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Scars: The Complicated Making of Historic Moments and Progressive Philanthropy

Maxim Thorne | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Lgbt, Elie Wisel Foundation, LGBT Rights, Civil Rights, Jon Stryker, George Chauncey, Arcus Foundation, Jane Mathews, Carnegie Foundation, Gill Foundation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ford Foundation, Julian Bond, Jr., Ambassador Jim Hormel, General Colin Powell, Naacp Centennial, Marriage Equality March on Washington, Philantropy in Action, Rockefeller Foundation, Barack Obama, David Bohnett Foundation, Henry Van Ameringen, Oprah Winfrey, The New Black, Segregation, Politics News

To make and record history is a privilege. We learn so much from it. Now that I am teaching Philanthropy in Action at Yale University, I feel compelled to see these huge moments also in a philanthropic context.

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SAVED: American Folk Art Museum Gets Bailed Out

Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Met, American Folk Art Museum, Folk Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Economic Recession, Ford Foundation, Economic Crisis, Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Moma, New York Art Museum, New York, Folk Art, New York Art, Arts News

The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) has been in dire financial straits in recent months, but the establishment announced this week that it will contin...

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Let's End Child Marriage in a Generation

Jennifer Buffett | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Human Rights, Clinton Global Initiative, Girls Not Brides, The Elders, Ford Foundation, Child Marriage, International Development, Nike Foundation, Womens Rights, NoVo Foundation, Women News

On a learning trip to Ethiopia, where 49 percent of girls are married before they are 18, I came face to face with one of the biggest challenges that holds back the world's female population and keeps countries mired in poverty: child marriage.

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Crisis Philanthropy: Partnerships & Co-Investment

Michael Likosky | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, State Department, Epa, Bill Clinton, Judith Rodin, Rockefeller Foundation, Public/Private Partnerships, Clinton Global Initiative, Hud, Luis Ubinas, Ford Foundation, Melinda Gates, Hillary Clinton, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Dot, Michelle Obama, Impact News

Tough economic times demand that not only foundations but also individuals and governments embrace this leveraging. I call this new approach to giving Crisis Philanthropy.

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Documentaries Storm the Nation's Capitol at Silverdocs Festival

Michael Rose | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Silver Spring, Sesame Street, Amelie Boynton, Chicken and Egg Pictures, Senator Al Franken, Tribeca Film Institute, Chris Hegedus, The Loving Story, Maryland, AFI/Discovery Silvderdocs Film Festival, Fledgling Fund, Elmo, National Endowment for the Humanities, D. A. Pennebaker, Kevin Clash, Cinereach, Discovery Channel, Ford Foundation, San Francisco Film Society, Documentary, National Endowment for the Arts, The Barber of Birmingham, American Film Institute, Arts News

What do Elmo, the New York Times, McDonald's coffee, transsexual tennis star Renee Richards, a chimp using sign language, electric cars, the real horse whisperer and Al Franken have in common?

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Documentaries and the Truth We Can Still Tell (But for How Long?)

Vivian Norris | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: Pesticides, Bbc, Fukushima, Berlusconi, Morgan Spurlock, Ecuador, Educational Television, Sheffield Doc Fest, Joe Berlinger, Ford Foundation, Pom: The Greatest Film Ever Sold, Sweetwater, Legal, Pollution, Lawsuit, Monsanto, Death, Amazon, Christian-Poveda, Vida Loca, Fredrik-Gertten, Michael Clayton, Crude, Nick Fraser, Oil, Documentary, Murdoch, Roseanne Barr, Chevron, Sundance, Media News

Documentaries tell us who we are, what our world is about, and give us the truth. But more and more these filmmakers find themselves, especially in the US, attacked by layer upon layer of lawsuits funded by corporations with deep pockets.

