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Is Nonprofit Board Service Worth It? Reflections from a One-Time Skeptic

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01/16/2014

... organization’s success. Since coming to Surdna six years ago, the invitations to join boards have been frequent. ... I think I’ve got a pretty full dance card. But why serve on nonprofit boards at all? I have...

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Taking the Evaluation Leap: Lessons from Urban Alliance’s Six-Year Randomized Controlled Trial

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10/16/2017

It’s a familiar conversation. When asked how they know their model works, a nonprofit or foundation will tell you a story. They’ll say that seventeen-year-old Darren turned his life around after going through their program, and eighteen-year-old...

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Mellon Foundation Awards St. Lawrence University $800,000 to Support Sophomore-Year Experience

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10/21/2016

This new program will offer a new series of second-year student seminars and courses that are linked to experiential learning opportunities, including internships, community outreach and summer research fellowships.

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City Year Receives $2.5 Million Grant from the New York Life Foundation

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06/16/2015

The funding will impact as many as 150,000 middle school students.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... an average of 10 percent or more a year during the three years before the Affordable Care Act was enacted (2008-2010), ...

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Health

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TCC Group Releases New Report: (Un)precedented: Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality.

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04/11/2018

The latest report from TCC Group – (Un)precedented: Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality – documents how philanthropy has demonstrated flexibility, nimbleness, and a willingness to collaborate in the first year of...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years

Release Date:

11/05/2015

... Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years The U.S. electric sector is expected to hit its ... closure of coal-powered power plants over the past five years , a Sierra Club report released...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Teach For America New York Executive Director Charissa Fernández On This Year’s Corps, DACA And Teacher Training

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09/21/2017

Teach for America may be one of the most well-known education nonprofits. The national group recruits new teachers and places them in districts where there’s a shortage of qualified educators.

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ASPCA and NYPD Celebrate Five Years of Fighting Animal Abuse and Rescuing Victims across New York City

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01/29/2019

ASPCA and NYPD Celebrate Five Years of Fighting Animal Abuse and Rescuing Victims Across ... with the NYPD making nearly 700 arrests in the last five years and the ASPCA treating more than 3,300 victims of alleged...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

Release Date:

11/18/2016

... Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project The New England ... and analysis of secondary data sources. Over the past 20 years , the National Dance Project has...

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

Release Date:

10/11/2016

... Jesse Fink Foundation [now The Fink Family Foundation] 15 years ago to help solve large-scale environmental problems, ...

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Funded by Russell Sage, Study Finds Childhood Obesity Rates Rise During Summer Break, Not During School Year

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11/02/2016

The results, published in the journal "Obesity," provide insight into whether the causes of childhood obesity lie primarily inside or outside of schools.

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Health

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In Year Three Of New York City’s Massive School Turnaround Program, The Big Question Is: What’s Next?

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09/18/2017

... has made in dozens of schools that have floundered for years — including this one. . . In Year Three Of New York ...

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New School Year, New Complaints About Contaminated Food Given To NYC Students

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09/20/2017

Just days into the new school year, there are already problems with the food served to New York City’s 1.1 million students.

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09 Sep 2019

Election Series: Navigating Effective Nonpartisan Election-Year Grantmaking - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

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3:00pm to 4:00pm

Properly understood, IRS rules allow foundations —both private and public— to legally support almost every type of advocacy. Foundations have a great deal of flexibility in election-year grantmaking but it is important to know what is legal,...

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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years At the start of December 2014, New York Post reporter ... told The 74 she “really can’t remember after three years ” what piqued her interest, but...

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

Release Date:

10/18/2017

... H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse In the late ... documenting the excavations of the city’s 3,000 years of continuous settlement. Today,...

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Investing in our Mission: A Five-Year Case Study of Fossil Fuel Divestment at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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05/11/2020

... market benchmarks since divesting from fossil fuels five years ago. Financial data included in the study shows the RBF ... chair of the RBF board of trustees. “Now we have five years of financial data to back...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism

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07/17/2018

Simons Foundation's Quanta Magazine Celebrates Five Years of Public Service Science Journalism In an uncertain ... greatest thing to happen to science journalism in many years ." This November, the...

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