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Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... some further exploration here. When funding a movement, how do you identify your unlikely allies and engage with ... and steward these relationships. Ideally the funders act in partnership with grantees to...

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Insights

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Civic Engagement

LGBTQ

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Related Organizations

Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Harvard University, Wildlife Conservation Society Launch ‘Planetary Health Alliance’ with Support from Rockefeller

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... are launching the Planetary Health Alliance, a new effort to dramatically improve our understanding of the ... seeing suffering due to global environmental change. How much suffering happens is up to us.” .....

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Environment and Climate Change

Health

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, American Institutes for Research, and Spencer Foundation Award Grants to Four Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

Release Date:

04/28/2021

... potential for significant institutional change, including new university leadership positions focused on encouraging and supporting community engaged research and new criteria for evaluating faculty that...

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Education

Social Justice

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Doris Duke Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation

Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

Release Date:

10/14/2014

... about the surrounding legal and medical questions: What would employers do with high employees? What would parents tell their children about whether to smoke pot? ...

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Health

Public Policy

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Open Society Foundations

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation

Release Date:

01/03/2018

... of securing a provision in the federal tax overhaul that would have spared it from an unusual 200 percent tax hike it ... November, when the 200 percent tax rate for the foundation would kick in... Tax Bill...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Newman's Own Foundation

OSF Turns to Strasbourg Court to Get Hungary's NGO Law Repealed

Release Date:

09/24/2018

... Soros’s Open Society Foundations (OSF) said on Monday it would challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in ... Christian culture by promoting mass migration, said it would not repeal the laws, whatever...

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Member News

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

Remembering Paul Newman

Release Date:

09/26/2018

... could make money for a good cause. Told the products would sell better in supermarkets if he put his face on the ... the money away.” “We had no idea whether the business would be successful,” admits Newman,...

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Member News

Video

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Newman's Own Foundation

Aetna Foundation Awards Grants to Support Healthy Eating and Exercise in Local Communities

Release Date:

12/18/2015

... need to make healthy foods more available, accessible and affordable at the local level. An estimated 14 percent of ... addition to making healthy foods available, accessible and affordable , these programs...

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Member News

Funding Area

Food Systems

Health

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Aetna Foundation

27 Jun 2024

Service for Impact: Creating Volunteer Opportunities that Advance Social Impact Strategies

Thursday, June 27, 2024 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities to make a difference in society while ... through volunteerism.  This program will dive into how companies can create volunteer...

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Network Building

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Breakout Discussion

Roundtable Discussion

Audience

Corporate Funders

Topic(s)

Volunteerism

24 Jun 2015

Learning the Way: DACA, Educational Attainment and Philanthropy - Webinar

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... can help unlock DACA’s long-term benefits—including new jobs, increased earnings, higher-skilled workers, first-time access to health care , and more—for thousands of youth and young adults ...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Children, Youth and Families

Casey Family Programs Announces 2020 Casey Excellence for Children Awards

Release Date:

01/13/2020

... who are working to safely reduce the need for foster care and build Communities of Hope that will ensure the ... improve — and ultimately prevent the need for — foster care . For more than 50 years, the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs

Three Prominent Foundation Leaders Join Foundation Center Board of Trustees

Release Date:

04/20/2015

... Mr. Lewis joined the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in New York City as president in 2013. The Mellon Foundation makes ... efforts to advance knowledge about philanthropy in new and dynamic ways...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

Education

Health

Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation

Mellon Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Foundations Commit More Than $2-Billion to End Polio

Release Date:

04/25/2013

... among the foundations joining Bill and Melinda Gates in a new push to eradicate polio. Michael Bloomberg, Ray Dalio, ... philanthropists joining Bill and Melinda Gates in a new push to eradicate polio.....

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Member News

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Palette Fund Helps Launch TRUTH Campaign to Spur Storytelling Movement for Trans Youth

Release Date:

08/05/2015

... three years ago, my wife and I had a hard time finding resources around trans issues and instead saw a lot of stigma ... from the Palette Fund, will roll out more videos and resources over the coming months,...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

LGBTQ

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The Palette Fund

Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... in the GFF Trust Fund leverages domestic government resources , financing from the World Bank's International ... aligned external financing, and private-sector resources . To date, eleven projects...

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Sector News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces 2018 Core Support for National Arts Service Organizations

Release Date:

04/17/2018

... by maintaining important networks for advocacy and sharing resources . “These arts service organizations represent ... address short term needs and dedicate more organizational resources to longer-term projects...

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Member News

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Serving those who served our nation

Release Date:

11/10/2013

... scale — are experiencing an unprecedented health care crisis that has in turn triggered staggering rates of ...

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Member News

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Veterans

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations Invest $24 Million in Secondary Education

Release Date:

05/06/2014

MacArthur and Master Card Foundations invest $24 million in international secondary education, reports Triple Pundit.

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Member News

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Education

International/Foreign Affairs

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Heintz and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash

Release Date:

06/20/2014

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz and Chair Valerie Rockefeller Wayne pay tribute in a message on the foundation's website to Dr. Richard Rockefeller, advisory trustee, who died in a plane crash on June 13.