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Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees

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10/28/2014

... of Texas System, consisting of nine universities and six health institutions. He assumed the position in 2009 and as a ... A nationally renowned transplant surgeon, Dr. Cigarroa will return as head of...

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Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in ... oil plantations in Africa or the need to better understand how culture change can influence...

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Animal Welfare

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Arcus Foundation

Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

... whether ZIKV causes abnormalities in the eye and, if so, how . The answer is published today in JCI Insight, a journal ...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Podcast: A Conversation about Immigration and Immigrants

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04/24/2017

... former New York Times’ immigration reporter on how the national conversation about immigration is playing ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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President of Peter G. Peterson Foundation on the New Budget Deal

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02/09/2018

... focused on the country's fiscal challenges, comments on how more stimulus — and debt — to an overextended .....

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Economic Security

What Makes a Good CSR Leader?

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09/26/2013

... responsibility” leaders, but I think they are pretty much the same so I prefer “CSR leader.”) Those ... in the nonprofit world . It is critical to understand how nonprofits work. Paid work is...

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American Express

The Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Satellite Data & AI to Accelerate Economic Development and Climate Resilience in Africa

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08/29/2022

... and machine learning technologies, this three-year effort will produce unprecedented insight into the well-being of ... emerging economies. "We want to develop tools to measure how infrastructural...

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Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Beyond Rigor - Building Philanthropy's Equitable Evaluation Infrastructure

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07/17/2019

... projects. In response to member demand for additional resources and tools to support their equity-focused missions, ... our members’ important equity-focused work. AAEEP will introduce our members to the...

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18 Sep 2019

Evaluation as a Tool for Equity – A Primer on Equitable Evaluation

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... a part of their mission, few have addressed the issue of how evaluation itself can further equity. Who asks the ... the evaluation findings or recommendations? This webinar will introduce equitable evaluation...

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Tools & Strategies

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22 Apr 2020

One Size Does Not Fit All: Managing Remote Teams During COVID-19 – A Webinar

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9:30am to 11:00am

... changes created by the COVID-19 pandemic, we are learning how quickly our organizations must adapt. We are charting new ... in a remote environment. Nonprofit leadership experts will discuss not only ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Disaster Relief

01 Feb 2012

Diminishing Dollars: The Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis on the Field of Social Justice Philanthropy with Sara Gould

Wednesday, February 1, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:00am

The health of foundation endowments too often plays a cursory ... principal author and a key social justice funder will be among our guests at a special program on the topic. ... success stories to this engaging...

03 Oct 2011

Philanthropy, Women & Social Justice: a Breakfast Conversation with Sara K. Gould

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8:30am to 10:30am

... experiences in the broader philanthropic community, Sara will offer reflections on trends in social justice philanthropy and on what it means to connect philanthropy, women and social justice. Explore ...

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BofA, Rockefeller Noted for Adding Profit Incentives to Nonprofit Work

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11/06/2015

... and one recent technique in particular shows promise. It ’s called Pay for Success, and it allows investors to ... no downside for taxpayers. Here’s how it works: A...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

... in its Chemistry of Indoor Environments program, will analyze these chemical interactions with the tools used ... “HOMEChem is a deep, multifaceted field study into how indoor chemical compounds may interact...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Atlantic Philanthropies Introduces 2020 Fellows for Racial Equity

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08/03/2020

... impactful change. Today – in the wake of the unfolding health and economic crises exacerbated by COVID-19, and the ... courageous leaders are showing us new possibilities for how to eliminate anti-Black racism...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

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Reimagining Learning (From This Moment and With Each Other)

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10/21/2020

... the challenge and opportunity of radically reimagining how we build community, approach learning, and do our work in ... community with one another. From curating Racial Equity Resources to offering post-...

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09 Jun 2022

The Youngest are Most At-Risk: Early Childhood Development in Complex Crises - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, June 9, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Disaster Philanthropy is hosting a webinar to highlight how funders can support child development across the globe, with a particular focus on children in CHEs. It will explore promising...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Disaster Relief

Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... BrainNet and the NIH NeuroBioBank. The partnership will produce a unified resource for neurological research by aligning the procedures that the two repositories use to collect, prepare and preserve the field’...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Start a Giving Circle This Summer

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06/15/2011

... and colleagues and you each give $500, just imagine how soon that same bucket will overflow. Your circle can be large or small and you can ... purchasing vaccines for one village, etc.), find out how...

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