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25 Sep 2024

BBB® Forum on Corporate Responsibility XVII - Sustainable Communities: Managing Change, Innovating for Resilience

Wednesday, September 25, 2024 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

... Foundation of the Better Business Bureau® of Metropolitan New York, and Your Better Business Bureau. A Philanthropy New York Collaborative Program with the Better Business Bureau Foundation of Metropolitan...

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Service Through Philanthropy Dr. Starita Boyce Ansari

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04/15/2014

... in the areas of philanthropy, strategic planning, fund development, and program design and evaluation. She is ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

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06/13/2014

An article in Inside Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for championing climate change solutions, especially efforts to reduce the use of coal, the country’s biggest source of global warming pollution.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

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10/07/2014

Arcus Foundation and Ford Foundation have been featured as two of the top eight funders who made marriage equality happen.

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

Atlantic Philanthropies only has two years to spend its remaining assets.

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Ford Foundation Bets on Slow Food Movement to Help Global Poor

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01/23/2015

Ford's grants help Slow Food USA promote food and economic security in poor rural an urban households in South and Latin America.

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Member News

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Food Systems

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Ford Foundation

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

The prize is part of a $25 million partnership between the Pershing Square Foundation and Sohn Conference Foundation.

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Education

Health

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Pershing Square Foundation

NYTimes Examines Hartford Foundation Work on Geriatrics

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01/29/2016

Terry Fulmer, president of the Hartford Foundation, observed, in the New York Times article noting the foundation's work, how support is needed for a high quality of life for the elderly.

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Aging

Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

Release Date:

03/30/2016

The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation have prepared a $25-million "gift basket" to welcome foreign officials who will begin streaming into Washington for high-level nuclear-security talks.

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International/Foreign Affairs

Public Policy

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

Scranton area residents are highly familiar with the good works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, with more than $2 billion in assets and more than $100 million in grants distributed to nonprofits annually.

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

JPB Foundation Measures Bike-Share Equity in the U.S.

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04/26/2016

Most critiques highlight data showing that low-income people and people of color are underrepresented in bike-share annual membership and thus conclude that funding bike-share is inequitable and inherently questionable.

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Community Development

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Freedom Together Foundation

With Surdna and Open Society Support, Equitable Economic Development Fellowship Launches

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06/29/2016

Six cities were chosen to participate in the inaugural year of the fellowship: Boston, Charlotte, Houston, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis.

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Community Development

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Surdna Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

Release Date:

09/21/2016

... effort by the Open Society Foundations' Criminal Justice Fund to reduce the destructive impact of current criminal .....

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Bank of America Grant and Volunteers Support Partnership with Eva’s Village

Release Date:

01/25/2017

Eva’s Village, a Paterson, NJ, anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, partners with local businesses and community groups to raise funds for its 20 integrated anti-poverty programs.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Podcast: Mellon Foundation Remains a Bulwark for the Humanities

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04/10/2017

Today, with funding for NEA and NEH in jeopardy, the Mellon Foundation’s website prominently features an article on why America needs the federal culture bodies.

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EPA Now Requires Political Aide’s Sign-Off for Agency Awards, Grant Applications

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09/05/2017

The Environmental Protection Agency has taken the unusual step of putting a political operative in charge of vetting the hundreds of millions of dollars in grants the EPA distributes annually, assigning final funding decisions to a former Trump...

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Environment and Climate Change

Will the Trump Era Transform the School Lunch?

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09/06/2017

... hold more fruits and vegetables. Snacks and food sold for fund -raising had to be healthier. . . Will the Trump Era ...

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Education

Food Systems

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

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09/07/2017

Bloomberg Philanthropies is turning to a different avenue, by funding support for states fighting the federal government, likely through lawsuits, over the gutting of environmental regulations.