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... orphanages; HarvestPlus will eliminate hidden hunger in Africa by fortifying staple crops; Rice 360° Institute for ... (Rice University) will improve newborn survival in Africa ; and Sesame Workshop and...

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Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

Release Date:

04/29/2010

... (grants and PRIs). When the markets headed south in 2008, we reviewed conditions with our Board at a special October ... extreme). For our grantmaking program, the scenario that we implemented meant “hanging...

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25 Oct 2013

Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons: Main Convening

Friday, October 25, 2013 -

8:00am to 1:00pm

... assess performance and lift up practices – based on what we have learned from past disaster grantmaking experiences, ...

A New Funder Embrace for Workforce Development

Release Date:

04/18/2012

... or anti-poverty efforts, more funders are joining in. We welcome all donors who are interested in learning more. ...

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09 Feb 2023

February 2023 Service for Impact

Thursday, February 9, 2023 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... small budgets allocated to small teams. In this session, we will discuss examples of how CSR teams can leverage formal ... Please note: To ensure fairness among our members, we reserve the right to limit the...

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11 May 2023

“No Justice Without Love” & Community: A Roundtable Discussion on Criminal (In)Justice in NYC and How to Disrupt the System

Thursday, May 11, 2023 -

2:00pm to 4:30pm

... of public policy and narrative change. A year later, we are creating an opportunity to reconvene, re-ground, and ... legal system. To ground our roundtable discussion, we invite attendees to arrive at 2:00pm...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Public Policy

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Communications/Media

Justice Reform

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Social Justice

Great Power, Great Responsibility: Grantmakers’ Role as Conveners

Publication date:

01/2013

Funders are finding ways to use the power of convening to benefit their grantees and their communities in countless ways. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' digital publication contains a series of ideas to help grantmakers become better at bringing stakeholders together.

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Learn and Let Learn

Publication date:

10/2012

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ publication explores how learning communities can be powerful tools in creating and shaping peer connections that help expand knowledge, deepen skills and enhance practice.

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Report

Coaching and Philanthropy, An Action Guide for Grantmakers

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02/2010

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and its partners on the Coaching and Philanthropy Project took a deep dive into learning about the nonprofit sector’s support for and use of coaching, and consolidates that knowledge here into action guides and an online toolkit.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Evaluation in Philanthropy: Perspectives from the Field

Publication date:

12/2009

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and the Council on Foundations explore how evaluation can help grantmakers learn and improve practices (not just "prove" results).

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On the Money

Publication date:

09/2009

This Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication highlights the financial challenges nonprofits face and the ways in which grantmakers are both improving the situation as well as perpetuating the problem.