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The Long Island Community Foundation Awards $610,000 in Grants to 30 Nonprofits

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10/14/2021

The Long Island Community Foundation Awards $610,000 in Grants to 30 Nonprofits Melville, NY (October 14, 2021 ) ... ARTS & CULTURE CINEMA ARTS CENTRE – $10,000 for a film series that encourages residents to...

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Arts

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Borealis Philanthropy Introduces Alicia Bell Announced as the new Director of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

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11/04/2021

... Bell Announced as the new Director of the Racial Equity in Journalism Fund When Alicia Bell took leadership of the ... last month, she regarded this new assignment as a birthing process. Citing her family...

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When It Comes to Youth Justice, a Look Abroad Could Teach Us Lessons

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05/05/2015

... to even consider that there are people living elsewhere in the world who are better at doing something than we are. ... that. In early March, I had the good fortune of joining a team of...

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Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change

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07/06/2017

... Rockefeller Foundation This content originally appeared in What Matters: Investing in Results to Build Strong, ... Nonprofit Finance Fund. Recently I was fortunate to join a meeting ...

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Major Research Groups Are Given Low Marks on Disclosing Donors

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05/06/2014

A New York Times article discusses research on donor ... The conservative-leaning Hoover Institution, based in California, and the liberal Center for American Progress, based in Washington, are...

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Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing

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06/10/2015

... Report Detailing Virtual Labor Organizing Joining a labor union is one of the best financial decisions a worker ... individual and family wealth—worth up to $1.5 million in additional...

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Technology

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Philanthropists, Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison

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07/29/2015

... Lawmakers Behind New Push for College Education in Prison Philanthropy groups and lawmakers are giving college education for prisoners a fresh look, as criminal-justice policies around the ... Public funds for...

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Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer

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02/23/2017

Why Salesforce Has A Chief Philanthropy Officer Over the past two years, Silicon ... Atlassian, Box, Pure Storage, and Twillio all went public, earning billion dollar valuations. At the same time—and ... launched...

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JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset Building in Communities of Color

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05/26/2017

JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset-Building in Communities of Color The mix of funders worried about ... to grasp that economic inequality is likely to serve as a long-term drag on their growth and profits. The...

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Harvard Endowment Reports ‘Disappointing’ 8.1 Percent Return

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09/20/2017

... chief executive, N. P. Narvekar, said that the fund was in the middle of a major revamping and that problems in the endowment would “require time to overcome.” That ...

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Buffett Says Government Should Do More to Combat Poverty

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10/04/2017

... should do more to ensure that poverty doesn 039 ;t remain a barrier success. "The American dream has succeeded in aggregate. We have failed, in my view, to create the...

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Six NYC Scientists Win Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research

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05/08/2017

... WIN PERSHING SQUARE SOHN PRIZE FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATORS IN CANCER RESEARCH The Pershing Square Sohn Research Alliance ... $200,000 in funding per year for up to three years, for a total of $...

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... 1, 2018. It’s said that you shouldn’t talk politics in polite company. Does anyone still say that in 2018? I know ... ever-shifting political climate. Bear with me for a tiny bit of important...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future

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07/02/2015

... the lead on the biggest social justice issues of our time. From #BlackLivesMatter protestors to Dreamers organizing for ... on race and equity. Black Youth Project 100 , a national organization with a...

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If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

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03/20/2017

If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy By Melinda Mack, Executive Director, New York ... of Training & Employment Professionals Melinda was a speaker at the New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly...

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Nudge Your Grantmaking: Applying Behavioral Science Insights to Enhance Program Impact

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12/13/2017

... economic theory and many of our guiding assumptions in social program development. In Thaler’s words: “ In ... choices. Behavioral science draws on empirical research from...

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The Teagle Foundation Announces Nearly $4 Million in New Grants for Liberal Arts Education

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06/07/2022

The Teagle Foundation Announces Nearly $4 Million in New Grants for Liberal Arts Education Today, the Teagle ... $3,940,600 in new grants. These grants, awarded to a range of institutions across...

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