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Leveraging Deep Community Ties: Rural Funders Tackle COVID-19

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May 8, 2020

Allen Smart

The philanthropic response to COVID-19 has been dominated by three separate but interconnected themes: (1) Relaxation of standard reporting…

Hoffberger Family’s Legacy of Giving is Bound by Two Pandemics

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May 5, 2020

Amy Segal Shorey Alison Fass

Fourth generation Hoffberger family members gathered in April to begin the final phase of their foundation’s strategic planning process that…

Resiliency Starts at Home

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May 4, 2020

Dr. Brittany Kienker

My children are too young to understand COVID-19 or its global impact. All they know is that their mum and dad are at home, working far more…

A Conversation with Dr. Chris Murray of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

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May 1, 2020

Dr. Christopher Murray Nicholas A. Tedesco

NCFP President and CEO Nick Tedesco recently interviewed Dr. Chris Murray, Chair and Professor of Health Metric Sciences and Director of the…

Edgar Villanueva: ‘The Rainy Day We’ve All Been Thinking About is Here’

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April 30, 2020

Edgar Villanueva Gail Picco

Editor’s Note: This interview was originally published by The Charity Report and re-posted here with permission. Gail Picco: How are you…

Values, Kids, Philanthropy, and COVID-19

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April 29, 2020

Katie Scott

We’re eating more meals together than we ever have before. We are getting to know our neighbors better. We see our child or children more…

Brutal Truth and Credible Hope

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April 28, 2020

Lowell Weiss Mario Morino

Editor’s Note: This article was originally published here and is re-posted with permission. The wonderful Cheryl Collins told us, with the…

Richard M. Hunt: A Powerful Mind, a Passionate Soul, and Gentle Grace

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April 23, 2020

Virginia M. Esposito

Given the many arenas where Richard Hunt studied, worked, lived and gave over his 93 years, I might have met him in any one of them. It…

Rethinking “Us” and “Them” in Family Philanthropy

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April 22, 2020

Ashley Blanchard Kelin E. Gersick, PhD

In the past few weeks, we have been inundated with information about how philanthropy can respond to this pandemic. Many emergency and…

Stories From China: Donors Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis

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April 21, 2020

Ying Lu

The Chinese city where the new coronavirus became endemic in January—Wuhan, in Hubei Province—lifted its 76-day lockdown on Wednesday, April…

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