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NY Times Common Sense Columnist Says Ford Foundation Is an Unlikely Convert to ‘Impact’ Investing

Release Date:

04/17/2017

Last week, the foundation announced that it would commit $1 billion to investments that “earn not only attractive financial returns but concrete social returns as well,” as it said in a news release.

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Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and Author of 'Redefining Realness,' Talks About Gender Identity

Release Date:

05/07/2014

In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and author of "Redefining Realness," tells the story of her upbringing in Hawaii, where she and her family struggled with homelessness and...

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Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy

Publication date:

04/2017

Can limiting a foundation's life increase its ability to have impact? In “Value, Time, and Time-Limited Philanthropy,” Tony Proscio of the Duke Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society tackles that question by applying a theory of time and value in philanthropy to three real cases that show what’s possible.

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Markle Foundation Collaborates With LinkedIn, Arizona State and edX to Address Technology’s Impact on Jobs

Release Date:

04/14/2017

The U.S. needs new tools to measure and monitor technology, jobs and skills to cope with the advance of artificial intelligence and automation, according to a group of economists and computer scientists.

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Workforce Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports National Geographic Documentary About the Coal and Mining Industry

Release Date:

04/14/2017

From the Ashes captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry, and what its future should be under the Trump administration.

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Arts

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Carnegie Supports Report on Incentives to Attend Private Colleges

Release Date:

04/14/2017

States could save money and increase college-graduation rates by providing modest financial incentives for students to choose private colleges over comparable public ones, according to a report released this week.

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Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize

Release Date:

04/14/2017

The Prize is an exciting initiative of The J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2017, up to ten Prizes will be awarded to those tackling our country's most pressing needs through social innovation.

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RFPs Etc

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Simons Postdoctoral Fellowships in Marine Microbial Ecology Request for Applications Opens

Release Date:

04/14/2017

The foundation is particularly interested in applicants with training in different fields who want to apply their experience to understanding the role of microorganisms in shaping ocean processes and vice versa, including applicants with experience...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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Phil TV This Week April 14

Release Date:

04/14/2017

PhilTV This Week features guest anchor Prachi Patankar of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, and stories about Mellon, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Educational Foundation of America and some Jedi action from the Altman Foundation. Plus, Thousands of...

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Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments

Release Date:

04/13/2017

Xavier de Souza Briggs , the foundation’s vice president for Economic Opportunity and Markets, discusses the foundation's work on mission-related investments with Lenora Suki , head of sustainable finance product...

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14 Jun 2017

Social Impact Exchange: 2017 Conference on Scaling Impact

Wednesday, June 14, 2017 - 8:30am to Thursday, June 15, 2017 - 2:45pm

At the 2017 Conference on Scaling Impact, funders, advisors and leaders from across the social sector gather to share knowledge, hear about co-funding opportunities and cultivate a community to help scale successful, evidence-based initiatives.

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All Funders

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Finance & Asset Management

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Impact Investing

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Mellon Foundation President Explores The Haunting Shadow of Slavery

Release Date:

04/13/2017

As the 400th anniversary of the importation of the first Africans into colonial Jamestown approaches in 2019, Earl Lewis — president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — argued that it is important to acknowledge that “slavery still haunts us today...

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NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color

Release Date:

04/13/2017

The New York City-based NoVo Foundation, created in 2006 by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, the youngest son of Warren Buffett, says it will let the girls and their advocates on the local level determine what their needs are, rather than be told what...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation Supports 'Food for Soul' to Combat Food Waste

Release Date:

04/13/2017

Backing from the Foundation will enable Food for Soul to take its successful Refettorio model to some of the USA’s most vulnerable communities.

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Food Systems

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for Health Initiative is Closing Gaps in Health Data in 19 Countries

Release Date:

04/12/2017

Data for Health is a four-year $100 million initiative aimed at improving health data in 19 low- and middle-income countries spanning Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Latin America.

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Health

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Manage Difficult Workplace Conversations Like a Jedi

Release Date:

04/13/2017

Ann Maldonado, Office Manager at Altman Foundation, writes about the three "Ms" that may help you navigate your next difficult conversation: Mindful preparation, Monoriting and Meta-conversations.

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Altman Foundation

NYCT Gives $5.6M For New Efforts to Stop Domestic Violence, Protect First Amendment Rights, Build Young Leaders and More

Release Date:

04/12/2017

NYCT Gives $5.6M For New Efforts to Stop Domestic Violence, Protect First Amendment Rights, Build Young Leaders and More (April 12, 2017) NEW YORK - The New York Community Trust recently approved more than $5.6...

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North Star Fund Announces 2017 North Star and Frederick Douglass Awardees

Release Date:

04/12/2017

North Star Fund announced the individuals and organizations it will honor with its esteemed annual awards for outstanding contributions to creating a more just and equitable New York.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust's Rural Healthcare Program Gives $400K to Community Hospital

Release Date:

04/12/2017

Pender Community Hospital has received a $400,000 grant to be used to purchase a new CT scanner.

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Health

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Seven Bridges Brings The Simons Foundation’s Genome Diversity Project Dataset to the Cloud

Release Date:

04/12/2017

Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has made the Simons Genome Diversity Project (SGDP) dataset available for analysis by researchers via the Seven Bridges Platform.

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