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01 Dec 2016

Grantee-Centered Capacity Building Is What You Think It Is – And More

Thursday, December 1, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... and similarly, how grantees experience investments. GEO' s Heather Peeler will frame the conversation and offer ... and technical assistance to field building. Whether your foundation is just beginning to...

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NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

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10/06/2016

NY Community Trust' s Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering ... about this more recent initiative along with the Trust' s long-standing work with immigrant communities. We also ... Donna...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

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10/19/2016

... to create a comprehensive plan to secure “women’ s economic development and political citizenship” in the ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Study Shows Female CEOs Get Blamed for Failure More Frequently Than Men

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10/26/2016

... CEOs Get Blamed for Failure More Frequently Than Men It’ s not your imagination or a just a hunch: Female chief ... men and women ― released Wednesday by the Rockefeller Foundation . More striking than that?...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

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10/26/2016

... Wednesday by The Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan research foundation , found that premiums and deductibles grabbed 6.5 ...

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Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

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11/02/2016

... say she is life-changing. As president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2005, Rodin has helped bring philanthropy ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

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11/04/2016

... approaches. Commissioned by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation and led by Slover Linett Audience Research, the ...

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Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

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11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy

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11/30/2016

... Big Bet Philanthropy For the superrich and the biggest U. S . charitable foundations, donating to universities, ...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

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12/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating ... times a year, its hunger devours a third of all of Earth’ s food, and its breath emits greenhouse gases at a level ... name is...

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Words Matter: Changing from Funders of Women and Girls to Funders for Gender Equity

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01/04/2017

... Jennifer Agmi, Director of Programs at the New York Women' s Foundation The history of philanthropy is one where women and ... of masculinity. Over the years, the creation of women’ s...

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Rockefeller Study Finds Media Coverage Misses Gig Worker Concerns

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01/04/2017

... participants have experienced. The Rockefeller Foundation paid for PR and communications firm Cision to ...

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Workforce Development

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NYSHealth Invests in Veterans' Health

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02/01/2017

... In a new video, NYSHealth staff and grantees discuss the Foundation ' s revitalized efforts to improve the health of returning .....

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Ford’s Walker Talks Philanthropy in CNBC Interview

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02/07/2017

Ford’ s Walker Talks Philanthropy in CNBC Interview The key to ... in American history—in black history—is empathy. That' s what Darren Walker is saying. One could argue that if ... calling was even bigger:...

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

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02/13/2017

... programs, and leadership development. The Knight Foundation has been interested in creating more engaged ...

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Mellon Grant Helps University Advance Racial Justice Recommendation

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02/22/2017

... A recent $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will help Georgetown carry out its commitment to ... a report containing recommendations from the university’ s Working Group on Slavery, Memory...

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18 Apr 2017

Mobilizing for Mission - On Grassroots Climate Change

Tuesday, April 18, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... for you to brainstorm what action makes sense for your foundation and how you might partner with others. Are you ... (Conversation Catalyst), President, Mertz Gilmore Foundation Stephen Foster (Conversation...

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Tools & Strategies

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Executive Leadership

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford's Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ and Are Worth Fighting For

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03/21/2017

Ford' s Darren Walker Says Arts Are ‘The Soul Of The Country’ ... The arts spark creativity and soothe divisiveness, Ford Foundation President Darren Walker told a packed house at The ... organization devoted...

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Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe

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03/23/2017

... own crackdown on foreign-funded charities drove Soros' s foundation out of Russia two years ago. And now, with ... from the United States, particularly from rightwing U. S . media like...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants

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03/27/2017

... for Immigrants In response to the Trump administration’ s immigration policies, Governor Cuomo announced an ... of their residency status. Coordinated by the state’ s Office for New Americans, the Liberty...

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