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Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... Social Innovation Award Recipient The Macquarie Group Foundation , the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has announced Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the recipient of the 2017 Macquarie Social...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Disabilities

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... at least not anymore. While seven years ago 69 percent of black children and 58 percent of Latino children reported having little to no swimming ... according to research commissioned by the USA Swimming...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its Journalism

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08/28/2017

Skoll, Hilton, Ford, Rockefeller Among Backers of The Guardian’s Nonprofit Arm that Will Support Its ... is fully embracing a new moneymaking strategy in the face of industrywide revenue problems: philanthropy...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

... raised in the week since Hurricane Harvey dumped 50 inches of rain on the Houston area. The Rebuild Texas Fund, ... Harvey Relief Fund through the Greater Houston Community Foundation that has raised more than...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

... vast tidal changes in Washington are sweeping away decades of collaboration and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits. While the news media is focusing on the latest...

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Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

... Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so through the work of NGOs. Michael Bloomberg’s taken some different angles so ... government, likely through lawsuits, over the gutting of environmental regulations. . ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Simons Early Career Investigator in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications

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09/11/2017

... and Evolution Awards Accepting Applications The Simons Foundation is now accepting applications for its Simons Early ... Ecology and Evolution Awards. The deadline for receipt of letters of...

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RFPs Etc

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Science

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

... Farms have collectively earned an impressive list of awards, starred restaurant reviews, media features and TV cooking show appearances. But the main goal of their two days in Vermont did not involve knives or...

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Food Systems

What's So Interesting About This Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools?

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09/27/2017

... Walton Pledge for NYC Charter Schools? The Walton Family Foundation recently pledged to invest more than $2 million to ... interesting about this new $2.2 million gift is the type of charter schools the funder...

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Education

Mellon Supports Vanderbilt University's Workshop on TV News Preservation

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09/28/2017

... to Vanderbilt University next year to discuss the future of preserving broadcast television news. With funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation , Vanderbilt will host the two-day “Sustaining ... for the...

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Communications/Media

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by Comptroller Scott Stringer, Rep. ... a four-point plan that included building 15,000 units of affordable senior housing on...

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Housing and Homelessness

IRS Audit Guides Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria

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10/13/2017

... Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria The prospect of being audited by the IRS is as unsettling to nonprofit ... looking at 501(c)(3) public charities and other types of nonprofit organizations. (Importantly...

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Mellon Grant to Help Seattle Art Museum Establish Asian Paintings Conservation Center

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10/27/2017

... a $3.5 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish and endow a center dedicated to the conservation, mounting and study of Asian paintings. The Asian Paintings Conservation Center...

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Arts

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The Art for Justice Fund, in Partnership With Ford and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, Announces First Grant Recipients

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11/16/2017

... philanthropist Agnes Gund, today announced the first round of grant recipients in the areas of criminal justice reform and the arts. With awards ranging ... Fund, created by Ms. Gund in partnership with the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... political climate. Bear with me for a tiny bit of important background. In our efforts to help funders effectively respond to changes in the context of their work, CEP regularly adds timely questions to our...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Equalizing the Power Dynamic in Philanthropy

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03/01/2018

... by Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation You may have seen a recent report released by The Ford Foundation that extolls the merits of participatory grantmaking...

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Casey Family Programs Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect

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03/16/2018

... Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect Casey Family Programs, a national grant ... promote well-being for families and children,” said the foundation , in a statement...

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TCC Group Releases New Report: (Un)precedented: Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality.

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04/11/2018

... Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality. The latest report from TCC Group ... Philanthropy Takes Action in the First Year of a New Political Reality – documents how philanthropy...

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