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19 Jun 2012

An Update on New York City’s Promise Neighborhood Initiatives

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

The federal Department of Education’s Promise Neighborhoods Initiative is ... by New York City Youth Funders , the Brooklyn Community Foundation , and the New York Community Trust . ... Cutter , Executive Director...

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20 Jun 2012

Learning a New Language: Digital Media for Advocacy

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... communication in the 21st century calls for the adoption of new media. Assorted resources including blogs, webcasts, ... Morse , Senior Fellow with Civic Ventures , retired Vice President for Communications,...

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28 May 2013

Community Food Funders Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System: Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a Post-Sandy World

Tuesday, May 28, 2013 -

8:30am to 10:00am

... breakfast series. The series will focus on the impact of Hurricanes Irene and Sandy on our food system, and ... Community Food Funders . Presenters Jimmy Daukus , Vice President of Programs,...

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KACF Expands to San Francisco

Release Date:

06/19/2014

KACF Expands to San Francisco The Korean American Community Foundation (KACF) has announced plans to open an affiliate in ... follow KACF's decade-long mission in the New York area of serving vulnerable...

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Korean American Community Foundation

LGBT-Themed Films Receive Support From New Arcus Fund

Release Date:

07/16/2014

... films have been selected for support from the Arcus Foundation Fund at Sundance Institute. Established in ... focused on LGBT issues and that at different stages of development, production, and distribution...

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Communications/Media

LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Michael Hirschhorn To Step Down From IHRFG

Release Date:

08/07/2014

... step down in the fall from his post as executive director of the International Human Rights Funders Group. He has ... at Yale’s School of Management. He also serves as President of...

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The Next Big Idea for the Next Decade: The Resilience Dividend

Release Date:

08/21/2014

... to focus on building resiliency, writes Judith Rodin, president of the Rockefeller Foundation , in a blog post that originally appeared on ...

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Community Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth Fund Quoted

Release Date:

12/03/2015

Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth ... commissioner, Joel Ario. Eric Schneider, senior vice president for policy and research at the Commonwealth Fund, ... premiums for consumers...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

Release Date:

03/16/2016

... would receive a new humanitarian award, created in memory of the Armenian genocide, has selected these four as ... world even noticed them,” said Vartan Gregorian, the president of the...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"

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01/06/2017

Let America Be America Again by Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation . Let America be America again. Let it be the ...

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Social Justice

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06 Mar 2017

Resistance Strategies: Building Power, Forging New Collaborations and Organizing to Win - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, March 6, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... for change Presenters Jennifer Epps-Addison , Network President and Co-Executive Director, Center for Popular Democracy Farhad Ebrahimi , Founder, Chorus Foundation Roxanne Stachowski , Senior Manager for...

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Civic Engagement

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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

Release Date:

03/20/2017

... Beyond Coal campaign (which I have supported through my foundation ), we have already achieved two-thirds of the emissions reductions envisioned by President Obama’s yet-to-be-implemented...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Michael Bloomberg Donates $4.5M to U.N.Climate Body After U.S. Cuts

Release Date:

04/23/2018

... in the agency's budget caused by U.S. funding cuts. President Donald Trump last year formally announced the U.S. would pull out of the Paris climate accord deal , stating that it was not ... disaster,...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Names Julie Fernandes Associate Director for Institutional Accountability and Individual Liberty

Release Date:

07/02/2018

... comes at a critical moment. She has a compelling set of experiences that are well-suited to RFF’s brand of ... Most recently, Julie served as the Open Society Foundation ’s director for Voting...

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OSF Turns to Strasbourg Court to Get Hungary's NGO Law Repealed

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09/24/2018

... said on Monday it would challenge at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg Hungarian laws that make it a ... accuses Soros and the liberal groups and causes he backs of trying to destroy Europe’s...

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Tonya Woodland Joins the Commonwealth Fund

Release Date:

03/06/2019

... joined the Commonwealth Fund in 2019 as Assistant Vice President , Administration. In this multifaceted position, she ... organizations. From 2016-2019, she was the Senior Director of HR & Organizational...

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Open Society Pledges Support for African Cultural Heritage Restitution

Release Date:

11/12/2019

... Africa’s heritage to its rightful home. “The legacy of colonial violence has deep implications for the ways that racism and imbalances of power are perpetuated today. This isn’t just about ... very essence...

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Arts

International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Stories Worth Telling: A Guide to Strategic and Sustainable Nonprofit Storytelling

Publication date:

10/2014

The Meyer Foundation Releases Stories Worth Telling . Stories Worth ...

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

How Can Philanthropy Elevate Entrepreneurialism Through Crisis?

Release Date:

07/22/2020

... Through Crisis? By: Sharon Prince, Founder and CEO , Grace Farms Foundation In order for foundations to harness our collective ... humanitarian issues that have become more acute because of it...

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Grace Farms Foundation

11 Leading Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color

Release Date:

05/30/2014

... Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color [Open Society Foundations, Atlantic Philanthropies, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Ford Foundation , Nathan Cummings Foundation ]...