Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford Foundation Appoints Ai-jen Poo to Board of Trustees

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06/19/2017

The Ford Foundation announced the appointment of Ai-jen Poo to serve as a member of its Board of Trustees. As a well-established advocate for women, immigrants, and low-wage workers, Poo is currently the director of the National Domestic Workers...

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Ford Foundation

Former Arcus Foundation E.D. Named Tenement Museum President

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06/15/2017

Kevin Jennings, a history teacher turned nonprofit leader who is also a former Obama official, has been named the next president of the Tenement Museum in Manhattan.

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Arts

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Arcus Foundation

Lata Reddy Elevated to Chair of The Prudential Foundation

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06/14/2017

Prudential Financial, Inc. has strengthened its longstanding commitment to address societal needs and champion financial security by moving its office of Corporate Social Responsibility to the C-Suite, reporting directly to Vice Chairman Mark Grier.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Prudential Foundation

Furthering Conflict with George Soros, Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs

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06/13/2017

Hungary's parliament approved on Tuesday strict new rules for non-government organisations with foreign funding in a further escalation of the government's conflict with Hungarian-American billionaire George Soros.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Participation and Double Entendre

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06/07/2017

Philanthropy New York’s 38 th Annual Meeting next week won’t be all business. When we named the program “The Power of Participation,” we knew it had double meaning. This year’s annual meeting has even more time for networking than last year.

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President's Message

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Legacy Foundations and Risk-Taking: Different Approaches to Empowered Philanthropy

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06/07/2017

Dara Major, philanthropic and social sector advisor, challenges funders to "embrace the power of philanthropic diversity, and work together toward more empowered philanthropy."

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

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06/07/2017

Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation

New York City's Community Foundation Carries Out Charitable Legacies of Brooke Astor and Many Others

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06/07/2017

The New York Community Trust recently approved more than $12.3 million in grants to support 65 nonprofits that will help domestic violence victims find housing, strengthen arts groups, feed the hungry, and more.

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The New York Community Trust

SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"

Release Date:

06/06/2017

When Healing Arts Initiative, formerly Hospital Audiences Inc., declared bankruptcy a year ago, it was the last in a series of tragic events that was seemingly the death knell for the 47-year-old nonprofit.

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SeaChange Capital Partners

Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...