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"Take Hollywood power couple Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. At 44 years old, Reynolds is the second-highest-paid actor in Hollywood, earning $71.5 million in 2020. His lucrative team-up with Netflix made him more than $20 million each for films Six Underground and Red Notice. As for 33-year-old actress Blake Lively, she’s worth $30 million by some estimates, and recently starred in thriller film The Rhythm Section. Combined, this power couple could be worth $150 million. So far, the couple’s giving has not been overwhelming, and they don’t appear to have established a family foundation. However, getting a handle on the family’s emerging giving now might be useful as they escalate their giving down the line. So what is this wealthy couple interested in?"

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Outcomes Thinking and Management: Shifting Focus from Activities To Impact Tuesday, April 6, 2021; 1:004:00 pm ET, 10:00 am1:00 pm PT Virtual workshop Featuring Candid Programs staff: David Holmes, Elizabeth Madjlesi, and Eliana Neuwirth... Price: $99 $49 through March 29 Funders increasingly want to invest in a nonprofit’s impact, not activities. Join us to learn how to shift your organization’s focus and communication tactics from activities to outcomes. Following this virtual workshop, you’ll be able to create your own logic model and identify trackable outcomes for your programs. http://view.send.foundationcenter.org/

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Blue Shield of California Foundation’s consistent, decades-long commitment to funding domestic violence preventionand this new step to fund treatment and support for offenders as well as victimsmakes the organization a, if not the, funding leader in this field. Originally established in 1981 and funding mostly in California, the foundation lists breaking the cycle of domestic violence as the first of its three main priorities for funding. In 2018, it gave four of its larg...est six grants to domestic violence-related organizations. In September alone, the foundation announced $3.4 million in grants dedicated to breaking the cycle of domestic violence, giving more than $1 million of those funds to the Healing Together Campaign through a multiyear grant. This is Blue Shield’s first partnership to engage men of color in ending intimate partner violence. https://www.insidephilanthropy.com//a-major-california-fun See more