering. This program celebrates the Weinberg Foundation' s mission, partnerships, and accomplishments of the past ... assist those who have served our nation with honor. For us , this is also personal...

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Veterans

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift

Release Date:

12/06/2016

... The Sentencing Project has determined that, for U. S . residents born in 2001, one in three black men and one in ...

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Social Justice

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Brooklyn Org

Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

Release Date:

12/08/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New ... of energy and climate change in early 2016. OPIC, the U. S . government’ s international development finance...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

Release Date:

12/12/2016

... in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’ s America U. S . Syria policy had been due for a major rethink, even before Donald Trump was elected president. America’ s publicly...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes

Release Date:

01/27/2017

Rockefeller Brothers Fund' s Purpose-Driven Investment Highlighted by Forbes ... of age and now make up the largest percentage of the U. S . population - which means they are set to make up an ... Purpose-...