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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

... Innovative Companies The Ford Foundation funds social justice work through a $12 billion endowment that includes ... aimed at greater equality through civic, social, and criminal reforms. The group is known...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate- philanthropy operations. The charitable grant-making arm of ... million in new grants focused on racial equity and the criminal - justice...

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University of New Haven Receives Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Support Education for Incarcerated Students

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04/15/2021

... institution with a nationally ranked and highly respected criminal justice college, we have a responsibility to be at the ... an innovative program that we believe will provide the resources...

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‘Interrupters’ Help Reduce Violence in New York City

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10/02/2017

... Help Reduce Violence in New York City They have prior criminal records but now aim to resolve neighborhood ... Bronx, two neighborhoods analyzed in a John Jay College of Criminal Justice...

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After Implementing New Strategic Approach, Andrus Announces First Round of Grants

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07/17/2015

... of their direct service work as a driver for systems level reform in one of the most incarcerated states in the country. ... the voices of those formerly incarcerated at the center of criminal justice...

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Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future

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07/02/2015

... top concern, many intersecting issues emerged, including criminal justice , immigrant rights, neighborhood strength, ... youth arrests and re-arrests, and increase access to resources and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

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12/05/2019

... This article was originally published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy on November 7, 2019 . Recent critiques of ... the unjust accumulation of wealth serve as a vehicle for justice ? We believe that the first...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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It’s Time to Fund Children’s Mental Health

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04/15/2021

... Mental Health By: Joan Steinberg, Global Head of Philanthropy , President of the Morgan Stanley Foundation, and ... can also help address social inequity and prevent the criminalization of youth, especially in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Names Daniel F. Wilhelm President

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06/05/2017

... regarded non-profit executive and expert on crime and justice issues, assumed his position June 1. The ... “The Board is committed to focusing the Foundation’s resources anew, continuing to build knowledge and...

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Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now

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11/26/2012

... given a fair and substantive opportunity to learn. And philanthropy can help change the trajectory for students whom ... philanthropy can and must play a leading role in investing resources...

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Young Wealthy Donors Bring Taste for Risk, Hands-On Involvement to Philanthropy

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05/19/2013

... and Michael Moody, the Frey Foundation Chair for Family Philanthropy at the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University. Young Wealthy ... Donors Bring Taste for Risk, Hands-On...

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Sophy Yem Promoted to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation

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05/11/2022

Sophy Yem Promoted to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation We are thrilled to ... Sophy Yem’s promotion to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation. In this role,...

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African Philanthropy Forum to Promote Transformation of the Continent 'From Within'

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04/22/2013

The Global Philanthropy Forum has announced the formation of the African Philanthropy Forum to support the expansion of strategic philanthropy on the African continent; the Tony Elumelu, ...

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Rockefeller, Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit'

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03/20/2017

... Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy -a Toolkit' An important new report has developed ... understanding and valuing the role of risk in contemporary philanthropy . The...

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Ford Foundation's Hilary Pennington Appointed to The Center for Effective Philanthropy's Board

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03/16/2014

... program has been appointed to The Center for Effective Philanthropy 's Board. The Center for Effective Philanthropy has announced the appointments of HILARY ... program and also oversees the foundation...

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11 Leading Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color

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05/30/2014

[Open Society Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation, Nathan Cummings Foundation] The White House’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force today released a report on policies, regulations, and programs that have the...

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Women in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Economic Development Program Secure Marriott Deal

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10/13/2016

The graduates of the training program through the non-profit, Bloomberg Philanthropies supported Relationship Coffee Institute are providing the Marriott with locally grown coffee from their own coffee cooperatives.

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