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Community Building as a Philosophy, Not an Initiative

foundation is pursuing community building not as a stand-alone strategy or “initiative,” but as a philosophy that guides local community development efforts based on capacity building and grantmaking based on

Risks in Grantmaking: A Study of Australian Foundations

, political/legal risk, and personal risk (Sargeant & Shang, 2012). In their study, Winkelstein and Whelpton (2017) adopt a similar classification of the risks facing grantmakers (with the use of the label ... “governance risk” instead of political, legal, and personal risk). Within this study, Winkelstein and Whelpton readily acknowledge that impact risk, which they also refer to as execution or implementation risk

Why Foundations? The Theory and Strategy of the General-Purpose Foundation

, political, and economic systems). These anxieties have prompted wide-ranging criticism, from whether foundations should be more socially accountable (Kennedy, 2023; Giving Review, 2021), to whether they ... good according to their own theories and methods. But being an accident does not invalidate a thing’s usefulness to a society or its political systems. In a real sense, the whole of human society is an

A corpus of Persian literary text

Persian poetry has profoundly affected all periods of Persian literature and the literature of other countries as well. It is a fundamental vehicle for expressing Persian culture and political ... Motivation Compiling corpora for low-resource languages is a valuable undertaking for preservation, education, knowledge acquisition, and monitoring demographic and political processes. The focus of this work

Full Issue Vol. 15 Issue 4

private foundations should even exist is a socio-political question that is often raised. Gill tackles the big questions about the role and legitimacy of general-purpose foundations in the United States. A ... ., is an associate professor of political science at Bowling Green State University. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Abhishek Bhati at . Fidelity Charitable. (2021). The

Between welcome culture and border fence

Newspaper reports provide a rich source of information on the unfolding of public debates, which can serve as basis for inquiry in political science. Such debates are often triggered by critical ... political actors: crisis sparks the debate. However, due to the challenges of reliable annotation and modeling, few large-scale datasets with high-quality annotation are available. This paper introduces

Leading With Shared Values: Developing a Charter of Principles for Philanthropic Partnerships

social and political landscape in U.S. higher education, and medical education in particular, that may make it difficult to advance the partnership’s commitments to advance character, caring, practical ... is much work to be done toward that end, and other philanthropists and their partners can engage in that work as well. Conclusion The social and political landscape is constantly evolving, driven by a

Philanthropy’s Uneasy Journey Into Mental Health Grantmaking

to effect change. (See Table 1.) Their locus of entry was broadly divided into three types — political, general community wellness, and early intervention and treatment programs. Some participants used ... grantmaking in the political arena (i.e., public policy advocacy) as a way to address issues of criminalization, stigma, and lack of resources. In this vein, some foundations sought to fund public awareness

Coopen: An Open Innovation Process Triggering Collaboration Between NGOs and Innovators in Africa — The Case of Fondazione Cariplo and Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo

. There is also growing interest in a continent that is vigorously expanding, both economically and demographically. Although facing major challenges, Africa has enormous potential: the economic, political

The Landscape of Community-Based Giving Days in the United States

., is an associate professor of political science at Bowling Green State University. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Abhishek Bhati at . Fidelity Charitable. (2021). The

Learning, Unlearning, and Sprinkling In: Our Journey with Equitable Evaluation

Mosley, the primary writer, with-sig Our philosophy has always been to partner with nificant contributions from Leigh Quarles and our grantees, recognizing that they are leaders Jason Williams. Given the ... personal nature of the with a close and unique understanding of their reflection, we want to introduce ourselves. communities. Jane Mosley is the director of research and However, that philosophy has at

Book Review: Changing Systems, Changing Lives: Reflecting on 20 Years

introduction outlines the strategies the Foundation developed to influence systems change, create sustainable progress, and foster the ability to work with parties holding different political viewpoints. These ... about what is involved in navigating complex political systems and ideologies, recognizing partners’ unique and important roles, and remaining nimble during the process of building consensus. • Elevating

Systems-Change Philanthropy: It’s Essential, and It’s Our Responsibility

, consumer advocates to meet with the policy foundation staff knew that the state’s political fellows. process was always connected to what is h-ap pening nationally. To truly understand the leversFoundation ... program, I’ve gained hope. In the midst of all the political pushback and lengthy processes, I met extraordinary advocates who are resilient, dedicated, knowledgeable, and compassionate about mental health

The CLARIN infrastructure as an interoperable language technology platform for SSH and beyond

to identify WebLichtBatch as ‘most-suitable’ applicable tool. In its short life span, the Switchboard has built bridges across various infrastructures. Its simple design philosophy facilitated its ... uncommon in the CLARIN community, say, to have a Dutch political scientist wanting to perform a study on post-war news coverage on the emerging influence spheres separating the West of Europe from the East

A new corpus of geolocated ASR transcripts from Germany

, and from the perspective of the digital humanities and social sciences, transcript data may be useful for the study of a wide range of cultural, political, geographical, and economic phenomena. This ... concerned with data protection rights from the perspective of sensitive personal individual data of the sort which is not included in CoGS, such as political party or trade union membership, marital status

Overcoming the Systemic Challenges of Wealth Inequality in the U.S.

reinforce each other, these two factors erode the social, economic, and political viability of our democracy. Understanding and then breaking this vicious cycle are essential to realizing our renewed ... all citizens, and reestablish reason and fairness in the political sphere. The fact is that the rich are getting richer, and the poor are getting poorer. In the U.S. alone, the top 1% of families now

The Yin and Yang of Equity-Centered Philanthropy

political dialogue (GrantCraft, 2007; Arno et al.,yin and yang orientations that are fundam-en 2012; Redwood & King, 2014; Young et al., 2017; tal aspects of Chinese philosophy (Simpkins & Balancing Yin and ... regard to raising public and political awareness around important equity issues and remedies that can actually make a difference. They can also in-flu change, foundations have ence their peer organizations

Becoming Strategic: Finding Leverage Over the Social and Economic Determinants of Health

should be aligned with the foundation’s mission, values, philosophy, resources, and sphere of influence. ... mission, values, philosophy, resources, impact with their grantmaking. They are also and sphere of influence. taking fuller advantage of the nonfinancial assets available to them (e.g., knowledge

Investigating interoperable event corpora: limitations of reusability of resources and portability of models

will be subject to our scrutiny are corpora annotated with information about events. Events have been at the heart of Linguistics, Philosophy, and Artificial Intelligence. Much work has been conducted in ... al., 2003a) which rejects any restriction on semantic classes and linguistic realizations of events. The TimeML annotation philosophy is surface-oriented. The event classes do not correspond to any

Finnish parliament ASR corpus

Conversational Political Spontaneous Spontaneous Read, spontaneous Read, telephone Political Political Political Political Political Political Political Political Political Political Political Data set et al ... -channel audio wave file is extracted from the video using the FFmpeg tool.5 From the XMLs, we parse speech transcripts, speaker name, member of parliament ID, language (Finland is bilingual), political