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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes They are four relatively obscure humanitarians: an orphanage founder in Burundi who challenged a bloodthirsty mob and other dangers; the only...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports National Geographic Documentary About the Coal and Mining Industry

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04/14/2017

... as well as Jon Kamen, Katherine Oliver and Justin Wilkes, in partnership with Bloomberg Philanthropies — From the ... trailer: YouTube / download ) captures Americans in communities across the country as they...

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Grantmakers in Aging Announces Lindsay A. Goldman as New CEO

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10/19/2020

Grantmakers in Aging Announces Lindsay A. Goldman as New CEO At the 2020 ... Director of the Center for Healthy Aging. Specializing in public-private partnerships to create age-inclusive ... NYC and Health &...

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Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

Release Date:

03/15/2010

... Smith Noyes Foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund , and The Elmezzi Fund —which focused on ways that the public, private, and ... to improve the food system. This program was the second in...

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Philanthropy New York

Facebook Will Match Harvey Relief Donations Up To $1 Million, Sending to Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Release Date:

08/31/2017

As Tropical Storm Harvey continues to inundate the Texas Gulf Coast, Facebook users have one more reason to donate to relief efforts. Facebook announced Tuesday that it would match the Harvey disaster relief funds raised by its users up to $1...

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15 Nov 2018

Immigration Policy after the Midterms: What Can Funders Expect? - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, November 15, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... first served basis.* Immigration was front and center in the lead-up to the midterms, including contentious debates ... Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice, Center for Community Change Ann Morse , Program...

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Children, Youth and Families

Immigration

Rockefeller Foundation Announces ShiftLabs: A Community Design Lab on the Future of Work

Release Date:

02/28/2018

... longer as clearly defined. Workers cannot expect to stay in one job or industry for 40 years; more people are proactively creating jobs for themselves, such as in the gig economy. Technology, automation, and...

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14 Jan 2025

Trends in Family Philanthropy 2025 Report: Exploring the Main Findings - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

... field? Join us as we discuss the findings of the Trends in Family Philanthropy 2025 report. What will you learn? The changes in philanthropic focus for many family philanthropies How ... are learning about new...

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15 Feb 2012

Give Up Tomorrow - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 -

4:30pm to 10:30pm

... to follow. Give Up Tomorrow Trailer On a stormy night in July 1997, two sisters disappear without a ... a murder-mystery and an exposé of endemic corruption in the Philippines today, Give Up Tomorrow looks...

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

Release Date:

10/19/2017

... are free, until they aren’t: Patrons who rack up $15 in late fees at the city’s public libraries are blocked ... as she stood amid the stacks at Countee Cullen Library in Harlem, one of the neighborhoods with...

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Freedom Together Foundation

Century Foundation Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity

Release Date:

05/15/2018

... Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity In San Diego, a former carpentry teacher imagined a high ... students of all backgrounds and abilities would engage in project-based learning without...

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Ford Foundation Contributes to Preservation of Hemingway's Works with New Restoration Center in Cuba

Release Date:

03/31/2019

... of Hemingway's Works with New Restoration Center in Cuba A restoration center to preserve the work of Ernest Hemingway opened in Cuba on Saturday, highlighting an area of cooperation with ... again ...

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11 Jan 2022

Economics, Equity, and the Case for Supporting the Care Infrastructure in Greater New York - A Webinar Hosted by AFN and NYWF

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 -

9:30am to 11:15am

... that led us to undervalue those who give and receive care. In June of 2021, Asset Funders Network released a national ... ways for philanthropy to support the short-, medium-, and long -term needs of building...

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Forty Years of LGBTQ Philanthropy: 1970-2010

Publication date:

01/2012

... and queer communities. Among the report's findings: in total, 799 U.S. foundations have invested more than $771 million and nearly 36,000 grants in LGBTQ issues from 1970 to 2010, with the Arcus Foundation .....

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LGBTQ

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Rosa Asciolla Joins Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

Release Date:

07/02/2012

... the staff of the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence as Grants Management Associate. Most recently, she was the Development Assistant at the Bayou District Foundation in New Orleans, LA. Asciolla is a graduate...

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From the Macy Foundation: AAMC’s Marc Nivet On Developing LGBTI Competencies

Release Date:

05/31/2012

We’re pleased to share a recent conversation between the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and Dr. Marc Nivet, Chief Diversity Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), which received a President’s Grant from the Foundation to define...

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Art Groups Fear Losing a Mayor, and His Money

Release Date:

07/01/2013

With less than six months remaining in Michael Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor, and the recent end ...

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Simplify: A New Data-Sharing Process for Funders & Grantees

Publication date:

01/2014

Simplify is a data-sharing and standards-setting process that eliminates the repetitive elements of grant applications.

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Website

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Information Technology

A New Guide Helps Foundations Become More Transparent

Publication date:

04/2014

... to meet demands for greater transparency have some help in the form of a new guide. “Opening Up: Demystifying ... decide what information to share and how to share it “ in an easily accessible and timely way,” says Jen Bokoff, ...

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Evaluation

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Ford Foundation's Darren Walker Profiled in Financial Times

Release Date:

04/07/2016

Ford's Walker Profile in Financial Times It is easy to imagine the trepidation a ... lobby of the Ford Foundation’s headquarters in New York. But impressions of a remote, inaccessible ... president... Ford...

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