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U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits

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06/04/2015

U. S .-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits Those who ... are as dramatic, if not more so, than President Obama’ s decision to reopen the U. S . embassy in Havana. Some ... Cuba "has a...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... There are upwards of 100,000 foundations in the U. S . The vast majority of these are small and unstaffed. One of ... by which to learn how to be good at it. There are resources like Essential Skills &...

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Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

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08/17/2015

Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing Let' s say that you budget a certain amount of money to give to ... charitable goals with their decisions about how those...

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29 Oct 2015

Exploring Grantmaking Strategy: Options and Approaches

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8:15am to 10:30am

... your own foundation, how would you strategically use your resources to accomplish your mission? Would you: Weigh the ... October 28th. Presented by Young Leaders Breakfast Club' s Issue-based Event...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources . “Students were surveyed in the fall, winter ...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation Taps Sharon Alpert as Next President and CEO

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09/25/2015

... States. In this role, Sharon works alongside Surdna’ s president and vice president of finance to oversee all ... organization. She was the lead architect of Surdna’ s first strategic plan, which created a...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New VP of Programs Kaberi Banerjee Murthy

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12/02/2015

... to welcome Kaberi Banerjee Murthy as the organization’ s new Vice President of Programs. Kaberi will oversee the Foundation’ s strategic initiatives and grantmaking programs focused on the borough’ s...

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A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy

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12/2015

... with funding partners and thought leaders, Piper’ s report "A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the ... and infrastructure needs? The report also includes resources and links to readings to help funders think further .....

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Arabella Launches Special Consulting Practice on Food Philanthropy

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12/04/2015

... nutritional needs Smarter, more sustainable use of our resources through a system that produces the food we need ...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

Opinion from Ford Foundation' s Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough During this ... emerged and flourished in the pattern of Carnegie’ s mold. Iconic American families — Gates, Knight, ... of people around...

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On Philanthropy: All Investing is Impact Investing (Rockefeller Brothers Fund, F.B. Heron Foundation)

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01/04/2016

... donations for the public good. The great majority of those resources are invested for a financial return without regard ...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

... unions. By stripping these unions of key financial resources — their fair share of fees provided by nonmembers ... the like — are the remaining bright spot in America’ s once-thriving trade union movement. In...

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JP Morgan Chase Institute Report: Understanding Income Volatility & the Role of the Online Platform Economy

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02/19/2016

... CEO, JPMorgan Chase Institute, writes, "Even as the U. S . economy continues to create thousands of jobs each month, .....

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UHF: A New Arena For Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care

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03/25/2016

... has highlighted this need with an array of online resources for providers and consumers, and in March 2015 the Obama administration’ s National Action Plan challenged providers to halve ... antibiotic use in...

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Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

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03/30/2016

... Club Sandra Schwarzer, global director of human resources at Open Society Foundations, one of the largest ... large and small. Starting in January, 2014, George Soros’ s global organization announced that all...

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Teagle Foundation's Connor on Asserting the Value of the Humanities

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04/22/2016

... Then the president asked, “How can we justify putting resources into Ancient Greek 101 where the enrollment is ... education in general. Wait a minute, I thought. That’ s his job, or ought to be. Her job is to...

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BUILD Health Call for Partners

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06/02/2016

... local health departments that share a commitment tomoving resources , attention, and action upstream to drive ...

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Ford Foundation and Leading Thinkers Discuss A New Gospel of Philanthropy

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08/10/2016

... like extreme poverty and hunger — but acquire their resources through forces that have arguably helped create ... opened the floor by describing philanthropy’ s fundamental contradiction — and reminded readers...

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Marlow Kee Named Chief Financial Officer at Simons Foundation

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10/14/2016

... officer (CFO). As CFO, Kee will oversee the foundation’ s finance, facilities and human resources departments and will help develop strategies to ... his 10-year tenure at PATH, Kee oversaw the organization’...

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