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Open Society Foundations

The Visionary Freedom Fund, Launched by the Andrus Family Fund, Announces Inaugural Cohort of Grant Recipients in Grantmaking Led by Youth Organizers to Transform Youth Justice System

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09/28/2021

... system. “Young people are articulating solutions and realizing wins to end our nation’s systemic punishment, ... to set the grantmaking strategy and determine how VFF’s resources are deployed. Power Table...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Andrus Family Fund

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Ten Grants at COP27 to Scale Indigenous and Regenerative Agriculture Practices Globally

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11/09/2022

... 90 percent of global deforestation . Conversely, new research finds that transitioning to more sustainable food ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Funders Give and Get Advice From NYC Teens

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05/02/2013

... the tables and invited a group of philanthropists to talk about their own careers and their professional journeys ... a grant proposal MetLife Foundation received for a summer STEM program for middle school...

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An Interview With Kavitha Mediratta, Executive Director of the Atlantic Fellows for Racial Equity Initiative Launched by Atlantic Philanthropies

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02/14/2018

... in America. PND: What are we talking about when we talk about racial equity? Do you have a definition that ... But we go a little bit further than equity, in that we talk about dismantling anti-black racism,...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Uprooting Racism to Advance Health Equity

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01/04/2022

... years of structural racism have deprived Black families of resources that accumulate and transfer from one generation to ... focusing on equity . This is the idea that we must adjust resources , transform...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Learning in Place

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07/14/2011

... one issue in depth. Also, I was tired of hearing myself talk about foundations being more proactive as advocates in ... governments have for a particular agency, or the in-house research and expertise of...

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Fewer Rocks & a Traffic Light = Greater Effectiveness & More Success

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12/14/2010

... role. Wellspring first considered “off the shelf” resources , particularly to strengthen its financial due ...

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Hartford Foundation Awards $6.7M for Monitoring the Healthcare Landscape

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03/17/2016

... end-of-life and serious illness care. In addition to Vital Talk , which is housed at our grantee hub at the University ... Ariadne Labs /Serious Illness Care Program, led by Drs. Susan Block and Atul Gawande;...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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12 Mar 2014

What Philanthropy Can Do To Help Reduce Poverty in America Today

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Democracy Now! • Howard Husock, Vice President, Policy Research , Manhattan Institute for Policy Research • Michael Weinstein , Chief Program Officer, The ...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... patients access to their clinical notes holds considerable promise for engaging them in their own care. For example, ... published recently in the Journal of Medical Internet Research . The investigators showed...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Health

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University Unveils Plans for New Project in Baltimore

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09/20/2019

... engaged in interdisciplinary work at the intersection of research and practice. This work will have a strong ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Education

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As Incident Reports Rise, City Officials Seek New Answers to Combat Domestic Violence

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... which dedicate specific judges, counselors, and other resources to domestic violence cases. The committee, chaired ...

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Sector News

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

Century Foundation Releases Report on Estimating the Real Cost of Community College

Release Date:

10/24/2017

... remains largely dependent on state - and county-level resources and economic contexts. Individuals have vastly ... and as things stand, those with the fewest personal resources may be the ones who accrue the...

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Education

Insights from “A Fireside Chat on the ‘True Costs’ of Nonprofits”

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08/03/2022

... policy of around 15 percent of direct costs. However, research shows that smaller organizations tend to have higher ... the foundation had a flat overhead cap of 10%. After realizing this number was too low,...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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14 Mar 2019

The Green New Deal: Putting Energy to Work

Thursday, March 14, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... between public and private workforce funders Speakers Susan Epstein, Managing Director, Jobs & Economic Security, ... Foundation Philip Jordan , Vice-President and Principal Research , BW Research...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Workforce Development

Philanthropy Should Support States and Cities to Keep Advancing the Climate Movement

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... on the frontlines are under serious threat. There was talk of increasing financial support to large environmental ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Our Listening Imperative and the Urgency of Understanding

Release Date:

08/03/2016

Last Sunday, a group of funders published an ad in The New York Times and The Washington Post calling attention to our nation’s moment of crisis. It was an unapologetic call for dialogue leading to a more just and equal America.

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