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What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

Why should people give money to nonprofits responding to the Gulf Coast oil spill? Isn't BP paying for the clean-up ... Prospect Hill Foundation and an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Communicating Your Foundation’s 990-PF

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12/21/2011

... Director of Communications at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , was the moderator of a recent Philanthropy New York ...

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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals: One Student’s Story

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12/06/2012

... with the Donors’ Education Collaborative and the Fund for New Citizens at The New York Community Trust, held a recent briefing to bring greater clarity to New York City’s efforts to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/19/2010

... the current recession, several grantmakers have decided to fund larger and more-established nonprofits, rather than ... even the most widely recognized nonprofits needed someone to take a...

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United Way of New York City

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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

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11/08/2012

... city as there are Starbucks locations). We’re pleased to have Abby Youngblood, Food and Environment Program Officer at the North Star Fund and Coordinator of Community Food Funders, talk about ...

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Food Systems

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How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.

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08/23/2010

... suggests that a change in approach is needed in order to deal more effectively with the roots of the problem. How ...

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Reimagining Service: Helping Grantees Increase Volunteer Capacity to Maximize Program Impact

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02/14/2012

... even in an era of reduced funding. We’re pleased to have Gail Gershon, Senior Director at Gap Inc. and the ... Service: Helping Grantees Increase Volunteer Capacity to Maximize Program Impact ...

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Working with Start-Ups: Grant Makers and New Organizations

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04/2003

... start-ups. Find out how they negotiated the path from idea to organization, and what they learned along the way about how to solve problems and help an organization sustain itself into the future. Contributors to this guide also offer their recommendations for ...

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Can Feedback Fuel Change at Foundations?

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05/2011

When foundations make a commitment to getting consistent feedback from their grantees that is ... making changes that are benefiting the organizations they fund . In addition to describing the data, the report identifies four keys to ...

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Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact

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12/2010

Three foundations — the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr. Fund , the Energy Foundation, and the Wilburforce Foundation — seek to make an impact on some of the most complicated challenges ... grantmaking. Lessons from the Field: From Understanding to Impact ...

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As Use of Libraries Grows, Government Support Has Eroded

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01/08/2013

Compared to 21 other major American library systems, New York City's ... their circulation and attendance have increased, according to a new study funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation. To...

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Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance

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12/12/2012

... Development Institute and the World Resources Institute to increase the transparency and accountability of climate finance adaptation programs. A new initiative to increase the accountability of climate...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits

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12/11/2012

... W. K. Kellogg Foundation set aside $100 million in 2007 to invest in companies that could produce both social and ... bonds, real estate and other traditional asset classes to build their endowments... In New...

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Among Young Inheritors, an Urge to Redistribute

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03/25/2013

This article on "trust- fund progressives" includes comments from Bessemer Trust ... L. Kronenberg MOST people would probably be quite happy to receive an inheritance. They would pay off debt, maybe .....

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2013 Black Male Achievement Fellows Announced

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06/12/2013

... Green awarded the Black Male Achievement Fellowship to eleven social entrepreneurs dedicated to advancing the lives of black men and boys in the United ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

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08/14/2013

Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Group will fund the expansion of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake ... a school district in Utah, and several community charities to expand the school system’s early-education...

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Updated: Government Shutdown: What It Means for Nonprofits

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10/01/2013

Stephen Heintz, President of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund , and Diana Aviv, President of Independent Sector, ... government have closed shop because Congress failed to reach a deal to keep the...

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New Trees and Community Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement

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05/22/2014

... Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement [North Star Fund ] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of ... money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over a new, green leaf in...

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Dodge Foundation President Weighs in on NJ Sewer System Challenges

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03/13/2015

State Moves to Deal with Dirty Problem -- Raw Sewage in Waterways Final permits issued to force 25 cities to address pollution from so-called combined sewer overflows ...

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