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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

... the education department and New York University are partnering to study whether that teacher training is doing the trick. One of the first studies of its kind of New ...

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Making Kids Into “Makers”

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09/22/2017

The new annual Inventor’s Challenge prompts children to develop their creative problem-solving skills by building something to address a problem in their community.

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Thousands March For Black Women And Racial Justice In D.C., Around The Country

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10/02/2017

The two separate but closely-coordinated events, the March for Black Women (M4BW) and the March for Racial Justice (M4RJ) started at parks near the Capitol before converging to march together to the Department of Justice before descending on the...

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Gender Justice

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

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10/10/2017

... safety, employee diversity and carbon footprint reduction are all examples of corporate social responsibility (CSR) ... CEO has invested in CSR and the firm performs poorly, they are much more likely to be...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? A National Study of Philanthropic Practice

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03/2012

... some of the key shifts in grantmaking since 2008 and what they mean for supporting nonprofit resilience. Is ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Evaluation

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TCC Group

Executive Transitions: Grantmakers and Nonprofit Leadership Change

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03/2006

... Where is the fine line between helping and intruding? What interventions work? And how can a grantmaker play a ...

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Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

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11/2008

... a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely ...

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Our Guides to Knowledge: Celebrating 'I Love My Librarian Award' Winners

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12/19/2012

... Award. Almost everyone's life has been enriched by what they learned in a library. But libraries would not be the wonderful teaching and learning places that they are without librarians. They are...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Arts

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Sequestering the Sector

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02/28/2013

... Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman discusses what the sequester could mean for the nonprofit sector. ...

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The Transformative Power of Philanthropy

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05/09/2013

... I’ve been contributing a series of posts about what we’ve learned about strategic philanthropy over the ...

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Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers

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08/06/2013

... week, the city of Richmond, Calif., will be the first of what will ultimately be many cities to begin taking bold ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The Century Foundation

02 Apr 2014

Grantee Executive Transitions – When and How to Engage as Funders

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8:45am to 11:00am

... But let’s be real: leadership matters. So what happens when the leadership at a grantee institution ... top is big and often scary for a grantee. Knowing how and what to support can be confusing for a...

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Guide to Collaborative Philanthropy

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10/2016

... group, notes template, and detailed description of what support we provide in which circumstances . Based on feedback from colleagues across the nation, we are convinced that this guide will not only support ...

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Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors

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01/04/2017

... 2016 election just weeks behind us, it is still uncertain what the Trump administration’s influence on philanthropy will be. But the odds are good that the number of huge gifts to nonprofits in ...

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Sarah Eagle Heart of Native American Philanthropies Clarifies Debate Around Labels for Indigenous Communities

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02/02/2017

... the language to use to address indigenous communities. Are you first nations? Are you Native American? American Indian? What 's the right label? Sarah Eagle Heart of Native American .....

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After the Q&A

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Native Americans in Philanthropy

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Avila Kilmurray, Global Fund for Community Foundations, Talks About Philanthropy Outside North America

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06/08/2015

... America In many ways, it's been a bit of a hidden story, what 's going on in the global south, and indeed in Eastern .....

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Whitney Biennial Artists Take A Hard Look At America, And Find Ways To Connect

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03/23/2017

... creativity and sometimes a reflection of our culture. What moods and themes did curators find when putting together ...

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Caught Our Attention

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Boutiques for the People

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09/27/2016

... quantitative and qualitative data thus far show that they are making a significant difference in the subsequent ... the good. At the same time, we should be clear-eyed about what we may have to sacrifice in...

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Carnegie Corporation Awards $10 Million to Four School Districts

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10/02/2013

Part of the foundation's multiyear, $28 million Opportunity by Design initiative, the grants will help the school districts (including the New York City Department of Education) design and open new high schools that support students in meeting the...

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