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Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 1)

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06/13/2014

... for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust. Technology has transformed traditional modes ... “consumers” with detailed information about a person’ s competencies—and validate...

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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

29 Nov 2012

Social Media: Promising techniques used by social media-savvy funders

Thursday, November 29, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

... limitless streams of data. This webinar series will help foundation staff navigate the information highway by focusing ... Presenter Jereme Bivins , Social Media Manager, Foundation Center Designed for All...

31 Jan 2013

Knowledge Management: Strategies for making sector knowledge more accessible

Thursday, January 31, 2013 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

... limitless streams of data. This webinar series will help foundation staff navigate the information highway by focusing ... Fitz , Director of Knowledge Management Initiatives, Foundation Center Designed for...

15 May 2013

Should Philanthropies Run Like Businesses?

Wednesday, May 15, 2013 -

10:45am to 1:00pm

... Advisors Lance Lindblom , Former CEO, The Nathan Cummings Foundation Jeffrey Solomon , CEO, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Designed for Foundation CEOs, CFOs and COOs, as well as other senior...

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09 Jan 2014

Generation Next - Young Donors Inspiring a New Generation of Philanthropists

Thursday, January 9, 2014 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

The dream of many family foundation donors is to instill a lifelong love of ... and giving back to future generations of one’ s family. In some cases, this love of philanthropy translates ... • Lana Volftsun,...

UJA-Federation Announces $50 Million Day School Challenge Fund

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06/09/2014

... Challenge Fund, along with contributions from The AVI CHAI Foundation , the Jim Joseph Foundation , and individual vanguard donors... UJA-Federation ...

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2014 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences Announced

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06/10/2014

... Awards in the Neurosciences Announced The Simons Foundation and the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund ... Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences, this year’ s awards are the first from this joint project...

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Make Music New York To Present Record-Setting 1,350 Shows

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06/18/2014

... from Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for the Make Music New York festival, which will ... across the five boroughs from a range of genres: there’ s marching bands at Grand Army...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Expectations High For Harlem Children Zone's New Head

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07/07/2014

Expectations High For Harlem Children Zone' s New Head As Anne Williams-Isom begins her role as the ... Children' s Zone, funders such as the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation , not only...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Testing New Kind Of Emergency Care

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07/08/2014

... New Kind Of Emergency Care A New York State Health Foundation official calls the "HealthPlex," a free-standing ... opening across the street from the former St. Vincent' s Hospital in NYC, as as...

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Chen, Kidvai Named First Paul Rapoport Law Fellows

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07/17/2014

... announcing the selection of the fellows, the Paul Rapoport Foundation also said the endowment for the program has been ... Works in 2013 as the final grant of the Paul Rapoport Foundation which is scheduled to...

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Heintz Named To NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 List

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08/01/2014

... Brothers Fund, has been named as one of this year' s Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50. In commenting ... as a 2014 honoree, NPT noted he "gets the irony that a foundation endowed from the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

McConnell Says Wife Won't Resign From Bloomberg Over Coal Policy Stance

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08/14/2014

... Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said his wife, former U. S . Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao, has no plans to leave the Bloomberg Philanthropies board, despite the foundation ' s support for...

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Environment and Climate Change

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OSF Founder Soros Instrumental in Advancing Drug Reform Policies in the United States

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10/03/2014

... use to the easing of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation has donated about $200 million to drug reforms ... pound in 1992, into his Open Society Foundations. It’ s now a philanthropic powerhouse that...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

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11/10/2014

... $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’ s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The MasterCard Foundation has partnered with the United Nations Capital ... USD 5.6 million. The new commitment...

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Fund for Shared Insight Announces First Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million

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11/21/2014

... Round of Grants Totaling $5.26 Million A new, seven- foundation partnership created to support nonprofits working ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

... with incidental, even trivial issues to notice what' s happened. Even so, most of us -- whatever our political ... and outlook. The progressive think tank, The Century Foundation , argues recent evidence...

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Economic Security

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Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

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06/26/2015

The Arcus Foundation , a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and ... statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’ s historic decision to legalize same-sex...

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Arcus Foundation

Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... it yet. To be fair, philanthropy needs to step up it' s game on climate across the board. Our investment is woeful ... economy and staving off the worst impacts of climate. That' s why some big name...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

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07/15/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown' s Nonpartisan Education Website Is it news, or is it ... The funders include the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation , the Walton Family Foundation...

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