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Ford Foundation Awards $6 Million to Strengthen International Human Rights Movement

Release Date:

09/20/2013

The grants were to seven leading human rights organizations operating in many countries and ... announced $6.25 million in grants to seven leading human rights organizations that will strengthen and diversify the...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Human Services

International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights

Release Date:

04/19/2017

Open Society Awards $8 Million to Physicians for Human Rights Physicians for Human Rights has announced an $8 million challenge grant from ... Foundations in support of its efforts to advance human rights...

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Health

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Open Society Foundations

Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

Release Date:

06/06/2017

Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is ... A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal- rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Wise is president and founder of the...

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Animal Welfare

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Arcus Foundation

NoVo Foundation

Arcus Foundation Names Adrian Coman Director of International Human Rights

Release Date:

02/01/2013

... Adrian Relu Coman as Director of its international human rights program. Coman will be responsible for leading Arcus’ International Human Rights Initiatives for the development of a global movement ... and...

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14 Nov 2017

Mapping the Intersections of Peace and Security and Human Rights Work - Brown Bag Lunch

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

The relationship between peace and security and human rights is complex. The protection and promulgation of human rights are essential to creating peaceful societies, yet, when peace is threatened, human ...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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International/Foreign Affairs

Public Policy

A Look at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment

Release Date:

11/28/2016

A Look at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment The Open Society ... and abroad, giving billions for work to strengthen human rights and civil liberties... A Look at...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

ASPCA Takes on The Right Horse Initiative to Increase Equine Adoption Efforts Nationwide

Release Date:

11/18/2019

The ASPCA recently announced that it is expanding its equine welfare efforts by welcoming The Right Horse Initiative as an official program of the organization.

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

Release Date:

07/10/2014

... Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights Among the goals Teresa Younger has set for herself ... Chronicle Of Philanthropy that safeguarding reproductive rights will be high on her agenda...

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta

Release Date:

04/13/2015

Ford’s Push for the Reproductive Rights of Young Women in the Niger Delta The Ford ... interest in empowering women by expanding reproductive rights . But it's particularly attuned to the sexual and ... State...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

Supreme Court Weighs Immigrants’ Rights to Have Detention Reviewed

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Supreme Court Weighs Immigrants’ Rights to Have Detention Reviewed Amid a nationwide surge in ... grounds for keeping them there, violates their due process rights . . . Supreme Court Weighs Immigrants’ ...

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Immigration

NoVo Foundation Transforming Former Prison to a Hub for Women's Rights Organizations

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... Foundation Transforming Former Prison to a Hub for Women's Rights Organizations Bayview Women’s Correctional Facility ... Foundation Transforming Former Prison to a Hub for Women's Rights...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

The Goldilocks Approach to Nonprofit Board Size: What Is “Just Right”?

Release Date:

10/05/2017

Among many interesting findings in BoardSource’s “Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices” report is a simple one on board size. Average board size has steadily declined over the past 20 years, as the chart below shows...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Our Common Purpose: The Struggle for True Democracy and Equal Rights

Release Date:

10/03/2014

... McCutcheon, Hobby Lobby , and related cases privileged new rights of money and corporations at the expense of people and ... and community; our food; our health; voting rights ; education, and so much more. At...

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Insights

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Public Policy

Social Justice

Brooklyn Community Foundation Accepting Applications for Immigrant Rights Fund Advisory Council

Release Date:

03/04/2021

... Community Foundation Accepting Applications for Immigrant Rights Fund Advisory Council We are now seeking applicants for the inaugural cohort of our Immigrant Rights Fund Advisory Council to lead a new...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Right Wing Website Questions Ford Foundation Motives on Advocating for Net Neutrality

Release Date:

01/16/2015

Ford assures that there is no correlation between their endowment management and grant distribution.

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We Need Ideas from the Right (and Left, and All Around)

Release Date:

05/02/2017

The goal of the Philanthropy New York Annual Meeting is to gather a large array of funders to think and talk about new ideas. It is a mix of learning and socializing – and most of all, coming together as a community.

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President's Message

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Grow the Craft: "What's the right relationship between philanthropy and government?"

Publication date:

05/2010

In a recent survey, GrantGraft shared reflections from eight foundation leaders on this question (including Karen Davis of The Commonwealth Fund; M. Christine DeVita of the Wallace Foundation; Vartan Gregorian of the Carnegie Corporation of New York; Gara LaMarche of The Atlantic Philanthropies; Gail Nayowith of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund; and Luis Ubiñas of the Ford Foundation) and then asked their users to weigh in. This survey report shares the results.