What's Behind the Obesity Epidemic? Easily Accessible Food, and Lots of It
Publication date:
07/2014
A RAND Corporation brief explores the data and the reasons ...
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Five Steps to a Successful Workplace Wellness Program
... lower health care costs, and improve productivity. RAND researchers determined that these programs are becoming ...
Another great Philanthropy Forward conference
Release Date:
10/17/2017
... Margaret Hulbert, United Way of Greater Cincinnati Lissy Rand, Deaconess Foundation Karen White, KeyBank Foundation ...
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Philanthropy Ohio Board Meeting Materials - December 2019
Philanthropy Ohio Board Meeting Materials December 10, 2019
Date / Time: December 10, 10 am – 2 pm
Location: Philanthropy Ohio Columbus Office
500 South Front St, Suite 900, Columbus, OH 43215
Philanthropy Forward '17 Conference Resources
... health, property values and a sense of community as RAND and City Parks Alliance share recent research findings ... Deborah Cohen , Senior Physician Policy Researcher, RAND Corporation; Catherine Nagle , Executive Director, City ...
The importance of public space
Release Date:
09/11/2017
... Parks Alliance, the National Institute for Health and the RAND Corporation. Stay tuned for more information and/or opt ...
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The Road to Results –Effective Practices For Building Arts Audiences
This guide pinpoints nine successful practices that build audiences.
Drowning in Paperwork, Distracted from Purpose
Publication date:
11/2009
Presentation to streamline and improve the Grant Application and Reporting process.
Beyond Grantmaking: Philanthropic Foundations as Agents of Change and Institutional Entrepreneurs
Studies examining the role of philanthropic foundations in advancing social change have primarily focused on the impact of foundations’ financial resources, but few scholars have analyzed how foundations also leverage social mechanisms to advance and legitimate desired change. We conceptualize philanthropic foundations as agents of change, known as institutional entrepreneurs, to illuminate the social mechanisms they employ in pursuit of institutional change.
Community Foundation Field Guide to Impact Investing
Publication date:
09/2013
The vision for this Field Guide came from the collective wisdom of a working group convened by the Council on Foundations in August 2012. Guided by the community foundation leadership of Kathy Merchant at The Greater Cincinnati Foundation and Stuart Comstock-Gay at The Vermont Community Foundation and managed by Laura Tomasko at the Council on Foundations, the working group met throughout the past year to strategize on how
best to move the community foundation field forward in impact investing.
Serving Those Who Served
This book will help donors assess the field. It is especially oriented toward helping the latest, post-9/11, generation of veterans. And we make particular efforts to illuminate the places where private funding can act more effectively than government—which pours more than $140 billion into veterans every year, but not very flexibly, and with many gaps. Our main purpose is to help philanthropists make certain their gifts go beyond sentimental support, and
actually aid a population that every good American wants to see prosper.
Helping Parents, Helping Children: Two-Generation Mechanisms
This review of two-generation programs assesses their effectiveness and suggests policy
Strengthening State Systems for Adult Learners: An Evaluation of the First Five Years of Shifting Gears
Publication date:
12/2012
The Joyce Foundation’s Shifting Gears initiative was launched in 2007 as a state policy change effort in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The goal is to strengthen state postsecondary, adult basic education, and skills-development systems so that more low-skilled workers gain the education, skills and credentials needed to advance and succeed in
our changing economy.
Who Gives? Multilevel Effects of Gender and Ethnicity on Workplace Charitable Giving
Publication date:
07/2012
Research on diversity in organizations has largely focused on the implications of gender and ethnic differences for performance, to the exclusion of other outcomes. We propose that gender and ethnic differences also have implications for workplace charitable giving, an important aspect of corporate social responsibility.
Strengthening State Systems for Adult Learners: An Evaluation of the First Five Years of Shifting Gears (The Joyce Foundation)
Publication date:
12/2012
The Joyce Foundation’s Shifting Gears initiative was launched in 2007 as a state policy change effort in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. The goal is to strengthen state postsecondary, adult basic education, and skills-development systems so that more low-skilled workers gain the education, skills and credentials needed to advance and succeed in our changing economy.
Donor Strategies to Prevent Childhood Obesity: Lessons from Greater Philadelphia
High level strategies and promising practices of six local funders working to prevent childhood obesity.
Ohio Prevention Basics
Publication date:
06/2014
Brush up on your prevention basics with this new Health Policy Institute of Ohio guide.
Preparing Students for Success in Life
Publication date:
01/2013
Has Ohio’s student, school and system performance changed fast enough and deep enough to help Ohio thrive as the global economic shift continues? Most in Ohio’s philanthropic community would reply, “No.” Based on data and policy analysis, Philanthropy Ohio believes the state has lost ground in four major education areas over the last six years.
A New Anchor Mission for a New Century
Publication date:
11/2014
How community foundations are deploying all their resources to build community wealth.
National Arts Index
This is the fourth publication of the National Arts Index, Americans for the Arts’ annual report on the health and vitality of arts and culture in the United States. The 2013 National Arts Index is a highly-distilled measure or score of the health and vitality of arts in the U.S.