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Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Equity-and-Justice Advocate Kavita N. Ramdas As President and CEO

Release Date:

09/01/2021

... currently leads the Open Society Foundations’ Women’s Rights Program, will join NCF on October 4. She will succeed ... a strategy advisor for MADRE, an international women’s rights organization. From 2012 to...

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Alli Jernow Joins Arcus Foundation as Social Justice Program Vice President

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08/24/2022

... brings to Arcus comprehensive global experience in human rights and legal advocacy. She has worked as a civil rights prosecutor in the U.S. Department of Justice, ... a bachelor’s degree in English literature...

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JPMorgan Chase Joins Second Chance Efforts to Reduce Obstacles to Employment

Release Date:

10/21/2019

... Chicago. Specifically, the firm will apply its business resources and expertise — including data, research, talent ... PolicyCenter is powered by the firm’s global business resources and expertise, including...

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Ms. Foundation Releases New Report on Forging a More Robust and Equitable Childcare System in America

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... child care costs in our country outpacing the costs of college , it forces women who barely earn enough to pay rent ... safety, and their communities. Raising Our Nation looks at how barriers to child care...

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Simons Supports Penn Physicists Who Discover Why Drying Liquid Crystal Drops Leave Unusual ‘Coffee Rings’

Release Date:

06/13/2017

... drops of coffee evaporate. In one paper, they learned how to undo this effect by altering particle shape. Now, in a ... with scientists at Lehigh University and Swarthmore College , reveals novel behavior...

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Science

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Jeffersonian Dinners: Using Food and Conversation to Draw In Donors

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... slide decks to raise money for Breakthrough New York, the college -success program she leads. Instead she has turned to ... participants into the mission by eliciting their ideas on how the nonprofit can solve...

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Sector News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

“Reducing Food Loss and Food Waste” Video From The Rockefeller Foundation Funded 2017 Food Tank Summit

Release Date:

11/21/2017

... The Rockefeller Foundation Funded 2017 Food Tank Summit How Do We Create a Food Waste and Loss Free World? ... Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agricultural, Consumer and...

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Food Systems

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Finds Gut Bacteria Play Critical Role in Anti-Seizure Effects of Ketogenic Diet

Release Date:

05/25/2018

... of integrative biology and physiology in the UCLA College , and senior author of the study. However, there has been no clear explanation for exactly how the diet aids children with epilepsy…. Alfred P. ...

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Health

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PNY's Policy Corner: What's on the Ballot in 2024?

Release Date:

10/30/2024

... /*--> */ PNY's Policy Corner: Ballot question 1, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) October 30, 2024 View email in browser ... impact on nonprofit advocacy and marginalized communities. How You Can...

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PNY News

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Us Too: Building Cultures of Consent and Safety in Social Justice Organizations

Release Date:

11/20/2019

... of sexual harassment in his past. We considered how to address it in the upcoming site visit. We were clear ... justice organizations that may not have adequate human resources capacity, how...

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North Star Fund

10 Feb 2016

Put Your Foundation on the Impact Investing Map

Wednesday, February 10, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... impact investing? What's the range of efforts out there? How might your foundation take action and where does that fit in the "bell curve"? How do foundation efforts overall map to the larger...

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Two Emblematic Markers of Policy Progress

Release Date:

10/24/2018

... community leaders, and come to a better understanding of how our organizational voice is heard in the policy ... collaboration. Patience, judiciously deployed resources and multi-sector relationship-building...

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PNY News

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Public Policy

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Philanthropy New York

07 Mar 2011

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Workplace Flexibility

Monday, March 7, 2011 -

9:30am to 12:30pm

... for foundation administration, including human resources , finance, and operations. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION ... In addition, FAN member Gail Pesyna, VP for Human Resources and Program Management at the Alfred P...

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Network Building

Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

Release Date:

01/24/2017

... you hang around philanthropy, the more you'll realize how deeply family background influences people's giving. Read ... philanthropic families we've also often been struck by how closely the...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Foundation

When It Comes to Youth Justice, a Look Abroad Could Teach Us Lessons

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05/05/2015

... with whom we most often compare ourselves have figured out how to do just that. In early March, I had the good ... and juvenile justice officials invited to London to learn how the justice system in the United...

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Justice Reform

Salesforce.org Announces Advancements to the Salesforce.org Education Cloud Platform

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09/20/2018

... Today, higher education institutions aren't only serving students who are on traditional pathways. Student demographics are shifting, with three-quarters of students classified as "non-traditional...

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Education

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

... seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and end-user resources can be wasted through inefficient and ... of Echoing Green and Founder of Family Van , about how funders can navigate upcoming policy changes...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

Release Date:

03/09/2018

... Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences looks at how much additional income in SNAP benefits would be needed ... then measured the resource gap--the difference between the resources a household has and what...

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Food Systems

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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

Release Date:

06/12/2013

... and local governments looking to develop "pay-for-success" contracts using social impact bonds. The Rockefeller ... with technical assistance to develop pay-for-success contracts using social impact...

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Impact Investing

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FEGS: Canary in the Coal Mine?

Release Date:

04/10/2015

... poster child for the phenomenon resulting from government contracts that don’t cover the full cost of services, ... many things went wrong—some all at once (a couple key contracts lost), some over time (too...