Grantmaking Strategy &amp; Tools

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Surdna Foundation

Evaluation Shows How Program Related Investments Are Generating Positive Social Returns

Release Date:

06/19/2014

An evaluation has found that The Rockefeller Foundation's Program Related Investments have contributed to the financial sustainability of its investees and are helping them accomplish social goals and achieve impact.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Economic Security

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New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

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06/16/2014

The Open Society Foundations will fund nine nonprofits—from the U.S. to Ghana—to help their new leaders implement their vision.

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response

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05/23/2014

[Ford Foundation] - President Darren Walker: Strategic philanthropy too often minimizes or ignores complexity because it is difficult to understand and predict.

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Executive Leadership

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Governance

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Ford Foundation

Private Citizen Bloomberg on Philanthropy

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04/25/2014

When it comes to giving away his fortune, Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York City and founder of Bloomberg Philanthropies, says he seeks causes others may have overlooked and ways to test new ideas.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Declare Overhead Dead

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03/18/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors President and CEO Melissa Berman served as the keynote speaker at the recent BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium, where one of the opportunities she touched on for 21st-century philanthropy was changing the language...

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Insights

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All Funders

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Finance & Asset Management

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

What is Venture Philanthropy? Rockefeller Foundation explains in Nonprofit Quarterly.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Partnering for Change: Learning Together to Make a Bigger Impact

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02/20/2014

PNY Executive Coordinator Nick Collins talks about the Service for Impact working group and the growing corporate commitment to long-term volunteer programs and partnerships with community-based nonprofits.

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All Funders

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Volunteerism

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Community Development

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Philanthropy New York

Looming Overhead: The Persistent Debate Over Administrative Costs

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10/22/2013

New York State Health Foundation President and CEO James R. Knickman was one of the presenters at our recent program on the debate over whether foundations should fund grantee overhead costs. NYSHealth doesn’t provide grants for general operating...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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How to Build Strong Ties With Companies

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10/08/2013

American Express Foundation President Timothy McClimon and DoSomething,org CEO Nancy Lublin participated in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor.

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