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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities Saying it made a major mistake by overlooking the needs of people with disabilities in revamping its programs to focus on inequality, the...

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Supported by Rockefeller, MIT Competition Finalist Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers

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09/26/2016

... Provides A Solution For India’s Farmers As a first- of -its-kind human-digital platform, eKutir Global, a finalist ... category, has reached 70,000 farmers through a network of licensed community agents,...

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Food Systems

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New ... with support fromSeason Sponsors Con Edison, Bank of America and Delta Air Lines as well as the New York City ... Additional support is...

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Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

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05/11/2017

... Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California As the NoVo Foundation gets into its grantmaking from the $90 million in funds established to support young women and girls of color, one of its...

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Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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07/24/2017

... describes philanthropy as something that's in her DNA. Foundation Center's Jen Bokoff, a former employee of the foundation , spoke with Tisch about her recent donation ... innovative...

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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

... $20 Million to Women's Groups The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 million during the next three years ... said the money will support research, training, and groups of other donors...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... In direct response to a lawsuit filed by The Century Foundation , the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two higher education accrediting agencies with a history of...

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Education

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Closing Space for Open Society

Release Date:

05/17/2018

... to 46 different groups in Hungary in 2016, that the foundation announced this week they will relocate their ... and visible statement, but it is only one small part of a more complex story about how a...

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13 Dec 2018

Interested in Working in Corporate Philanthropy?

Thursday, December 13, 2018 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... explore career paths in the philanthropic sector, as part of our " Interested in Working at a Foundation " series. This December, we will learn about the field of corporate...

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Panel

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ralph Wilson's Biggest Gift Yet: $100m to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails

Release Date:

10/17/2018

... to Transform Lasalle Park, Trails The Ralph C. Wilson Jr. Foundation on Wednesday afternoon will announce the largest ... philanthropic gift ever made in Western New York. The foundation will give $100 million...

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Community Development

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William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

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06/05/2019

... Scholars Program The New York City-based William T. Grant Foundation supports research aimed at improving the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States. To that...

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RFPs Etc

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Spend-Out Presumption And The Value Of Enduring Institutions

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02/26/2010

... my last contribution , I wrote that focusing simply on foundation perpetuity or spending out was, per se , a ... first and foremost, and (2) considering other forms of foundation “existence...

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Payout Redux

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04/09/2010

... Philanthropy New York In recent years, much has been made of payout rates. On the one hand, many writers have favored increasing the 5 percent minimum required of foundations because it “reaffirms some...

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04 Nov 2015

Dear Board...Are You Reading This?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Missed this session? View materials and recording here . Foundation and nonprofit boards have an important ... decide on the major polices, goals and governance of the organization. In order to effectively...

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12 Dec 2019

Philanthropy & the 2020 Census: What a Fair and Accurate Count Means for Ending Homelessness - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Thursday, December 12, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... prepares for Census Day on April 1, 2020. All a driver of important funding and policy decisions, the Census also ... in their community. We will also hear from the Polk Bros Foundation in Chicago on its role...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Census 2020

Housing and Homelessness

Banks that Actually Serve Communities, What a Novel Idea

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07/08/2014

by Saqib Bhatti, Director , ReFund America Project and Fellow, Roosevelt Institute; former Fellow, Nathan Cummings Foundation I had the privilege of speaking on Philanthropy New York’s “Future...

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Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

Release Date:

04/18/2017

Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison By Steven Pacheco, inaugural John Jay College of Criminal Justice/David Rockefeller Fund Fellow Steven ... justice reform discussion. In...

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Now Hear This: The Wisdom of Trans Voices

Release Date:

09/19/2018

Now Hear This: The Wisdom of Trans Voices By Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice ... were informative, I was especially blown away by GMHC Director of Policy Cecilia Gentili, who is also a leader...

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PNY News

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Gender Justice

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Philanthropy New York

Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors COVID-19 Responders Among 38 Distinguished Immigrants

Release Date:

07/01/2020

Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors COVID-19 Responders Among 38 Distinguished ... actions. Each Fourth of July since 2006, the philanthropic foundation has invited Americans to celebrate...

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Immigration

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Equitable Opportunities for Effective Philanthropy

Release Date:

06/08/2022

... for Effective Philanthropy By: Donita Volkwijn, Senior Director , Member Engagement, Philanthropy New York When you ... it’s much harder to teach good judgment.” That kind of leadership is the reason I’m still...

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