As a recent entrant to the world of PSOs after having spent some years in the philanthropic and nonprofit sectors, I was particularly eager to learn more about the challenges PSOs face in advancing racial equity in the sector. I hoped to come away with lessons that can inform my work at the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) where I am working to connect power structures to racial equity and social justice for funders.
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Groundswell Fund honored with 2017 NCRP Impact Award for ‘smashing silos’
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09/19/2017
Repealing federal estate tax could cause declines in large donations
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09/18/2017
WWNO – All Things New Orleans: September 14, 2017
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09/15/2017
Estate tax is powerful incentive for charitable donations like ISU’s $50 million pledge
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09/13/2017
Which Inclusive Funder is Being Honored by NCRP for Smashing Silos?
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09/11/2017
Cash, Speed, and Trust
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09/08/2017
The Meyer Memorial Trust: Reckoning with Race
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09/08/2017
Foundation for Louisiana to receive Mover and Shaker Award at the 2017 NCRP Impact Awards in New Orleans
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09/07/2017
The 2020 Census Is in Trouble and Needs Our Help
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09/07/2017
In Troubled Times, Here Are Four Funders Standing With Vulnerable Communities
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09/07/2017
NCRP Names 2017 Impact Award Winners
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09/07/2017
Groundswell Fund to Be Honored with 2017 NCRP Impact Award
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09/07/2017
Measuring Impact: How Do You Assess the Effects of Giving?
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08/18/2017
‘An Intolerable Failure’: How Nonprofits Responded to Charlottesville
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08/08/2017
Southern Strategy: Can National Funders Better Engage a Growing Region?
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07/26/2017
Not Just Money: Where is the Money Going?
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07/24/2017
Covering Philanthropy in Changing Times
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07/06/2017
Estate Taxes and Charity
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07/05/2017
Go Behind Celebrities’ Ceremonial School Donation Checks
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06/28/2017
Change in the South Requires Focus on Wealth Building, Report Finds
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06/27/2017
GuideStar’s Reversal on ‘Hate’ Flags Sparks Debate Over Role of Charity-Information Sites
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06/23/2017
70 Experts Share Their Best Advocacy Planning, Strategy, Skills and Training Tips
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06/12/2017
As GOP Eyes Estate Tax, Muted Pushback From Charity Leaders
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06/07/2017
The Third Wave Fund Is Funding The People Usually Overlooked By Big Philanthropy
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05/25/2017
Experts Press Foundations to Engage in Health-Care Debate
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05/18/2017
A Revamped ACLU Takes on Today’s Fights
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05/11/2017
A gem at the COF conference: A session on the Sustainable Development Goals
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05/03/2017
5 Questions Grant Makers Should Ask About the First 100 Days of Trump Era
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05/02/2017
Who’s at the Board Table?
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05/02/2017
On Gender and Race, Change Is Slow
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04/27/2017
Microgrants Make Big Impacts for Local Communities
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04/27/2017
Report: South Lags in Philanthropy, Tops in Need
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04/17/2017
Five Costs To Cutting Arts Programs
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04/14/2017
Where in the World is Big Philanthropy? Not in the Deep South
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04/11/2017
Alumnae invoke social change after graduation
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04/10/2017
Report: Southern non-profits struggle to get large-scale funding
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04/07/2017
Potential for High-Impact Philanthropy Untapped in South, Study Finds
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03/27/2017
Next Gen Voices
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03/22/2017
Grant Makers Blanket Capitol Hill Amid Deep Worries Over Taxes and Spending Cuts
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03/21/2017
Eliminating the NEA Will Disproportionately Hurt Communities of Color
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03/15/2017
Back From the Margins: Behind a New Call to Boost Funding for Black-Led Organizations
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03/14/2017
What’s So Special About 5%?
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03/13/2017
Time for Philanthropy to Take Bold Action: Invest in Policy Change
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03/09/2017
How to Fund Social Change in an Increasingly Networked and Volatile Environment
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02/27/2017
Making News in D.C.: Qorvis MSLGROUP, NCRP, Glen Echo Group and Vox Media
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02/23/2017
Georgia Charities Risk Losing Millions to One Philanthropy’s Risky Investment Strategy
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02/08/2017
Do arts grant-givers overlook artists of color?
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02/08/2017
The National Interest: All Money Ain’t Good Money: The Role of White Foundations in Social Justice Movements
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02/07/2017
NCRP highlights community values in strategic framework
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02/06/2017
With Smart Philanthropy, Anything Is Possible
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02/06/2017
Foundations aren’t helping anyone if they’re not serious about social justice
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01/26/2017
Big-Donor Dollars: How Many Do Calif. Causes Actually Receive?
