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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday

Release Date:

10/17/2017

... local nonprofits. The Foundation will match up to $100,000 in donations to the 20 participating organizations on Giving ... and inspire people to improve their local communities. In 2016, its inaugural year,...

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Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Former Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society

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02/01/2018

... she was the co-director of Southerners on New Ground, a social justice advocacy organization supporting LGBTQ people in the US South. Prior to that she coordinated the Southern ... Research and Education...

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Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

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03/09/2018

... Move Families to Food Security A recent study published in the Russell Sage Foundation Journal of Social Sciences looks at how much additional income in SNAP benefits would be needed ...

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The Aetna Foundation Launches Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge to Empower Local Group Efforts

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04/06/2018

... and have begun or expanded their work to improve social determinants of health and make meaningful ... of their community. The Aetna Foundation is investing in this Challenge as part of its broader effort to...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR Lata N. Reddy, the senior vice president of ... urged small businesses and startups to inject corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business...

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

... Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since ... families, and individuals across the United States. In fact, in a...

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

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11/29/2018

... strategic partnerships, and fundraising initiatives in institutions of higher education, large non-profits, and ... and prior to working for Bank Street College, he taught in a Brooklyn public high school and...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... independent philanthropic organization Salesforce.org in a $300 million all-cash deal. The deal , announced today, ... marketing for the company’s Customer Success Platform. In addition, the new business unit...

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Estée Lauder Companies and Others Partner for Indonesian Sustainable Palm Project

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05/28/2019

... sustainable palm oil and palm derivatives production in the district of Waykanan, Lampung, Indonesia. The ... to foster a sustainable palm oil production supply chain in Lampung that is free from deforestation...

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The Estée Lauder Companies

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United Way of New York City and NYU Langone Partner to Open New Food Pantry in Sunset Park

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06/03/2019

... York City and NYU Langone Partner to Open New Food Pantry in Sunset Park The Family Health Centers at NYU Langone has ... grocery store-like food pantry, called “The Table,” in Sunset Park. This comprehensive...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees

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06/20/2019

... Access Living is nationally recognized as a leading force in the disability advocacy community, and Bristo has worked ... than four decades on local, national, and international social and policy reforms that...

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Ariel Zwang to Board of Trustees

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11/17/2021

... since January 2021. As CEO, Ariel coordinates projects in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities in 70 countries. Prior to joining the JDC, Ariel spent twelve years as CEO of Safe Horizon, a leading ...

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New York Grantmakers in the Arts (NYGIA) is a peer network of grantmakers who fund arts-related organizations and programming in the New York metro area. Operating autonomously from ...

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome, and Mastercard Launch Initiative to Speed Development and Access to Therapies for COVID-19

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03/10/2020

... and Mastercard today committed up to $125 million in seed funding to speed-up the response to the COVID-19 ... contributing up to $50 million, and the Mastercard Impact Fund has committed up to $25 million to...

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13 Apr 2022

2022 New York Age-Friendly Funders Network - Spring Meeting

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -

10:30am to 12:00pm

... Funders Network is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the program area of healthy aging and services for older ... New York members funding or interested in the area...

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TCC Group Releases New Report: How Philanthropy Support Organizations - Understand & Advance Community Power Building

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11/06/2020

... building, a report from the TCC Group finds. Conducted in partnership with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation , ... with funders to advance strategies aimed at building power in communities of color and for...

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09 Nov 2023

Indigenous Land Management: Decreasing Disasters and Increasing Resilience - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, November 9, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... forced onto – are areas that are more at risk of climate change and natural hazards. One study found that Native Americans living in tribal communities now face exposure to increased heat, ... access to...

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Darren Walker Reflects on the Polling Results Released on the Coverage of Race in the News Media 50 Years Post-Kerner Commission

Release Date:

03/06/2018

... on the Polling Results Released on the Coverage of Race in the News Media 50 Years Post-Kerner Commission ... more positively than reality—while only a little over a quarter of white people surveyed agreed...

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