NY Women’s Foundation, NoVo and 15 Other PNY Members Support Leadership of Young Women of Color with $2.1M
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01/10/2017
NYC non-profits advancing the well-being and leadership of young women of color as change agents received awards.
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COO Sharon Ullman Named Acting Executive Director of Rauschenberg Foundation
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01/10/2017
Sharon Ullman has been named Acting Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation following the announcement last week that Christy MacLear, who has led the Foundation staff since 2010, will be taking a position at Sotheby's.
Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness
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01/10/2017
The project will, among other things, help establish a state-of-the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
Atlantic Philanthropies Final Grant Supports Cornell Tradition
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01/10/2017
The Atlantic Philanthropies, the foundation established by entrepreneur Charles F. Feeney '56, has made a $7 million grant to The Cornell Tradition, a fellowship program offering distinctive service, work and scholarship opportunities to some of the...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize
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01/10/2017
Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the five organizations selected to receive its first annual Spark Prize, the only honor of its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’s thriving nonprofit sector.
Novo Foundation Executives Publish Op-Ed Declaring Trump Era a Time to Double Down to End Injustice
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01/10/2017
Foundations need to support nonprofits that fight regressive policies aimed at people of color and other minorities.
Can Virtual Reality Make You More Empathetic?
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01/10/2017
Media coverage of tragedy — terrorist attacks, homelessness, the refugee crisis — can be so overwhelming it's numbing. Charities say it can also make it harder to get support. Some are hoping a new form of media will be more persuasive — virtual...
Supported by Doris Duke, The New England Foundation for the Arts Announces Program Design Changes
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01/09/2017
The New England Foundation for the Arts announced a series of program design changes to the National Dance Project. These design changes are supported in part by a two-year renewed grant of $3,629,400 from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
Towards an Equitable NYC Cultural Policy in 2017: What We Can Learn from Seattle and Nashville
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01/09/2017
Michele Kumi Baer at The New York Community Trust asks, "How do we get the City to more deeply embrace the values of cultural equity, and enshrine those values in the plan?"
Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports GallopNYC Acquisition of Horse Stables in Queens
Release Date:
01/09/2017
GallopNYC had acquired the horse stables near Forest Park, Queens, operated for many years as Lynne's Riding School, in Forest Hills, N.Y. The stable will be known as GallopNYC (Forest Hills).
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