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Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy

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03/24/2020

... important lessons cannot always be learned through written reports or formal studies. We were reminded of this on a ... practice celebrates educational accolades, academic research , and professional...

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Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

... courses and six community-engaged undergraduate research and internship experiences at the nexus of ... innovative course creation and teaching, undergraduate research , and interdisciplinary collaboration...

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38th Annual Meeting Program

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06/2017

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces $18 Million Grant to Establish Helmsley Health Discovery Tower

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01/24/2018

... Trust has donated $18 Million to build a 20-story medical research tower on the Rambam Health Care Campus (Rambam ... agreement to collaborate on the establishment of a medical research tower in April. he...

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Primary Care Doctors on the Front Lines of Medicine Are Burning Out

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10/20/2014

Commonwealth Fund reports that the lack of primary care doctors is detrimental to creating an efficient health care system.

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

... Fariña said. But now, there is word of two troubling reports . . . New School Year, New Complaints About ...

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Food Systems

More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

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09/21/2017

More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters.

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Morgan Stanley Foundation Partners with Mindful Philanthropy to Conduct a Funders Survey on Children's Mental Health

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01/13/2023

Complete the survey! The goal is to ask existing mental health funders, but also those who don’t participate in the space of children's mental health.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Changing the Conversation about Inequality

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09/23/2014

... mind, the William T. Grant Foundation recently launched a research initiative to reduce inequality among youth. After ... 400 letters of inquiry, we share some thoughts about the research we want to support,...

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College and Career Readiness: Are We Measuring What Matters?

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06/11/2013

... including Jennifer Sattem from the New York State Regents Research Fund; Andrea Soonachan from the New York City ... Mr. White provided an overview of his and others’ research on the value of a college degree...

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Three Ways to Maximize Impact Through Collaboration

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01/26/2015

... to achieve this goal—which ranged from support for research to state-based advocacy campaigns to grassroots ... hired staff to manage the collaborative. Initial grantee reports show that working in partnership...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Launch a Global Plan to Save Coral Reefs from Extinction

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02/23/2017

... from tourism, fisheries and medicines according to recent reports (WWF 2015, Smithsonian Institute). The extinction of ... in 2010 as an independent source of game-changing research , ideas and advice for...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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As the South Goes: Philanthropy and Social Justice in the US South

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02/2013

Grantmakers for Southern Progress commissioned this report exploring how Southern and national funders support social justice work in the South; how local, regional and national foundations think and talk about social justice work in the South; and the major barriers and facilitating factors for foundations to support social justice work in that region.

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Changing Corporate Behavior through Shareholder Activism

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09/2010

... Cummings Foundation's shareholder activities work and reports on the numerous concrete changes in corporate .....

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Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies

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03/2011

This report analyzes how the humanitarian community and the emerging volunteer and technical communities worked together in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti and recommends ways to improve coordination and strengthen collaboration between the humanitarian and technology communities during future emergencies.

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Evaluating the Charitable Deduction and Proposed Reforms

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06/2012

Many recent proposals for budget and tax reform would change the value of the charitable contribution deduction. This Urban Institute report provides context for policymakers who may be considering one or more of these reforms, as well as for other interested observers.

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The Philanthropic Landscape: The State of General Operating Support

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11/2012

In The State of General Operating Support, NCRP notes that reported general operating support increased 34 percent in 2008-2010 compared to 2004-2006, but the share of such grants remained unchanged at 16 percent of total giving.

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Leveraging the Power of Foundations: An Analysis of Program-Related Investments

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05/2013

This Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University analysis of key trends in foundation engagement in program-related investments between 2000 and 2010 finds that there is significant interest in PRIs, and that many foundations that use PRIs report successful results, but their use is still limited to a relatively small number of foundations.

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Building a Movement to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Philanthropy

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07/25/2013

D5 Coalition Director Kelly Brown talks about their 2013 State of the Work Report and how it can help institutions at all levels of engagement learn more about effective best practices and policies for increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in...

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