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Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

Release Date:

08/27/2012

... A nation’s most valuable resource is the brainpower of its citizens. Today, in the knowledge-based economies of ... to address the disparity. At the start of the new...

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Insights

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Patients with Macular Degeneration Show Improvement with High-dose Statin Treatment (Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/08/2016

... Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I/II clinical trial ... Their findings were published in EBioMedicine--a new online journal led by...

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

19 Feb 2019

True or False Solutions to Climate Change

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society.” What initiatives are in play nationally and ... policy What climate policies are under consideration by New York State’s new...

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Panel

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All Funders

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Environment and Climate Change

Stavros Niarchos Foundation grant supports civic engagement at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Release Date:

06/22/2023

Stavros Niarchos Foundation grant supports civic engagement at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago Building further ... on its extensive commitment to creating thriving hubs of civic life open to all, the...

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Civic Engagement

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

10 Oct 2012

A World of Opportunity: Increasing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from the HR Perspective

Wednesday, October 10, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... diversity, equity and inclusion have become a major focus of the philanthropic sector. Initiatives like the D5 ... practitioners would like to promote DEI practices at their foundations, but they have often...

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Network Building

Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current practices by assessing five core questions every ... effectively? Does our process strengthen and support grantees ? The guide includes recommended measurement ... on how to find and present the results. Assessing the How of Grantmaking ...

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Report

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Grants Managers

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Research to Prevent Blindness Celebrates 60th Anniversary

Release Date:

02/05/2020

... to Prevent Blindness (RPB) celebrates the 60th anniversary of its incorporation. With the help of some of our grantees , we pause to reflect on our many sight-saving ...

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Disabilities

Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

The Long Island Community Foundation Awards $610,000 in Grants to 30 Nonprofits

Release Date:

10/14/2021

... Foundation has granted $610,000 in two rounds of giving to date, helping 30 nonprofits provide science ... to low-income, minority and women-owned small businesses. NEW YORK COMMUNITIES ORGANIZING FUND...

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Arts

Children, Youth and Families

Education

Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

Health

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Long Island Community Foundation

Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

Release Date:

06/22/2017

Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact ... organizing method, a foundational principle of the organization that requires members to share narratives...

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PhilTalks

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Civic Engagement

Public Policy

Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong ... For these purposes, we’ll call it the loose coalition of sustainability-minded people calling...

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Food Systems

A Message from the Funders Census Initiative

Release Date:

04/01/2020

... in (and being reported) daily, and despite the impact of COVID-19 on in-person outreach, organizations in every ... undercounted communities. We understand what’s at stake; accurate census data are vital to...

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Census 2020

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Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

The New York Community Trust

The Bauman Foundation

Long Island Community Foundation

06 Oct 2016

Deep Integration of Community Based Organizations and Schools

Thursday, October 6, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... can add to staff and participants. Learn about paths of scaling initiatives to reach a larger network of ... Williford, Director of Programs and Policy, Mayor’s Fund to...

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Education

Children, Youth and Families

03 Oct 2019

Intergenerational Programming in Senior Housing: From Promise to Practice - A Webinar Hosted by Grantmakers in Aging

Thursday, October 3, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... into senior housing find it difficult to establish new social connections and/or integrate into the broader ... an exploratory study to better understand the range of intergenerational programming in senior...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Aging

National Grid Foundation to Help Communities Address Food Insecurity and Human Services Impacted by COVID-19

Release Date:

05/04/2020

... 4, 2020 /3BL Media/ - The National Grid Foundation Board of Directors today announced a $500,000 donation for 45 community organizations across Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island to help support hunger...

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Children, Youth and Families

Disaster Relief

Food Systems

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National Grid

18 Apr 2023

Funder Call: Mobilizing Youth Homelessness Funders for Prevention - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Tuesday, April 18, 2023 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... served basis.** Join this funder call to discuss a model of preventing youth homelessness and why prevention remains ... on their vision for prevention within the broader movement to end homelessness, in...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street

Release Date:

01/19/2016

Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to ... Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York, who...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Trinity Wall Street

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Supports Database that Tracks Health Equity Implications of State COVID-19 Policies

Release Date:

07/28/2021

... Supports Database that Tracks Health Equity Implications of State COVID-19 Policies Rapid response is synonymous with ... housing insecurity, and mental distress. People who are Black , Latinx, Native American...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

It’s Time Responsible Business Became Business as Usual

Release Date:

03/22/2016

This post originally appeared on The New Global Citizen and is reposted here with permission. by Paula Luff, founder and CEO of Viso Strategies Corporation I recently had the opportunity ... and complex and...

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Insights

Good Charity, Bad Charity

Release Date:

08/10/2013

... Peter Singer on how to choose between different areas of philanthropy cites information from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. You are thinking of donating to a worthy...

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Member News

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

17 May 2018

Family Separation Policies and Access to Justice in Detention Systems - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, May 17, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... basis.* The administration has engaged in a wide range of policies that are causing immigrant and refugee families ... operations. The administration also just announced a new policy to prosecute migrants and...