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With Support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR Launch the Plant Humanities Initiative

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11/13/2018

The joint aim of the initiative is to advance plant humanities, the interdisciplinary field that explores and communicates the unparalleled significance of plants to human culture.

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Insight on Participatory Grantmaking: Camille Emeagwali, New York Women’s Foundation

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11/12/2018

Camille Emeagwali from the New York Women's Foundation answers: How do you ensure your grantmaking committee is broadly representative of the population you’re hoping to reach?

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United Hospital Fund Offers New Tool Kit to Curb Antibiotic Overprescribing

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11/12/2018

The United Hospital Fund has released a free set of tools and guidelines to help outpatient medical practices more appropriately prescribe antibiotics amid the growing public health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

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Health

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13 Nov 2018

California Fires Briefing with Local Responders and Funders - A Webinar Hosted by Philanthropy California

Tuesday, November 13, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Philanthropy California is offering funders an up-to-the-minute briefing on the fires, local and state agency responses, and how to aid local efforts and avoid fraud. Fires in Northern and Southern California are causing deaths and mass evacuations...

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Disaster Relief

29 Nov 2018

The Urgency of the First Amendment: Holding on to Core Values in Crisis - A Webinar Hosted by Media Impact Funders

Thursday, November 29, 2018 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

In this moment of grief and division within our country, it’s urgent that we reflect on the core values that make us Americans, and that we must maintain and strengthen in times of crisis. Philanthropy plays a critical role in maintaining our First...

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Bank of America : Expands Neighborhood Builders Nonprofit Leadership Development Program in 74 Cities

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11/09/2018

Bank of America announced it is expanding its Neighborhood Builders(R) program and introducing a complementary program, Neighborhood Champions, to new cities in 2019 to support nonprofit leadership development across the U.S.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Community Development

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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Amgen Co-Found Fund to Help Conejo Valley Shooting Victims

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11/09/2018

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and Amgen, which has headquarters in Thousand Oaks, established the Conejo Valley Victims Fund.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Grants $1 Million for Anchorage Public Art Project

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11/09/2018

City to partner with Anchorage Museum to Create “SEED Lab,” winning project of Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge.

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Arts

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12 Dec 2018

Meet Chancellor Richard A. Carranza

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Richard A. Carranza has served as Schools Chancellor of New York City schools since 2018. Since taking office, Chancellor Carranza has spoken about his four priorities for the 2018-2019 academic year: 1) accelerate learning and instruction, 2)...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funded Research Solves Genetic ‘Whodunnit’ for Cancer Gene

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11/09/2018

The lab of Salk Professor Reuben Shaw showed that late-stage cancers can trigger AMPK’s cellular recycling signal to cannibalize pieces of the cell, supplying large lung tumors with the nutrients they need to grow.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

Release Date:

11/08/2018

Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a prominent voice on democratic institutions and civil society development, will receive philanthropy’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Award, and deliver an address on the...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

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11/08/2018

Pfizer Foundation is helping to empower women in Benin through the delivery of integrated family planning information and services and childhood immunizations.

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Inside the Joan Mitchell Foundation: How a Visual Arts Funder Is Evolving

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11/08/2018

The artist Joan Mitchell passed away in 1992. Recently, her Blueberry set an auction record for $16.625 million at Christie’s New York, while her work at Art Basel collectively sold for approximately $35.5 million. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Museum of...

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Warhol Foundation Condemns CAH Grant Requirement As a Flagrant Attack on Free Speech

Release Date:

11/08/2018

Joel Wachs, President of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, today condemned a recent DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities (CAH) grant requirement as a flagrant attack on free speech.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arts

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13 Dec 2018

Whose Democracy?: Midterm Field Notes to Guide Funders Through 2020 and Beyond

Thursday, December 13, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:30am

America’s significant demographic shifts – increased racial and ethnic diversity, a larger aging population, and an altered urban racial composition – present an opportunity to close longstanding representation and electoral gaps in our democracy...

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Century Foundation Releases New Report: “14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress”

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11/07/2018

TCF recently published 14 Progressive Priorities for the New Congress, a report which outlines dozens of impactful actions that Congress could take to reduce inequality and expand opportunity.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Public Policy

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Ms. Foundation for Women Announces Jocelyn Frye as New Board Chair

Release Date:

11/07/2018

Obama administration alum and Senior Fellow at American Progress to head Foundation’s Board.

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25 Apr 2019

Empathy in an Era of Social Division and Toxic Politics - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

A healthy society depends on its citizens having the urge and ability to care for others. Today, however, political and social animosity has nearly paralyzed federal government and limits our society’s ability to solve pressing domestic issues. Can...

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06 Feb 2019

The Fight for a Fair Vote - A Food for Thought Conversation

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Join Philanthropy New York for Food for Thought , a conversation series hosted by the Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy for PNY members to discuss “equity” as a tool to buttress their philanthropic practice and as...

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