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How One Foundation Became The First (Trust-Based) Follower

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01/06/2021

... community and staff. Our role as funders is to provide resources to nonprofits and let them decide how those funds ... adapt. We take these steps not because we think the power dynamic will become completely...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Post-Sandy Assistance Needed for Long Term

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05/22/2013

... the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers looked for resources that would help guide funding organizations in how ... to come. They talked about the importance of creating a framework to support storm victims into...

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William T. Grant Foundation President Robert C. Granger to Retire in September 2013

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09/03/2012

... on improving settings that influence youth development and understanding how practitioners and policymakers use ... and study design. He has also led the Foundation’s work on improving the quality...

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Appointments & Transitions

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William T. Grant Foundation

Hartford Foundation Funds New Geriatric Workforce Center

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01/21/2016

... component of the GWEP platform administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. ... initiative, we will support HRSA's GWEP awardees in their work to develop a...

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Aging

Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

15 Mar 2010

NYS Education Commissioner David Steiner: A Conversation about Teaching Effectiveness

Monday, March 15, 2010 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... State. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Commissioner Steiner will lay out his key priorities as head of the State Education ... Ed from Hunter College, where he served as Dean of the School of Education. At Hunter, he...

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Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

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05/03/2010

... one of the presenters, Karen Karp , President of Karp Resources , share her thoughts with Smart Assets. As a ... sugars in manufactured food; how it came to be that the quality of meals in places which are...

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Unlocking the Power of Co-Leadership: A Candid Conversation with Rebecca Tye and Camaro West, Co-Executive Directors of Peace is Loud

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10/12/2023

... needs now. Through its Speakers Bureau and film impact work , the organization connects people’s desire for change ... team. Nora: Your working relationship is so cool, how dynamic and how well you approach...

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Leadership Development

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Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

Release Date:

09/17/2014

... return or risk mitigation. Therefore the asset class framework we and other institutional investors have used for ... The danger for us in thinking about Heron’s financial resources as “assets” is that we stay...

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Impact Investing

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F.B. Heron Foundation

A Conversation on Public Service Loan Forgiveness: The Philanthropic Community Can Help 250,000 New Yorkers Access $10 Billion in Loan Forgiveness (Part Two)

Release Date:

10/13/2022

... anyone with a total of 10 years of government or nonprofit work experience would have all remaining student loans ... 18 days away. There’s not a lot of time to get the word out , but it is...

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The Moment I Lost It

Release Date:

11/19/2014

... Agenda in 2007, which was doing a lot of public engagement work around the country on a variety of education topics. ... and apply a broad range of learning skills to develop more complex problem solving...

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Education

Can Philanthropy Support the Transformation of Society?

Release Date:

03/06/2014

... rights. “Many years of diligent, strategic hard work and organizing bring us to today,” he told us, “when ... violence and competition. So we are dedicating our resources , entrusted to us at the NoVo...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Food Systems

Social Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Women on the Front Lines of ACA Implementation

Release Date:

03/28/2014

... rates than the national average for all women. Our work on the ACA has focused on ensuring that all women have ... to support those who have the least access to affordable quality care. Through our Women 4...

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Boutiques for the People

Release Date:

09/27/2016

... to offer an education with the features of high quality boutiques, but, in fact, such programs can be found ... philosophy; during the ensuing academic year they work on a collaborative...

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The Teagle Foundation

From Boston to New York: Is a More Just City Possible?

Release Date:

04/21/2014

... incorporate community transformation strategies. While understanding that grantmakers are often pressured by their ... to demonstrate specific impacts and outcomes on very complex and deeply entrenched...

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New York Foundation

Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Genetic Link to Extinct Relative of Humans in Four Modern West African Populations

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02/13/2020

... years without fossil DNA. “This opens a new path in understanding the complexity of human evolutionary history in ... known about these archaic hominins, which makes finding out how this ‘ghost population’...

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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

Release Date:

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 Arcus Foundation, the strategic framework that defines the work...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Animal Welfare

International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arcus Foundation

Listening, Learning and Taking Action: Our Journey to Advance Racial Equity

Release Date:

03/09/2022

... words in a press release. We agreed to commit substantial resources . The question was: how and where? Typical for an ... up of people who don’t look like them or share the same understanding of the communities...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Every Person Counts: Why the Census Must Be Rescued

Release Date:

08/08/2018

... inclusive, connecting impoverished communities with the resources they need, and so much more. But none of that ... telling Ross that the addition of the question "harms the quality of the census count...