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The Commonwealth Fund

Partner & Prepare: How to Fund Advocacy During Polarized Political Times

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02/06/2012

... Leading the charge on an issue can bring an organization’ s work into the spotlight—and sometimes also under a ... discourse, the organization revealed that the proposed policy change would mean that anyone...

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... City Nonprofits United Way of New York City Sometimes it’ s easy to forget how much nonprofits touch people’ s lives. ... standards to our due diligence processes—yet funneling resources to...

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Ariane Cruz Represented Philanthropy New York with City Council Testimony to Improve Contracting for Nonprofits

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04/30/2025

... for Nonprofits As a part of Philanthropy New York' s ongoing efforts to serve as an ally to nonprofits and ... ecosystem, Ariane Cruz, our Sr. Manager of Public Policy & Collaboration, testified in...

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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? A National Study of Philanthropic Practice

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03/2012

GEO' s new national field survey of grantmaking practice ... some of the key shifts in grantmaking since 2008 and what they mean for supporting nonprofit resilience. Is .....

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TCC Group

Executive Transitions: Grantmakers and Nonprofit Leadership Change

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03/2006

... Where is the fine line between helping and intruding? What interventions work? And how can a grantmaker play a ...

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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

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11/2008

Grantmakers who fund community organizing say it' s the best option when you want to promote civic engagement and support lasting solutions to a community' s problems. Yet many funders, concerned about the ability to ... a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely .....

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Social Justice

Mapping Change: Using a Theory of Change to Guide Planning and Evaluation

" What are we doing, and why do we think it' s going to make a difference? Are we being effective?" .....

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Saying Yes/Saying No: Strengthening Your Decision-Giving Skills

Publication date:

06/2004

... than they can recommend for funding. Decision making about what to fund is challenging and so is decision giving to ... or No, so that grant applicants understand your foundation' s rationale, feel that they've been treated fairly, and can .....

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Grantees Report Back: Helpful Reporting and Evaluation Processes

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01/2011

... grantees experience reporting and evaluation processes? What makes them most helpful? How can foundations improve ...

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Our Guides to Knowledge: Celebrating 'I Love My Librarian Award' Winners

Release Date:

12/19/2012

... York Times "I Love My Librarian" Award. Almost everyone' s life has been enriched by what they learned in a library. But libraries would not be .....

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Sequestering the Sector

Release Date:

02/28/2013

... Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman discusses what the sequester could mean for the nonprofit sector. ...

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The Transformative Power of Philanthropy

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05/09/2013

... series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’ s reflections on the unique strengths and enduring lessons of ... I’ve been contributing a series of posts about what we’ve learned about strategic...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers

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08/06/2013

... rapidly proliferating municipal bankruptcies to America' s cities. So this week, the city of Richmond, Calif., will be the first of what will ultimately be many cities to begin taking bold .....

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The Century Foundation

02 Apr 2014

Grantee Executive Transitions – When and How to Engage as Funders

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8:45am to 11:00am

Foundations give grants to organizations. But let’ s be real: leadership matters. So what happens when the leadership at a grantee institution ... top is big and often scary for a grantee. Knowing how and ...

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Simplify: A New Data-Sharing Process for Funders & Grantees

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01/2014

What makes a nonprofit successful? Specifics vary, but one ...

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Information Technology

Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive

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03/2014

... as rich as they were before the downturn, and that’ s putting a damper on their giving. What it’ s not doing though: crimping ambitious new grant-making ...

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Kindness, Charitable Behavior Influenced by Amygdala, Simons Foundation Supported Research Reveals

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12/15/2015

... amygdala, a small structure at the front end of the brain' s temporal lobe, has long been associated with negative ... also influence positive social functions like kindness and what might be called...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Guide to Collaborative Philanthropy

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10/2016

... group, notes template, and detailed description of what support we provide in which circumstances . Based on ...

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Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors

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01/04/2017

Bessemer Trust' s Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors With ... 2016 election just weeks behind us, it is still uncertain what the Trump administration’ s influence on...

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