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Advocates for LGBT Equality Launch Freedom Fund to Support LGBT Russians

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11/26/2013

... in an individual capacity who are deeply knowledgeable about the human rights struggle in Russia. Learn more about the Russia Freedom Fund. Advocates for LGBT Equality ...

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Open Society Foundations

The Right Starting Point for Productive Grantee Relationships is Putting Power Points Aside

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09/03/2014

... deftly elicit what topics staff members are passionate about and how they bring that passion to their work. In a ... way, the conversations identify the pride they feel about their programs. What we hear is...

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SIFMA Funded Programs Provide Financial Literacy to Millions of Students

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10/02/2014

... Defined as “having or showing a lack of knowledge about a particular subject.” For 37 years, the SIFMA ... popular and effective tools for educating future investors about the market: The Stock Market Game™...

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

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10/03/2014

... of sentencing for drug charges. His foundation has donated about $200 million to drug reforms since 1994, double what ... It’s now a philanthropic powerhouse that has given about $11 billion towards causes...

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... nonprofit organizations are seeking to get them thinking about how to channel their money and other assets into ... the spot, such as at a charitable event or when they learn about emergency appeals for aid...

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

... which asked small groups of young people (14-19) to think about and create ways to educate their peers about social media and social good. Two prizes of $5,000 each ...

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New York Community Trust Says Workers Need Better Platforms for Choosing Benefits

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10/28/2015

... a lot of money. In 2013, 21 percent of U.S. households ( about 62 million people) reported speaking a language other ... becomes more diverse, it’s just good practice to think about what form information...

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How Stable Are the ACA Marketplaces? Commonwealth Fund President Explains

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12/07/2015

... the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has prompted some concern about the their long-term viability. But UnitedHealth Group's ... market before the ACA passed, and currently covers only about 5 percent of...

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A Sensible Makeover for the Ford Foundation Workspace

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12/16/2015

... Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo made it clear you were about to see a Very Important Person. The procession began ... a glimpse of the soaring greenhouse atrium, a volume of about 1.6 million cubic feet. . . A...

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... a tremendous number of studies, forecasts, and scenarios about the future of work," said Claudia Juech, associate vice ... the next five years." In the sea of current thinking about this urgent topic...

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... his check-writing habit. There’s something beautiful about my grandfather’s generosity. Yet as his generation ... a list of the board of directors, and detailed information about how the charity spends the...

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New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

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02/19/2016

... 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values, ... said 3,000 homes were sold in Detroit in 2015, and only about 500 involved mortgages...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... labeled “how to do” techniques, and instead think about three fundamental sets of assumptions related to the ... if needed, revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an...

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... late, as we've covered often. In one recent gift I wrote about , private equity billionaire Robert Smith gave $50 ... in engineering and technology. Meanwhile, we've written about a long list of...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

... there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their ... these numerous questions in light of benchmarking data about what other foundations are doing can be informative and ...

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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

Release Date:

01/23/2017

... Another group passed by. Then a third group, who told him about a crossing that, one year later, would come to ... refugee emergency. Tsartsanis didn’t have to think long about what he should do. He ran and...

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

Release Date:

03/30/2017

... culture as a strategy to advance policy. Full information about this Request for Proposals is available here . ... to share this Request for Proposals with others. Questions about the proposal process should...

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Backed By Rockefeller Grants Philabundance’s Non-Profit Supermarket Is Making Inroads in Food Deserts

Release Date:

05/08/2017

... a pretty Christian leaning, including a Carson Wentz tweet about God. Ramadan is actually one of the first things on ... from Furrukh, a Muslim member of the Philabundance board, about making sure that the...

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Food Systems

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Warren Buffett Donates $3.17 Billion to NoVo Foundation and Other Charities

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07/11/2017

... and Other Charities The billionaire on Monday donated about $3.17 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & ... to Reuters. But even with the new donation, he still owns about 17%. In addition to...

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NoVo Foundation

Ford Foundation: On Privilege - Why Discomfort Is A Sign Of Progress

Release Date:

07/31/2017

... breathtaking landscape. Yet I could not stop thinking about my initial discomfort. It nagged at me. What had caused ... of power but also requires a constant state of alertness about my own place of privilege...

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