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What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?

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08/27/2013

... for the Stanford Social Innovation Review. In a speech to the staff of the Hewlett Foundation, William Schambra of ... and which the Hewlett Foundation has championed for many years . I admire Schambra’...

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A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project

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02/28/2014

... has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. For 30 years , NPP has been committed to providing clear and transparent information about the ... nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize recognizes NPP'...

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Opportunity International and The MasterCard Foundation Plan To Help 7M Out of Poverty With $22.7M Partnership

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03/25/2014

... International and The MasterCard Foundation plan to help 7 million out of poverty with $22.7 million ... organization established in 1971. Over the last 42 years OI has provided $6 billion in microfinance...

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Service Through Philanthropy Dr. Starita Boyce Ansari

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04/15/2014

MSBPhilanthropy Advisors' s Dr. Starita Boyce Ansari talks service through philanthropy ... and program design and evaluation. She is also working to empower the next generation of philanthropist. Over the...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions In partnership with the Art ... student access to works of art from the Art Institute' s permanent holdings and leverage the...

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NYC Council members rip Walmart’s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’

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06/04/2014

NYC Council members rip Walmart’ s charity of ‘dangerous dollars’ More than half the members of the City Council have fired off a letter to Walmart demanding that it stop making millions in ... here, including $1...

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Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... for championing climate change solutions over the past 20 years , especially its efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’ s biggest source of global warming pollution. According...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

... winners in Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S . and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the ... a year. The library was among those who best responded to the question posed by the...

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Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Studies

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06/23/2014

Sloan Foundation Aims To Increase Native Americans In Advanced Science, Technology, ... Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in a three-year, collaboration to increase the number of indigenous Americans obtaining .....

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Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation

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07/07/2014

... staff in 2001, she was the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’ s executive director, a position she held for 13 years . A founding board member of ArtPride, Packer ...

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The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

The Roots of Today' s Giving Pledge The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for ... but as Forbes notes, the idea was first advanced 125 years ago when Andrew Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie ... New York...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort

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07/17/2014

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Gives $500,000 to Anti-Poverty Effort The Bank of America Charitable ... the Peace Corps and who headed President Lyndon B. Johnson' s War on Poverty. Bank of America...

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American Households Lost More Than One-Third Of Value Over Past Decade

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07/26/2014

... has declined by more than a third over the past 10 years , according to a study underwritten by the Russell Sage Foundation. The study, conducted as part of the foundation' s Great...

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Longtime Carnegie Associate Awarded Top Mathematics Medal

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08/14/2014

... New York, has received the Chern Medal, one of the world’ s most prestigious prizes in the field of mathematics. ... a wide range of advances in mathematics over the past 50 years , chairs the Science...

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Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P.

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09/03/2014

Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P. Michael R. Bloomberg has ... after ending his final term as mayor of New York. For years , Mr. Bloomberg had insisted that he had no intention of...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... widespread discontent over how they signed up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent of people who bought ... believed they would receive high-quality care, according to a tracking survey by the...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Will Divest Charity From Fossil Fuels

Release Date:

09/22/2014

... is joining the divestment movement that began a couple years ago on college campuses. The announcement, timed to precede Tuesday’ s opening of the United Nations climate change summit meeting...

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NYCT, NoVo on Short List of Foundations who Activiely Fund Domestic Violence Prevention Programs

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09/29/2014

... Since passing the Violence Against Women Act 20 years ago this month, Congress has distributed more than $5-billion in grants to combat domestic violence and its root causes. The ... focused largely on crisis...

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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

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10/07/2014

... Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality It' s always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in bringing about big ... philanthropy that got results, this is it. For nearly 15 years...

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People with Health Insurance Still Can't Afford All the Care They Need

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11/14/2014

... survey is providing an important reminder that you need to look just beyond the cost of a health plan' s monthly premium to figure out your expected medical costs for the coming .....

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