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Melissa Daar Carvajal Joins the Schott Foundation as Communications Director

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01/21/2021

... plays such a critical role in elevating the voices of our grassroots partners as well as shaping and promoting ... together to support students and families. As the founder of MDC Network , Melissa and her...

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08 Dec 2022

Narrative Change and Power-Building Strategy Session - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, December 8, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... in the world.” Narrative change involves the creation of a new story and communicating that story to audiences in ... new narrative into practice, and evaluating the efforts of that narrative shift and...

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Immigration

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Can Philanthropy Help Shape the Next Economy? A Workshop Series for a Just Transition

... future? Funders and affinity groups across a wide array of sectors and constituencies have come together to organize ... within philanthropy about the deep, systemic causes of the many issues they fund — from...

Understanding NY City & State's Legislative Landscape: An Overview for Funders with the Advocacy Institute

... governments in the United States have a tremendous amount of power, and that power is growing. Understanding state and ... is a key component to enacting progress on everything from health care policy to...

Leadership Transition at Philanthropy New York

... incredible years, she will be stepping down as President of Philanthropy New York at the end of 2020. In her letter to the membership Ronna shared that ... an engaged and talented board and staff, and...

Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

Release Date:

05/12/2014

... his wife Margaret Kulp Musser, it was the younger members of the family who pushed the board to match its investments ... impact advisory firm, to manage the 10 percent of the endowment that it earmarked for...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Inequality Is the Problem—What’s Our Response?

Release Date:

07/02/2014

... is all over the headlines these days. From the mayor of New York, to President Obama, to Pope Francis, hardly a ... day goes by without a prominent leader decrying the degree of disparities in the United...

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Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

Education

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William T. Grant Foundation

The Case for Giving Cash to Poor Kids

Release Date:

08/25/2014

... a country is only as rich as its poorest citizens. In most of the developed world, the poorest citizens are the children ... our country’s most pertinent problem. If you took all of the 16 million poor...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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The Century Foundation

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 ... on the Heron Foundation's Idea Factory blog. Many of us are Warren Buffett fans. His and Charlie Munger’s ... both...

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F.B. Heron Foundation

The People’s (Climate) March: A Tipping Point Towards the Clean Revolution

Release Date:

09/26/2014

... March was a testament to the growing power and visibility of a global people’s movement for peace, justice and democracy, under the banner of climate change and sustainable and equitable ... clean/benign/non-...

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Environment and Climate Change

Health

A Commitment to Playwrights: The Tow Foundation’s 2014 Residency Program

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12/09/2014

... for an up-and-coming playwright? 1. A full time salary and health insurance 2. The guarantee of having a work produced by a major off-Broadway non-profit ... theater This is the conclusion the staff and board...

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Arts

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The Tow Foundation

New Tech, Renewed Trust and a Less Lunatic Political Process

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10/12/2012

... Politics Foundation Chris Hayes, in his book Twilight of the Elites , writes: “The most important social project ... trusted institutions provide, we cannot produce the level of consensus necessary to confront...

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Philanthropy New York’s Adventure Series: Version Red Hook

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07/28/2011

... NoVo Foundation On June 21st, Red Hook, Brooklyn, home of one of the largest public housing communities in the city, was ... an approach that offers support in education, employment, health ,...

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Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... Director, Teagle Foundation and James J. Winebrake, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts, Rochester Institute of Technology This ... the industrial North and concerns about threats to public...

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Win 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards (New York Community Trust)

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11/11/2015

... – Three nonprofit groups have been chosen as winners of the 2015 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards, which include a total of $60,000 in prizes as well as tuition scholarships for the .....

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

The Clark Foundation

Ford Foundation

Philanthropy Should Focus on the Assets of Aging

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04/22/2016

by Teresa Bonner, Director of Programs, Aroha Philanthropies Teresa was a presenter at ... on our national obsession with youth and our dismissal of the potential of older adults. And in light...

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Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

Release Date:

05/04/2016

... global impact and actually challenge entrenched systems of inequality. Too many similar scholarship programs launched ... perpetuating inequality and an increasingly unequal system of higher education...

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Education

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Ford Foundation

Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

Release Date:

06/14/2016

... Nonprofit Association), and Rob Collier (Council of Michigan Foundations). Kyle Caldwell, Johnson Center for Philanthropy Robert Collier, Council of Michigan Foundations Donna Murray-Brown, Michigan ... doors...

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A Critical Time for Philanthropy’s Voice to Be Heard

Release Date:

02/03/2017

... Be Heard by David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers - Follow @dbiemesderfer Re-posted with ... , for example, continues to convene Ohio funders around ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

Release Date:

02/13/2017

... Now in the Trump Age by Edgar Villanueva, vice president of programs and advocacy at the Schott Foundation for ... recognized voice in progressive philanthropy. He is author of a forthcoming text on...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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