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Heads-Up, CEOs—Corporate Social Responsibility May Get You Fired, Study Finds

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) that can result in high praise for a chief executive—or get them ... less likely to be fired. This shows that CSR investments can be a double-edged sword—...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... meaningful aspects of this encounter is the awareness it can awaken of a common humanity—an immediate sense of ... through the visual arts, so that MIA and all art museums can contribute even more toward...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

Release Date:

03/16/2018

... here in Ohio, particularly for our newest immigrants, we can expedite their ability to positively contribute to Ohio's ... 'By improving language, legal, and healthcare services, we can help...

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Weinberg Foundation Partners with Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty

Release Date:

02/04/2019

... invest in effective models developed in New York City that can be exported and replicated in other communities. In ... identify innovative new models from other communities that can be replicated in New York...

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Community Development

Economic Security

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

MIT Receives $8 Million From Simons Foundation for Quantum Research

Release Date:

06/04/2019

... consisting of many atoms or electrons — matter — can behave in an essentially quantum way. Such ultra-quantum ... matter (UQM) allows for quantum phenomena beyond what can be realized at the level of the...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

16 Oct 2012

Spicing Up Your Foundation's 990-PF and Telling Your Real Story: Accounting and Communications Highlights

Tuesday, October 16, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... face” of the foundation Key factors “watchdogs” use when rating your foundation A program in ...

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Issue-Based

28 Jul 2010

More than a Wage: Building the Economic Security of Women and Families in New York City

Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 2:00pm

Philanthropy New York

... the federal poverty line for a family of three. If we use self-sufficiency as a measure, in New York City, a parent ... by a facilitator, participants will strategize ways to use the Standard for effective...

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Public Policy

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Gender Justice

ACA May Be Modified, But Based On Enrollments, It's Here To Stay

Release Date:

07/02/2014

... employers, and the government. They add that the use of narrow networks—in which health plans require enrollees to use lower-price providers and charge patients who go out of ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

23 Mar 2015

Holistic Monitoring and Evaluation for Peace and Security Work - Webinar

Monday, March 23, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In this webinar, we will explore how to use holistic–mixed-methods and ...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Evaluation

BofA Charitable Foundation Supports Women's Giving Network Conference; Women Pool Dollars for Innovative Community Transformation

Release Date:

10/19/2015

... 10,000 members across the nation. All member organizations use a similar democratic grantmaking process to award local ... giving grantmakers have demonstrated their responsible use of all three. . . BofA...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Gender Justice

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

Release Date:

01/06/2016

Low-income adults in Kentucky and Arkansas, which both expanded Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act, were more likely to be insured and less likely to have problems paying medical bills, compared to others in states which did not...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

Release Date:

02/17/2016

... group of five national foundations working to promote the use of the Internet for social good has announced grants ...

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Technology

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Proteus Fund Reports on Orlando Rapid Response Fund Grantmaking

Release Date:

08/11/2016

... being vented in the wake of this tragedy. We sought to use our Orlando Rapid Response Fund to build the capacity for ...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

Release Date:

09/15/2017

... for a woman, four such drinks in a day. And “alcohol use disorders” (we used to call it alcoholism), as defined ...

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Aging

Health

JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

Release Date:

11/30/2017

If current trends in child obesity continue, more than 57% of today’s children in the U.S. will have obesity at age 35, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The JPB Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

Release Date:

03/13/2018

... collectively have trillions in assets but often only use the legally required 5 percent on their missions through ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

William T. Grant Foundation Announces Two New Grants to Better Relate Research to Action

Release Date:

04/13/2018

This spring, the William T. Grant Foundation announced two new grant programs focused on getting social research out of the ivory tower and into actual policy and practice.