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10 Jan 2013

The First Year: How to Hire, Inspire and Empower a New Family Foundation CEO

Thursday, January 10, 2013 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

Webinar

... a family. This webinar, based on the first-ever guides for hiring and orienting a family foundation CEO, will help ... family thinking about how to achieve their shared dreams for family philanthropy and how...

Darren Walker on the Benefits for Men Who Live With Empathy

Release Date:

10/31/2018

Darren Walker on the Benefits for Men Who Live With Empathy Darren Walker is in the ... world . The Ford Foundation would change the way it gives, so that all grants would be geared toward ... across the globe. A...

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28 Apr 2021

Telling A New Coming of Age Story – A Workshop on Narrative Change

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... FrameWorks Institute report on the reframing strategy for shifting the public discourse on transition age foster ... can be used in various types of communications and for different audiences The core elements...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Human Services

26 Jan 2022

Flexing Your Biggest Muscle: Shareholder Engagement for Foundations

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... is one way that foundations can influence a company’ s behavior by exercising their rights as partial owners. However, shareholder engagement is tool that’ s under-utilized by foundations, given a common lack...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project

Release Date:

01/19/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project BROOKLYN, January 18, 2017 – Brooklyn ... leaders with free co-working space within the Foundation’ s office in Crown Heights and a...

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RFPs Etc

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Brooklyn Org

30 Nov 2011

How DREAM Leaders Are Building a New Immigration Movement

Wednesday, November 30, 2011 -

11:00am to 2:00pm

Join us for an interactive discussion with DREAM leaders about how ... state and national levels. The intersection of UWD’ s work with multiple areas of interest to funders, including ... and civic engagement. A...

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Animal Groups Unite to Improve Post-Disaster Philanthropy

Release Date:

04/17/2015

... Director of Grant Strategies, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) ... grants, but in reviewing the many urgent requests, it became clear that a more expedient method was...

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A New Funder Embrace for Workforce Development

Release Date:

04/18/2012

... new approaches to prepare low-income individuals for entry-level jobs. During the 1990s, following a series of ... workers in employment organizations. Private funding for workforce development has increased...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Elizabeth Knup to Lead Its China Office

Release Date:

06/03/2013

... China and the rest of the world in the education, not- for -profit and business sectors. The early part of her career ... as chief representative of Pearson PLC, one of the world’ s foremost education and...

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Ford Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund Announces New Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly

Release Date:

06/03/2013

... Editor-in-Chief of The Milbank Quarterly on October 1, 2013 , succeeding Bradford H. Gray, Ph.D., Editor since 2000. ... "superbly qualified to maintain and enhance the Quarterly' s role as a leading...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Teagle Foundation Announces Judith Shapiro as New President

Release Date:

04/02/2013

... the Foundation to succeed Richard Morrill beginning July 2013 . The Teagle Foundation is a New York-based foundation ... at Barnard. Walter C. Teagle III, Chair of Teagle’ s Board of Directors, commented that “...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Innocent Chukwuma to Lead Its West Africa Office

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... the appointment of Innocent Chukwuma as Representative for West Africa, serving Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, The Gambia, ... Leone. Chukwuma will be based in the Ford Foundation’ s office in Lagos and will oversee...

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United Nations Foundation Board of Directors Names Kathy Calvin Next President and CEO

Release Date:

12/03/2012

... new President of the UN Foundation, effective February 1, 2013 . At a meeting of the Foundation’ s Board, Founder and Chairman Ted Turner announced a number ... Extraordinary Women.” She has received numerous...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Announces Inaugural Creative Director For Its Captiva Artists Residency

Release Date:

05/01/2012

... Kalajainen as the Creative Director of the Foundation’ s Artists Residency program in Captiva, Florida. In this role, Kalajainen will be responsible for transforming Robert Rauschenberg’ s 26...

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Arts

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Lori Bezahler Writes Op-Ed on Activism Led by Young People of Color for The Nation

Release Date:

03/28/2018

... Writes Op-Ed on Activism Led by Young People of Color for The Nation The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High ... against gun violence is not, in fact, new. In Florida in 2013 , for...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund

Release Date:

03/25/2021

Ford Foundation Provides Initial Funding for Black Feminist Fund The Ford Foundation announced on Thursday that it ’ s providing US$15 million to help launch a philanthropic ... Feminist Fund...

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Gender Justice

Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

New York Community Trust President Lorie A. Slutsky Announces Plans to Retire

Release Date:

04/05/2021

... after a distinguished career leading one of the nation’ s oldest and largest community foundations. Slutsky, 68, is ... and country. “We would love to keep Lorie at the helm for another 30 years,” said Valerie...

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Sepi Sepasi Joins Mellon as Chief Financial Officer

Release Date:

05/05/2022

... and strategic, enterprise-wide thinking to Mellon’ s operations, priorities, and mission. She comes to the ... to welcome Sepi to our community.” “I am honored for the opportunity to join the leadership team...

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The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation

Release Date:

10/23/2019

... myself. As adults, we invoke the concept of beginner’ s mind, inferring that curiosity and a sense of ‘not ... of un-learning and re-learning, in order to make space for more perspectives, and more potential...

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Insights

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30 Apr 2014

CEO Interview Series: Will Miller, The Wallace Foundation, with Phil Henderson

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 -

3:15pm to 5:30pm

... mission to expand learning and enrichment opportunities for the nation’ s disadvantaged children. Will has long been committed to ... manufacturing, health care and hospitality/tourism for...

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Tools & Strategies

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Children, Youth and Families

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