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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... Executive Director, Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Funders, large and small, often seek ways to ... exhibit reluctance to consider grant making initiatives that may seem, at...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

14 Jun 2011

Speaker's Bio: Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., MPH

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 12:00pm

... to transition to lower-cost, patient-centered health care for the 21st century . Before his government service, Dr. Shah was ... Manhattan, associate investigator at the Geisinger Center for...

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14 Nov 2013

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

... with any questions. Join us for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of ... traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century : from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, ... of...

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Michelle A. Adams and Stephen Berger Elected to United Hospital Fund Board

Release Date:

06/24/2014

... 2002 to 2010 she was executive director of the Association for a Better New York, where she focused on building ... Ms. Adams was vice president of corporate affairs for the Grand Central Partnership—where she...

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Health

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14 Sep 2016

Advancing Racial Equity: the Opportunity for Philanthropy

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... racial inequities currently exist across all indicators for success, including in education, criminal justice, jobs, ... and implicitly for 50+ years via policies and practices that...

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All Funders

Executive Leadership

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Carnegie Corp. Reviews Callahan’s The Givers

Release Date:

12/04/2017

... moved to act on a moral obligation to support innovations that will make life better for humankind. Sometimes ferocious and sometimes scientific ... reform to environmental remediation. Twenty-first- ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Trinity Church Wall Street to Provide Free Legal Workshops for Local Community

Release Date:

07/09/2019

Trinity Church Wall Street to Provide Free Legal Workshops for Local Community Workshops Will Assist Residents Without ... Legal Representation in Housing Court WHAT: For the third year, Trinity is partnering with...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

03 Dec 2019

Moving Justice Forward: Perspectives from Manhattan DA Cyrus R. Vance, Jr.

Tuesday, December 3, 2019 -

8:30am to 10:00am

What is the role of a 21 st century prosecutor? Join us for a conversation with Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus ... -- $250 million investment in transformative projects that strengthen and...

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Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Justice Reform

Public Policy

Sheena Wright, United Way NYC President & CEO, named in City & State NY Power of Diversity: Black 100 List of 2021

Release Date:

10/18/2021

... New Yorkers started serving in elected office at least a century ago. The first Black member of the state Legislature, ... Damian Williams is now the first Black U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New...

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United Way of New York City

How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?

Release Date:

05/13/2014

For funders bailing out Detroit, does the funding commit them ... engagement or is it a one-time rescue mission? Ford Foundation discussed in The Atlantic. Earlier this year, ... On the one hand, the foundations...

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New York Community Trust Ranked Number Three In Total Assets

Release Date:

07/15/2014

... Ranked Number Three In Total Assets A new report that ranks community foundations by asset size finds that The ... community foundations by asset size are the Silicon Valley Foundation ($4.7...

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Philanthropic Groups Sign on to Raise the Age Campaign

Release Date:

03/06/2015

... the David Rockefeller Fund, the Andrus Family Fund, Tiger Foundation , Tow Foundation , New York Foundation , Sills Family Foundation , Pinkerton Foundation...

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Andrus Family Fund

Sills Family Foundation

Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

New York Foundation

The Pinkerton Foundation

Tiger Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

Release Date:

03/17/2015

... is getting its start at a time when the basic research that serves as the foundation of scientific progress is largely ignored by ... Institute, Simons Foundation and the Research Corporation...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

18 Jun 2018

No Place Like Home: Responding to the Unique Needs of Homeless Children and Their Families

Monday, June 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... children and their families. Homelessness is traumatic for both children and adults. Children, specifically, can ... to house them. Rather, many are in commercial hotels that do not meet the needs of a family...

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Race to the Top: What Grantmakers Can Learn from the First Round

Publication date:

06/2010

The nation's foundation community has provided critical financial and technical support to states applying for the first round of the U.S. Department of Education's ... competition. Yet according to this issue brief from the Foundation Center , created from interviews conducted in .....

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Report

Topic(s)

Evaluation

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Education

Newman's Own channels money to broadcasters

Release Date:

01/31/2013

Newman's Own Foundation has announced grants totaling $2.4 million to 13 ... broadcasting stations and organizations, including three that reach the Fairfield County market. The Westport-based ... through...

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Arts

Polling Group in Russia Says It May Close

Release Date:

05/20/2013

... to a series of grants it has received from the MacArthur Foundation , the Ford Foundation and the Open Society Institute Foundation . In recent years, when public opinion turned ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

New Jersey Recovery Fund Awards $3.8 Million for Sandy Relief

Release Date:

08/07/2013

Created with a lead gift from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation , and hosted by the Community Foundation of New ... nearly $3.8 million to pursue smart recovery decisions that will help New Jersey...

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Member News

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Disaster Relief

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Making IT Decisions

Publication date:

12/2012

... infrastructure. Whether you outsource or insource your foundation ’s technology needs, it is critical to understand how to approach projects so you make decisions that fit your specific organization needs and capacity and ... Services Operations Manager at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation , guided members through key elements to making ...

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Program Presentation

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Information Technology

Sharon B. King, Noted Philanthropic Leader, Dies at 68

Release Date:

10/27/2014

... as a program officer at the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation , served as president of the Edward B. Hazen Foundation , and worked as a philanthropic advisor in the ... Family Office. Sharon then led the F.B...

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