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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Edna McConnell Clark and Others Launch $1B Initiative Providing Long-Term, Unrestricted Funding

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02/02/2016

... Meridian Partners, which uses collaborative-funding model to meet the challenges of today's world. Blue Meridian Partners will invest at least $1 billion in high-performance nonprofits that are poised...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

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03/03/2016

... on Gentrification There Goes the Neighborhood takes an in -depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the integral ... New York City, looking for deals that will allow them to “revitalize”...

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The New York Community Trust

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

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03/18/2016

Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery The National ... a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum ... five years. If...

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Arts

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Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier

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04/06/2016

Aetna’s 1.5M Competition Encourages Cities and Towns to Get Healthier A major public-health organization and a ... are teaming up with Aetna to pursue a lofty goal: a rise in healthy communities...

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Health

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists Winners of the 2016 Whiting Awards , given annually to up-and-coming authors of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and ... bout of inchoate...

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People Who Made Scranton Great - Harry & Jeanette Weinberg

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04/14/2016

... works and deep pockets of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation . Today, the foundation is among the biggest in the United States, with more than $2 billion in assets...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... States Artists Campaign The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support of United States Artists (USA), a...

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John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Ford, Carnegie Join 10 Funders Giving $125M for Flint’s Water Crisis

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05/11/2016

... Water Crisis Ten grant makers announced today they plan to spend $125 million to help residents of Flint, Mich., ... from the city’s water crisis. The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation , based...

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Environment and Climate Change

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How Ford, Rockefeller Supported "Street Orgs" in the 1970s

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06/03/2016

How Ford, Rockefeller Supported "Street Orgs" in the 1970s The Crips, Black P. Stone Rangers, Sons of ... Watts, Young Lords Party, Brown Berets and the Vice Lords, to name a few, formed to...

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With Surdna and Open Society Support, Equitable Economic Development Fellowship Launches

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06/29/2016

... and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) are convening today in Portland, Oregon to launch the first-ever Equitable Economic Development ... the fellowship, which is generously funded by the Surdna ...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Exec Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments

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07/15/2016

... Outlines Wide Range of Climate Investments The Rockefeller Foundation is aiming to connect social entrepreneurs with capital to finance an ... and create insurance products for extreme-...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing

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07/27/2016

... Judith Rodin is One of Many Women Making Their Mark in Social-Impact Investing When advisers attend industry conferences, they can usually expect to be swimming in a sea of white males, given...

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Gender Justice

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Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media

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09/21/2016

Applications Invited for Soros Justice Fellowships in Advocacy and Media A program of the Open Society ... Fellowships support outstanding individuals working to implement innovative projects that advance reform...

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RFPs Etc

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Communications/Media

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Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President

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11/07/2016

Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President In September, our Board of Directors elected ... up global communications. He brings tremendous experience to this new board role, as...

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Gender Justice

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The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own

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11/28/2016

... businesses, Newman's Own was a novelty when it launched in the 1980s and started giving away its profits. It's since distributed over $475 million to nonprofits worldwide. Newman started Newman’s Own...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Food Systems

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Three PNY Members Join GCIR Board

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... Program Officer, Youth Opportunity and Learning, Ford Foundation Shawn Morehead , Program Director, Promising ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Pinkerton Elects Daniel Mosley as New Chair

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02/17/2017

Pinkerton Elects Daniel Mosley as New Chair George Gillespie becomes Chairman Emeritus; ... & Moore, he was present at the creation of the Foundation in 1966. He shaped both our focus on...

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Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments

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04/05/2017

Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments Ford Foundation announces that its Board of Trustees has ... allocation of up to $1 billion of its endowment,...

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Rockefeller Supports Food Waste Documentary Premiering at Tribeca Film Festival

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04/20/2017

... and Nari Kye began developing the documentary, they wanted to reach as wide of an audience as possible, they said. A partnership between Zero Point Zero and The Rockefeller Foundation...

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Video

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Food Systems

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