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Working with the Business Sector: Pursuing Public Good with Private Partners

Publication date: 
06/2004
How can grantmakers cross the divide between philanthropy and business? Looking at the push and pull between sectors from the vantage point of those working in independent and corporate foundations, this guide examines efforts to partner with and influence the business world. Grantmakers weigh the case for engaging business, share strategies for working with companies, and identify skills for promoting corporate philanthropy. They also explore ways to bridge cultural and philosophical differences between the sectors.

Smarter Relationships, Better Results: Making the Most of Grantmakers' Work with Intermediaries

Publication date: 
04/2013
Grantmakers often work with intermediaries to extend their reach and impact. GEO’s digital funders' brief offers insights from intermediaries and examples of grantmaker practices that help or hinder the effectiveness of intermediaries. Readers will find a breakdown of three grantmaker-intermediary relationship models, step-by-step relationship building recommendations, and more.
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Report
Audience 
Grants Managers
Topic(s) 
Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

How Foundations Use Communications to Advance Their Public Policy Work

Publication date: 
05/2010
This study examines how foundations that wish to engage in public policy are using communications to expand the reach and impact of their work. It reveals that communications is at the very center of successful policy engagement for the foundations interviewed, which make use of ten distinctly different strategies to boost their policy engagement. Among the foundations included in the study are The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
12 Jul 2012

Education Working Group Lunch: 2013 Reform Review Project

Thursday, July 12, 2012 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC
Over the last decade, more than 600 foundations have invested more than 2 billion dollars in efforts to reshape New York City’s schools. While some foundations based outside the City have been major donors, New York City-based foundations also have...

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