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09 Feb 2016

Service for Impact

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Strategic volunteerism is a critical component of how corporations harness the time and talent of employees at ... impact through corporate volunteering. We'll explore how we strengthen the social and...

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Helen Chin Named New Director of Sustainable Environments Program at Surdna

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12/22/2014

... to ensure that benefits from improvements to our country’ s low performing infrastructure positively impact low-income, ... equity and social justice through infrastructure build- out . Ms. Chin was an...

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Workforce Development

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Surdna Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities Program Combines Private Capital with Public Effort

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09/11/2014

Rockefeller Foundation' s 100 Resilient Cities Program Combines Private Capital with Public Effort The Rockefeller Foundation' s "100 Resilient Cities" challenge, a $100 million programme, .....

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Community Development

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Thomson Reuters Foundation

Seven Million Fewer Uninsured Under Obamacare, Commonwealth Fund Finds

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01/15/2015

... range. Roughly 29 million adults ages 19 to 64 lacked insurance last year, down from 36 million in 2012, a 19% ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk

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05/13/2020

... to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Open Society’ s impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund ... in turn invests in companies that offer affordable insurance products for smallholders...

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Economic Security

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Open Society Foundations

05 Feb 2025

Grantmaking Equity Hour: Deepening Your Practice - A New Series for Programming Staff

Wednesday, February 5, 2025 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... - 12:00 PM – Listening as a grantmaking practice How do you sign up? Members: To register yourself ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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30 Oct 2024

Grantmaking Equity Hour: Deepening Your Practice - A New Series for Programming Staff

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... 5, 2025 - 12:00 PM – Listening as a grantmaking practice How do you sign up? Members: To register yourself ...

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School Choice and Privilege Are Inextricably Linked

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11/09/2015

... sector and was put squarely on the table at NCRP’ s Philamplify debate last month. As a panelist, I was asked ... philanthropic investments and public policy. Markets have worked for us: we have...

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Insights

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Education

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Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy

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03/15/2018

... educational degrees does not always equal understanding of how to respectfully support social change in communities. ... giving. “Most people that are in leadership have had a very similar life path. They...

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04 Oct 2012

Breakfast with the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Thursday, October 4, 2012 -

8:00am to 9:00am

... of a particular disaster, they remain confused about how to be as thoughtful and informed in this work, as they ...

19 Aug 2013

Conversations for Grantmakers: Crowdfunding, PEAKS & Gathering to Give

Monday, August 19, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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... like-minded individuals to pool their charitable resources and support causes they espouse has become a ... vehicles. Join the discussion about crowdfunding and how it is being used with examples from United...

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

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04/22/2016

... chatted for a few seconds. 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...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Lavastian Glenn, Director, Racial and Economic Justice

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10/04/2018

... Justice. In her new role, she joins the Foundation’ s leadership team working to advance solutions to the two ... now capturing national attention. She deeply understands how gender intersects with poverty and...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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12 Feb 2020

FCCP Census Operations Series Part 9: Monitoring the Count in Real Time Part II - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... webinar series, speakers will continue to discuss how organizations can monitor the progress of the count in ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Census 2020

Schott Foundation Introduces the Loving Communities Response Fund

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04/03/2020

... Communities Response Fund Like us, you are likely asking how you can most effectively support life-saving work in our nation’ s most vulnerable communities — if so, please read on. ... and hunger are included...

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Housing and Homelessness

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05 Oct 2021

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... conversations to explore the guiding question, “ How can we be explicitly responsive to the needs of the arts ... brief presentations, breakout discussions, and takeaway resources . Registration 10:00 - 11:30...

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Arts

18 Jun 2018

No Place Like Home: Responding to the Unique Needs of Homeless Children and Their Families

Monday, June 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... being homeless as adults. For example, New York City’ s homeless children struggle to get to school with over half ... of homeless children and their families. We will explore how coordinated, collaborative...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

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11/13/2018

... of local Cinchona plantations. In Jules Verne’ s 1874 fantasy novel The Mysterious Island, the sulfate of ... saves the life of one of the main characters turns out to be a gift from the reclusive Captain Nemo...

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Science

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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

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05/14/2019

... vertebrate animals including monkeys, birds and fish have demonstrated the ability to use transitive inference. ... enable them to succeed where honeybees had failed. To find out , Tibbetts and her colleagues...

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