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Ford Foundation Appoints Bess Rothenberg as Director of New Office of Strategy & Learning

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01/08/2016

... as it refines its approach to challenging inequality in all its forms. Based at the foundation’s headquarters ... closely with all 10 of its global offices. To ensure that...

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09 Jul 2018

Funding for Cultural Change: Creating and Meeting the Moment - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, July 9, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a ... as #MeToo and the response to police violence, take place that have...

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Insights from 2025 Financial Series: Reframing Financial Due Diligence - Part 2

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06/26/2025

... unprecedented uncertainty. To address this climate, many in the philanthropic community are increasing support and adjusting policies and practices to support...

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Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

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03/15/2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Simons Foundation profiled in New York Times article on billionaires privatizing ... dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. Joking that his grades ...

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The Simons Foundation

What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

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01/30/2017

... with permission from the Brooklyn Community Foundation In 2002, I moved to Brooklyn's Flatbush/Midwood neighborhood. ... away from home, was an added bonus. It was the same year that the...

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Immigration

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds Program to Improve Retention and Graduation Rates for All Students

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04/27/2018

... special emphasis on students from particular populations that have been historically disadvantaged in higher education. The grant will build on the successful ... to develop pedagogical...

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Mellon Foundation

The Art of Dentistry, Or: How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.

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08/23/2010

... gaps. Violence against women and girls continues unabated in every continent, country, and culture. It takes a ... to abuse alcohol, 26 times more likely to abuse drugs, and 4...

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... Chairman Kelly Sheridan, said of the announcement in prepared remarks: “We are thrilled to have Nina joining us as our new executive director. … ... of experience and understanding of the best practices...

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Barry I. Schloss Named New Weinberg Foundation Board Chair

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03/01/2016

... Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, today announced that Barry I. Schloss has been named the new Chair of the ... as evidenced by the recent announcement of the new...

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City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

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10/07/2016

... employers to offer their workers a retirement plan, a move that could provide more savings options for 1.5 million people. Tens of millions of Americans work for ... accounts. At least 1.5...

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Economic Security

08 Dec 2022

Narrative Change and Power-Building Strategy Session - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, December 8, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... communications campaigns, or story projects that may have short-term effects but fail to transform ... about how we live, see, and think about ourselves in the world.” Narrative change...

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science Despite the progress made by women in science, ... in science can succeed, but they are succeeding...

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Workforce Funders Collaborative

... development. A subset of the Workforce Funders makes grants to the collaborative fund to develop joint projects that test innovations in the field or...

Goldman Sachs, Buying Redemption

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10/26/2013

... its foundation, while PND reported on Goldman's new $250 million Social Impact Fund. Goldman Sachs is a master at ... symbol of Wall Street greed and excess — wants the world to know it has a charitable...

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12 Sep 2018

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and Presentation of the Analysis and Recommendations from the Workforce Agenda Report

Wednesday, September 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In November 2014 Mayor De Blasio released the Career Pathways ... adopting a Career Pathways framework, committing $100 million for training and $60 million in bridge programs...

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Jim Simons, the Numbers King

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12/13/2017

... King Jim and Marilyn Simons became major charitable donors in the nineteen-nineties, when they launched their ... science at Berkeley. The foundation has also given grants —for autism research, for a giant...

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Education

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George Clooney and Carnegie Corp. Launch 100 Lives Campaign

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03/12/2015

... 100 LIVES was announced on March 10 at Harold Pratt House in New York, during a reception and program that was attended by several hundred guests and project ... those who saved Armenians during the genocide,...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Focuses on Affordable Housing, Workforce Development and Community Development

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08/26/2015

... Foundation recently announced it has awarded $242,500 in grants to 18 nonprofits providing affordable housing and ... neighborhood preservation and arts and culture programs that...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board

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06/02/2016

Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board Elizabeth Alexander, an acclaimed poet, author and professor, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced...

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