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Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate Economy

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06/17/2014

Investment in Light Rail Program Helps Create Jobs, Stimulate ... is being hailed by the Ford Foundation as an example of how strategic public investments in transit and ... Collaborative, aimed at encouraging...

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Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

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06/24/2014

... this new initiative will require districts to rethink how their central offices are organized to provide better ...

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Weinberg Foundation Names Jonathan D. Hook Their First Chief Investment Officer

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04/17/2014

... States, has named Jonathan D. Hook as its first Chief Investment Officer. Hook will work closely with the ... Foundation's President/CEO, to refine the Foundation's investment strategy. Hook, comes...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

10 Jul 2012

Planning for Our Shared Future: Investing in Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

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Join Grantmakers for Children, Youth & Families (GCYF) and Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR) for a webinar exploring a range of issues relevant to immigrant children, youth, and families, including increasing access to...

Arabella Advisors Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment

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03/04/2019

... Report Calls on Philanthropy to Catalyze Inclusive Investment Philanthropy is not doing enough to advance inclusive investment practices that ensure equitable access to capital ... argues. According to the...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

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03/13/2018

... long-term value for people, the planet, and the economy. How we invest our assets and leverage our influence as an ...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... concluded that just wasn't true anymore. So we looked at how we could make a difference and decided one thing would be .....

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Adam Connaker appointed Director, Impact Investing at the Surdna Foundation

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03/07/2022

... Surdna Foundation today announced that Adam Connaker , an investment professional whose work has focused on harnessing ... and leading an ongoing effort to align the Foundation’s investment policies and...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field

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06/26/2018

... Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field While demand for impact investing and social ... finds. The report, Building Power Across the Impact Investment Field (29 pages, PDF),...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, ... P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, collaboration to increase the number of indigenous Americans obtaining ... in STEM...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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10 May 2017

Which Impact Investing Tools Are Right for Your Foundation’s Mission?

Wednesday, May 10, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... organizations’ missions and program goals Potential investment instruments and structures that your foundation ... break into small groups so that participants can discuss how to match impact investing...

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Citi Foundation and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to Increase Summer Job Opportunities in 2017

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03/07/2017

... Foundation and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to Increase Summer Job Opportunities in 2017 The Citi Foundation ... Foundation and Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund to Increase Summer Job...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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New Survey from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

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01/29/2019

... doubled—from 2 percent in 2015 to 4 percent in 2018—an increase of 21 positions. Overall, the findings indicate that ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arts

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

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03/22/2017

... The Stay Midtown program is one tangible example of how these recommendations can be implemented. Launched in ... quality of life will also be monitored along with how it affects neighborhood and community...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Weinberg Foundation Partners with Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty

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02/04/2019

... Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty A pioneering $25 million, ... Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley

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05/03/2018

Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley RGV ... improve educational outcomes across the region by aligning resources that create a cradle-to-career...

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Ford Foundation announces five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers

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11/16/2021

... five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the ... to secure their livelihoods. WIEGO will regrant to global networks representing millions of...

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Financial Know-How for Nonprofits Online

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02/18/2013

... to working with a board on financial accountability. The resources are designed to help charities become better ... The Wallace Foundation is giving some financial know- how to nonprofits. The New York-based...

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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem Disciplines

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01/18/2018

... Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented Minorities in Graduate Stem ... Sloan Foundation, New Scholarship Program at Duke Aims to Increase Underrepresented...

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