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19 Jun 2019

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

This program is a two-part standalone offering from our PNY ... your foundation to take a stance on a piece of legislation Administrative lobbying is subject to all the same rules as legislative lobbying Private...

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Professional Development

Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Legal Issues

Ford Foundation Announces Three New Concentration Areas

Release Date:

01/18/2018

... “Justice,” he penned, “is the fundamental law of society .” From the very inception of the United States, ... designed to protect and promote justice in our society —to serve and strengthen our democracy—are...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

2/10/1016 - "Put Your Foundation on the Impact Investing Map" - Live Stream Recording & PPT Presentation

View materials and recording of the program "Put Your Foundation on the Impact Investing Map." .....

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project Supports Williamsburg Bray School project

Release Date:

02/19/2022

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5-million grant supporting the Williamsburg Bray School Project, an initiative spearheaded by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and William & Mary. The school is believed to be the only remaining...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

05 May 2021

Sparking Cross-Sector Collaboration for COVID Recovery: How a Family Foundation Catalyzed Local Investment - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Wednesday, May 5, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:15pm

* This program is hosted by our partner, The National Center for ... Rauch Foundation of Long Island will describe how family foundations can play a unique role as a neutral hub to forge ... relationship networks...

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Tools & Strategies

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Children, Youth and Families

Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations Announce New $5M Initiative Designed to Advance Latinx Art in Museums

Release Date:

02/13/2023

Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations Announce New $5M Initiative Designed to Advance ... and artists by ensuring they have the capacity to employ specialist curators. Funding will support the hiring of five...

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

Release Date:

08/13/2020

... race, and ethnic studies and the humanities; expand a program that provides a pathway to careers in the arts for ... donation to the Chancellor’s Emergency Relief Grant Program directly addresses the economic...

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First Phase of Love My Air Denver Program Measures Air Quality to Tackle Asthma Rates and Track Pollution with Support from Bloomberg Philanthropies

Release Date:

10/17/2019

First Phase of Love My Air Denver Program Measures Air Quality to Tackle Asthma Rates and Track ... which is connected to an air monitor, is part of a pilot program to display real-time air-quality data from...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Environment and Climate Change

Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Appoints Margaret Waldock to Executive Director of Duke Farms

Release Date:

08/19/2020

... has been serving as the director of the Environment Program at the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation since 2011, ... start building a more sustainable future. Duke Farms is a program of the Doris Duke Charitable...

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Patricia L. Francy and Susan Butler Plum Join Guttman Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... the Director of the Botwinick-Wolfensohn Foundation and Program Director of the Booth Ferris Foundation . She also ... A. McDonald Education Advocacy Project at the Legal Aid Society of New York, the...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

Botwinick Wolfensohn Foundation

The Whiting Foundation Provides New Grants for Public Humanities Projects Filling in the Tapestry of History and Culture

Release Date:

05/11/2021

... history of human inquiry. The Whiting Public Engagement Program (WPEP) is a distinctive national grant founded to ... beginning with nomination by a university, scholarly society , or state humanities council...

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NY Women’s Foundation: $2.4 Million in Grants to Address Needs of Women & Families in New York City

Release Date:

07/24/2017

The New York Women’s Foundation announced a total of $2,400,000 in grants awarded to 37 organizations working to promote economic security and justice for women and families throughout New York City.

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Children, Youth and Families

Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

Release Date:

01/06/2016

... School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations Curbing school bullying has been a focal point ... this project came from the WT Grant Foundation Scholars Program , the Canadian Institute...

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Russell Sage Foundation

Report Funded by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Finds That California Traffic Fines Prey on Poor

Release Date:

01/08/2018

... opportunity to continue its leadership in building a fair society . So far, it has missed the mark on an issue that ...

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Justice Reform

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Credit Suisse Americas Foundation Commits USD 1 Million to HERE to HERE to Launch Youth Apprenticeships Through Careerwise New York

Release Date:

07/09/2019

... the value of apprenticeship programs for both business and society . I am delighted that our Citizenship work enables us ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

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Credit Suisse Americas Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints Xavier de Souza Briggs as Vice President of Economic Opportunity and Assets

Release Date:

11/01/2013

... de Souza Briggs as Vice President of the foundation's program on Economic Opportunity and Assets. Briggs will oversee all of the program ’s global grantmaking and serve as an officer of the ... foundation’...

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Economic Security

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Fall 2021 Grantees and New Website

Release Date:

01/12/2022

... to permit up to 50% of each grant to be used for administrative expenses. “The Fall 2021 grantees are ... at The Camera Club of New York (New York, NY), whose program was established over a century ago, offers...

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Progress Update on Stavros Niarchos Foundation's €25 Million Grant to the Hellenic Fire Department

Release Date:

05/06/2019

In the summer of 2018, in the wake of the devastating fires that claimed dozens of lives in Greece, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) announced a grant of €25 million to aid the Hellenic Fire Department.