Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Inequality Is the Problem—What’s Our Response?

Release Date:

07/02/2014

William T. Grant Foundation President Adam Gamoran discusses the role high-quality social science research can play in identifying programs, policies, and practices that can combat mounting inequality in the United States.

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Public Policy

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Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

Education

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William T. Grant Foundation

Effective Philanthropy Takes Time

Release Date:

06/26/2014

In "Making Change," a podcast of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Phil Henderson, president, Surdna Foundation, discusses why effective philanthropy is about working toward a long-term goal.

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Surdna Foundation

How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

Release Date:

06/25/2014

Some suggestions for foundations that want to promote innovation through their grantmaking.

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Arcus Foundation

Surdna's Head Reflects on Aligning Program With Mission, Impact Investing

Release Date:

06/25/2014

In an interview with Shelterforce, Surdna President Phillip Henderson talks about aligning program with mission, cross-pollination between programs and the foundation's recent launch into the impact investing world.

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Community Development

Social Justice

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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

Workforce Development

New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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

Release Date:

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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Arts

Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Declare Overhead Dead

Release Date:

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...