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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

Sometimes it’s the smaller foundations that take on the most audacious goals. One example of such a funder is the Overbrook Foundation, which has worked during the past few years to improve an underperforming U.S. environmental movement.

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05 Oct 2017

Pulling Back the Curtain: Philanthropy’s Role in Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice to Improve Early Childhood Education

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... different stakeholders have a seat at the table. Join us for a conversation where we explore philanthropy’s role ...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders is working to spread the practice, and to ensure impact investing stays true to its roots as its popularity grows.

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Rockefeller Foundation Helping Cities with Novel Financing for Climate Issues

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08/16/2017

As climate change pushes U.S. cities to build protections against stronger storms and more frequent floods, the Rockefeller Foundation is helping cities with a novel kind of financing, one that transfers some of the risk of innovative projects from...

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Charlie Parker Jazz Festival Kicks Off Next Week, Supported by Capital One Bank, Doris Duke and Gilman Foundations

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08/17/2017

... and old, jazz aficionados and new fans alike will join us in honoring the legacy of Charlie Parker and jazz in New ...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new is ...

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century.

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... a Nonprofit Board Late one night, not too long ago, one of us got a phone call from a desperate executive director. The ...

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A Former Felon Leads The Way In Criminal Justice Reform

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08/31/2017

Glenn E. Martin, formerly incarcerated, founded Just Leadership in 2014 to train ex-convicts to lead criminal justice reform in their own communities.

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Justice Reform

Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

Immigrant youth like me are fighting to defend DACA at the national level. But we also need New York lawmakers to step up by passing the Liberty and DREAM Acts.

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With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers

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09/06/2017

ust hours after the Trump White House announced on Tuesday that it would move to rescind protections for young undocumented immigrants, New York City politicians, religious leaders and educators filled City Hall to pledge support for “Dreamers” who...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

On Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department confirmed that the education secretary, Betsy DeVos, would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement."

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The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

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09/07/2017

... aware and active. In 2015, more than 75 percent of large US corporations were engaged in corporate citizenship ...

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Forecasting the Upcoming City Council Gender Imbalance

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09/11/2017

... years ago. With the city’s quadrennial elections upon us , a new Council class will be inaugurated in January, with ...

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A Smarter Response: The Center for Disaster Philanthropy Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars

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09/11/2017

... Looks to Leverage Donor Dollars The internet offers us instant gratification. A movie is a mouse click away. Need ...

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Health at A Planetary Scale

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09/14/2017

... two. Two hundred years ago, there were about 1 billion of us ; today, we number more than 7 billion. We have harnessed ...

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Trump Denies He Made A Deal With Democrats On DREAMer Protections

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09/14/2017

It wasn't long before President Trump pushed back after leading Democrats said they struck a deal with the president Wednesday night to pass legislation that would protect the about 800,000 DREAMers who could face deportation when the Deferred...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... place, we must not let this reputation blindside us . The history of racism isn’t particular to ...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

The author and journalist’s new book explains how antibiotics overuse helped chicken ascend from a local delicacy to an everyday protein, with serious health consequences as a result.

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