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Case Study Database

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Title	Source	Region	Date
Evaluation of the Sound Families Initiative: Final Findings Summary: A Closer Look at Families' Lives During and After Supportive Transitional Housing	Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Northern America	2007
America’s System of Public Broadcasting and Public Radio: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1965	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2007
Funding Intermediaries as a Strategy for Local Grantmaking: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation & the Local Initiatives Support Corporations (LISC) Chicago	Loyola University Chicago	Northern America	2007
Promoting Social Justice: A Vision of Philanthropic Activism	Carnegie Corporation of New York	Northern America	2007
Sustainable Development in the Great Bear Rainforest: David and Lucille Packard Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund et al., 2000	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2007
The Development of Insulin to Treat Diabetes: Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1916	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2007
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC): Ford Foundation, 1979	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2007
Children’s Television Workshop and "Sesame Street": Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1966	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2007
The Immigration Fund: Accountability in a Pooled Community Fund	Loyola University Chicago	Northern America	2007
Open Society Institute—Baltimore	Chapin Hall Center for Children (University of Chicago)	Northern America	2006
The Aaron Diamond Foundation: AIDS Research in New York City	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Northern America	2006
The New Jersey Story: Bottom Up and Top Down: Two Case Studies—An Insider Approach to Impacting State Policy and a Grassroots Organizing Effort to Promote Regional Equity	Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies	Northern America	2006
Self Family Foundation	Chapin Hall Center for Children (University of Chicago)	Northern America	2006
Walker Family Foundation	Chapin Hall Center for Children (University of Chicago)	Northern America	2006
The Ford Foundation and Community Development	Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society (Duke)	Latin America	2006
New Orleans: Planning for a Better Future	Rockefeller Foundation	Northern America	2006
The Kresge Foundation Headquarters: A Case Study in Building Green	Kresge Foundation	Northern America	2006
Banning Junk Food and Soda Sales in the State’s Public Schools	California Endowment	Northern America	2006
Case Study of a Venture Philanthropy Partnership: Setting the Scene	Alliance Magazine	Europe	2006
Embedded Funders and Community Change: Profiles	Chapin Hall Center for Children (University of Chicago)	Northern America	2006