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How Much Good Can $100 Million Do? Sesame Street and IRC Put a Big Bet to the Test

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Six years into a collaboration designed for Syrian refugee children, the hope is that the adapted TV show will validate early-childhood development as a key to any humanitarian emergency response.

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Empowering young women in philanthropy to create lasting change

Candid

Women have a unique opportunity to use their position to advance philanthropy and impact to tackle the pressing problems affecting human and planetary health. Why focus on young women in philanthropy? The report suggests that women, collaborative in nature, are motivated to move capital as a team. billion between 2017 and 2023.

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Are Women Donors the Key to Unlocking More Giving?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

As advisors to donors and nonprofits, we know firsthand the impact this wealth can have, and were optimistic that much of it will be deployed through philanthropy or values-aligned investing to address our worlds most pressing problems. Can Women Get Philanthropy Unstuck? In short, philanthropy has a math problem.

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$100 Million for Equity: MacArthur’s New Big Bet and Mandate

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

By Alex Daniels Ryan Donnell, Sesame Workshop The first 100&Change challenge was awarded in 2017 to a collaboration between Sesame Workshop and the International Rescue Committee to provide educational programming to refugee children in the Middle East.

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What gives in Nebraska? The Buffett effect and a culture of giving 

Candid

In addition, Buffett announced in June that he would leave his fortune to his children, who will have 10 years to give the money away. Philanthropy is embedded in who we are as Midwesterners,” says Kush, pointing out that many of Nebraska’s museums and universities received philanthropic support more than a century ago. “It

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Climate mitigation philanthropy growth and gaps: What can nonprofits expect in 2025? 

Candid

Based on my more than two decades as a climate scientist and practitioner in the field, here Ill highlight some of the reports key findings about climate mitigation philanthropy as well as context for nonprofit leaders on recalibrating funding approaches amid limited resources.

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How Guaranteed Income Can Support the Arts—And Ourselves

NonProfit Quarterly

One was an artist employment program, which provided two years of salary at $65,000 for 300 artists in collaboration with nonprofit organizations, designed along the lines of the landmark Comprehensive Employment Training Act of the 1970s. All the time distracted by survival is time I can’t love and enjoy my children, my family.”