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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Economic Security

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Major Gifts Follow When Fundraisers Adhere to a Research Plan Consistently, Study Says

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... a system erratically or not at all, according to a new survey . While that may seem like common sense, the study ...

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7/30/2014 - Capacity Building in Isolated Neighborhoods Program - Reports

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07/2014

View materials presented during the program "Building Capacity in Isolated Neighborhoods."

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All Funders

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Economic Security

Why Do Democrats Want More Police in Schools?

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01/11/2013

An op-ed by Lori Bezahler, President of the Edward W. Hazen Foundation.

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Public Policy

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Education

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $5.6M to Enable Residencies for Playwrights

Release Date:

04/11/2016

What that means, in a profession that is notoriously short on financial remuneration, is that the designated playwrights will receive full-time salaries and benefits for three years, along with “artistic development funds’’ that they can use for...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Harnessing Collaborative Technologies: Helping Funders Work Together Better

Publication date:

11/2013

... detailed analyses of trends from a Foundation Center survey of the largest U.S. foundations, interviews with 37 ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Information Technology

Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive

Publication date:

03/2014

... endowments six years ago, according to a new Chronicle survey . Yet grant makers still aren’t as rich as they were ...

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Article

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2024 Operational Reports

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04/2024

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Board/Committee Materials

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Board & Trustees

5/19/2015 - Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions - Live stream recording & Presentations

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05/2015

View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "Economic Inequality and Mobility: Looking at the Evidence to Inform Philanthropy’s Actions."

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Audio/Video Recording

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

Darren Walker Reflects on the Polling Results Released on the Coverage of Race in the News Media 50 Years Post-Kerner Commission

Release Date:

03/06/2018

... you turn on the news or read the paper. But a recent survey commissioned by the Ford Foundation indicates that ... may be exacerbated by the makeup of our media. The survey ’s primary goal was to analyze...

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Arts

Communications/Media

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg Report Shows Mayors Concerned About Budget, Infrastructure

Release Date:

04/11/2018

... report from Bloomberg Philanthropies finds. Based on a survey of a hundred and fifty-six mayors, the Bloomberg ... American Cities Initiative 's 2018 American Mayors Survey (22 pages, PDF) found that...

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Benchmarking Diversity: A First Look at New York City Foundations and Nonprofits

Publication date:

10/2009

This report examines the racial, gender, sexuality, and disability staff demographics of participating New York City-area foundations and nonprofits. It also looks at grantmaking policies and data collection around diversity and inclusion, examines the institutional capacities of nonprofit organizations, and looks at the range of ways that nonprofits define themselves as “minority-led.”

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Benchmarks

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Governance

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Philanthropy New York

A Glass Half Full: Japan’s Disaster Response at One Year

Release Date:

03/27/2012

... role of overseas philanthropy: a recently completed JCIE survey finds that private American donors have contributed ... support—namely multi-year grants that provide sufficient salary assistance and overhead...

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Insights

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All Funders

Benchmarking Foundation Governance

... and characteristics of meetings. Findings are based on survey responses from CEOs at 64 private, U.S.-based ...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Sharing What Matters: Foundation Transparency

Publication date:

03/2016

The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) examined the perspectives of foundation CEOs and learned that there is much agreement on the audiences for their transparency efforts. Foundation CEOs also agree about what they believe is the most important information to share with those audiences.However, foundation practice lags behind CEOs’ beliefs.

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Philanthropy's Key Contributions to Society

Publication date:

08/2008

A compilation of well-known innovations that can be traced to foundation funding over the past 100 years.

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Article

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Commonwealth Fund Research Shows Elderly in U.S. Have Trouble Paying Medical Bills

Release Date:

11/21/2014

... care physician could treat. The Commonwealth Fund’s survey looked at how well health systems are caring for older ...

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Health

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Hartford Foundation Study Gets Attention on ‘National Healthcare Decisions Day’

Release Date:

04/18/2016

... talk to patients and families about end-of-life care. The survey , released Thursday by philanthropies John A. Hartford ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Health

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... getting a good education. The next year, in another Gallup survey , almost half of whites said that blacks had just as ... see that these white beliefs were delusional, and in other survey questions whites...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation and New York City Join Forces to Fund Internships at Cultural Organizations

Release Date:

09/09/2016

... of Natural History. The program comes on the heels of a survey published this year that found the diversity in the ... work force is 61.8 percent white. “When I first read the survey , I wrote the mayor...

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