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The New York Women's Foundation

Words Matter: Changing from Funders of Women and Girls to Funders for Gender Equity

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... social change, and transformed philanthropy and decision- making structures into more collaborative and diverse ... the gender binaries to be seen and heard at decision- making tables previously closed off to...

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Gender Justice

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19 Apr 2017

Legal Series - Self-Dealing and Conflicts of Interest (Family Foundations & Family Offices)

Wednesday, April 19, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Interest May 5 – Legal Series - Investing in People: Making Grants to Individuals The self-dealing, conflict of ...

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Finance & Asset Management

Ford Foundation Among Funders of ImpactUs Marketplace: Four New Issuers Join

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... The foundational support necessary to launch ImpactUs was provided by some of the leading organizations in the ...

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Citi Foundation Selects The Opportunity Network for Grant to Expand Programs That Prepare New York City’s Youth for Careers

Release Date:

10/25/2017

The Citi Foundation today announced that The Opportunity Network has been awarded a grant from the 2017 Youth Workforce Fund to expand its Career Fluency® Fellows program, which works with students over six years to build the exposure, experiences...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Citi Foundation

With Support from Bank of America, a City Takes on Inequality

Release Date:

12/20/2017

This month, Bank of America pledged $1.5 million over three years to the Leading on Opportunity Council, a successor group to the task force composed of mostly different people.

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Community Development

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ASPCA Weighs In On The Surprising Argument for Extending Food Stamps to Pets

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01/23/2018

Advocates say a food-stamp program that includes pet food would address a little-discussed gap in the social safety net: Currently, there is no federal program that helps low-income people care for their pets.

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Finance & Asset Management

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

06 Mar 2018

Legal Series - Self-Dealing (Family Foundations & Family Offices)

Tuesday, March 6, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Foundations & Family Offices) May 23 – Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals The self-dealing, conflict of ...

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Brian Byrd, Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation Joins The 2020 Justice Launch Committee

Release Date:

01/31/2018

... the direction of my Office and I will task my staff with making measurable progress towards achieving the ...

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New York Health Foundation

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Social Justice

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With Support from NoVo Foundation, Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/22/2018

... expertise have equal voting rights in decision making .” To date, 19 partners have raised $1 million for ... community-led initiatives in 37 countries.” The group was formed in 1985 by “a group of ex-Peace...

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Supported By The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Alliance for Audition Support Looks to Increase Diversity in Orchestras

Release Date:

04/18/2018

... of their modest rise in racial diversity in recent years was driven by an increase in the number of musicians of Asian ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Organizations Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint and Improve Health

Release Date:

04/20/2018

... world’s seventh-largest producer of carbon dioxide , making it a major contributor to air pollution. The ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Consolidates Its Programs

Release Date:

06/05/2018

... whacked by a funder looking to sharpen its focus. So it was probably humane of the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation not to make a big deal of the fact that it was rethinking its program priorities over the past...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Michael Bloomberg Is, Once Again, Thinking of Running for President

Release Date:

06/27/2018

... thinking of getting the band back together.” Bloomberg was a Democrat before he switched to the Republican Party to ...

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Bloomberg LP

Andy Warhol Foundation Joins Growing Number of Organizations Condemning University of Kansas Over Its Removal of Josephine Meckseper’s Flag

Release Date:

07/25/2018

... down. The work by German artist Josephine Meckseper was commissioned by the New York–based nonprofit Creative ... Wachs also stressed that the foundation is a grant- making organization that has provided “...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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Council on Foundations Appoints Kathleen P. Enright as President and CEO

Release Date:

10/11/2018

... choice of Enright as the Council’s new President and CEO was the result of a robust search that included input from ... who chaired the search committee. “Our broad search was deeply diverse by race, gender,...

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17 Apr 2019

"Giving Done Right" with Phil Buchanan

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... release of Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count by Phil Buchanan, President of ... Buchanan's Giving Done Right: Effective Philanthropy and Making Every Dollar Count...

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What Is Effective Philanthropy?

Release Date:

06/05/2019

Jessica Johansen, Director of Special Projects at the Siegel Family Endowment writes, "Creating the connective tissue between grantee work and this wider world is part of the grantmaking philosophy around Effective Philanthropy."

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Insights

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Technology

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Siegel Family Endowment

Announcing the Salesforce.org Social Impact Report 2019

Release Date:

09/23/2019

... our grantees, and our citizen philanthropists are making to advance social impact. The report also represents a ...

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Avital Havusha Named New York State Health Foundation’s Vice President For Programs

Release Date:

10/11/2019

... provide patient-centered and coordinated care. Ms. Havusha was previously the Deputy Director of Programs at Public ... and child health, and health care access. Earlier, she was the Policy Director for the...

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