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The Annie E. Casey 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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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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Episcopal Health Foundation

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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Family Foundation

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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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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

Disaster Relief

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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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

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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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Children, Youth and Families

Education

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

Release Date:

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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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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David K. Mineta Joins Board of Directors of Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

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02/08/2023

... Mr. Mineta is the President and CEO of Momentum for Health , one of the largest private nonprofit providers dedicated to providing comprehensive behavioral health services in Santa Clara County, California...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Research Funded by William T. Grant Foundation Aims to Show Why Some Veterans Go Hungry

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05/30/2019

... fellow at the University of Houston's Department of Health and Human Performance, sought to determine what barriers keep veterans from obtaining and eating quality ... with Military.com. "I really...

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William T. Grant Foundation

A Big Move to Build Our Community

... “serve as a connector of people, institutions, ideas and resources , as well as a catalyst for advocacy and action for ... about this move over the next several months. Please do not hesitate to contact us with...

12 Aug 2025

Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series Part I: In Defense of Civil Society - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... democratic backsliding; and hone in on how philanthropic resources can support local-level defense of communities and ... Access To protect the privacy of our participants, we do not allow external notetaking...

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Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

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05/12/2014

... that grew to 26 percent in just a short time. If they could invest all of it in impact investing, they would, ... even combined with governments, don’t have the resources to solve the world’s pressing problems...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Impact Investing

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Salesforce Gives $19M to Support Five School Districts Across the US and Education Nonprofits

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09/20/2021

... Superintendent Dr. Alessia Johnson. “These additional resources will help IPS address the specific needs of our ... through the Education Cloud platform, all of which could not happen this way just a few short...

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