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The New York Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies The ... Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies (The Fund), to ensure that the movement is...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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DDCF Announces Inaugural Awardees of Child Well-being Leadership Development Grants

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04/23/2019

... director for child well-being at DDCF. “We are excited to support a new set of leaders as they innovate and implement approaches to tackling the complex, systemic issues that unduly burden ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Public Policy

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Doris Duke Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces New Program Director, Dr. Ernie Glover

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06/11/2019

... at Sloan, Dr. Glover’s primary responsibility will be to develop and oversee new grantmaking programs that advance the Foundation’s mission to support original research in basic science. Dr. Glover is ... high...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Welcomes Marcus F. Walton as President and CEO

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07/16/2019

... maker who has successfully harnessed the power of change to develop more effective strategies for cultivating thriving communities. “I am energized by the opportunity to work alongside a diverse team of...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

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Robert G. Ottenhoff Stepping Down as President and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy

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09/05/2019

... Russell Reynolds, a global leadership search organization, to lead the national search for his replacement. Ottenhoff ... chief executive. Tapped for his entrepreneurial approach to the philanthropic sector,...

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The Center for Disaster Philanthropy

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Research for a 21st Century Child Welfare System

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03/24/2022

... contact with our child protection system (CPS) continue to be poor in many areas, and the trauma many children and ... the system demands we do better. Further, there continues to be significant disparities in...

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Insights

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Children, Youth and Families

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

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11/12/2015

... First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF) When a federated network decides to prioritize quality over scale, it’s not hard to foresee ... you know that some affiliates will drop out of the ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Education

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AT&T Foundation

09 Jul 2019

Meet and Greet with the New Commissioner of DFTA

Tuesday, July 9, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

The New York City Aging Funders Network is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the ... aging services and healthy aging in New York are invited to join the group's...

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All Funders

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Aging

The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies and the Foundation Center Partner to Share Knowledge on Foundations Spending Down

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09/23/2013

A new blog series brings transparency to a little-explored topic. New York, NY — September 23, ... Bronfman Philanthropies and the Foundation Center Partner to Share Knowledge on Foundations Spending Down ...

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Communications

The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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Surdna's Head Reflects on Aligning Program With Mission, Impact Investing

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06/25/2014

In an interview with Shelterforce, Surdna President Phillip Henderson talks about aligning program with mission, cross-pollination between programs and the foundation's recent launch into the impact investing world.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

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RPA Announces Ebola Survival Fund

Release Date:

10/29/2014

... in Sierra Leone and Liberia, the fund is responding to the immediate needs resulting from the outbreak, as well as working to strengthen the region’s health-care delivery ... Troubled by the U.S. public and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps

Release Date:

11/03/2014

Donors to Gay Causes Consider Their Next Steps The Arcus ... a future for the LGBTQ movement?" The tagline speaks to a bubbling uncertainty among the movement’s ... for gay equality has already been won? In...

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Johnson Family Foundation

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LGBTQ

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NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

Release Date:

03/24/2015

NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids New York City’s effort to supply lawyers for every unaccompanied, undocumented minor ... from being deported as of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New Prudential Foundation Initiative Will Assist Job Seekers with Disabilities

Release Date:

04/27/2015

... Financial, Inc. announced today a $1 million grant to the National Organization on Disability (NOD), a nonprofit ... Foundation, will help cover the start-up costs for Bridges to a Better Workforce, a new...

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Prudential Financial (Non Member)

Workforce Development

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Prudential Foundation

Gerstner Family Foundation Awards $10M to Broad Institute for Cancer Research

Release Date:

05/26/2015

... a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation to expand cancer research efforts focused on overcoming drug ... tumor cells. The grant will support a two-pronged approach to addressing cancer drug...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

Release Date:

06/29/2015

... Project, three nonprofit organizations were selected to take advantage of one year of free co-working space in ... plus tailored ongoing technical assistance and training to support their development......

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Community Development

Workforce Development

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Brooklyn Org

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

Release Date:

07/06/2015

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal A New York City program designed to reduce recidivism rates among adolescent inmates at Rikers Island failed to meet its goal, and as a result the...

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Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport

Release Date:

08/27/2015

Google Partners with Rockefeller Foundation to Streamline Nairobi Public Transport The launch of Google Transit update to Google Maps makes Nairobi the third African city with the ... he said. The upgrade that has...

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