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Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance

Release Date:

12/12/2012

The Rockefeller Foundation has announced the launch of a new initiative led by Oxfam, the Overseas Development ... climate finance adaptation programs will be launched today in Doha, at the sidelines of the UN...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Grantmakers Play an Important Role in Comprehensive Immigration Reform Efforts

Release Date:

02/20/2013

... Corporation of New York’s Geri Mannion is quoted in this article examining the work of funders (including the ... planning that’s taking place on the eighth floor of a building in midtown...

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Immigration

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Financial Know-How for Nonprofits Online

Release Date:

02/18/2013

... which covers all facets of financial management, from budgeting to oversight to working with a board on financial accountability. The resources are ...

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Finance Staff

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Finance & Asset Management

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The Wallace Foundation

Hartford Foundation Awards $1.35 Million to Gerontological Society of America

Release Date:

02/10/2013

... Social Work Excellence. Thanks to $1.35 million in recently awarded funding from The John A . Hartford Foundation, The Gerontological Society of America ...

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Aging

Health

Critics of State’s Campaign Finance Laws Seek Philanthropists’ Help

Release Date:

01/24/2013

Representatives from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations attended a meeting organized by the Piper Fund to enlist support for ... campaign fund-raising laws...

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Anti-Polio Campaign Gets Big Cash Infusion

Release Date:

02/28/2013

Mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced a $100 million donation from Bloomberg Philanthropies to the Global Polio Eradication ... of GPEI. Bloomberg, Calling His $100 Million Donation a...

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

President, Again, Attacks Charitable Deduction

Release Date:

04/11/2013

... Obama’s federal budget proposal includes comments from Michael Peterson, President of the Peter G. Peterson ... Barack Obama’s federal budget proposal includes a reduction in the deduction...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Open Society Offers New Grants to Spur Charity Collaboration

Release Date:

04/08/2013

Teams of charities in eight U.S. cities are competing for long-term grants, ... for low-income people and minorities. Teams of charities in eight U.S. cities are competing for long-term grants from...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Economic Security

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Open Society Foundations

Bloomberg Philanthropies Unveils Web Site and Priorities

Release Date:

04/30/2013

... provides detailed information about its areas of focus, a letter from Mayor Bloomberg and an annual report on the foundation’s activities. Just a few years ago, New York Mayor Michael...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities

Release Date:

06/07/2013

... Cure events due to economic uncertainty and competition from other nonprofits. The Susan G. Komen foundation canceled its signature 3-Day walk in Washington and six other cities next year, slashing the ... by...

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Impact Investing in the Middle East: What Next?

Release Date:

06/06/2013

... East and North Africa) region impact investing cites a recent research report from JP Morgan and the Global Impact Investment Network. The ... Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has made recent gains ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Red Cross gives $1.25M grant to Brooklyn Community Foundation

Release Date:

05/30/2013

The grant from the American Red Cross in Greater New York will support ... ceremony at Borough Hall Plaza on Wednesday, presented a $1.25 million grant to the Brooklyn Community Foundation to ...

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Disaster Relief

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American Red Cross of Greater New York

Brooklyn Org

Though Enrolling More Poor Students, 2-Year Colleges Get Less of Federal Pie

Release Date:

05/22/2013

A review of the findings from The Century Foundation’s report on the nation’s ... community colleges. Community colleges have received a declining share of government spending on higher education...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

It’s Time to Cut Through the Hype of Impact Investing

Release Date:

08/19/2013

... roles of the Ford Foundation and the F.B. Heron Foundation in the evolution of impact investing. In a time of skyrocketing deficits, uncertain financial markets, ... and nonprofit leaders are...

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Impact Investing

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F.B. Heron Foundation

At Ford Foundation, Vice President Rises to Top Job

Release Date:

07/24/2013

... the Ford Foundation this September. Darren Walker was born in a charity hospital in Lafayette, La., and grew up in the ... He went on to the University of Texas at Austin...

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Ford Foundation

20 May 2013

The Storm Surge and Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Communities: An Educational Site Visit Bus Tour for Funders In-State and Around the Region

Monday, May 20, 2013 -

9:15am to 4:00pm

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, 3 Penn Plaza, Newark, NJ

Join the Council of New Jersey Grantmakers for a Site Visit Tour through parts of Newark, Bergen and Hudson Counties as we learn from experts about the effects of Sandy 039 ;s storm surge on...

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The Colorado Floods: Philanthropy's Response

Release Date:

09/23/2013

... for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) is monitoring the floods in Colorado (as well as Hurricane Ingrid in Mexico) and is in touch with representatives from FEMA, VOAD and the...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

Ford Foundation Appoints Amy Falls to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/01/2013

... has also announced the election of Amy Falls to serve as a member of its Board of Trustees. Falls is the Chief ... access to opportunity for all. We will benefit enormously from her experience, insight and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Ford Foundation

Morgan Stanley

Harnessing Collaborative Technologies: Helping Funders Work Together Better

Publication date:

11/2013

... included an extensive literature review on collaboration in philanthropy, detailed analyses of trends from a Foundation Center survey of the largest U.S. foundations, ...

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Report

Website

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Information Technology

Rebuild by Design: A Post-Sandy Regional Analysis

Publication date:

01/2014

... ideas it contains were developed to address local needs in the region affected by Sandy, but the designers and ... them are all-too-aware that the security threats stemming from climate change know no borders. We hope and believe that ... the United States, and beyond. Rebuild by Design: A Post-Sandy Regional Analysis ...

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Disaster Relief

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