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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

... that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished attorney and public policy advocate, has joined the Foundation’s Board of ... analyst for MSNBC and, most recently, served as a Senior Policy Advisor to Hillary Clinton’s...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Publishes Results of Largest Survey of American Mayors

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04/05/2018

... mayors increasingly feel on the hook for addressing major policy and funding issues – from infrastructure to ... to empower city leaders to generate new ideas and advance policy that moves the nation forward...

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Community Development

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The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Seeks to Do Things Differently

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04/13/2018

... “systemic change happens” through shifts in public policy . That view has led SVCF to put a lot of energy into policy advocacy, far more than is typical for most community ... It’s been part of a number of...

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Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency

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06/28/2018

Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’s contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a series of staff protests at technology firms...

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The Wallace Foundation Names Bronwyn Bevan as New Director of Research

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07/31/2019

... team, share responsibility for strategic planning, public policy engagement, and organizational policy and development. “We are delighted to have Bronwyn ... a strong history of serving and learning from...

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Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Executive, Dennis Johnson, to Co-Chair PNY Working Group

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01/28/2022

... the Altman Foundation. “Dennis’ long tenure in health policy and his strategic thinking around the antecedents of ... children. For 27 years, he directed the Fund’s public policy , government affairs, and...

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24 Oct 2011

Taking the Next Steps Toward a Greater Collective Impact

Monday, October 24, 2011 - 8:45am to Thursday, January 19, 2012 - 9:30am

... first featured in the Winter 2011 Issue of the Stanford Social Innovation Review. To utilize a Collective Impact ... actors commit to a common agenda for solving a specific social problem and agree that each...

16 May 2012

UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: Donors Breakfast

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -

8:00am to 10:00am

Beekman Tower Hotel, 3 Mitchell Place, NYC

... on: Human Rights, Conservation, Climate Change, Corporate Social Responsibility, Youth, Women, Health, Education, ...

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The 2013 Nonprofit Excellence Award Winners

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11/21/2013

... also received scholarships for the Programs in Social Enterprise in Executive Education at Columbia Business ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response

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05/23/2014

... into a polemic that fails to account for the ways in which social change transpires. Worse still, by pressing our grantees to see the process of social change in this same inauthentic light, we ...

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Arcus Foundation Launches New Website

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10/21/2014

... articles featuring grantees and leaders in the fields of social justice and great apes conservation, dynamic maps, real-time social media feeds, and filter tools that allow users to ...

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... long been one of New York’s largest, most well-regarded social services organizations—was years in the making. ... FEGS is responsible for running hundreds of city and state social -service programs—but also...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Jewish Board Inherits $75 Million in Deals from FEGS

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06/03/2015

... Inherits $75 Million in Deals from FEGS Another Jewish social service agency has replaced FEGS as New York City’s largest social service group. The Jewish Board of Family and ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

... Impact of Community Investing Community loan funds are social -purpose, typically nonprofit, financial institutions ... and other stakeholders have struggled to quantify the social impacts of those loans. Aeris...

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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... has been a summer of political campaigning and stunning social change: hateful flags coming down, rainbow flags going ... on inequality, aiming to use its capital to create a " social -justice...

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Historian O’Connor Comments on New Ford Foundation Strategy

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08/04/2015

... Foundation’s top priority going forward will be reducing social and economic inequality, which he sees as ... embedded…in markets, political institutions, social attitudes, and cultural norms…not something…...

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Ford Statement on Importance of Arts Amidst Pressing Poverty

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08/18/2015

... Ford Foundation views the arts as critical to advancing social justice: “The arts quite simply enable us to be fully human. As a foundation committed to social justice, the creative spirit that gives us art...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

Release Date:

11/19/2015

... the announcement was met with widespread praise from social justice and child welfare advocates. The Southern ... the Connecticut Democratic Party all shared the news on social media feeds, many trumpeting it...

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