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Advocacy Q&A with Gara LaMarche in Responsive Philanthropy magazine
Original Source NCRP LOOKS AT CREATING IMPACT Highlights two major foundations’ funding for community organizing and advocacy, and critical role of nonprofit leadership WASHINGTON, D.C.-The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) released today the summer edition of Responsive Philanthropy. This issue features articles on the…
Author: Responsive Philanthropy
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A man with so much to spend but so little time
One evening last spring, as a fierce north-easter tore through the New York region, Gara LaMarche settled in to watch The Sopranos and bake batches of muffins. The next morning, baked goodies safely stowed in Ziploc bags, he set off for the offices of The…
Author: Financial Times
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Audacious Philanthropy
Image: Christopher Corr / Getty Images By Susan Wolf Ditkoff and Abe Grindle Private philanthropists have helped propel some of the most important social-impact success stories of the past century: Virtually eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced-price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United…
Author: Harvard Business Review
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New Book Examines Inequality in School Discipline
Inequality in School Discipline: Research and Practice to Reduce Disparities. Editors: Russell J. Skiba, Kavitha Mediratta and M. Karega Rausch. Learn more > Inequality in School Discipline fills a critical void by providing the most current and authoritative information on what is known about disciplinary…
Author: Palgrave Macmillan
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What Does Collaborative Donor Practice Look Like?
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Collaboration is a non-profit and funding term that is increasingly used to refer to good organisational and donor practice. “Collaboration teaches us to leave our strategies at the door and to come together collectively to decide what’s best…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Margin to Centre: How Philanthropy Can Help Guarantee Constitutional Rights in South Africa
By Gillian Mitchell, Gabrielle Ritchie and Melanie Judge Resourcing Philanthropy is a new online platform that profiles philanthropic giving through the sharing of information, advice, tactics, tools and insights from grantmakers, non-profit leaders and philanthropists in South Africa. Drawing on the grantmaking experience and impact of The…
Author: Resourcing Philanthropy
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Philanthropy's Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline
By Kavitha Mediratta Last year, at the beginning of ninth grade, my son’s friend Emmanuel was suspended from school for bringing a brick to class. Emmanuel had found the brick in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14-year-old, named it “Softie” and…
Author: American Educator
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Reforming School Discipline Policies to Improve Children's Success
By Kavitha Mediratta Head of Racial Equity Programmes, The Atlantic Philanthropies In recent months, we have seen an outpouring of protest by communities of color against aggressive policing and the trauma and violence these tactics engender. A similar phenomenon is occurring in our schools, where…
Author: Grantmakers In Health
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New $25m Fund for SA civil society groups working to advance constitutionalism
Joint statement from the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies Cape Town – Today the Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation and The Atlantic Philanthropies announced the launch of a joint fund to support organisations promoting and advancing constitutionalism in…
Author: The Atlantic Philanthropies
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Discipline with Dignity: Oakland Schools Try Talk Circles
By Fania Davis, YES! Magazine As executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, Fania Davis sees programs like hers helping to shut down the school-to-prison pipeline. ‘Punitive justice asks only what rule of law was broken, who did it, and how they should be…
Author: The Christian Science Monitor