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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

25 Jun 2020

Using an Equity Lens in COVID-19 Response and Recovery - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, June 25, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... risk to populations whose needs will not be supported. How do you identify those needs and what strategies will work best? How do you decide what portion of your grants...

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Family Foundation

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ascena Foundation Honors Winners of the 2018 Roslyn S. Jaffe Awards

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10/19/2018

... across the United States, specifically in the areas of health , education, social reform and esteem. To support the next generation of ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Ascena Retail Group

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Public Charity Expands Project ACT to Provide At-Risk Communities Nationwide With Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests

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06/29/2022

... communities across the United States. After working with health departments in six states to deliver an initial one ... the program to all U.S. states and territories. Already, health departments in five...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

Health

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Take Another Look at the Ways Schools Police Gender Norms

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12/01/2016

... Black and Latino students and set back their education. What is less frequently discussed in education circles is how ... in the discipline statistics are relatively small. The conversation in education and...

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President's Message

PNY News

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Gender Justice

To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

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06/23/2020

... Part 3 of their 3-part Insights series. Read Part 1: Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by ... was the case in New York, where a major regional project could be spiked—as it had been—by a tiny...

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Community Development

Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

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05/14/2019

... Elizabeth Tibbetts wondered if paper wasps' social skills could enable them to succeed where honeybees had failed. To ... of paper wasp, Polistes dominula and Polistes metricus, could solve a transitive...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

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Doris Duke Foundation

Thrive by 25: Casey Foundation Announces Increased Focus on Youth and Young Adults

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01/28/2021

... policies and practices that can thwart their success. The health and economic crises of the past year have exacerbated ... 25 is not an initiative or something the Foundation will do for a few years. It...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Taking Care of Business (in the Business of Taking Care)

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12/09/2015

... Ford Foundation When you work in a foundation, what kind of business are you in? I don't mean, what is your ... its funding from the company. In that situation, how do you structure your...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Episcopal Health Foundation

17 Oct 2011

Environmental Justice in NYC: Successful Advocacy for Sustainable Policy Change

Monday, October 17, 2011 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... breathe – for many thousands of children. Explore What prompted the alliances among neighborhood, citywide, and national organizations around these issues? What strategies and tactics were used to press their...

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Issue-Based

20 Mar 2020

COVID-19 and the Impact on Civic Engagement in 2020 - A Webinar by FCCP and State Voices

Friday, March 20, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... basis.** Join practitioners and fellow funders for a conversation on how COVID-19 ("Coronavirus") is impacting ... and policy needs, as well as physical and mental health , wellness, and healing...

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Civic Engagement

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

... funding sector focuses increasingly on numbers (how to do the most good, based on evidence, not on sentiment), the ... The hyper-focus on measurement, in their view, ignores what truly motivates people to give...

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NoVo Foundation

09 Jan 2020

Taking on the Big Issues: How Your Foundation Can Find Focus and Create Impact - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, January 9, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... largescale social, environmental, or economic problem, how do you decide as a family what you can do to make a difference? How do you find your role and define ...

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Tools & Strategies

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Family Foundation

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International/Foreign Affairs

09 Jul 2015

International Grantmaking for Small- to Mid-Sized Foundations

Thursday, July 9, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... compared to larger foundations that have more staff and resources to conduct due-diligence and build relationships. ... and will answer together at the meeting. Explore What are some of the resources...

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10 Oct 2012

A World of Opportunity: Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the HR Perspective

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... and inclusion (or “DEI”) can provide. Many human resources practitioners would like to promote DEI practices ... their foundations, but they have often reported a lack of resources that would help them “make...

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Network Building

Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

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03/25/2021

... women. The Black Feminist Fund started as a kitchen-table conversation in 2013 that co-founder Tynesha McHarris ... led to brainstorming an idea to move significant resources “unapologetically” to Black...

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges

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07/18/2017

... record are, too often, left feeling the way many of us do with our personal inboxes: searching in vain for that ... its findings and recommendations for actions that archives could take in the next two to five...

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation

New York City Contract Delays: The Facts

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09/06/2018

... Facts – may not shock foundations whose grantee’s do lots of business with the city, but it still makes for ... Our report suggests four strategies that the city could pursue to help mitigate the problem: lend...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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12 Oct 2022

Applying Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to Child and Family Services Research: Implications for the Federal and Philanthropic Sectors

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... of people with lived expertise and how research could be designed and carried out more equitably and ... ways to improve how research is designed and funded. See what components can be easily added to a...

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Issue-Based

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Livestream

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Public Policy

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Education

New Grants Approved by The John A. Hartford Foundation Board of Trustees

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12/10/2020

... care in the home. Due to the COVID-19 public health emergency, there is heightened reason to favor acute ... Rush University Medical Center: A Model for Caregiver Health and Wellness in Age-Friendly ...

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