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Hilton and American Express to Donate Up to 1 Million Rooms to Frontline Medical Professionals During COVID-19 Crisis

Release Date:

04/06/2020

... medical professionals leading the fight against COVID-19. Beginning next week, Hilton and American Express will make ... be part of the solution. They have been instrumental in making this response possible.”...

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American Express

Salesforce Announces Work.com For Schools and $20 Million to Help Schools Reopen Safely and Support Student Learning Anywhere

Release Date:

08/11/2020

Technology helps schools make smart decisions on when it’s safe to return to campus, monitor the health of students and teachers, and better support those who are learning remotely

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It's Time for More Foundations to Fund Democracy - Here's How

Release Date:

12/10/2020

... and the role of philanthropy in shaping its future. I was heartened to see that, in addition to traditional ... The Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship was convened by the American Academy of...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Insights from “Risk, Reward, and the Reality: What Don’t We Know About Intermediaries?”

Release Date:

06/28/2022

... make a different decision than the one you may make if it was your funding at your foundation ... it makes you concede ...

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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, The Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away

Release Date:

06/18/2014

... should be everybody’s hero.” Feeney cofounded Duty Free Shoppers and made a fortune selling cigarettes, booze ... 1984, he secretly transferred his 38.75% ownership of Duty Free to what became the Atlantic...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners

Release Date:

03/12/2015

... entrepreneurs with the goal of connecting 5,000 of them to free training and business services over the next three ... Department of Small Business Services (SBS) will provide free training directly to new...

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Nations Urged to Reject Phillip Morris Funds for Antismoking Efforts

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... help set up a new body called the Foundation for a Smoke- Free World. The tobacco giant plans to donate about $80 ... and president-designate of the Foundation for a Smoke- Free World, Derek Yach, a former...

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Winners Announced for the 2018 Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards

Release Date:

01/03/2018

... to mid-sized towns and cities across America to produce free outdoor concerts as part of the fourth annual Levitt AMP ... unique character; enrich lives through the power of free , live Music; and illustrate...

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Levitt Foundation

Measuring What Matters: Funder Evaluation

Funders often ask grantees to have assessment strategies in place. However, they don’t always practice what they preach in terms of evaluation. Philanthropy New York introduces a new three-part program series that encourages funders to look...

Colonel (Ret.) James D. McDonough, Jr., Joins New York State Health Foundation as Senior Fellow for Veterans Affairs

Release Date:

03/01/2012

... (NYSHealth) as a Senior Fellow for Veterans Affairs, beginning March 5, 2012. Colonel McDonough, a veteran of ... and at the New York State Division of Veterans’ Affairs was informed by his 26 years of active...

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Catherine Rick Named Senior Advisor for Nursing Leadership at the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... reach its highest goals."    Most recently, Rick was focused on White House objectives for the Department of ... experience to help advance the great strides the Center is making in mentoring the future...

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This Month’s Upgrade: Comprehensive Local Affinity Group Pages

Release Date:

05/19/2015

... Remaley, SVP, Public Policy & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article for the May ... launch a website and then sit back for a few years before making any significant...

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PNY News

Philanthropic & Social Enterprise Leader Betsy Fader Joins Surdna Foundation

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02/18/2016

... Research Infrastructure, which she developed. The program was designed, in part, to facilitate collaboration between ... arts and medical research. Before joining DDCF, Betsy was the executive director of...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

05 Oct 2017

Pulling Back the Curtain: Philanthropy’s Role in Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice to Improve Early Childhood Education

Thursday, October 5, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... research and policy partnerships for evidence-based policy making The role that funders, researchers, and policymakers ...

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What Now? From Outrage to Action

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... loss of Heather Heyer, the peaceful protestor whose life was callously taken in the terrorist attack in ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

"Be the Change" an Interview with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler

Release Date:

11/21/2017

... the world as part of the National Democratic Institute , was selected to manage conservation issues as a White House ... League of Conservation Voters . “All through this I was watching the philanthropy world...

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Arabella Advisors

SNF Temporarily Pauses Submission of New Grant Requests for Projects in Greece

Release Date:

12/11/2018

... our late founder have increased many times over. Since the beginning , in addition to making grants around the world, the SNF has made grant ... (SNFCC), the SNF’s largest single grant to date, was...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

23 May 2019

Measuring What Matters: Funder Evaluation

Thursday, May 23, 2019 - 9:00am to Thursday, June 20, 2019 - 1:30pm

Funders often ask grantees to have assessment strategies in place. However, they don’t always practice what they preach in terms of evaluation. Philanthropy New York introduces a new three-part program series that encourages...

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Beyond Rigor - Building Philanthropy's Equitable Evaluation Infrastructure

Release Date:

07/17/2019

... equity? A growing group of funders and evaluators are beginning to answer these questions with “maybe not” due ... (EE) – infuses equity into the evaluation process by making a foundation’s values explicit and...