Changing The Conversation Around Mergers and Collaborations
Release Date:
06/13/2018
John MacIntosh, a partner at SeaChange Capital Partners looks back on six years of making deals with The New York Merger Acquisition and Collaboration Fund.
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06/13/2018
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Release Date:
06/13/2018
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Release Date:
06/13/2018
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Release Date:
06/12/2018
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Release Date:
06/12/2018
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The Public Theater Celebrates Leonard Tow, Founder and Chairman of The Tow Foundation at Its Annual Gala
Release Date:
06/12/2018
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Soros Says Attacks Won’t Alter His Charitable and Political Giving
Release Date:
06/11/2018
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The Century Foundation Presents Inclusion and Industry 4.0
Release Date:
06/11/2018
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Release Date:
06/11/2018
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Release Date:
06/11/2018
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Release Date:
06/08/2018
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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage
Release Date:
06/08/2018
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Release Date:
06/08/2018
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Release Date:
06/07/2018
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Release Date:
06/07/2018
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Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, University of Michigan Researchers Building System to Safeguard Confidential Data
Release Date:
06/07/2018
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Release Date:
06/07/2018
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Jul
2018
The Power of Pooled Funding to Increase College Graduation Rates
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 -
9:00am to 11:00am
Join the NYC youth funders for a session that will feature the development of and lessons learned from the College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF), a unique collaborative model for college persistence and completion grantmaking managed by Graduate...
This Is How We’re Facing Change Together
Release Date:
06/06/2018
At Monday’s Annual meeting for PNY’s members, I asked that members take the opportunity of the day’s programming to also think about the role each member’s foundation and the broader sector can play at this moment in our country’s history.