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Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

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06/22/2017

... "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport" Atta-Mensah, a former public defender, recalls how she first got involved with CVH .....

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

... president of CIS at the time. “We had plenty of public and private resources to fuel program growth, but no ...

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Simons Collaboration on the Origins of Life Seeks Proposals for Investigator Awards

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07/10/2017

... in domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions such as colleges, ...

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‘Bro’ Adams Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

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07/11/2017

... our national life,” he said. “Bro has been a stalwart public servant, highly regarded educational leader, and ...

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Frameworks for Private Foundations: A New Model for Impact

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07/2017

... in reflecting on these frameworks to better align purpose, public benefit, and action. Tweet about this paper using ...

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Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published

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07/26/2017

... by deprivation,” Lackman writes. Perversely, public spending has not caught up with what we know about ...

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Indian Child Welfare at Casey Family Programs is Highlight for Native American Students in Crisis

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08/02/2017

... at Warm Springs—are Native Americans. Bridges is a public school, created as an alternative for teens who ...

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Schott Welcomes Mark Paley and Roger Vann to the Board of Directors

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08/15/2017

... victories on a range of issues including living wage, public sector employment diversity and police misconduct. In ...

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The Dark Side of Philanthropy: A Look at Tax-Exempt Donations to White Supremacists

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08/30/2017

A closer examination of how philanthropy can be to do more harm than good

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Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program

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09/29/2017

Recently, Dawn Brooks DeCosta, the principal of a traditional elementary school in Harlem, was looking for a way to boost her students’ social and emotional skills. Her search led her to an unlikely event: a charter school assembly.

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Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

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11/01/2017

... in another site that bucks tradition: the Brooklyn Public Library in Prospect Heights. The “ microcollege ” ...

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GroundTruth, Supported By The Henry Luce Foundation and Ford Foundation, Launches Report America, Designed To Reignite Local Journalism

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11/06/2017

The nonprofit GroundTruth Project is devoted to narrative storytelling around the world. Its new offshoot, Report for America, is designed to reignite local journalism in

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Ms. Foundation For Women and New York Women's Foundation Take A Stand With Prosperity Together

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11/14/2017

... of Prosperity Together, a nonpartisan coalition of 29 public women’s foundations dedicated to empowering ...

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

... according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. The study also found that excess weight in ...

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The Story Of Bloomberg LP's Rebuilding Team In The U.S. Virgin Islands

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12/06/2017

... in ways that have traditionally been the domain of the public sector. One of the most dramatic examples of this new ...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Shows That Medicaid, Medicare Accounted for 59% of Health Care Revenue for Largest Insurers

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12/07/2017

... study supported by the Commonwealth Fund. Revenue from public coverage has more than doubled since passage of the ...

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Announcing the Milbank Memorial Fund and AcademyHealth State and Local Innovation Prize

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01/25/2018

... robust data not only from health care, but also from public health and human services. This award recognizes the ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Donates $1.5 Million for Disaster Relief

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01/30/2018

... is a crowdfunding platform that engages the public in funding classroom projects, particularly in ...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Awarded $1.3 Billion to Nonprofit Organizations in 2017

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02/12/2018

... and shares of privately companies as they prepare to go public ... Silicon Valley Community Foundation Awarded $1.3 ...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Three Winners of the Pathways to Freedom Challenge

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02/15/2018

... for Freedom, created by Humanity United , is a public -private partnership dedicated to spurring innovation ...

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