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Ford Announces $100K Award For 'Courageous Leaders'

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Immigration Reform, Subprime Mortgages, Ford Foundation, Incarceration, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Subprime Mortgage Crisis, Ny Impact, Immigration, Criminal Justice, Impact News

NEW YORK -- For the last 20 years, Guatemalan architect Teddy Cruz has focused on the physical and cultural barriers that divide urban areas, especial...

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My Trip to Nairobi

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arts Management, Africa, Ford Foundation, Arts, Nairobi, Godown, Cape Town, Kenya, Joy Mboya, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

Nairobi presented a study in contrasts. It is a large city. Not as large as Lagos, but it still has a big city feel with millions of people and an ast...

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Despite Early Setbacks, Officials Hope Denver Education Summit Proves Groundbreaking

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: u.s. Department of Education, Denver Education Summit, Council of the Great City Schools, Ford Foundation, Denver, Teachers Unions, Denver News

DENVER — The nation's education chief chastised teachers and their bosses in equal measure Tuesday as he launched what the Obama administration ...

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Watchdog: Education Foundations Not Doing Enough For Vulnerable Children

AP | DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, At-Risk Youth, Education, Grantmakers for Education, Education Foundations, Ford Foundation, Education Grants, Foundations, Education News

SEATTLE — A philanthropic watchdog group is hoping to light a fire under charitable foundations that support education by releasing a report Wed...

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NFL's Latest Family Feud: Jim Brown vs. the Cleveland Browns

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Famous running back Jim Brown could score one last touchdown by reminding everybody that equal opportunity does not exist in the current world economic order.

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Wynton Marsalis' Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra Traveling To Cuba

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Nyc Culture, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, Wynton Marsalis, Afro-Cuban Jazz Celebration, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City's Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra is traveling to Cuba next month for a series of concerts in Havana with bandleader W...

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Foundations: Don't Pat Yourselves on the Back Just Yet

Aaron Dorfman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Ford Foundation, Economic Crisis, Nonprofits, Community Organizing, Philanthropic-Collaborative, Center for Effective Philanthropy, Ncrp, Foundations, Advocacy, Impact News

There's a new report touting how the foundations came to the rescue of nonprofits during the recent recession. I hate to rain on anyone's parade, but nonprofits don't feel that foundations should pat themselves on the back yet.

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A Fundamental Problem With Our Arts Ecology

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Baltimore Opera, Arts Management, American Ballet Theatre, Ford Foundation, Charleston Symphony, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

Over the last year I have noticed a change in the reactions by major donors, especially foundations, to serious fiscal problems experienced by importa...

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Culture Clicks: Weekly Art News Roundup

Emily Waldorf | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Art Dubai, Lacma, Ford Foundation, Mark Rothko, Watts Towers, Fake Art, Art Gossip, Annie Leibovitz, Arts News

Koons's BMW 'Art Car' to Run at Le Mans Endurance Race in June (Bloomberg), Annie Leibovitz Sued by Brunswick Capital for Finance Fees (Bloomberg), and more!

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When the Rubber Meets the Road: Diversifying Nonprofit Leadership at the Top

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Philanthropy, Women, Ford Foundation, Strategic Philanthropy, Nonprofit-Sector, People of Color, Employment, Nonprofits, Foundations, Home News

A new study by the Racial Diversity Collaborative and the Urban Institute finds that less than 8 percent of nonprofit organizations in Washington, DC ...

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Ford Foundation Giving $100M In Arts Grants

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ford Foundation, Arts Grants, Harlem, Supporting Arts Spaces Initiative, Impact News

NEW YORK — Artists and arts organizations nationwide are getting help with creating projects and spaces for performance, exhibition and other pu...

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Vietnam: The Troops Go Home but the War Does Not End

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam War, Religion News

Thirty-five years later, seeing the horrors of Agent Orange I know that this war is not yet over. Being there taught me one more time -- political perceptions are to be challenged, not trusted.

