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Six Months Later

Release Date:

05/08/2013

By Lauren Linville, Communications Associate, Health and Environmental Funders Network It seems much ... recovery and rebuilding. Not surprisingly, funders based in New Jersey and New York have invested heavily in...

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Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs

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05/06/2014

“The Principal Story Learning Guide” – based on PBS documentary and more than a decade of research, ... The Principal Story Learning Guide, a free resource of web- based lessons and activities to advance the...

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

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10/27/2015

... shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world are increasingly reassigning ... nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy, researcher...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Senate’s Obamacare Fixes Would Build on Heavy Lifting by States

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09/07/2017

... While Congress was busy bickering over repealing the health law, officials in red and blue states worked ... ceaseless chaos in Washington. The result is an Obamacare system that’s still vulnerable, but far...

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Health

Funders as Fellows: The Seeding Power Experience

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04/01/2025

... nonprofit leaders from different sectors of the food system . The idea was that by building relationships, learning ... and forming a shared analysis of what’s wrong with our system , fellows would find new ways...

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

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03/15/2010

... sectors are working together to improve the food system . This program was the second in a series of briefings ... have one of the presenters, Karen Karp, President of Karp Resources , share her thoughts with us...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Community Development

Food Systems

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Philanthropy New York

Rockefeller, Bloomberg Drive New Approaches to Urban Development

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05/03/2016

... with national and municipal government entities. More resources , time, and a consolidation of efforts could allow ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The 10 Companies with the Best CSR Reputations in 2017

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... is compiled by the Reputation Institute (RI), a Boston- based reputation-management consulting firm. It tracks social ... employees, scoring each with its proprietary RepTrak Pulse system ... The 10 Companies...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

How Social Innovation Labs Contribute to Transformative Change

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11/07/2014

... Drawing on diverse perspectives from across and within the system If you wanted to address, say, the problem of youth ... multiple iterations and quick prototypes of its Verboice system , an adaptable open-...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Communications/Media

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Michelle Knapik to Depart Surdna Foundation; Named Tremaine Foundation’s President

Release Date:

04/02/2014

... foster healthier, sustainable, and just communities. The key lines of work under the next generation infrastructure ...

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Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... solved if they receive this kind of focused attention and resources at scale with need. Conversely, there are some ... problems require different approaches.) We see the value in a diversified portfolio of...

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If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

Release Date:

03/20/2017

... by private philanthropy; not by the primary government- based funding streams. The government partners became ... changing skill requirements and variety of specific human resources needs. This paid off: the...

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Workforce Development

Burke Foundation Announces Release of New Jersey's Statewide ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) Action Plan

Release Date:

02/04/2021

... brain and can lead to emotional, physical and economic health challenges in adulthood. Adverse community ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

Human Services

Why Should Your Foundation Continue to Exist?

Release Date:

04/14/2014

... largely agreed that their organizations’ decisions were based on analysis that they can do more good over the long ... firmly in the camp that equates foundation longevity with value , especially in helping...

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The Communications Network

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Governance

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Compensating for Your Philanthropic Blind Spots

Release Date:

01/09/2014

... question: she was objective and results-driven, while he based his giving more on experience and intuition. He was a ... exposes them to sustainable urban farming techniques. Based on the success of that...

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Evaluation

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Bessemer Trust

Surdna Launches $18M Program Related Investment Fund

Release Date:

04/15/2014

... States by using its capital to create economic and social value . The foundation also announced an investment from the ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Surdna Foundation

18 Apr 2017

Mobilizing for Mission - On Grassroots Climate Change

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Washington, DC and contemplate action on the issues they care about. Mobilizing for Mission will convene funders to ... designing innovative strategies to support community- based action on climate change...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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Legal Issues

Environment and Climate Change

Public Policy

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Public Policy

Science

Asian American Leaders In A Moment Of Pride And Peril - Featuring Don Chen, Surdna Foundation and Taryn Higashi, Unbound Philanthropy

Release Date:

06/30/2020

... organizations are living their values during this health pandemic by funding COVID-19 initiatives that show ... As an expression of our commitment to equity as a core value , we invited the general public and...

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Surdna Foundation

Unbound Philanthropy

Schott Foundation's Jackson Declares "Our Nation Can No Longer Neglect Marginalized Students"

Release Date:

04/26/2017

... experiences, and rates of development. Yet in each system they encounter—education, community, health —they have their various parts “siloed” rather ... languishing under the burden of poor physical or...

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