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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

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04/03/2017

... in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation. The Initiative will fund applied ...

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William T. Grant Foundation President Discusses Inequality In English Language Education

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10/26/2017

... The percentage of English language learners in American public schools has increased in all but 15 states since 2004. When ...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation President and CEO Paul Joskow to Retire at End of 2017

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12/16/2016

... Philanthropy Alliance – a group of foundations “with more than 250 years of combined experience supporting ... his service to the Foundation.” “It has been a great honor and stimulating experience for me to...

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Philanthropy as Field Builder

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04/25/2013

... on the hardest parts of the work so that the private and public sectors can crowd in with their own resources and carry the work to scale. A second point of ...

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Far Rockaway Leaders Look Ahead

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02/12/2013

... we listened to their ideas about youth leadership, public education and community-police relations. They ... and sharing ideas. Their mission became to attract more resources , particularly...

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After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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07/12/2017

... have led the Macy Foundation through an exciting period of great changes in health professions education, to keep pace ... of interprofessional education in which students of two or more health professions...

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Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian Returns to Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees

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06/09/2022

... director of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, developing it into one of the nation’s top ... fierce geopolitical tensions. We wish her much continued success as ambassador to Australia.” In...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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20 Sep 2012

The Evolution of Institution-Based Community Organizing: Can Congregations Be Change Agents for Social Justice Again?

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8:30am to 11:00am

... grown significantly by expanding in key areas to become more diverse in terms of geography, race, class and religion. ... funders, especially faith-based funders and funders of children and youth. The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation and CrossBoundary Launch Mini-Grid Innovation Lab in Nairobi, Kenya

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04/24/2018

... minigrids based in Africa so that they can provide more power , to more people, at a lower cost. It aims to demonstrate to ... 600-million people in Africa who do not have access to power . “...

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Infrastructure Design as Innovation

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04/02/2019

... and become trailblazers in the philanthropic sector, take great care to design the most thorough organizational ... infrastructures. It seems antithetical to believe that the more a foundation embraces risk...

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Bridging the Knowledge Gap About Grantmaking for People with Disabilities

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11/04/2010

... Act and provide funders with an opportunity to learn more about the Disability Funders Network and inclusive ...

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Toshiba America

Markle Foundation-Backed Online Tools Seek to Help Close the Employment Skills Gap

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07/10/2017

... now, since they often pay decent wages and offer upward pathways for workers who haven't completed four-year college .....

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Dr. Stephen Blacklow to Board of Trustees

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11/01/2022

The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Dr. Stephen Blacklow to Board of Trustees The Revson Foundation has announced Dr. Stephen Blacklow’s election to the Board of Directors, effective November 1, 2022. Dr. Blacklow is currently...

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30 Oct 2025

Journalism and Democracy: A Convening on Philanthropy's Role in Strengthening the Press

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2:00pm to 5:30pm

... diverse perspectives, and ensures communities have access to reliable information, especially during times of crisis. Yet with significant cuts to public media, these functions are increasingly under threat...

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Marissa Tirona Named Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees' New President

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11/02/2020

... role at the end of 2020 after leading the organization for more than 20 years. Tirona and Petsod will overlap for the ... its partners and the communities it serves. "As the great -granddaughter,...

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Audacious Philanthropy

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08/29/2017

... helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy ... moon shots of their...

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