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Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

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05/04/2016

... designed to promote access to higher education and to advance social justice. Unlike traditional scholarship ... — a number that far exceeds average rates for graduate school completion. In fact, a new study...

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Ford Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints Elizabeth Knup to Lead Its China Office

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06/03/2013

... based in Beijing. Knup has led a distinguished career developing stronger ties between China and the rest of the ... all segments of Chinese society gain access to community resources and government services...

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Ms. Foundation Announces Promotion of Ellen Liu to Vice President of Grantmaking and Capacity Building

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03/16/2022

... convenings to support the deepening of relationships, peer learning , networking, and movement building. She also ... time as Director of Women’s Health, she launched a new state -level funding initiative to...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

... according to the needs of students in a particular school . In many cases, this will mean more team teaching that allows collaboration among teachers..." Century .....

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The Century Foundation

Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in the world. At the ... in the three primary ways we pursue our work: Listening & ...

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Animal Welfare

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Open Road Alliance - Roadblock Analysis Report

Roadblock Analysis Report In 2017, Open Road conducted an analysis of 102 applications from the past five years to assess trends in its portfolio. The analysis looked at multiple variables, including the size of the organization, project type, sector focus, geographic focus, legal status, and type of original funder. The analysis also coded each application under a taxonomy of “roadblocks” that describe 22 specific challenges that these organizations faced, divided into three broad categories: Organization Misfortune, Acts of God/Market Economics, and Funder-Created...

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The Forum Welcomes Jay Hutchins as Associate Director of Policy and Communications

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04/24/2017

... that the Forum works as effectively as possible to advance the work of the group's members to engage in government relations and public policy work at the state and national level, and to use...

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

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Channeling the Power of Collaborative Funding for Good

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03/29/2024

... This power is often over community leaders who require resources to pursue liberation and justice within a sector ... a crucial role in the philanthropic ecosystem, channeling resources to impacted communities...

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Now is When Nonprofits Need Philanthropy the Most: Five Ways Funders Can Step Up

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08/05/2025

... frontline organizations and make the case for increased resources to support additional partners. ... contracts and anticipated federal cuts. They are also developing a strategic reserve policy that allows for...

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FORE Announces $4.8 Million in Grants That Support Innovative Solutions to Ending the Opioid Crisis

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02/01/2022

... Stop Overdose Deaths: Monitoring Comprehensiveness of State Policy to Prevent Overdose Deaths Principal ... JD, and Nicolas Terry, LLM $600,000 Tufts University School of Medicine (Boston, Massachusetts)...

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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

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09/13/2018

... foundation announced $5.5 million in grants to 17 after- school and summer programs teaching science, technology, engineering and math for those ... teaches youth how to build wooden boats as a means to...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Heckscher Foundation Congratulates Heather Sutton on New Role

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10/25/2017

... than they may have had in college. Heather and a team are developing an innovative model that will bring professional ... including the Co-Active® Model, a Harvard Medical School affiliate. Supports will...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Justice in Education Initiative

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05/07/2015

... in the criminal justice system to one of healing and learning ,” said Geraldine Downey, Director of the Center ... for the Justice-in-Education Initiative is a boon to our teaching efforts in prisons and jails...

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Mellon Foundation

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

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05/17/2018

Betsy Myers, Ph.D., Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes, " More than 40 percent of young physicians with full-time faculty appointments at academic medical schools leave academics within 10 years. The...

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Rodney Christopher Named First-time F.B. Heron Foundation Fellow

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03/01/2013

... from leading social sector organizations to explore and advance innovative ideas for new areas of investment in their ... change in strategy, one intended to deploy all the resources at its disposal in a broad...

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Community Development

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08 Nov 2017

Legal Series: International Grantmaking

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... international grant making, such as sanctions, operational considerations , and grant structuring. An experienced grant ...

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Hilton Foundation Awards $25.5M in Grants in Q2 '17, Approves New Foster Youth Strategy

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07/19/2017

... the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work ($825,000). During the first phase of ... youth; Expand and share knowledge with the field; and Advance innovative transition age...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Annual Grantmaker Salary & Benefits Survey

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10/2024

Philanthropy New York has partnered with the Council on Foundations to conduct a salary survey of New York City metro area foundations. Philanthropy New York members must log in to access the reports.

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