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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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The Pew Charitable Trusts

Oak Foundation

New Trees and Community Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement

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05/22/2014

... Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement [North Star Fund ] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of western Queens, money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over...

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

Peterson: With Primaries Near, Majority Of Voters Want Leaders To Focus On Fiscal Future

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01/26/2016

... a monthly measure of public attitudes about the nation’s long -term debt and the efforts elected leaders are making to ... candidates offer a plan to put the nation on a sustainable long -term path. With...

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Economic Security

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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15 Jun 2023

Bridging Practice to Lead Forward - An Invitation from the Leadership Transitions Funders Group

Thursday, June 15, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Over the course of a year, Philanthropy New York's Leadership ... Funders Group has engaged a group of NYC-based funders in building a community of practice. The goal has been to ... of New Jersey Grantmakers...

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All Funders

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Leadership Development

10 Dec 2020

Uncovering Dyslexia, NYC’s Literacy Crisis and its Effects Across Systems

Thursday, December 10, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... unlock opportunities. Instead, most literacy programs used in American schools leave more than half the students ... declined slightly but haven’t changed significantly in over 20 years. The...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits

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12/11/2012

This article on the rise of impact investing in the foundation world mentions two recent projects funded ... When the W. K. Kellogg Foundation set aside $100 million in 2007 to invest in...

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Governance

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Morgan Stanley

Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

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08/14/2013

Goldman Sachs and the Pritzker Group will fund the expansion of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake City's Granite School District through a social impact bond. An unusual partnership...

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Education

Robin Hood Gala Brings in $60-Million for Antipoverty Groups

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05/14/2014

... gala, the biggest event on the city’s philanthropic social circuit, writes The Wall Street Journal. The newly launched Robin Hood American Dream Fund , which supports groups helping immigrants and their ... by...

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Nonprofit Financials

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Social Justice

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Robin Hood Foundation

27 Nov 2018

Achieving Equity: Do We Know Who We’re Serving?

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... occupy a powerful space between power and privilege in the social change sector. As such, they have a unique opportunity—and ...

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The Space Between Intention and Impact

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10/24/2022

... As a college student, I interned as a Victim’s Advocate in one of the nation’s first Domestic Violence units, ... between philanthropy’s intention to catalyze meaningful social change and our...

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President's Message

PNY News

10 Dec 2019

"All Immigration Is Local": Philanthropy's Role in State and Local Advocacy - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 -

1:00pm to 2:15pm

... country are seizing the opportunity to rewrite the rules in support of their communities and are pushing back against ... today while also building the bench and conditions for long -term advances in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

24 Apr 2012

Post Penn State: Strategies for Ending Child Sexual Abuse

Tuesday, April 24, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

In the wake of the Penn State child sexual abuse case, the ... and gender, and is also linked to a host of intractable social issues, including substance abuse, eating disorders, ... President, NoVo Foundation...

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An Opportunity for Will: Announcing PNY’s Racial Equity Working Group

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12/01/2021

... 20 months have unearthed deeply rooted racial inequities in unprecedented ways. We are surviving two crises: a ... another world. And ready to fight for it.” I believe change is constant. As a woman of color,...

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

... Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven countries. Part of the Bloomberg Initiative to ... System. Results from the survey, which will be conducted in partnership with the World...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Inside Philanthropy on the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation's Impact on Climate-Conscious Conservation in the South

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09/20/2018

... Foundation's Impact on Climate-Conscious Conservation in the South The Southern Cumberland Plateau is a rugged landscape of ancient rock and hardwood forest in the Appalachian Mountains that’s home to an...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

12 Sep 2014

The Power of Arts and Culture as a Crossover Grantmaking Approach

Friday, September 12, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... think about arts and culture grantmaking, they put it in a separate box. While promoting the arts and revitalizing ... of grantmaking objectives, from those focused on climate change to education and ...

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Arts

Strategic Philanthropy for a Complex World: A Response

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05/23/2014

... should, and do, deploy a multiplicity of methods in both our work and our assessment of its impact. This rich ... into a polemic that fails to account for the ways in which social ...

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Executive Leadership

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Governance

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Ford Foundation

New Prudential Foundation Initiative Will Assist Job Seekers with Disabilities

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04/27/2015

... 56 million men, women and children with disabilities in all aspects of life. The grant, provided through The ... start-up costs for Bridges to a Better Workforce, a new social enterprise launched by NOD to...

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Prudential Financial (Non Member)

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Health

Workforce Development

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Prudential Foundation

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore

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05/11/2015

... Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation has announced grants to thirty-one Baltimore nonprofits as part of a joint ... activities to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Surdna Foundation Celebrates Centennial Year with $4.5 Million Commitment to Equitable Community Development

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12/06/2017

... Surdna Foundation announced a new, $4.5 million investment in equitable community development led by community members. Surdna's catalytic contribution to the Amplify Fund will seed a multimillion-dollar...

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