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31 Oct 2025

2025 Philanthropy 101 - Fundamentals of Grantmaking

Friday, October 31, 2025 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

20 Feb 2019

Activating Philanthropy’s Power for Change: The Role of Self-Assessment and Honest Feedback

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... cycle of planning, action and reflection. In the process, how can funders receive and make the most of honest feedback ... with a panel of expert practitioners and sector leaders on how Power Moves can...

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13 Feb 2020

Walking the Walk: Operationalizing Lessons from Decolonizing Wealth and Winners Take All - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, February 13, 2020 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... to promote a more diverse, equitable and inclusive sector? How can we start, build and lead efforts that result in real change? Resources How Decolonizing Wealth Is Challenging Philanthropy...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards Second Round of Grants Through Sickle Cell Disease/Advancing Cures Program

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09/10/2019

... that could improve its successful clinical application in patients with sickle cell disease. The other two researchers ... worldwide are born with sickle cell disease each year. Patients with sickle cell...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

18 Feb 2020

Immigration: When Something So Personal Depends on Policymakers

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Immigration can provoke passionate discussion and debate, especially in this political climate. The decision to leave one’s home country and take a risk on another is a highly personal and difficult decision. Yet, the majority of Americans can trace...

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Huge Gap Found Among States In Long-Term Services Quality and Access

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06/20/2014

... Alaska, Hawaii, Vermont, and Wisconsin—provide the best care by nearly all of AARP’s measures. Kentucky, Alabama, ... dozen measures—from access to Medicaid’s home-based care programs to private long-term...

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Aging

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The Commonwealth Fund

NYT Opinion: Rockefeller Family Fund Director, Lee Wasserman asks "Why Are We Still Looking for Oil and Gas?"

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07/25/2019

... one color would suffice for Donald Trump: charcoal black. How better to capture the president’s efforts to increase ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Family Fund

"Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words," a New Exhibition Supported by the Ford Foundation, Offers Intimate View of Seminal Figure's Life

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11/12/2019

... encounter with a white boy who threatened to hit her and how she responded; Parks’ personal reflections on her ...

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Arts

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19 Sep 2022

The Climate Crisis: Understanding the Promise and Pitfalls of Removing Carbon from the Skies and the Seas

Monday, September 19, 2022 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... for some time that large amounts of carbon dioxide will need to be pulled out of the atmosphere and the oceans as ... of humanity’s efforts to stabilize the global climate system and prevent a runaway...

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New York City

Finding the Courage to Break the Silence

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11/17/2023

... like rage, grief, and isolation, and struggle with the need to engage our members in a time where polarization has ...

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Ford Foundation International Fellowships Program Releases Final Report

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05/28/2013

... helped more than 4300 social justice leaders from 22 countries advance their education and bring new knowledge and skills back to their home countries . On Thursday, May 23, Ford Foundation President ...

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Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

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05/20/2013

The country’s only independent polling agency has been accused under a new law of overtly political activity, due in part to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute...

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$50-Million from Goldman Sachs Seeds Fund for Businesswomen

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03/05/2014

... million in support of female entrepreneurs in developing countries , reports The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Wall Street ... Women venture to provide business education in developing countries . The World Bank’s...

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Ford, Arcus, Palette Fund and Johnson Family Foundation Release Comprehensive Data on LGBTQ Community

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07/14/2015

The Our Tomorrow initiative will provide new data to better engage LGBTQ individuals across the country.

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The Palette Fund

Working with Grantees: The Keys to Success and Five Program Officers Who Exemplify Them

Publication date:

05/2010

... program officers and identifies four keys to success. Five high -performing program officers share their stories. Working ...

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Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

Release Date:

05/16/2013

Health and Environmental Funders Network Program Manager ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $41.5 Million in Grants

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07/20/2013

... are to organizations working in the areas of education, health , the arts and social welfare, and will also go in part ...

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