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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Release Date:

03/13/2014

The North Star Fund is the first community foundation to sign onto the Divest-Invest Philanthropy initiative's pledge to divest from fossil fuel investments.

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

05/05/2016

Workers of the World, Unite, Says the Surdna Foundation Surdna has an idea: Give more ownership of companies to workers. It’s not a new idea — worker cooperatives have been around since the 19th century — but it’s an idea that...

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Economic Security

Women in Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Economic Development Program Secure Marriott Deal

Release Date:

10/13/2016

The graduates of the training program through the non-profit, Bloomberg Philanthropies supported Relationship Coffee Institute are providing the Marriott with locally grown coffee from their own coffee cooperatives.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

New York City’s Top Science And Math Teachers Honored With Prestigious Sloan Awards

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... be honored tonight at a ceremony in the Great Hall at The Cooper Union at 5:30 PM. Each teacher will be awarded a prize ...

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Education

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

De Blasio Derided by Sergeants Union for Deportation Stance

Release Date:

02/28/2017

Sergeants Benevolent Association president Ed Mullins, during an interview on “The Cats Roundtable” radio program on 970 AM, said the city’s top brass have a “moral obligation” to cooperate with federal immigration agents, and accused de Blasio, a...

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Immigration

Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented

Release Date:

08/31/2017

The “summer of hell” at Penn Station due to Amtrak’s track upgrades was averted due to planning and communication, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday in a statement.

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Community Development

NYCHA Plans Market-Rate Brooklyn Units

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... a parking lot on the edge of the 11 red-brick buildings of Cooper Park Houses. Under the plan, up to about 250 units ...

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Housing and Homelessness

19 Aug 2013

Conversations for Grantmakers: Crowdfunding, PEAKS & Gathering to Give

Monday, August 19, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Webinar

Many public charity grantmakers are using crowdfunding techniques to support their programs and engage new donors. Whether you call them Giving Circles, Gathering to Give, Days of Giving or Population Focused Funds—engaging like-minded individuals...

New Board Members for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

Release Date:

01/26/2016

... Foundation of Colorado. In addition, Stephanie Kripa Cooper -Lewter, senior research director at the Sisters of ... will continue to serve as treasurer, and Stephanie Kripa Cooper -Lewter of the Sisters of...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Immigration

International/Foreign Affairs

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The Simmons Foundation

Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker to Receive 2018 Director’s Award

Release Date:

07/30/2018

... 2018 Director’s Award Caroline Baumann, director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York, has ... Oct. 18, in the Arthur Ross Terrace and Garden at Cooper Hewitt. “With a courageous vision for...

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Ford Foundation

Former U.S. Ambassador Elizabeth Cousens to Lead United Nations Foundation as President and Chief Executive Officer

Release Date:

09/16/2019

Cousens, a distinguished leader and champion of multilateral cooperation, will assume the role of President and CEO on January 1, 2020.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Diversity and Inclusion

Publication date:

06/2014

Reference documents pertaining to the topic of Diversity and Inclusion for Board members.

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Board & Trustees

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Board of Directors

Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2015

Publication date:

11/2015

Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2015 is the second report from the Foundation Center's Center for Disaster Philanthropy.

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Report

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Disaster Relief

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Foundation Center

Sheryl Goldstein Joins the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Release Date:

07/01/2013

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has welcomed Sheryl Goldstein as the Foundation’s new Program Director for the Foundation’s U.S. Education grants work. Goldstein takes the position vacated by Amy Gross, who left the Foundation in May to...