April 29, 2011
Government on the Brink, Philanthropy on the Brink of Opportunity
RE: Philanthropy
By Steve Gunderson
4/28/11
The president and CEO of the Council on Foundations emphasizes the importance of communicating philanthropy’s impact to advance its mission.
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Reflections on the 2010-2011 Career Pathways Program
RE: Philanthropy
By Latonya Slack
4/28/11
The senior program officer at The James Irvine Foundation reflects on the first year of the Council’s leadership preparation program.
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Tornadoes Carve Path of Death, Destruction Across South, With Nearly 300 Dead
The Washington Post
By Joel Achenbach and Michael E. Ruane
4/28/11
The death toll soared to near 300 Thursday as rescuers dug through rubble from Mississippi to Virginia in the nation’s deadliest natural disaster since Hurricane Katrina. It was what they call a tornado outbreak, something rarely seen on such a scale. Not since April 3, 1974, has the United States witnessed so much destruction from twisters, and tornado experts say Wednesday, April 27, 2011, may go down in history as the most destructive outbreak in eight decades.
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10 Families Add Their Names to Giving Pledge
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Caroline Preston
4/28/11
Ten more of America’s richest families announced that they’ll give away at least half their fortunes by joining the Giving Pledge.
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Local Nonprofits Given Nearly $2 Million in Grants
The Virginian-Pilot
By Katrice R. Hardy
4/29/11
The Hampton Roads Community Foundation has awarded grants totaling more than $1.9 million to several nonprofit organizations.
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Gates Foundation Offers 88 Grants to Explore Unusual Ideas to Improve Global Health
The Associated Press
4/28/11
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is shining a light on toilets and the waste that is supposed to go in them in the sixth round of its grand challenges project. The foundation on Thursday announced 88 new $100,000, five-year grants for unusual research, including a number in a new category for the program: sanitation. It’s a topic that doesn’t get a lot of attention — financially or otherwise — from charitable foundations, said one of the recipients of the grants just announced.
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Social Innovation Fund Money Hits the Streets
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Patrick Lester
4/28/11
We are now one step closer to discovering whether the Social Innovation Fund, the new federal grant program designed to help nonprofits expand effective social projects, will fulfill its promise. Following a controversy last summer over charges that its awards process was too secretive, the fund has fallen out of the headlines. But the 11 organizations that won a total of $50-million in the first round of grants have been quietly going about distributing the money to the nonprofit groups that will actually do the work.
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