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Donzelina Barroso Named as Director, Global Philanthropy, for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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09/28/2016

... In this role, she will lead RPA’s European advisory practice and expand the organization’s global presence. ... work on the Theory of the Foundation, RPA’s signature research effort, and other initiatives. “As...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Annie E. Casey Foundation and TCC Group Collaborate on Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from a National Foundation

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10/26/2021

... we’ve undertaken both internally and on behalf of the social sector. Our assessment elicited important lessons ... often requires a significant amount of planning and research into a community, its needs, and...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce New Recipients of Multilateral Development Banks Challenge Fund

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06/20/2023

... Review of MDBs’ Capital Adequacy Framework (CAF) report , its three areas of focus are 1) developing a better ... implementation of new ideas for MDB innovation and finance research to promote ways in which...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Economic Security

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F.B. Heron Foundation President Clara Miller to Step Down

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06/20/2017

... emerita and will continue to write, speak, and undertake research aimed at advancing the foundation's mission. Widely ... peers to jettison outdated operating models that leave resources untapped in the...

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Former Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation VP to Lead LISC NYC

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09/18/2014

... Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation and the bank's Global Social Finance group. His philanthropic, lending and ... chair of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a nonprofit that uses the power of design and art...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals

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02/22/2018

... that society is demanding that companies “serve a social purpose in addition to delivering a profitable ... reports on how volunteer efforts impact the SDGs. As the practice of human resources...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $75 Million Commitment to Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide in Greater Washington

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01/25/2022

... collaboration with business and community partners and policy support going forward: 1) Regional collaboration is ... Gap By combining business, data, policy and philanthropic resources , the...

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Community Development

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Atlantic on Spending Down: "We’re Actually Gearing Up”

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08/06/2014

By Tony Proscio, Associate Director for Research , Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy A version of this post originally appeared on ... but the...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Governance

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A Letter from Surdna President Don Chen on Solidarity and Support to Grantees

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05/13/2020

... help you weather the storm so you can continue to advance social justice and racial equity. Here are some of the ways ... Foundation resolved to prioritize racial equity in its social justice mission, and the...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

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Borealis Philanthropy and Ford Foundation Launch $1 Million Disability x Tech Fund to Advance Leadership of People With Disabilities in Tech Innovation

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02/28/2023

... The Fund’s grantees seek to address these harms through research , litigation strategies, accessible content creation ... PHILANTHROPY Borealis Philanthropy is a philanthropic social justice intermediary that...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Disabilities

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Equity Speaker Series: Exploring Racism in America with Richard Rothstein

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9:00am to 11:00am

... for equity are critical tools in your philanthropic practice . Join your peers and some of America’s greatest ... Color of Law Richard Rothstein is an American historian, policy analysit, and journalist. He is...

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Heron Calls for A New Model Of Philanthropy

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01/27/2016

... peers to jettison outdated operating models that leave resources untapped in the face of systemic social ills. In a treatise entitled “Building a Foundation ... makes the case that the modern economy demands a...

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Economic Security

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Dominick Impemba and Susan Kish Join the Foundation Center Board of Trustees

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05/01/2013

... was an Audit Senior Manager at KPMG LLP in its nonprofit practice . Before that, he was the Controller at the Institute ... and ensure that it will provide even more solutions to the social sector in the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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How Evaluations Make Programs Stronger

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08/21/2014

By Michael D. Smith, Director of the Social Innovation Fund When funders invest in programs and ... work. Tiered-evaluations play a major role in the The Social Innovation Fun (SIF) , a major White House...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Evaluation

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Aetna Names Garth Graham, M.D., M.P.H. President of the Aetna Foundation

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09/02/2013

... to joining Aetna, Graham was Assistant Dean for Health Policy and Chief of Health Services Research at the University of Florida School of Medicine in ...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation Announces "Racial Equity in Clinical Equations"

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06/27/2023

... to increase awareness of the problem within the medical research community, to build support for the examination and ... will draw together powerful stakeholders in the clinical, research , funding, and...

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Health

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Rauch Foundation Appoints Jennifer Marino Rojas as Vice President of Grants and Operations

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01/01/2013

... grantmaking and its day-to-day operations. She will report to the Foundation's President, Nancy Rauch Douzinas, ... with the Executive Director to oversee all advocacy, research , education, training,...

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Cost of Health Care a Burden for Most U.S. Households

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04/15/2014

... Linda Blumberg, Ph.D., senior fellow in the Health Policy Center at the Urban Institute said that she and her ... without reform” was a key question motivating their research , she said, adding that “lots of...

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