A Nobel Prize For The Voluntary Sector
Release Date:
11/15/2009
By Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York A few words about a recent Nobel Prize ... to President Obama, which I think was a timely reminder of the value of...
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Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach
Release Date:
09/17/2014
by Kate Starr, Vice President of Capital Deployment, The F.B. Heron Foundation This post ... economic environment. Recently here at Heron we adopted a new investment policy statement that puts an...
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2019
BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium XIII: Visions for Change: Building Better Outcomes
Tuesday, February 26, 2019 -
8:00am to 12:00pm
Please join Education and Research Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York for their thirteenth Charity Effectiveness ... and International Affairs; Center for Nonprofit...
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2013
Reframing the Debate Over Gun Violence: Advocacy and Education Efforts Working with Partners in Media
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -
1:45pm to 5:45pm
... the nation has been shocked by a mass shooting, this time at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn. where 20 young ... in laws, regulations and social norms that guide the use of guns in America. For years,...
Our Listening Imperative and the Urgency of Understanding
Release Date:
08/03/2016
Our Listening Imperative and the Urgency of Understanding A message from PNY President Ronna Brown, published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost Monthly August 2016 edition. Last ... believes listening and...
Mayor De Blasio and The Rockefeller and Pinkerton Foundations Launch 'CareerLift'
Release Date:
01/17/2018
... Fialkoff, Senior Advisor to the Mayor and Director of the Office of Strategic Partnerships, announced a $1.5 million new initiative, 'CareerLift,' driven by the NYC Center for .....
Laura Washington Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Director of Communications
Release Date:
04/14/2015
... Washington Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundatoin as Director of Communications The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... function from scratch, having done so at the New -York Historical Society.”...
Carnegie Corporation Trustee Louise Richardson Named Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford
Release Date:
05/29/2015
... Trustee Louise Richardson Named Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford Carnegie Corporation of New York congratulates Professor Louise Richardson, an ... Enemy,...
NoVo Foundation Commits $10 Million to Help End Sexual Exploitation
Release Date:
02/20/2019
... Commits $10 Million to Help End Sexual Exploitation The New York City-based NoVo Foundation has announced a three-year, $10 million commitment in support of programs in the United States aimed at...
What's Interesting About the Partnership Between Rockefeller and Chan Zuckerberg
Release Date:
04/10/2018
... bearing the family name, he did so in the autumn of his long life. A century later, when Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan began their philanthropy , they were only in their late 20s. Despite these ... and...
CEP Study, Commissioned by Mid-Hudson Valley Nonprofits & the Dyson Foundation, Paints Stark Picture for Valley Nonprofits
Release Date:
04/27/2020
... nonprofit organizations are reeling financially because of the COVID-19 economic shutdown. For many, this has driven ... of 215 nonprofits conducted by the Center for Effective Philanthropy (...
Arlene Rodriguez Selected for Noyes Foundation Board
Release Date:
07/02/2012
... by asking for recommendations from their email list of about 3,000 contacts. They set priorities: a person of ... Cities' knowledge management and evaluation work, and led the...
Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country
Release Date:
10/06/2017
... Rate in the Country For over 25 years, Oklahoma has led the nation in the rate at which it sends women to prison. Roughly 151 of every 100,000 Oklahoma women are behind bars — twice the ...
Rockefeller Foundation Names Tariq Khokhar Managing Director and Senior Data Scientist
Release Date:
09/13/2018
... where he established the World Bank’s Data Innovation Fund , which attracted more than 1,000 applicants and led to over $7 million of investment in early-stage and scale-up projects to improve...
09
Sep
2019
Election Series: Navigating Effective Nonpartisan Election-Year Grantmaking - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP
Monday, September 9, 2019 -
3:00pm to 4:00pm
... private and public— to legally support almost every type of advocacy. Foundations have a great deal of flexibility in election-year grantmaking but it is ... your institution. Join us for an Alliance for...
Leon Levy Foundation Names Robert F. Goldrich President
Release Date:
06/11/2015
... John Bernstein, who became chief operating officer of the Ford Foundation and has joined the Leon Levy ... advisor in the Office of Deputy mayor Robert K. Steel. He led the Mayor’s Office on...
Open Society Names Mary Fitzgerald to Lead Information Democracy Work
Release Date:
06/22/2021
... Names Mary Fitzgerald to Lead Information Democracy Work NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today announced that ... work to advance open society values at the intersection of journalism,...
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Nov
2019
Service for Impact
Tuesday, November 12, 2019 -
9:00am to 10:30am
Strategic volunteerism is a critical component of how corporations harness the time and talent of employees at all levels to support nonprofit partners and meet community needs...
Warhol Foundation Expands Regional Regranting Program to Cleveland & Denver and Reinstates Baltimore Program
Release Date:
12/11/2018
... At the same time, Baltimore’s program, The Grit Fund (TGF), will come back online after a one-year hiatus under the new administration of Baltimore Arts Realty Corp (BARCO...
The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism
Release Date:
08/11/2017
... few years to improve an underperforming U.S. environmental movement . Starting in 2013, Overbrook embarked on an effort to address some of the issues that “hobble the progress of the...