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After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’

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09/25/2017

... wildfires raged in California. Early in Mother Nature’s most recent season of discontent, donations from everyday ... continue? Bob Ottenhoff is president and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, a...

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7 Biggest Trends to Emerge from Global Goals Week

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09/25/2017

... Goals Week No single story can encapsulate one of the most frenetic and wide-ranging weeks on the global ... development calendar. While humanitarian agencies fight for safe passage and better opportunities...

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De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow.

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09/26/2017

De Blasio Pledged Progress for Schools. For $582 Million, Change Is Slow. Even as New ... of millions of dollars to turn around the city’s most troubled schools, has entered its fourth school...

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Opinion: New York City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services

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09/28/2017

... City’s Runaway Homeless Youth Deserve Better Services For most young people, turning 21 is ceremonious. It's a rite of ... into adulthood celebrated with spirits and friends. But for...

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Housing and Homelessness

Tax Plan Doubles Standard Deduction, Leaves Charitable Deduction In Place

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09/28/2017

... of the charitable deduction but are wary of other changes that might hurt charitable giving, such as doubling the ... deduction and repealing the estate tax, under a framework for tax reform presented by...

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Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

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09/28/2017

... files — even their lapsed donor files — are among the most valuable sources of names for their campaigns. Karen Gleason, senior director at the ... always banked on this knowledge. So when success rates...

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Online Giving Up, But Overall Giving Declines

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10/03/2017

... attest. Recent overall and online-giving trends illustrate that unpredictability as overall giving for the three months ending in August was down 0.8 percent as ... as those with $10 million or more in revenue...

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David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall

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10/05/2017

David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall The media mogul David Geffen, one of the ... candid about Lincoln Center’s announcement on Tuesday that it was scaling back a $500 million...

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Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational

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10/10/2017

Richard Thaler Wins Economics Nobel for Recognizing People Are Irrational Richard Thaler of the ... of thinking about humans as robots who always made choices that maximized their outcomes. But Thaler showed how...

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Opinion: The Community Health Center Fund: What’s At Risk?

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... expired in 2015. As part of the funding extension for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that year, Congress also extended the Community Health Center ... Economic Opportunity, opened their doors...

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Public Housing Residents Ask the Crowd to Fund Sustainability Projects

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10/13/2017

... effort by the New York City Housing Authority. Most of the Rockaways was a food desert before Superstorm ... participating families’ food needs, but Taylor estimates that , on average, each raised bed produces...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Report Names Traffic Injuries Leading Killer of Children and Young People

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... report from the World Health Organization (WHO). Annually, that adds up to approximately 1.35 million fatalities caused ... years, represents data collected up to 2016. Possibly the most alarming finding of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Estée Lauder Companies and Others Partner for Indonesian Sustainable Palm Project

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05/28/2019

Estée Lauder Companies and Others Partner for Indonesian Sustainable Palm Project BASF, The Estée ... sustainable palm oil practices. The project’s target is that a minimum of one-third of the supported...

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28 Feb 2012

Thinking Out of the Box: Meeting Challenges with Creative Leadership

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -

7:00am to 12:00pm

... Symposium VI" presented by the Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New ... Presenters Maria Mottola , Executive Director, New York Foundation . Jason Lilien ,...

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18 Apr 2013

Five Months Since Landfall: What Are We Learning from Hurricane Sandy?

Thursday, April 18, 2013 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Webinar

... New York Collaborative Program with The Center for Disaster Philanthropy and The UPS Foundation . This program is “Partially Open.” ... Joe Ruiz , Humanitarian Relief Program Manager, The UPS ...

12 Sep 2013

Igniting the Spark: Effective Next Generation Boards

Thursday, September 12, 2013 -

2:30pm to 4:00pm

Webinar

For many families, it is important that the next generation ... ." Presenters Sarina Dayal, Junior Board Member, Tarsadia Foundation Shirish Dayal, Executive Director, Tarsadia .....

12 Sep 2013

Igniting the Spark: Effective Next Generation Boards

Thursday, September 12, 2013 -

2:30pm to 4:00pm

Webinar

For many families, it is important that the next generation ... Presenters Sarina Dayal , Junior Board Member, Tarsadia Foundation Shirish Dayal , Executive Director, Tarsadia ...

Thomas W. Nichols Joins Arcus as New Vice President of Finance and Operations

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01/15/2014

The Arcus Foundation has announced that Thomas W. Nichols has joined the Foundation as Vice ... of Finance and Operations. Nichols will be responsible for the Foundation...

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Arcus Foundation

02 Apr 2014

Grantee Executive Transitions – When and How to Engage as Funders

Wednesday, April 2, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... transitions? Change at the top is big and often scary for a grantee. Knowing how and what to support can be confusing for a foundation , especially since it must also protect its ... overall...

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Rockefeller's Edwin Torres Joins the de Blasio Administration

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09/16/2014

... Torres, formerly associate director at the Rockefeller Foundation , will join Mayor de Blasio's Administration as ... Affairs. He will be serving under the new Commissioner for Cultural Affairs, Tom...

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