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Strengthening our Framework to Maximize Impact

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06/01/2022

... in reform efforts. Three ideas can guide our thinking on how to achieve that. 1) Funders must recognize the dichotomy ... knowing that harm reduction and access to restorative resources are key underpinnings...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

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Arnold Ventures

Hugh Hogan to Step Down as van Ameringen Foundation Executive Director to Launch Advisory Practice and to Become Senior Advisor to The Action Lab

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03/24/2022

... as we’ve supported compassionate, community-based mental health treatment in neighborhoods and communities traumatized ... its support for advocacy to address the profound mental health needs of children,...

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van Ameringen Foundation

What Kinds of Public-Private Partnerships Do We Want?

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05/19/2014

... months into the new Administration, it is time to consider how we reposition ourselves for this new era. As staff and ... and government. Given each sector’s purpose and relative resources , the normative...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Public Policy

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Public Policy

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29 Mar 2018

Financial Series - Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees

Thursday, March 29, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

... Capacity April 12 - Getting the Financial Information You Need Without Overburdening Grantees * This session assumes ... its governance, its financial stability and even how it is strategically deploying its...

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Grantmakers in the Arts Selects Edwin Torres as New CEO

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08/16/2017

... of the Chicago-based Field Foundation. “Eddie Torres has experience that ranges from government to private ... positive social change by informing and influencing how cultural philanthropy is conducted. The...

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Arts

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Grantmakers in the Arts

Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Show Commitment to Next Generation of Progressive Philanthropists

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02/20/2018

... priority, and funders are thinking harder about how to move power into the hands of vulnerable communities ... space that's primed for growth in a polarized era of high anxiety. An important niche in the...

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A Message from the Funders Census Initiative

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04/01/2020

... power and more than $1.5 trillion per year in federal resources , further marginalizing the communities and ... including the extent to which fear, distrust, apathy, and how COVID-19 will impact final census...

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Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

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Census 2020

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Long Island Community Foundation

Vivian Tseng of The William T. Grant Foundation on Meeting this Moment (Part II): Unpacking Anti-Asian Racism

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03/31/2021

... safe, but I suspect my concern for her safety will endure. How could it not? Amid mounting attacks on Asian elders and ... that one of the defining features of the Asian American experience is invisibility...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Social Justice

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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02/16/2017

... nonpartisan philanthropy dedicated to improving the care of older adults. Suttles’ work at the foundation ... of working with strategic partners to develop age-friendly health systems. The foundation is also...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Health

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New York Life’s Impact Investment Initiative commits $50 million to Enterprise Community Loan Fund.

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11/10/2021

... disparities and provide equitable access to the capital resources required to gain power, autonomy, and impact for ... or preservation of more than 123,000 homes, 600,000 annual health care...

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New York Life Insurance Company

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Community Development

Housing and Homelessness

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For philanthropy, racial equity isn't enough: Why we've moved to redistribution to address the racial wealth gap

Release Date:

10/14/2021

... reforms in the District of Columbia's criminal justice system to serve as a national model for change. Their ... in a unique moment of social reckoning, an awakening to how our country has historically...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Donor Collaborations: Size Matters Less Than You Think

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05/24/2013

... John MacIntosh responds to a recent SSIR article on high stakes donor collaborations, using the New York Merger, ... Stakes Donor Collaborations” is important in describing how donors can come together around...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Artealia Gilliard as its First Director of Communications

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03/23/2017

... and growing inequality. Gilliard brings 15 years of experience in the Foundation’s focus areas, developing ... she experienced the nature of structural inequality, and how changing weather patterns, floods and...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 billion to Catalyze a Green Recovery from Pandemic

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10/26/2020

... and data to fight the pandemic, while strengthening public health systems to prevent future outbreaks. In addition to this unique, one-time commitment of additional resources , The Rockefeller Foundation’s...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Disaster Relief

Health

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The Rockefeller Foundation

5 Questions for…Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation

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06/28/2012

... legacy as an innovator in the nonprofit sector. How has that legacy shaped the Rapoport Foundation’s giving ... in order to continue to reach those least likely to access resources from mainstream sources—...

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Siegel Family Endowment Publishes New Whitepaper Outling New Framework for Understanding and Funding Infrastructure

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10/07/2020

... we’re fascinated by trains, especially the remarkable system that runs above and below the city’s streets. It was the discovery of this shared passion for understanding how our subway system...

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Dianne S. Harris Appointed Senior Program Officer at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/16/2017

... "We are thrilled that someone of Dianne's stature and experience has elected to pivot from her current role as an ... of Humanities for community college transfer students and high school students,...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

New York Life Foundation's Award-Winning Grief-Sensitive Schools Initiative Surpasses Milestone

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07/11/2019

... it has surpassed its goal of providing grief training and resources to 1,000 schools across the country through the ... issue impacting millions of students nationwide and the need for these resources...

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