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Ford Foundation Appoints Ursula Burns to Board of Trustees

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02/20/2015

... business leader. She began her career at Xerox in 1980 as a mechanical engineer intern, and through the ... brings a sophisticated understanding of the corporate sector and a lived experience characterized by...

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14 Jun 2017

Social Impact Exchange: 2017 Conference on Scaling Impact

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 8:30am to Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 2:45pm

... funders, advisors and leaders from across the social sector gather to share knowledge, hear about co-funding ... The conference includes presentations from foundation and nonprofit leaders, as well as...

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How Social Innovation Labs Contribute to Transformative Change

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11/07/2014

... Bridgespan Group , preliminary estimates indicate that the sector is relatively small—approximately $150 million per year—and fragmented, with a majority of the labs in the global north. While still early...

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Jocelyn Downie Elected New Surdna Foundation Board Chair; Social Finance CEO Tracy Palandjian to Join Surdna Board

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11/01/2013

... serve with eight other family members. Downie, a Professor in the Faculties of Law and Medicine at Canada’s Dalhousie ... Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Social Finance, a nonprofit organization dedicated...

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Katherine Bleich Joins American Express as Corporate Philanthropy Intern

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07/02/2012

... , supporting their philanthropic initiatives as an intern. In addition to her role there, Bleich is a second-year Master ... at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, specializing in international public and...

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Kopp Joins Changing Our World As Managing Director

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08/12/2014

... Corporation, where he served as vice president of Nonprofit Programs. While there, he managed a consulting team ... counsel to a wide array of nonprofit organizations in the optimization of...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

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03/15/2017

... Muslims that together tell the story of how we all belong in America. The Collaborative’s formation represents a ... Programming will include strategic grantmaking, cross- sector convenings and relationship-...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

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05/16/2013

... deep inside the earth. Fracking* has facilitated a boom in natural gas drilling, but it also comes with many risks ... pollution of air and water in communities near fracking sites has been...

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Children, Youth and Families

15 Oct 2015

Lunch 4 Learning: Making Universal Free Lunch a Public Health Issue

Thursday, October 15, 2015 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... for free or reduced-price lunch. However, only 250,000 (1 in 3) eligible students participate in school lunch programs. The reason is simple: students skip ... increases in middle school and...

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Joint Statement of Associations Advancing Equitable Evaluation Practices

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07/2019

... are already committed by providing learning opportunities, resources and, eventually curricula, about equitable ...

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18 Sep 2014

Inequality, Democracy and Corporate Power

Thursday, September 18, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... to protect the right to vote, limit the influence of money in politics, and challenge the fabricated doctrine of ... All interested funders. Registration 2:45-3:00 PM Check- in 3:00-5:00 PM Program 5:00-6:00...

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31 Mar 2022

Financial Series: Getting the Financial Information You Need Without Overburdening Grantees

Thursday, March 31, 2022 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... analysis. Designed for philanthropy professionals in any role, from trustee to staff, these interactive ... their skills to analyze grantee financial documents. In this interactive wrap-up to the Financial...

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30 Mar 2023

Financial Series: Getting the Financial Information You Need Without Overburdening Grantees

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10:00am to 12:00pm

The Program In this interactive wrap-up to the Financial Series, ... attend? Funders with less than two years of experience in the field – program-officers, CEOs, and other staff, as ... reporting Understand...

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Centering Racial Equity for Generational Impact

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06/24/2021

... , several findings from the research stood out to me: Nonprofit leaders report that receiving multiyear general operating support (GOS) would result in many benefits to the health of their...

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10/28/2014 - Collective Impact: From Concept to Reality in NYC - Presentations

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10/2014

... the program, " Collective Impact: From Concept to Reality in NYC ." 10/28/2014 - Collective Impact: From Concept to Reality in NYC - Presentations .....

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38th Annual Meeting Recap: The Power of Participation

... to a dynamic line-up of speakers, PNY members participated in the annual business meeting portion of the day and elected ... & Co. , came to the stage to welcome both the members in the audience and the...

This Guy Has Plans to Make Your Foundation More Accountable

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03/15/2017

... Edition Since he launched the Inside Philanthropy site in 2014, David Callahan has been a profiler of philanthropic ... His proposals, if adopted, would certainly impact the nonprofit sector...

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Fitting The Image To The Spirit

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06/26/2018

... my feedback. That letter was published this month , in the current issue (Vol 23, Number 2, June 2018) . As I ... and reflective. And many colleagues will admit that, as a sector , we do not do this well. I...

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Eric C. Schneider to Join The Commonwealth Fund as Senior Vice President for Policy and Research

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11/26/2014

... M.D., Senior Principal Researcher and Distinguished Chair in Health Care Quality at RAND, and director of its Boston ... Vice President for Policy and Research on February 2, 2015 . He will be based at the...

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