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Women’s Funding Network

The Kaiser Family Foundation provides in-kind television and web cast facilities

To learn more about what U.S. foundations are doing to fight poverty and promote opportunity, visit the poverty section of Glasspockets.org, a new initiative launched by the Foundation Center to encourage greater transparency among private foundations.

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