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The Commonwealth Fund

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces Appointment of John R. Ettinger as Chief Executive Officer

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01/02/2012

... Partner at the global law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP from 1999 through 2011, where he successfully led and helped manage a ... with the trustees and staff to continue to build the foundation...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

20 Jul 2021

Can Knowledge Management Support the Path Towards Racial Equity?

Tuesday, July 20, 2021 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... , Director, Global Information and Knowledge Management, Ford Foundation Donita Volkwijn (Moderator), Manager, ... areas are reexamining internal functions and practices through a racial...

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Can Philanthropy Support the Transformation of Society?

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03/06/2014

... centered on tomatoes. Immokalee is only a few miles away from the affluent ocean-coast retirement communities of ... Hard-won victories for the Immokalee workers came about through their own efforts and those...

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NoVo Foundation

Giving Circles in Cross-Cultural Context

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11/14/2013

... decision-making, and uncover new and innovative grantees through a process of strategic and proactive philanthropy ... into a form of civic engagement — philanthropy — from which many have felt excluded...

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The Natan Fund

Salesforce Gives $19M to Support Five School Districts Across the US and Education Nonprofits

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09/20/2021

... the full power of our platform to help support them through another year of pandemic learning.” “The past ... (SFUSD) As part of a nine-year partnership, the $7.5M grant will support efforts to address the...

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Salesforce

Announcing the Heckscher Leadership Fellows Program

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03/31/2020

... the Heckscher Leadership Fellows Program The Heckscher Foundation welcomes two remarkable education leaders, Ruth ... on those specific obstacles that keep underserved youth from realizing their full potential...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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David Rockefeller Fund - Invitation to Partner on Strategy Development

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08/08/2023

... grantees, peers). IDEAL EXPERIENCE Experience going through a transition/strategy development process either as ... Preferably a team of at least 2-3 people, either from the same organization or a team of...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt

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05/01/2018

... around us evolve too. We’ve taken note of announcements from Ford and other traditional foundations to commit larger and ... the next five years (in addition to our growing charitable grant...

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Open Road Alliance

New Thinking about Networks Makes the Field Better, Stronger, More Effective

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03/20/2015

... helping demonstrate the way network thinking can improve foundation efficiency and impact through strategic collaboration. The result? Better services ... of grantmakers, helping each to collect impact data...

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Getting Out of our Comfort Zone in Response to COVID-19

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04/07/2020

... that allow the organization to continue our mission through difficult times. As the COVID-19 pandemic ravages ... made in over 40 years of grantmaking. As a community foundation that is supported by individual...

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North Star Fund

Aging and HIV/AIDS: A New Era of Convergence

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10/17/2019

... is reaching out to funders in other areas, supported by a grant from Gilead Sciences . We’re telling the stories of ... often hard to find. New issues of diversity and social justice are also...

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Grantmakers in Aging

31 Mar 2017

Advocacy: A Compass for Today’s Terrain

Friday, March 31, 2017 -

8:30am to 4:30pm

... for achieving impact. We encourage program officers and grant managers who are responsible for both the strategy ... as a Funding Strategy Nan Aron , President, Alliance for Justice Upon completing this...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 27 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

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05/12/2020

... rights, akin to human rights, that governments could grant to land and natural area • Climate change : examining ... and president emeritus of Brown University. “Fellows from earlier classes are actively...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Financial Times Cites Atlantic Philanthropies, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisers in 'How to Give Away $1 Billion'

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01/04/2016

... which the foundations created by John D Rockefeller, Henry Ford and Andrew Mellon are still among the largest charities ... the last of the founders died, spending only the income from their endowments. Mr...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

20 Mar 2020

COVID-19 and the Impact on Civic Engagement in 2020 - A Webinar by FCCP and State Voices

Friday, March 20, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... we will conduct small group breakout sessions to learn from one another, then return to the full group to share. ... Voices Ethan Frey , Program Officer, Cities and States, Ford Foundation...

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Pinkerton Elects Daniel Mosley as New Chair

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02/17/2017

... Gillespie III, the Chairman of the Board of the Pinkerton Foundation , has been named Chairman Emeritus. He will be ... Mosley earned his earned his J.D. at Alabama and an LL.M. from NYU. He is the former...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Artists, Investors and Innovators Join Together to Launch Upstart Co-Lab

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04/14/2016

... and creative intelligence of artists. Upstart is funded by Ford Foundation , The Rockefeller Foundation , The Andrew W. Mellon ... Foundation , and Surdna Foundation...

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BNY Mellon and Ashoka Launch Social Innovation Challenge

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05/09/2018

... of reasons, the inability to build a strong financial foundation is often a symptom of a greater, systemic problem. ... at addressing the root causes of financial inequality through innovation—the Unlocking ¢...

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BNY

Morgan Stanley Presents Black Women in Business Awards

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03/12/2015

With support from Morgan Stanley, The Network Journal, a business magazine ...

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