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A New Tool to Help Funders Coordinate and Grow Early Childhood Investments in East Africa
This post originally appeared on the blog at GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Coordinating investments is a challenge all funders face. How do we avoid duplicating investments in …
5 Questions for…Vic De Luca, President, Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation
This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> The Jesse Smith Noyes Foundation was established in 1947 by Charles …
Philanthropy’s Difficult Dance With Inequality
America’s foundations do not easily use the word “inequality.” This may seem surprising in the wake of the Ford Foundation’s recent announcement that it will refocus 100 percent of its grantmakingon “inequality in all its …
The Clinton Foundation Reveals Its Donors: Should You?
This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> A fundraising foundation has two world-famous founders, a global network of …
5 Questions for…Bill McKibben, Co-Founder, 350.org
This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Forty-five years after the first Earth Day in 1970, efforts to …
Foundation Center: Foundation Maps introduces free trial
Foundation Maps is a data visualization platform that makes it easy to understand who is funding what and where around the world. Drawing from Foundation Center’s wealth of data on foundations and grants, simple yet …
Impact Measurement: Fad or Fact of Life
This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> Impact measurement has been a hardy perennial on the agenda of …
Foundation Strategy…the Enemy of Collaboration?
This post originally appeared on Philanthropy News Digest’s PhilanTopic blog. PND and PhilanTopic are services of Foundation Center. The original article can be found here> In today’s world, it is almost obligatory for any self-respecting foundation …
Foundation Center – New report on the future of philanthropy and the ‘social economy’
Philanthropy and the social economy: Blueprint 2015 is the annual forecast for the philanthropy industry, written by leading scholar Lucy Bernholz. Recently released by GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, the report provides a global …
The Human Rights Dimension of West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak
This article originally appeared on PhilanTopic, a Foundation Center blog, on 24 November 2014. The original article can be found here> After we sent our November newsletter, other excellent blogs and resources from the philanthropy …