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Ford Foundation

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Type: Organization

Name: Ford Foundation

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 2 reports

Interactive: Your Hospital May Be Hazardous To Your Health

So much of what we call “digital television,” YouTube, Netflix or Hulu, is just small television, distributed over the internet.At FRONTLINE, though, we’ve long been interested in understanding what happens when the internet breaks into the box, and transforms ... [Published PBS - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Tom Jennings, Olga Pierce, Marshall Allen

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Ford Foundation

Youth leaders inducted

About 400 young elected and nominated leaders from parliament and county assemblies were taken through a forum to give them an induction on the roles they are expected to play the legislative agenda. At the forum held in Nairobi today, it emerged that ... [Published East African Standard - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Ford Foundation, United Nations Development Programme, Nairobi

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Eric Holder

ADL celebrates Centennial with star-studded gathering

Hundreds of ADL lay leaders, staffers and supporters from all over the United States gathered in Washington, April 28-May 1, to participate in the Anti-Defamation League’s Centennial Summit and Gala.The Summit featured appearances by government officials, ... [Published Jewish Herald-Voice - May 17 2013]

Entities: Arab Spring, Eric Holder, Luis Ubiñas, Civil Rights

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Boston University

Abia indigene for honour in USA today

A medical doctor and an indigene of Eziama Nneato Umunneochi Local Government Area of Abia State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Umeh, will be honoured today at the Boston University, Massachusetts, United States of America (USA).He will receive the award of excellence ... [Published The Nation Nigeria - May 17 2013]

Entities: Boston University, Public Health, Abia State

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

US Environmental Protection Agency

Vitter, Issa Investigate Another Senior EPA Political Appointeeâs Potential Violations

Vitter, Issa Investigate Another Senior EPA Political Appointee’s Potential ViolationsEvidence shows violation of EPA official inappropriately benefited from former employer – after she was confirmed to serve as an EPA Assistant AdministratorU.S. Sen. ... [Published U.S. Senate Environment Committee - May 16 2013]

Entities: US Environmental Protection Agency, Ford Foundation, David Vitter, Darrell Issa

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Columbia Business School

Competitive Advantage Is Dead. Here's What To Do About It.

The longstanding premise of corporate strategy has been to help companies identify their "sustainable competitive advantage" in the marketplace, and then exploit it over time. It was a nice idea while it lasted, says Columbia Business School professor ... [Published Forbes.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: Rita Gunther McGrath, Columbia Business School, Ford Foundation, National Association of Broadcasters

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Henry Ford

Adventures in Everyday Living, Shorelines Thursday, May 16, 2013

Two Grand Openings for modern classics a LEED-Certified Strack & Van Til's in Cedar Lake and the World's Largest Model A Ford Museum in Michigan; also SSA's Roaring '20s Beaux Arts Ball may be weeks away, but tickets could be sold out by this weekend ... [Published NWI Times - May 16 2013]

Entities: Henry Ford, Ford Foundation, Stan Johnson, Hickory, Ford Motor Company

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Don't count on government to fund more school time

More Sharing ServicesShare | Share on blogger Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on email In a letter to the editor in The Valley Breeze and Observer dated May 8 proposing more school time, I was taken aback by the naivete of the writer regarding ... [Published Valley Breeze - May 16 2013]

Entities: 38 Studios, Ford Foundation, Taxes

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Metairie Park Country Day School Awarded Grant Match; Begins Innovative New Program

has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the RosaMary Foundation, matching in full the Edward E. Ford Foundation Educational Leadership Grant that was awarded to the School in 2012 for the purpose of creating the , a forward-thinking curriculum initiative ... [Published PRWeb - May 15 2013]

Entities: New Orleans, Ford Foundation, Leadership

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 2 reports

Foundation has big year

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It was an especially good year for the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation, which received $61.5 million in contributions in 2012, president and CEO Becky Ceperley said during the foundation's 2012 Annual Report to the Community on ... [Published Charleston Gazette - May 15 2013]

Entities: Charleston Area Medical Center, Appalachia (United States), Ford Foundation

First reported May 14 2013 - Updated May 14 2013 - 2 reports

John M. Eger: The Evolving Creative Campus

Many colleges and universities are looking to put more arts at the center of campus life and in the process, foster creativity.The Creative Campus initiative, a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, is leading the way.The idea began ... [Published Huffington Post - May 14 2013]

Entities: Doris Duke, Yale University, Creativity, Ford Foundation

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

Ford Foundation Appoints Elizabeth Knup to Lead Its China Office

/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Elizabeth D. Knup as head of its office in China, based in Beijing.Knup has led a distinguished career developing stronger ties between China and the rest of the world in ... [Published NewsBlaze - May 13 2013]

Entities: Ford Foundation, China, Pearson PLC, Appointed

Quotes

"Bangladesh doesn't want to lose this for symbolic reasons," said Kimberly Elliott, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. "Cutting off trade doesn't help anything. They lose 3 to 4 million jobs mostly held by young women who would otherwise be working on farms or having kids as teenagers."

