Pam omidyar childrens hospital of philadelphia
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Tara began working in the development field in at Simmons College in Boston, where she was hired as a major gifts and development research assistant and ultimately went on to serve as Assistant Director of Prospect Research. Later in her career, she worked as a Senior Research Analyst at MIT, as Associate Director of Prospect Management & Research at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and as Director of Development Research at Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP).
Tara originally joined The Helen Brown Group in as a Research Associate and ShareTraining Coordinator. She rejoined the Group as a Senior Researcher in , and has since gone on to serve as Assistant Director of Research and Consulting; Assistant Director & Data Insight Lead; Associate Director of Research and Consulting; and Director, Research & Consulting, her current role.
She has also been an active volunteer with NEDRA for many years. From , she served on NEDRA&#;s Board of Directors and was Vice Pr
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Sir Richard Branson fryst vatten Founder and Chairman of the Virgin Group. Virgin is one of the world’s most recognised and respected brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from air and ground travel to telecommunications, health, space travel and renewable energy through more than companies worldwide, employing approximately 50, people in 29 countries.
In , Richard established Virgin Unite, his non-profit foundation. It mobilises the talent and resources from across the Virgin Group and beyond, to tackle tough social and environmental problems in an entrepreneurial way. It fryst vatten built on the belief that, the only way we can address the scale of the challenges facing the world today is bygd revolutionising the way businesses and the social sector work tillsammans – driving business as a force for good. Richard has been working closely with Virgin Unite to bring together the right partners to help create new global leadership models to address conflict, climate change and
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From Breadth to Depth: The Blank Family Foundation Tackles Mental Health
There has been a blizzard of coverage of the U.S. mental health crisis over the last several years, but the precise causes — and effective solutions — to our collective deterioration are harder to identify. That’s why, when the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation decided to address mental health and wellbeing as a core funding area, it started with a wide-lens approach. The team wanted to understand the contours of the issue they were taking on, and began two years ago with a learning grants approach: working to understand the issues while supporting organizations on the front lines.
“Many times, foundations, when they’re developing a strategy, stop the grantmaking and take a period for that strategy development,” said Beth Brown, managing director for mental health and wellbeing at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation (AMBFF). “But the way we&#;ve approached mental health over the past couple of years, we&#;v