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01/24/2017
Letters to the Editor: Criticizing Foundations Is Not Only Way to Produce Change
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01/23/2017
Report: Big Decade for Philanthropy Doesn’t Translate to Social Justice
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01/18/2017
Pittsburgh’s Sarah Scaife Foundation has Trump ties
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01/17/2017
Big Foundations Make Money, but Charitable Giving is Down
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01/12/2017
Philanthropy Booms, But Giving for Social Justice Stays Flat
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01/10/2017
For Philanthropy, Trump Era Is Time to Double Down to End Injustice
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12/27/2016
5 Ways Foundations And Wealthy Donors Can Combat The Trump Agenda
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12/20/2016
The Futurist: Alberto Ibargüen and the Remaking of the Knight Foundation
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12/16/2016
NCRP Study Faults Foundations for Underfunding Social Justice Philanthropy
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12/02/2016
Philanthropy is Neglecting Poor Communities, But What About the Influx of New Funders?
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11/29/2016
Foundation Watchdog Acquires Bolder Giving
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11/16/2016
Wealthy Donors Look To Solve Financial Crisis In Kalamazoo, Mich.
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11/15/2016
With Yet Another Leader Already on Her Way Out, Where Is This Big Foundation Headed Next?
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10/30/2016
MSU, Michigan Nonprofit Association partner for executive MBA program
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10/27/2016
When a Foundation Board Gets in the Way of Community Impact
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10/27/2016
How new breed of charities is changing the face of giving
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10/15/2016
Eye in the sky: the billionaires funding a surveillance project above Baltimore
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10/05/2016
States May Follow In Cracking Down On Trump Foundation
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09/19/2016
Team Trump Spooked by Charity Probe
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08/31/2016
3 Things Foundations Can Do About Predatory Lending
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08/31/2016
Baltimore Surveillance Effort Betrays a Community Fund’s Mission
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08/30/2016
Donors promise $70M to aid Kalamazoo, but at what cost?
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08/26/2016
Billionaire donors Laura and John Arnold support far more in Maryland than police surveillance
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08/17/2016
Leonardo DiCaprio, the Malaysian Money Scandal and His “Unusual” Foundation
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08/17/2016
Leo’s charity under microscope amid ties to $3 billion scam
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08/07/2016
Shaking up or short-changing rural?
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08/05/2016
Intersecting Marginalities: The False Dichotomy of Rural Communities vs. Communities of Color
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08/01/2016
Report Looks at OCF’s Diversity Work
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07/27/2016
It’s Time for a Strategy on Rural Philanthropy, Not Just Shaming
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07/22/2016
Dwyane Wade’s nonprofit should up its game, foundation watchdogs say
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07/21/2016
The Future of Philanthropy
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07/19/2016
Police Shootings Since Ferguson Put Foundations to the Test
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07/12/2016
With Millions at Stake, Some Foundations Slash Consulting Budgets
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07/11/2016
Racial Equity in Arts Philanthropy: A Work in Progress
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07/10/2016
Black activists hope killings prompt more action from whites
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07/10/2016
Activists ask more white urgency to killings
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07/07/2016
Who Really Benefits When Billionaires Give Away their Wealth?
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06/26/2016
Report Says Oregon’s Largest Charity Needs To Increase Help To Marginalized Communities
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06/23/2016
A Call to Action for Philanthropists in the Wake of Orlando
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06/23/2016
Report On the Oregon Community Foundation
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06/22/2016
Report Assesses Oregon’s Largest Charitable Foundation
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06/22/2016
Diversity study cites Oregon Community Foundation’s ‘mixed’ record
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06/18/2016
L.A. education foundation became a lucrative source of income for USC’s Pat Haden and his relatives
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06/10/2016
Commentary: Smarter Philanthropy Will Aid St. Louis
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06/02/2016
Aaron Dorfman – Advocating for Nonprofits – Episode 007
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05/26/2016
The Climate Change Fight Cannot Be Won With White Liberal America Alone
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05/23/2016
How to squander $52m of charitable money in 6 months
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05/03/2016
The Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund Receives National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Honor
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04/13/2016
Assessing Community Giving, Grassroots Needs
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03/14/2016
Impact Award for Area Consumer Health Foundation
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03/14/2016
Three California Grantmakers Win Prestigious Impact Award
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03/08/2016
Everglades Trust Ads Call Attention to Foundation/Industry Relations
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03/04/2016
Effort to Shame Mott Foundation Is Well-Timed, Expert Says
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02/29/2016
3rd Generation of Walton Family Makes Sharp Turn in Giving
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01/31/2016
Who Should Pay for the Arts in America?
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01/28/2016
Another Big Grant Maker Redirects Its Giving Toward Poverty
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01/17/2016
Should Foundations be Subject to “Sunshine” Laws?
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01/12/2016
Philanthropy Is on a Collision Course With Presidential Campaign Politics
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01/07/2016
Through a Glass a Little Less Darkly: 2015 Philanthropic Transparency Highlights
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01/06/2016
A City in Remission: Can the “Grand Bargain” Revive Detroit?
