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Ford Foundation Appoints Noha El-Mikawy to Lead Its Middle East and North Africa Office

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01/02/2012

... office, which focuses on Egypt. “At this seminal moment in Egypt, we are pleased to appoint a world-class leader like ... said Luis Ubiñas, President of the Ford Foundation. “ In a region undergoing transition...

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“Grads of Life” Builds Capacity for Demand-Driven Solutions to the U.S. Youth Employment Challenge

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10/02/2014

... appeared on the Rockefeller Foundation blog . In the wake of the Great Recession, the longstanding ... arrived at a potentially catalytic realization: that full employment for our nation's youth can only...

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Children, Youth and Families

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FEGS: Canary in the Coal Mine?

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04/10/2015

... resulting from government contracts that don’t cover the full cost of services, especially administrative costs. But ... at least partly a function of FEGS’ under-investment in financial management...

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PNY's 36th Annual Meeting Will Be a Critical Conversation on International Grantmaking

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05/05/2015

... from PNY President Ronna Brown, published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost Monthly May 2015 edition. ... to international democracy-building, and everything in between. When we plan our Annual Meeting...

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20 Oct 2015

More Than Giving: Theory of the Foundation

Tuesday, October 20, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... than their financial capacity. But, how do we frame the full scope of what a foundation is and does? To address this ... allows funders to look at their giving, the environments in which they operate, and...

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Consider This Tool for More Nimble Philanthropy

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02/27/2017

... , Chief Operating Officer Each week, as changes in policy take place at the federal level, advocates ... coordinate. Foundations are being asked to work together in ways that require ownership and control to...

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How to Win the Lottery

Release Date:

02/27/2018

... (I knew my undergraduate French major would come in handy one of these days.) As philanthropists, we envision communities that value and support people in all their diverse manifestations. We promote equality...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Disabilities

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Easy to Say and Hard to Do Well

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05/02/2018

... the landscape around you is constantly changing. (See his full remarks on PhilTV here .) Not surprisingly, Phil focused ... by Phil!): Maintaining Focus – Daily events, whether in this country or around the...

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Open Society Foundations Names Kenneth H. Zimmerman as New Director of U.S. Programs

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06/04/2012

... A lawyer with more than two decades of leadership in the public, private and nonprofit sectors, Zimmerman has ... these ideals a reality for all people and all communities in this country, especially the most...

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Kathryn Haslanger Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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01/15/2014

... Board of Directors. Haslanger has spent more than 30 years in health care policy, research and delivery, holding leadership roles in organizations dedicated to ensuring access to health care ... Fund continues...

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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 ... Senior Vice President for Policy and Research on February 2 , 2015. He will be based at...

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Mediacracy — A Dialogue With Experts on the Troubled Intersection of Media and Democracy

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11/26/2013

... the Balkanization of the internet and the explosion in political ads, and scored signature victories for local ... with false and negative messages, fixing our political system will be impossible,” he writes...

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04 Dec 2015

Catching Up: What High Schools Are Doing to Move Kids from Elementary Knowledge to College Ready

Friday, December 4, 2015 -

9:15am to 11:30am

... City kids do not graduate from high school. Thousands come in far behind and the system is not meeting their needs. The key goal of this panel ... What are the constraints preventing schools and the ...

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Marianna Islam Joins the Schott Foundation as Director of Programs and Advocacy

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04/01/2016

... joined our team as the Director of Programs and Advocacy. In this role, Marianna will work with program staff to ... coalitions towards achieving personal, program, policy and system change goals. Marianna...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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NY Juvenile Justice Initiative Chair Penny Willgerodt Passes Baton to Julie Peterson and Kaberi Banerjee Murthy

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08/04/2016

... to Julie Peterson and Kaberi Banerjee Murthy As a believer in leadership rotation and power sharing, NY Juvenile Justice ... Banerjee Murthy. "This is way overdue!" wrote Willgerodt in a letter to...

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New York Juvenile Justice Initiative

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William T. Grant Foundation Names Rosanna Aybar as Vice President, Finance And Administration

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03/13/2017

... to the Foundation more than two decades of experience in the nonprofit field. Since 2002, she has been the Chief ... an organization that provides educational opportunities in communities across the U.S...

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William T. Grant Foundation Appoints Kenji Hakuta and Mark Soler to Board of Trustees

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07/12/2017

... Graduate School of Education since 1989. His work is in the areas of bilingualism and the acquisition of English ... Mirror of Language: The Debate on Bilingualism and In Other Words: The Science and...

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