Bangladesh faces loss of U.S. tariff breaks because of labor conditions [Published STLtoday.com - May 17 2013]

...does not have to do anything improper in his office to violate the statute," but rather his or her special status as a government employee "makes an unexceptionable act wrongful - wrongful because of the potential dangers in serving two paymasters." If you received benefits from the Ford Foundation that you used to execute your official duties is sufficient to consider your actions inconsistent with...

Vitter, Issa Investigate Another Senior EPA Political Appointeeâs Potential Violations [Published U.S. Senate Environment Committee - May 16 2013]

..." She admits it wonât be easy; many executives are good "idea people," and some are terrific at executing those ideas. "But very few of us are going to be good at saying, âitâs over,â" she says

Competitive Advantage Is Dead. Here's What To Do About It. [Published Forbes.com - May 16 2013]

...These practices are grounded in the philosophy of Ubuntu, or a common humanity - "my humanity is tainted if your humanity is not recognised and assisted when in need" . Interestingly enough, these traditions also resonate rather closely with tenets of social justice philanthropy

Philanthropy as an agent of transformation - By Dr Shauna Mo. . . [Published Equities.com - May 16 2013]

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Abia indigene for honour in USA today [Published The Nation Nigeria - May 17 2013]
Vitter, Issa Investigate Another Senior EPA Pol... [Published U.S. Senate Environment Committee - May 16 2013]
Attacking the Worlds Constitutions [Published Bulatlat.com - May 16 2013]
John Thompson: How Does the Closing of Crenshaw... [Published Huffington Post - May 16 2013]
Competitive Advantage Is Dead. Here's What To D... [Published Forbes.com - May 16 2013]
Keys working to change way women think about HIV [Published South Florida Times - May 16 2013]
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Philanthropy as an agent of transformation - By... [Published Equities.com - May 16 2013]
Adventures in Everyday Living, Shorelines Thurs... [Published NWI Times - May 16 2013]
Don't count on government to fund more school time [Published Valley Breeze - May 16 2013]
The Anti-Globalization Movement and the World S... [Published Global Research - May 15 2013]
Want to Start a Yoga Studio, Get Exclusive Idea... [Published SBWire - May 15 2013]
Following the money in public education [Published Seattle Times - May 15 2013]
Low-income taxpayers choose saving over spendin... [Published PhysOrg.com - May 15 2013]
Metairie Park Country Day School Awarded Grant ... [Published PRWeb - May 15 2013]
Berlin Elementary Schools Using AJC Democracy P... [Published American Jewish Committee - May 15 2013]
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Foundation has big year [Published Charleston Gazette - May 15 2013]
Foundation has big year [Published Charleston Gazette - May 15 2013]
T-Squared: Coming Soon, a Border Bureau [Published MyHighPlains.com - May 14 2013]

Blogs

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John M. Eger: The Evolving Creative Campus [Published The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - May 14 2013] Many colleges and universities are looking to put more arts at the center of campus life and in the process, foster creativity. The Creative Campus initiative, a program of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters , is leading the way. The ...
Faulkner On Film [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - May 12 2013] Mike Springer highlights an odd, fascinating documentary about William Faulkner: In November of 1952, the normally reclusive Faulkner allowed a film crew into his secluded world at Oxford to make a short documentary about his life. The film, shown ...
Egypt: Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform [Published Global Voices Online - May 11 2013] Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform. Image from Cairobserver facebook page. Supported by Ford Foundation and the British Council, Cluster has recently launched the Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP), the first resource of its kind in Egypt. ...
Broad Coalition Of Public And Private Interests... [Published Techdirt - May 06 2013] One of the key things that has been a major concern to us for many, many years is how much of copyright policy tends to be driven by faith-based claims about what must be best (often this falls into the "more must be better" category), rather than any ...
Release Event: Confronting Suburban Poverty in ... [Published Brookings Upcoming Events - May 01 2013] Event Information May 20, 20139:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT Falk AuditoriumBrookings Institution1775 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Washington, DC 20036 Register for the Event This event will be live webcast. Almost 50 years ago, when Lyndon B. Johnson declared ...

Audio/Video

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World Economic Forum on India 2012 - Closing So... [Published World Economic Forum - YouTube - Nov 21 2012]

Press Releases

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Ford Foundation Appoints Elizabeth Knup to Lead... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - May 13 2013]
New Public Service Campaign Seeks To Boost Enro... [Published PR Newswire - May 06 2013]
Housing Partnership Equity Trust Launches With ... [Published Business Wire - Apr 29 2013]
Ford Foundation Appoints Achmat Dangor to Lead ... [Published PR Newswire: Policy & Public Interest - Apr 03 2013]
NCB Capital Impact's Affordable Housing Initiat... [Published Financial Services - Mar 28 2013]