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01/03/2015
Philanthropists should spend more on criminal-justice reform
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12/22/2015
Philanthropy Awards, 2015
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12/14/2015
Report: Knight Foundation Needs Greater Focus on Equity
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12/10/2015
New Online Site to Function as a ‘Yelp’ for Grant Makers
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12/10/2015
“Bright and Shiny” Syndrome: Philamplify Looks at the Knight Foundation
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12/02/2015
How New Thinking Is Shaking Up Old Money
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11/23/2015
Criminal Justice Reform Is Gaining Steam. What Role Has Philanthropy Played?
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11/23/2015
The First Woman Of Women: How Melinda Gates Became The World’s Most Powerful Advocate For Women And Girls
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11/19/2015
In memory of Rick Cohen
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11/18/2015
Sector Crusader Rick Cohen Dies Suddenly
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11/18/2015
Former Jersey City official Cohen dies; credited with waterfront boom
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11/17/2015
Rick Cohen, Rural Philanthropy Advocate and Journalist, Dies
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11/09/2015
Markets, Equity & School Choice Taken On by Hazen Foundation
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11/05/2015
New Head of Key Congressional Committee Seen as Friend to Nonprofits
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10/28/2015
A Role Model for Social Justice Giving in Michigan?
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10/28/2015
Kresge’s Focus on Solving Big Problems Shows Promising Signs, Watchdog Says
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10/20/2015
Let’s Require All Big Foundations to Let More Nonprofits Apply for Grants
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10/08/2015
Meyer Trust takes on the E word
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10/08/2015
The NCRP Debate on Market Approaches to Education Reform
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09/09/2015
Patagonia Rallies for an Earth Tax
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08/17/2015
MacArthur and Ford Foundations Diverge on Strategy
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06/29/2015
Sorry, Walmart: Charter Schools Won’t Fix Poverty
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05/27/2015
Nimble Response to Community Needs
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05/21/2015
Brooklyn Foundation Receives Award
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05/18/2015
What’s It Like for Environmental Groups
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05/08/2015
Walton Family Meets Needs in Conservation
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05/05/2015
Walton Foundation’s Market-Based Initiatives
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05/03/2015
‘Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A Philanthropic Opportunity’
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04/30/2015
Buying Elections is Charity
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04/27/2015
The Philanthropy of Peace
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04/16/2015
Standing O is at it again!
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03/30/2015
The Conservative Group Behind Scott Walker’s Political Rise
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03/13/2015
White Leaders Can Promote Racial Justice
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03/04/2015
Sector Not Paying To Develop New Leaders
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03/02/2015
Systems Change Approach as Top Trend
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02/19/2015
Philanthropic Activism on the Ferguson Commission: An Interview with The Deaconess Foundation’s Starsky Wilson
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01/20/2015
What’s Next for Nonprofits
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12/22/2014
Transparency in Philanthropy: Get on Board or Get Run Over
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12/18/2014
Foundation Helps Get $20 Million Windfall
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11/25/2014
The Case Foundation on Impact Investing
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11/19/2014
Foundation’s Mission Investing Pays Off
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09/24/2014
Philanthropy and Democracy
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09/21/2014
Green Movement Gets Brown
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09/21/2014
Trustees Pay Is Challenged
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08/11/2014
Get Unsolicited Proposals Heard
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08/06/2014
Net Neutrality and Civil Rights Groups
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08/05/2014
Hoping William Penn avoids more upheaval
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08/01/2014
IRS, MN AG Asked To Investigate Bremer
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07/31/2014
Another Departure from William Penn
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07/29/2014
California Endowment Rated Well
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07/29/2014
Bremer Foundation calls claims ‘baseless’
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07/22/2014
Foundation Trustees Shouldn’t Be Paid Millions
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07/17/2014
Philanthropy Watchdog Questions Minn. FDN Trustee Compensation
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07/15/2014
Hewlett Bets $50-Million
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07/13/2014
Corporate Cash Donations Creep Up
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07/11/2014
Bremer Must Clean Up Its Act
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07/02/2014
Trustees’ actions raise some serious questions
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07/01/2014
Investigate Bremer Foundation salaries
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06/30/2014
Watchdog Seeks Probe of Minn. Fund’s Booming Trustee Pay
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06/27/2014
Bremer trustees paying themselves too much
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06/25/2014
Bush Foundation charts new course – again
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06/17/2014
SoCal Charities Mobilize Behind Blue Ribbon Commission
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06/16/2014
Watchdog Groups Multiply and Demand More
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06/10/2014
Ben & Jerry’s Foundation receives award
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05/22/2014
How A Zagat Style Website Will Increase Accountability
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05/22/2014
How A Private Foundation With Student Loan Ties Became A Force In Higher Education
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05/21/2014
5 Reasons Philanthropy Will Benefit from Philamplify
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05/06/2014
NCRP launches Philamplify
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05/06/2014
NCRP Launches Assessment Website
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05/06/2014
New Website Invites Feedback on Grant Makers
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04/11/2014
Charitable giving firm sees surge
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01/01/1970
Five ways foundations and wealthy donors can combat the Trump agenda
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