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Putting Capital to Work for Democracy
Release Date:
07/10/2018
... We know this is happening around the country– yet how can we capture these individual actions and harness them for ... to provide the best available data, technology, and resources...
Report From Century Foundation: English Learners and School Choice: Helping Charter Schools Serve Multilingual Families
Release Date:
04/30/2019
... are not only growing in traditional immigrant-arrival states , such as California, Texas, New York, Florida, and ... partly on the strength of promises that these schools can disrupt rigid educational...
10/20/2015 - More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation - Recording and Presentation
Publication date:
10/2015
View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation."
Regulating Donor Advised Funds
Publication date:
10/2015
... fastest growing charitable giving vehicle in the United States , with more than 200,000 accounts open, holding over ... We encourage the reader to check out the additional resources listed at the end of this piece. CLICK THE LINK ...
The Value of Rigorous Evaluation
Release Date:
06/02/2014
... program assessment or evaluation. Unless we invest more resources in our capacity to measure the performance and evaluate the impact of programs, how can funders and nonprofits be confident...
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Conversations for Grantmakers: Making a Difference- How One Small Fund Created Big Impact!
Monday, October 7, 2013 -
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Webinar
... about the story of the Muriel H. Marshall Fund for the Aging , and how one woman's gift to The Community Foundation created ... Conversations for Grantmakers: Making a Difference- How One...
Survey Supported by Ford Foundation Says Nearly Half of Young Adults Lack Retirement Savings, Pension
Release Date:
10/17/2016
Forty-eight percent of all Americans aged 18 to 30 have zero in retirement savings and no access to a traditional pension.
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Gives Grant for State-of-the-Art Computer Science Building at Ben-Gurion University
Release Date:
06/29/2023
... The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust will support the construction of the state-of-the-art Helmsley ... and the State of Israel. Following Helmsley’s impactful support of our research in...
Building a Movement to Advance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Philanthropy
Release Date:
07/25/2013
... first major D5 publication in 2011. Once a year, we show how this movement is unfolding and share the lessons learned ... the successes and setbacks along the way. These lessons can help all of us who are...
Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas
Release Date:
08/08/2017
... In a recent New Yorker essay , Lawrence Wright details how Texas politics have moved to the right since the 2000s. ... dire, but organizing in the state’s communities of color can change national politics. At...
Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now
Release Date:
11/26/2012
... take nearly fifty years for black males in the United States to graduate at the same rate as their white male ... The Schott Foundation firmly believes that all students can achieve when...
United Hospital Fund Report: NYS Faces Obstacles in Signing up Remaining 1.2 Million Uninsured; "Public Charge" Regulation Could Lead to Significant Disenrollment
Release Date:
08/20/2019
... author of the brief. “There is no shortage of ideas on how to cover the remaining uninsured in New York but moving ... of policymakers to further progress and identify state resources to...
New Thinking about Networks Makes the Field Better, Stronger, More Effective
Release Date:
03/20/2015
... is helping demonstrate the way network thinking can improve foundation efficiency and impact through ... up with the Foundation Center to think more closely about how our network’s regional expertise,...
Michael R. Bloomberg Partners with Commissioner Arias Cañete to Support European Transition from Coal Power
Release Date:
09/18/2018
... R. Bloomberg Partners with Commissioner Arias Cañete to Support European Transition from Coal Power Bloomberg ... Launched in December 2017, the platform provides support for the economic and technological...
3/10/2016 - Looking at the 990 (Part 2) - Live Stream Recording
Publication date:
03/2016
View materials and watch the live stream recording of " Looking at the 990 (Part II) " below. Missed Part 1? View recording here.
Carnegie Corporation of New York Supports Group to Register Dominican-American Political Power
Release Date:
10/06/2016
... are the largest immigrant group in New York, with a population of more than 673,000, according to the 2014 ...
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey Reveals Effects of Incarceration for Older Americans' Work And Retirement Plans
Release Date:
05/05/2017
With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey ... when someone spends time in jail or prison..." With Support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Survey .....
Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families
Release Date:
02/14/2017
... the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), with additional support from Jordanian social and education entities. ...
Simons Foundation Supports Brain Scans That Identify If Baby Sibling Also Has Autism
Release Date:
02/16/2017
By using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the brains of infants who have older siblings with autism, scientists were able to correctly identify 80 percent of the babies who would be subsequently diagnosed with autism at 2 years of age.