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When Venture Philanthropy Meets Organizing: A Page from Propel Capital’s Playbook

Release Date:

01/30/2018

... Meets Organizing: A Page from Propel Capital’ s Playbook By Sarah Williams, Co-Founder and CEO Propel ... to follow on and invest in line with their values? We did – leveraging significant investment in rural...

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... published on the CEP Blog on February 1, 2018. It’ s said that you shouldn’t talk politics in polite company. ... grantees reassess what it takes to be effective in today’ s ever-shifting political climate...

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Gun Violence, Advocacy, and Leadership

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04/05/2018

... this case, regarding the regulation of guns. She did not seek the role of an advocate for gun violence ... wake of the incident in mostly anonymous Facebook posts, did not persuade this victim. If she had had...

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How Foundations Can Make a Difference After Puerto Rico’s Latest Natural Disaster

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02/26/2020

How Foundations Can Make a Difference After Puerto Rico’ s Latest Natural Disaster By Karina Claudio Betancourt, ... Surveying the damage, and skeptical of local government’ s ability to respond, those from less-...

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The Restaurant Industry Is Structured on Racism. The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Wants to Rebuild It.

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04/14/2021

... workers in crisis, and restaurants. Soon, the foundation’ s logo — two hands holding up a tray with a pineapple on it ... rallying symbol for people frustrated by the government’ s inaction. The RWCF saw an...

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Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

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Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now

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09/09/2021

... (not her real name) is one of those students. When Elisa’ s college closed, she lost an internship needed for her ... family. For my parents, Norma and Rolando, while they did not face a pandemic, they...

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Annie E. Casey Foundation and TCC Group Collaborate on Nesting to Achieve Impact: Lessons for Family Funders from a National Foundation

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10/26/2021

... level. TCC Group evaluated the Annie E. Casey Foundation’ s Family-Centered Community Change™ (FCCC) initiative, a ... Foundation Strategic Co-Investor Approach.” TCC Group’ s collaboration with the Casey...

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Beyond the Glass Cliff: Redefining Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector

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06/28/2024

... reckoning” since the murder of George Floyd, there’ s been a surge in hiring Black leaders. This is, perhaps, an ... expectation that they will “fix” the organization’ s issues, without the necessary support...

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Philanthropy New York Leadership Transition

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06/24/2020

... From Ronna Brown ( See also PNY Board Chair, Kyung Yoon' s Message on Leadership Transition ) Dear Members, I am ... consideration through last winter and shared it with PNY’ s Board at the very beginning...

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... No’ By Susan Olivo, Executive Director, Reader’ s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Funders, large and ... gave a presentation a few years ago about the Foundation’ s initiative to make the Imagination...

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29 Jan 2016

School Funding: The Road to Equity for NYC

Friday, January 29, 2016 -

9:45am to 12:00pm

Nearly every conversation about improving New York City’ s public schools includes a call for more funding. Yet, we ...

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Open Road Alliance - Roadblock Analysis Report

Roadblock Analysis Report In 2017, Open Road conducted an analysis of 102 applications from the past five years to assess trends in its portfolio. The analysis looked at multiple variables, including the size of the organization, project type, sector focus, geographic focus, legal status, and type of original funder. The analysis also coded each application under a taxonomy of “roadblocks” that describe 22 specific challenges that these organizations faced, divided into three broad categories: Organization Misfortune, Acts of God/Market Economics, and Funder-Created...

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Every Person Counts: Why the Census Must Be Rescued

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08/08/2018

... next 10 years and set back the goals of many of America’ s foundations and nonprofits for years to come. All ... of the current administration. According to the bureau’ s own Center for Survey Management,...

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Aging and HIV/AIDS: A New Era of Convergence

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10/17/2019

... HIV care settings. The result is a no-man’ s -land for care and social support. This can be jarring, ... the Aging with HIV Program at Weill Cornell Medicine’ s Center for Special Studies in New York, with...

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World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund Supports Launch of Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative in Philadelphia

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01/15/2020

... for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’ s Office of Workforce Development, announced today an ... strategy that aims to prepare Philadelphians for today’ s jobs and tomorrow’ s...

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What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

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12/06/2019

... toward the next essential step in fortifying our nation’ s democratic health. The New York State Census Equity Fund ... Foundation and leading organizer of the national funder’ s collaborative on redistricting...

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The New York Community Trust

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Census 2020

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Closing America's Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The Century Foundation

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07/22/2020

Closing America' s Education Funding Gaps - First-of-Its-Kind Report from The ... as well as a leading cause of it, is our nation’ s highly unequal and highly segregated K–12 public ... and minority students...

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23 Jun 2022

Language Matters: The Power of Narrative Change in Advancing Criminal Legal Reform

Thursday, June 23, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Reform Working Group The Justice Fund at New York Women' s Foundation Language Matters: The Power of Narrative Change .....

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Giving While Living

Publication date:

09/2017

... What are grantee organizations accomplishing? What’ s working… what’ s not? Or, as Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic ... never hesitated to ask, starting with the foundation’ s first grants in 1982: What will we have to show for it? As ...

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