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Family Foundations Prepare for the Next Generation

Release Date:

02/08/2013

... about how they will interact with each other, not just when they’re young but when they’ve grown up. Independence is great; interdependence is what keeps them together when we’re gone.....

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Artists at the Center: A New Doris Duke Initiative

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12/21/2012

... begin to create and secure income for their later years, when staff positions, grants, etc. might be even harder to ... creating project after project, should there come a time when we invest differently in an...

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Insights

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All Funders

11 Jul 2018

Service for Impact - Exploring Successful Skills-Based Volunteering Models

Wednesday, July 11, 2018 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... of each approach, and which ones should you pursue? Join us in “speed-dating” style conversations focused on ... Magdaluyo , Manager, Responsible Business Leadership, PwC US Yezenia Ramos , Senior Manager,...

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Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

Release Date:

06/19/2014

... South Asia. “By responsibly and ethically employing hundreds of thousands of people, BPOs have a role to play in ...

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Economic Security

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

Release Date:

11/10/2014

... city, to help rescue Detroit from bankruptcy by donating hundreds of millions of dollars to spare retirees from deeper ...

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Economic Security

Human Services

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Ford Foundation

Guggenheim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows

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04/08/2016

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced its 2016 class of fellows. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, the successful candidates were selected from a group of nearly three thousand applicants.

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Leon Levy Foundation

Ford's Walker Included in New Class of Disrupters Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse

Release Date:

08/01/2016

... of trustees are expected to donate (or at least raise) hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. And until 1980, ...

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Ford Foundation

Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

... the state’s death row. Over the decades, it has handled hundreds of capital cases, and has spared 125 offenders from ...

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Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Bloomberg Philanthropies 'What Works Cities Initiative' Issues Data Management Platform Request for Info

Release Date:

11/22/2016

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities (WWC) is a national initiative to help a hundred-plus mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence. The initiative is administered by Results for America (RfA).

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Community Development

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Alarming Number of Young Girls in Mexico Are Forced to Marry, Ford-Funded Report Finds

Release Date:

05/04/2017

... girls aged between 12 and 14 are living in "early unions." Hundreds of thousands of young girls in Mexico are being .....

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Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

Release Date:

07/28/2017

... on mitigating global warming. That move has galvanized hundreds of cities — of all sizes — to pledge action... ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit ...

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Education

Mayor De Blasio Revives Push To Convert Former Greenpoint Hospital Into Affordable Housing

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... Greenpoint Hospital — shuttered since 1982 — into hundreds of units of affordable housing, Mayor de Blasio will ...

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Housing and Homelessness

EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes ...

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Environment and Climate Change

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issues Report on Undercount of Young Kids in 2020 Census

Release Date:

06/29/2018

... child well-being over the next decade by putting at risk hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding for ...

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Census 2020

Children, Youth and Families

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Appointment of Chief Executive Officer

Release Date:

01/09/2015

... Mitchell Foundation’s two New York City locations, the home office and the newly opened Education & Research Center, ...

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Arts

Education

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W.T. Grant Foundation Launches Blog Series on Research Evidence and Federal Policy

Release Date:

10/29/2015

... Innovation Program, Social Innovation Fund, Evidence-based Home Visitation program, Evidence-based Teen Pregnancy ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Social Justice

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William T. Grant Foundation

07 Jun 2016

Peace and Security Funding Index: An Analysis of Global Foundation Grantmaking

Tuesday, June 7, 2016 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

The Peace and Security Funders Group is a network of sixty-three funders – foundations and individual philanthropists – who make grants in the peace and security sector.