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The Effects of Agent Orange: An Interreligious Investigation in Vietnam

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Vietnam, Agent Orange, Vietnam Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam War, Religion News

Wandering through youth centers for disabled kids in Saigon and Da Nang has left me shocked and hopeful.

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Why Is This Rabbi in Vietnam?

Rabbi Steve Gutow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam, Agent Orange, Ford Foundation, Vietnam Agent Orange, Vietnam War, Agent Orange Vietnam, Agent Orange Effects, Religion News

I am here on a week-long, Ford-Foundation-sponsored trip to look at the residual impact of our country's use of Agent Orange on the people and the land here.

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A Remarkable Class

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashé Cultural Center, Youth Speaks, Hip-Hop Theater Festival, Alternate Roots, First Peoples Fund, Arts Management, Nalacc-and-Lou-Dobbs, Asian Arts Initiative, Pa?I Foundation, Ford Foundation, La Mama, Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News

I recently began teaching a series of arts management seminars for ten grantees of the Ford Foundation. The Foundation has committed $100 million ove...

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Philanthropy and the Economic Crisis

Georgia Levenson Keohane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lloyd Blankfein, Social Welfare, Harlen Childrens Zone, Poverty, Social Contract, Tiger Foundation, Philanthropy, Economic Crisis, Non-Profits, Charitable Giving, Pri, Stimulus, Rockefeller Foundation, Goldman Sachs, Peter Singer, Ford Foundation, Bonus, Economic Recession, Heron Foundation, Julian Robertson, Strategic Philanthropy, Blue Ridge Foundation, Giving, Safety Net, Basic Needs, Socially-Useless, Foundations, Alesina, Glaeser, Impact News

This week and next I am a guest blogger at The Center for Effective Philanthropy. My posts address philanthropy and the economic crisis, and include ...

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The Wall Street Journal on Education: Lies, Myths, and Yellow Journalism

Eric Tipler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, KIPP Charter Schools, Ford Foundation, Education, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Teach for America, Achievement Gap, Wall Street Journal, Gates Foundation, Media News

Earlier this month, the Ford Foundation announced it was giving $100 million to improve urban schools, a fantastic announcement that the Journal lambasted with a misleading editorial.

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An Interview With Buffy Sainte-Marie, Plus Train and Digital 45 Updates

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chaka Khan, Columbia Records, Afrika Bambaataa & the Soul Sonic Force, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Scorr Underwood, The Doobie Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Seals & Crofts, Air America, Vanguard Records, Commander John Herrington, The Charlatans, Cash for Clunkers, Sesame Street, Woodstock, Vietnam War, The Cradleboard Teaching Project, Chumbawamba, Van Morrison, Phil Ochs, Third Eye Blind, Jimmy Stafford, Georgia Satellites, Eric Anderson, Rhino Entertainment, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Digital 45, Donovan, Marc Cohn, Judy Collins, Folk, First Nations, Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons, Train, Neil Diamond, Martin Terefe, Kellogg Foundation, Elvis Presley, Npr, Itunes, Rhino Records, David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Pat Monahan, Nasa, Alannah Myles, Anita Baker, The Marcels, President Obama, The Highwaymen, Grateful Dead, Native Americans, Genesis, Keith Olbermann, Fred Neil, Glen Campbell, Harry Chapin, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Joe Cocker, Foghat, Ford Foundation, Pacifica, Gordon Lightfoot, Entertainment News, Jennifer Warnes, Morrissey, Bobby Bare, Tommy James and the Shondells, Randy Travis, Jon Stewart, Entertainment News

This being Woodstock Week, it seemed a perfect time to catch-up with this artist whose music influenced many of those who appeared at the culture-changing event.

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Timothy Geithner and his Father's Legacy in Microcredit

Vivian Norris | Posted 05.25.2011

Geithner grew up in Zimbabwe, India and Thailand. It would have been impossible for him to not have seen what true poverty is and how his father was helping to establish part of the solution.

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