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The Innovation Conference will bring together philanthropists, private foundations, community foundations, corporate foundations and corporate responsibility professionals to explore how emerging technologies can be used for social good. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn from renowned…
As the daughter of a Vietnam veteran, and a veteran myself, the challenges those who serve face when they come home are topics near and dear to my heart.
There are so many ways to lean into this conversation. We can talk about mental health issues and the suicide rate within this population.…
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International Tax Reform Blueprint Forthcoming
Despite the condensed Congressional session due to the upcoming elections, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) asserts that his Task Force on Tax Reform will release a substantive blueprint for tax reform before the end of this month.
Though…
In our continuing blog post series about the 2015 Grantmakers Salary and Benefits Report (GSB), this week we are tackling the key findings section of the report.
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Last week, I predicted that the itemized deduction could soon be back on the table as Congress looks for ways to raise revenue. It may not have been a great leap to predict that, but my crystal ball is working: Yesterday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) announced a…
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Community foundations instinctively build strong relationships with grantees, at times despite a burdensome grant application process.
How can your foundation ensure that funding requests are meaningful and contain clear outcomes? Are incoming grant…
Heeten Kalan, senior program officer at the New World Foundation. This blog post was originally run on Health and Environmental Funders Network Blog, Giving Insight
Toure’ Burgess, Lauren Hamilton, Lauren Wells, Mara Goldman, Sarah Stellwag, and McQuillin Murphy
The Council of Foundations’ summer interns are here!
From now through August, our interns — all currently enrolled college students from across the country — will be…
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Senate Philanthropy Caucus Co-Chairs Encourage Colleagues to Join
This week, the Senate Philanthropy Caucus Co-Chairs, Richard Burr (R-NC) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a Dear Colleague Letter encouraging their fellow Senators to join the caucus. They called for colleagues to…
On a warm and sunny day more than ten years ago, I visited the Ebenezer Baptist Church, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial and the King Center in Atlanta. Having read and heard about the U.S. civil rights movement and struggle for freedom for black people in this country, I was excited to draw…