Results List
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Disclosure of Affiliations
Our Board of Directors and management and staff generally must absent themselves from deliberations about grantees and vendors with whom they or their family members have a relationship. The code supplements this recusal duty by requiring public disclosure of these relationships. Vendor Affiliations The following list…
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Health Equity: Cuba, South Africa, the United States, and Viet Nam
[caption id="attachment_58419" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Yarol Yamel, 3, is examined by Dr. Janisleydis Rosado for bronchial asthma at walk-in clinic Number 15, La Santa Fe, Isle of Youth.[/caption] Cuba Although Cuba’s health care system is considered to be one of the best in the world, in…
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Sara Gould Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow
Source: The Foundation Center
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:Cheryl LoeCommunications Project ManagerThe Foundation Center(888) 356-0354, ext. 701communications@foundationcenter.orgNew York, NY — February 15, 2011. Sara K. Gould, former president and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, has joined the Foundation Center in the role of The Atlantic Philanthropies Senior Fellow. During this…
Resource type: News
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The Foundation Center Elects Two New Board Members: Marcia Smith and Valdemar de Oliveira Neto
Source: The Foundation Center
NEW YORK, May 19 -- The Foundation Center, the nation's leading authority on organized philanthropy, has elected two new trustees to its board: Marcia A. Smith and Valdemar Neto (known as "Maneto"). Ms. Smith is senior vice president at The Atlantic Philanthropies, a global foundation…
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Foundation Center Launches Tool to Visualize Impact of Philanthropy
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
The New York City-based Foundation Center has announced the launch of a data visualization tool to help grantmakers, policy makers, researchers, and others better understand the impact of philanthropy around the world. Philanthropy In/Sight allows registered users to create customized Google maps to explore giving patterns,…
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Philanthropy New York, Foundation Center Report Benchmarks Diversity at New York City Foundations and Nonprofits
Source: Philanthropy News Digest
While New York City foundations and the nonprofit organizations they support have racially diverse staffs, the diversity decreases at the highest levels of seniority, according to a new report by Philanthropy New York and the Foundation Center. The first study to examine the diversity of…
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Hartford Foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies, AGS Foundation for Health in Aging Award Over $2 Million for Medical Research
Source: American Geriatric Society (AGS)
Address Urgent Health Care Needs of Growing Elderly Population For Immediate Release For Further Information: Mary Anne Shannon (212) 308-1414 x301 New York, NY - The American Geriatrics Society, The John A. Hartford Foundation, The Atlantic Philanthropies, and the AGS Foundation for Health in Aging…
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Richard Boone and the Field Foundation: Beacons of Leadership for Social Justice Philanthropy
Source: Gara LaMarche
On a mellow California afternoon earlier this month, I drove a few hours up the coast from Los Angeles, where I’d been on a panel at the annual meeting of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, to spend some time with one of the most influential…
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Why Did You Invest So Much in Buildings?
Philanthropic support for a building is a tangible investment in enterprise, a "concrete," long-term underwriting of what goes on inside and around the structure and, most importantly, in the people who inhabit it. As Atlantic Founder Chuck Feeney has said, “Good buildings for good minds…
Resource type: Big Question
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First-Year Implementation of the Center for After-School Excellence Certificate Programs
Source: Center of After-School Excellence
A college-based, one-year certificate programme for after-school workers garnered positive response from U.S. participants who said the programme helped them improve their academic abilities as well as their knowledge about working with youth, according to this evaluation by Policy Study Associates.The Center of After-School Excellence…
Resource type: Evaluation