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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

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

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Surdna Foundation Appoints Sophy Yem as Program Officer, Philanthropy

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10/01/2019

... on building capacity and supporting collaboration in the social justice philanthropy field,” said Don Chen, ... is deeply committed to Surdna’s mission to advance social justice and racial equity, and our...

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We Made a Comprehensive Investment in Board Service, and This Is What Happened

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04/20/2017

... who now serve on boards. This includes coordinating best practice sharing sessions on topics like fundraising and the ...

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Mellon Foundation Announces Imagining Freedom, An Arts & Humanities Initiative Supporting Creatives and Thinkers Reenvisioning the Criminal Legal System

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02/15/2023

... Foundation and its other recipients to imagine and enact a practice of freedom that frees us all.” ...

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A Unique Nonprofit Lender

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08/19/2009

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be” is a well-known early seventeenth century sound bite (from Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Polonius’ advice to his son, Laertes). Yet sound bites or one-sentence quotes found in cute management books are no way to manage a...

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Membership Snapshot

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05/2023

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NY Women’s Foundation, NoVo and 15 Other PNY Members Support Leadership of Young Women of Color with $2.1M

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01/10/2017

... of collaborative philanthropy where organizations pool resources to better leverage collective use of their ... in 2014, it was formed to increase philanthropic resources available to organizations that...

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Gender Justice

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The Cricket Island Foundation

Ford Foundation

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Ms. Foundation for Women

The Scherman Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... Additionally, the clinic has publicized results of mini research projects which showed...

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Disabilities

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?

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08/27/2013

... role and value of strategic philanthropy for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In a speech to the staff of the ... of dollars, we have in fact failed to solve even one social problem once and for all, by...

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The Sister Fund Welcomes Two New Team Members

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04/18/2014

... Sister Fund a number of years working on behalf of various social justice and humanitarian causes, in addition to a ... Assistant Pastor, and previously as Assistant Minister for Social Ministries and Dean of...

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HLH Family Foundation Inc

Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires

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06/04/2014

... option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector. Judith Rodin, president of Rockefeller ... long term. These experiments come in different avatars: social impact bonds, impact...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Instead of Retiring, Many Seek 'Encore' Jobs

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07/07/2014

... plans to work instead of retiring and with many opting for social sector jobs. The survey by MetLife Foundation and ... 31 million would like to. Some who now hold jobs in the social services or education...

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Howard Gilman, Laurie M. Tisch, Doris Duke and Mellon Fund Brooklyn Youth Chorus’ Latest Project

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10/18/2016

... voice to those who have been silenced or marginalized by social , cultural or religious circumstances. The Chorus has ... create music that explores race and identity, inequity and social disparity—music that...

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How Judith Rodin Created A New Model For Philanthropic Funding At The Rockefeller Foundation

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12/07/2016

... governments, or businesses who see payoffs (both social and at times profitable) in social change? How Judith Rodin Created A New Model For ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Celebrates 110th Anniversary

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04/20/2017

... the foundation in 1907 for “the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States” with a ... major projects in low-income housing, urban planning, social work, and labor reform, including the...

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness " Social entrepreneurship has proven to provide impactful ... addressed a range of topics, including a focus on how social entrepreneurs would help...

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Opinion: Living The Mitchell-Lama Dream

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09/21/2017

... New York City, uniting people from all walks of life in a social experiment that prospered. Today, these developments ... community meetings, on the streets across Brooklyn, and on social media; and we see it...