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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

Release Date:

06/25/2014

... innovative group of nonprofit leaders had concluded that foundations are the last place to go with a bold and risky idea. What’s behind this disconnect? Foundations are in part to blame. We say, Bring us bold...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Arcus Foundation

2/17/2016 - "Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals" Live Stream Recording & PPT Presentation

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02/2016

View materials and recording of the program " Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals." .....

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Getting Started with Philanthropy New York

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This is What Ford Foundation Does with its Resources

Release Date:

08/13/2014

... HunterGatherer, we went on to tackle the ins and outs of Program Related Investments and, in this final video, the ... are reviewed, and how grants are made and monitored. How Program -Related Investing Works...

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Ford Foundation

The Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches The Just Brooklyn Prize in Partnership with The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation's Social Justice Fund

Release Date:

04/10/2023

... Nominations for the 2023 Just Brooklyn Prize are now open through May 15, 2023. You may nominate yourself, ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

The Power of Funder Collaboration

Publication date:

08/2016

This report showcases not only the incredible work of our funder collaboratives, but the lessons we’ve learned about working together to forward bold and creative solutions to complex problems.

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

04 Jun 2013

Grants Management as a Career? One Grants Manager's Personal Experience, w/ Rik Treiber, Director of Grants Management, Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Tuesday, June 4, 2013 -

3:15pm to 5:00pm

... field A Philanthropy New York Member Service . This program is " Mostly Open ." Presenter Rik Treiber , Director of Grants .....

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, and The Whitman Institute Launch the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

Release Date:

01/22/2020

... a cultural moment of power-reckoning, with more and more foundations coming to terms with the entrenched imbalances ... has cultivated an informal network of more than a dozen foundations that have signed on...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

The New York Women’s Foundation and Ms. Foundation Announce Year Two Results of $100M Collective Fund

Release Date:

03/26/2018

... a nonpartisan partnership of 32 public U.S. women’s foundations located in 26 states and Washington, D.C., to ... progress has been made thanks to the work of women’s foundations and their grantee partners,...

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Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity

Release Date:

02/28/2018

... Janine Cabrera-Velde (a training and communications specialist at Emory University). Listen: Andrew W. Mellon ...

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Mellon Foundation

This New Tool Is The Latest Effort By The Gates Foundation To Bring Innovation to Payment Infrastructure

Release Date:

10/16/2017

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will release free and open source software to address the lack of interoperability ...

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Newly Created Heckscher Foundation Workforce Development Grants Aim to Create More Than 1,100 Full-Time Jobs in New York

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07/19/2023

... the launch of a first-of-its-kind workforce development program intended to create more than 1,100 full-time jobs for ... Young Minds in Motion and Brooklyn Kindergarten Society . CUNY Queensborough Community...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Study Supported by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds Genetic Link to Extinct Relative of Humans in Four Modern West African Populations

Release Date:

02/13/2020

... is a member of UCLA’s Bioinformatics Interdepartmental Program . Previous genomic studies have presented evidence ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Euan Robertson Joins Simons Foundation As Chief Operating Officer

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04/01/2019

... will be responsible for the foundation’s operational and administrative functions. Euan comes to the foundation from ...

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The Simons Foundation

Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

Release Date:

10/29/2015

... of problems as a means of fostering a more inclusive society . We work as a cross-sector convener and collaborator ... and believe that in addition to partners in civil society and government the private sector...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Community-Development Conference -NeighborWorks Training Institute - Supported by JPMorgan Chase Foundation, Citi Foundation - Kicks Off

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... a 2012 graduate of the NeighborWorks Achieving Excellence Program , a professional-development program for senior leaders of organizations working to ...

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Community Development

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Citi Foundation

Citi

Ms. Foundation For Women and New York Women's Foundation Take A Stand With Prosperity Together

Release Date:

11/14/2017

... Together, a nonpartisan coalition of 29 public women’s foundations dedicated to empowering low-income women and ... the United States belongs to women and children. Women’s foundations around the country are...

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Russell Sage Foundation Trustee Hiro Yoshikawa and Former Visiting Scholar J. Lawrence Aber Win MacArthur Foundation Grant

Release Date:

12/21/2017

The MacArthur Foundation has awarded a grant of $100 million to the Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee (IRC) to develop evidence-based, early education interventions for children displaced by conflict and persecution in the Middle...

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Russell Sage Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation’s Public Charity Expands Project ACT to Provide At-Risk Communities Nationwide With Free At-Home Covid-19 Tests

Release Date:

06/29/2022

... an initial one million tests, RFCC is opening up the program to all U.S. states and territories. Already, health ... 1.2 million tests. Enrollment for health departments is open through August 31, 2022, with...