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New Report from The Century Foundation: How the Federal Government Can Make Funding Accessible to Maternal Health Community-Based Organizations

Release Date: 
07/10/2023
... health disparities is to ensure that CBOs have the resources they need to do their work to best advantage. To ... offer technical assistance (TA) to applicants in the form of webinars and written materials, as...
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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors
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Children, Youth and Families
Health
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The Century Foundation
12 Oct 2022

Applying Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to Child and Family Services Research: Implications for the Federal and Philanthropic Sectors

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:30am
Join this session to learn about opportunities to leverage national, state, city, and foundation funding… and practical ways to improve how research is designed and funded. See what components can be easily added to a Request for Proposal so that...

Boards as an Accountability Mechanism

Publication date: 
06/2014
This paper examines board functioning in relation to both legal and broader conceptions of accountability, and empirical evidence from over 5,100 nonprofits in the Urban Institute National Survey of Nonprofit Governance . It discusses areas of board weakness and considers different approaches to improving them, including regulation, self-regulation, policy-oriented strategies, and management-oriented strategies.
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Board & Trustees
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Governance

Philanthropy New York's Kimberly Roberts Interviews Julie Kashen and Rakeen Mabud, Authors of Nevertheless, It Persists: Disrupting the Vicious Cycle of Institutionalized Sexism

Release Date: 
09/30/2020
... issue is that those who have always held the majority of resources and power have a strong incentive to keep doing so. ... issue is that those who have always held the majority of resources and power have a...
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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Gender Justice

Foundation Communications Today: Findings from the Communications Network 2011 Survey of Foundation Communications Professionals

Publication date: 
06/2011
This survey of 155 foundation communicators shows that U.S. foundations are making use of all forms of digital communications, especially social media, a top priority. The survey results suggest the growth of social media and other emerging digital technologies is changing the way foundations communicate with target audiences and that the role of communications is becoming more central to forging and implementing foundation strategies.

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