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Arabella Advisors Announces Sharyn Church as New Managing Director for Southern California

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09/15/2020

... 15, 2020 (Newswire.com) - Arabella Advisors is pleased to announce that Sharyn Church, who has 20 years of nonprofit ... I look forward to the opportunity to help lead our efforts in...

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14 Nov 2017

Mapping the Intersections of Peace and Security and Human Rights Work - Brown Bag Lunch

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... protection and promulgation of human rights are essential to creating peaceful societies, yet, when peace is threatened, human rights are often sacrificed in the name of security. Where do these fields...

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Morgan Stanley Presents Black Women in Business Awards

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03/12/2015

... announced its 2015 list of 25 Influential Black Women in Business. “For seventeen consecutive years The Network ... I have been amazed by the heights these women continue to achieve,” states TNJ Publisher and...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... mediating between the city and its creditors. He called in an all-star squad of foundation presidents—the newly ... told the museum after an earlier request, "Foundations fund the future. They don't...

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Rockefeller Joins Macarthur Foundation to Help Address Critical Social Challenges

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03/12/2019

Rockefeller Joins Macarthur Foundation to Help Address Critical Social Challenges Chicago, IL, March ... launched the Catalytic Capital Consortium, dedicating $150 million to help address...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Overcoming Setbacks

Release Date:

09/11/2018

... By Stephen Heintz, President, Rockefeller Brothers Fund . This essay was excerpted from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund annual review . In 2008, millions of Americans, including myself, were...

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Kristen M. Ruff

... officers. Prior to joining Philanthropy New York in 2007, Kristen coordinated the public education and ... United Philanthropy Forum, New York Women's Foundation, Fund the People and...

The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

... 18, 2014) – The Wallace Foundation is awarding a grant to researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University to study whether and how community institutions in three mid-sized cities can...

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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

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06/25/2014

... Foundation website here . As I was listening recently to a nonprofit executive director describe to a group of ... offered his last piece of advice to the nonprofit leaders in...

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Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

... this season of giving, I will join millions of Americans in volunteering to feed the homeless, contributing to clothing drives and ... system itself. During the 20th century, an entire...

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Courtney Bryan Joins JPMorgan Chase as Executive Director with Global Philanthropy and Head of the East Region

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12/12/2017

... Head of the East Region Global Philanthropy invests $250 million annually to promote inclusive economic growth across the globe. ... JP Morgan Chase, Courtney had a distinguished career in...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation is Now Accepting Applications for the 2021-2022 Fellowship

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06/16/2020

... The program provides three individuals with up to $150,000 over 18 months to turn an inspired idea that ... The Fellowship is designed for emergent leaders in the U.S. who have limited access...

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Foundations as First Responders?

Release Date:

04/18/2013

... President, Brooklyn Community Foundation When I was in city government (a quite remarkable time in New York City ... the stunning attack on the World Trade Center occurred on 9 /11...

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The NYPD's Growing DNA Database Raises Concern

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09/26/2017

... Database Raises Concern The NYPD is increasingly turning to DNA to help solve crimes. And it's worked: The science has ... investigative leads and given prosecutors ammunition in court...

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Justice Reform

Creating a Conversation About Hunger in America

Release Date:

03/19/2013

... This past week, I undertook a “SNAP Challenge” in which I spent the week eating on approximately $5.27 a day ... — who rely on this government assistance. More than 4 million working...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... Ford Foundation This piece originally appeared in Chris' blog, Democratizing Philanthropy? Why does ... by membership is Exponent Philanthropy , what used to be called the Association of Small Foundations...

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Doris Duke Study Finds Promoting Abstinence, Fidelity for HIV Prevention Is Ineffective

Release Date:

05/03/2016

... Is Ineffective The U.S. government has invested $1. 4 billion in HIV prevention programs that promote sexual abstinence and ... Since 2004, the U.S. President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief...

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Health

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MetLife Foundation Supports Activities for Veterans and Military Families through Blue Star Theatres Grant

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12/16/2016

... Group has announced the third round of recipients in the Blue Star Theatres Grant Program. With support from MetLife Foundation, the program will fund efforts that deepen the relationships between .....

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Bank of America Grant and Volunteers Support Partnership with Eva’s Village

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01/25/2017

... a Paterson, NJ, anti-poverty, nonprofit organization, partners with local businesses and community groups to raise funds for its 20 integrated anti-poverty programs. ... address the problems of hunger,...

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