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09 Feb 2017

Becoming a Successful Board Chair: Tips and Advice from Your Peers - Webinar

Thursday, February 9, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Board chairs play an important and indispensable role in family foundations.

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Professional Development

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13 Apr 2017

Spending Up: A Discussion on Perpetuity - Webinar

Thursday, April 13, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

In the 2015 Trends Study, NCFP found that nearly three-quarters of all family foundations are still considering whether they want to limit their philanthropic lifespans.

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Tools & Strategies

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10 Aug 2017

Good Governance: How to Use Board Committees Effectively - Webinar

Thursday, August 10, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

There is more than one approach to effective governance in family philanthropy, and the use of committees is one of the most important tools you can use.

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An Analysis of Bloomberg Philanthropies Boost for Disadvantaged Students at Top Schools

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12/22/2016

... students, but fewer focus on ensuring such access to the nation ’s top institutions of higher education. Of course, ... of high-achieving low- and moderate-income students in the nation ’s most prestigious...

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Education

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NYSHealth Foundation Hosts A Conversation With Sean Cavanaugh on the Future of Medicare

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03/31/2017

... hosted a conversation with Sean Cavanaugh, one of the nation 's leading experts on Medicare, to discuss what is in .....

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Video

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New York Health Foundation

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Awards Scholarship Grant to the Schwartz Center and the American Association of Colleges of Nursing for Compassion Scholars Program

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04/27/2017

The program is designed to give select nursing and medical students exposure to strategies, skills and programs that are being successfully implemented in settings they are likely to encounter in the field.

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Workforce Development

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds that the GOP Health Care Act Would Reverse Gains Made by Community Hospitals

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05/05/2017

... was that by expanding Medicaid insurance for many of the nation ’s poor, the law would begin to relieve community ... a massive drain on hospital budgets, greatly adding to the nation ’s overall medical costs,...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...

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Children, Youth and Families

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation ’s biggest and most unusual corporate-philanthropy ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

After a fraught last few years in terms of national attention to issues of race, one would expect that nonprofit boards would demonstrate at least a modicum of advancement in the realm of diversity.

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New Book, "The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World by Carnegie Council Centennial Chair Michael Ignatieff

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09/20/2017

... led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight- nation journey in search of answers. "The Ordinary Virtues," .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

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09/22/2017

At the United Nations, His Excellency Prof. Alpha Condé, President of Guinea and Chairperson of the African Union, convened a high-level meeting to strengthen the partnership with the private sector and discuss opportunities created by Africa’s...

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New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries

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09/25/2017

President Trump on Sunday issued a new order indefinitely banning almost all travel to the United States from seven countries, including most of the nations covered by his original travel ban, citing threats to national security posed by letting...

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Immigration

The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

The rates hookworm infection found in Lowndes County, AL—one of the poorest counties in the state, three-quarters of whose residents are African-American (as were all of those tested in the study)—have not improved much from levels a century ago.

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08 Feb 2018

Choosing and Using Multiple Vehicles for Family Giving - Webinar

Thursday, February 8, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Increasingly, philanthropic families are using multiple tools and strategies to achieve their goals.

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