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Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?

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09/12/2013

... nonprofits, like Independent Diplomat and ioby , that struggle to find major funding partners. Our shared ... about the current preoccupation with “metrics” and “ impact ”. How do you respond when asked the...

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The Wallace Foundation Releases New Guide to Help School Districts Recruit Students for Voluntary Summer Learning Programs

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03/06/2018

... launch voluntary summer learning programs, especially for children from low-income families. But once a program becomes ... templates that districts and others can use to interest children and families in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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SeaChange Capital Partners Announces New Fund to Make Program-Related Investments in New York City

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11/24/2014

... – The Altman Foundation, The Heckscher Foundation for Children , SeaChange Capital Partners, The Thompson Family ... York Pooled PRI Fund ("NYPRI") – to make flexible, high- impact capital available...

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Building and Strengthening Partnerships Across New Jersey: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants

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08/25/2022

... our purposeful efforts to support and recognize the impact of years-long partners and institutions, while also ... that support the creation of housing choices and economic opportunities for low- and moderate-...

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Environment and Climate Change

Long Island Community Foundation Along with National and Local Donors Join Collaborative Charged with Closing the Racial Wealth Gap on Long Island

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02/27/2020

... Island Racial Equity Donor Collaborative in 2018 to pool resources and develop a grantmaking strategy to address the ... the Urban Institute to aid in the creation of a high- impact funding strategy. The...

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Community Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces $3 Million in New Funding for Data Science Platform Global.health To Strengthen Pathogen Surveillance and Response

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11/01/2022

... available open-source tools, training, datasets, and opportunities for research, cultivating a team of scientists ... September 2020 as a new innovative tool for foundations, impact investors, businesses, and...

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9 Million Kids Get Health Insurance Under CHIP. Congress Just Let It Expire.

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10/02/2017

... Congress Just Let It Expire. Congress just allowed the Children ’s Health Insurance Program, which provided low-cost health insurance to 9 million children , to expire. If action is not taken soon to restore...

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A Conversation with Brandee McHale, the Association of Corporate Citizenship Professionals 2022 Trailblazer Purpose Award Winner

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12/07/2022

... year, the Trailblazer recognizes a senior corporate social impact department leader whose governance, strategy, and ... all have to drive impact beyond just deploying financial resources ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Citi Foundation

Membership Dues: FAQs about Dues Adjustment for 2025

... charities that fundraise the majority of their grants budget . How does PNY’s membership dues structure compare ... that made sense for PNY’s context. How does this impact PNY’s work? The updated dues schedule...

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces the 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Awardees

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08/09/2022

... representation, with 53% of the selected projects led by women and 23% by those identifying as Black or ... transfusions as a method to mitigate silent strokes in children with sickle cell disease; Dr...

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21 Mar 2019

Asylum Under Attack: The Dismantling of the System and What Philanthropy Can Do - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

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4:00pm to 5:00pm

... policies that do not take into account humanitarian impact . The current administration’s narrative, policy ... to commission an analysis of challenges to the system and opportunities for intervention. This...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Create New Multilateral Development Banks Challenge Fund To Increase Investment in Developing Countries

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10/12/2022

... concrete steps to dramatically increase their funding and impact .” The G20 report contains a series of ... operating models, and uses of banks’ financial resources to enable evolution of these institutions...

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

... direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women . Using the values and mission of the National ... from the Rockefeller Foundation -- the not-for-profit Impact Shares on Tuesday launched the...

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Peterson Foundation President Comments on State of the Union Address

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01/13/2016

... long-term challenges." "The costly and unfunded budget legislation passed by Congress and signed by the ... debt will become the third largest category in the federal budget by 2023, the second...

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Woodruff Foundation Reflects on Its First Decade

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02/11/2016

... bomb nearly took Bob's life in Iraq, we celebrate the impact that moment has had over the last decade. Inspired ... can we do?" Seeing an opportunity to help our men and women in uniform, the Bob...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project Supports Williamsburg Bray School project

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02/19/2022

... the country that was dedicated to the education of Black children . The Williamsburg Bray School was a ... and vice president for museums, preservation and historic resources . “The restored structure will...

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Findings from Century Foundation Report Lead Higher Education Advocacy Charge in California

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06/01/2018

Among the recommendations of an April report from the progressive think-tank The Century Foundation was a call to shift the focus of the Cal Grant program from covering tuition costs to helping students meet the full cost of attending college.

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Judy Woodruff and Jared Cohon to Join the Carnegie Corporation Board of Trustees

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12/11/2013

... addition, she is a founding co-chair of the International Women 's Media Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting and encouraging women in communication industries worldwide. She serves on .....

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NYCT Backs Legal Aid Program for Young Migrants

Release Date:

09/23/2014

... and other services to some 1,000 unaccompanied immigrant children facing possible deportation under a new accelerated ... deportation cases has since swelled to 30 per day from fewer than 100 per month,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The New York Community Trust

Helmsley Charitable Trust Donates $1.6 Million to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia

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10/21/2014

... to Address School Dropout Crisis in Ethiopia SOS Children 's Villages, the world's largest organization dedicated to orphaned and abandoned children , announced today that it has received a $1.6...

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