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Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

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02/17/2017

... Trustees. A renowned public interest lawyer, Stevenson is founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montgomery, Alabama. He is the visionary behind the Enslavement to Mass...

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Philanthropy’s Best

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Every Experience Builds Expertise

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08/16/2016

... program was funded by The Pinkerton Foundation , which is dedicated to improving the lives of young people in poor ... for nonprofits to serve the public good. I understand now that foundations give grants to...

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Germany Provides One Example for Ending the Cycle of Homelessness to Prison

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04/18/2017

... Fellow Steven attended the February 28 program “ Prison Is The Most Unaffordable Housing ” and provided excellent ... with a wider audience. A history of homelessness is 7-11 times more prevalent among...

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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Housing and Homelessness

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.5 Million to Organizations Building an Inclusive Conservation Movement

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04/13/2021

... at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. “Each grantee is lifting up their communities and addressing important ... resource management. ‘Āina Momona’s wider aim is to create scalable models for community-led...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Food Systems

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05 Mar 2013

CEO Interview Series with Clara Miller, The F. B. Heron Foundation

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 -

3:15pm to 7:00pm

... of the socio-economic ladder. Our series interlocutor is the penetrating and perspicacious Daren Walker, Ford ... Foundation Vice President for Education, Creativity and Free Expression. Clara and Darren will...

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Comparing Spending Down and Perpetuity - Should Charity Go on Forever?

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10/09/2014

... co-founder of the pioneering retail business Duty Free Shoppers (the company that sells the tax- free alcohol and perfume in airports), is practically unknown as a public figure. Though...

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Ford Foundation Awards 25 Fellowships to US Artists Driving Social Change

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10/02/2017

... together tell a rich and varied American story. "Art is essential in a free and flourishing society. Artists are the visionaries who ... the Ford Foundation's director of Creativity and Free...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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The Culture Pass Initiative Launches in New York City with Support from Stavros Niarchos Foundation, New York Community Trust and Charles H. Revson Foundation

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07/18/2018

... launched Culture Pass, a city-wide initiative providing free access to cultural institutions across New York’s five ... internet—then use the printed or digital pass to gain free admission to a specified...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Education & Youth

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The New York Community Trust

National Braille Press to Honor the Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation with its Hands-On! Award

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09/25/2018

... at historic Fenway Park in Boston. The Hands On! award is given to an organization or individual who has made a ... and their families to braille by distributing over 18,000 free bags across the U.S. and...

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Health & Human Services

The Moment I Lost It

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11/19/2014

... the rational decision-making process, information is crucial and feelings are generally irrelevant. Still, a ... heard such a clear articulation of what the Common Core is supposed to achieve and how it might...

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PNY News

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Education

A Sense of Urgency: Promoting Child and Family Well-being for Homeless Families

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05/30/2018

... homelessness in the first instance, and when homelessness is unavoidable, that we promote the well-being of homeless ... length of stay in shelter for families with children is 414 days – meaning that on...

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Citizen's Committee for Children of New York, Inc.

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The Rockefeller Foundation Commits USD1 billion to Catalyze a Green Recovery from Pandemic

Release Date:

10/26/2020

... to realize their full potential and climate disaster is avoided. The time to act is right now to make sure vulnerable children and families are ...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Disaster Relief

Health & Human Services

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Long Island Sound Funders Collaborative has granted $377,250 in 2020 to nine nonprofits through its Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation

Release Date:

12/29/2020

... Island Sound. The Long Island Sound Funders Collaborative is a group of funders with missions that include the ... solutions. The Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund (LISSF) is an inaugural effort to pool...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Building Bridges with AI: Philanthropy’s Urgent Call to Lead

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02/28/2025

... Philanthropic leaders today face an unsettling reality: AI is already shaping the sector—whether we engage with it or not. Nonprofit data is actively feeding large language models (LLMs), grantmaking ... AI...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Information Technology

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14 Jun 2022

A Moment for International Grantmaking: Applying Ethics to Practice

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Join us for an interactive and informal yet structured conversation with scholar and author Patricia L. Rosenfield as we discuss the principles, partnerships, and practices of ethical grantmaking.

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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International/Global Affairs

Macquarie Group Invites Nominations For Social Innovation Fellowships

Release Date:

08/08/2014

... Innovation Fellowships The Macquarie Group Foundation is inviting nominations for its David Clarke Social ... and other associated costs. Application deadline is October 1. For more information or to apply,...

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Macquarie Group Foundation

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Leadership Development

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This Is How to Put Neighborhoods at the Center of Grantmaking

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03/04/2016

This Is How to Put Neighborhoods at the Center of Grantmaking By ... decision-making that affects neighborhood life. This is a common critique of government, but is also largely true ... Vision...

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UJA-Federation of New York Named an Official Charity Partner of the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon

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03/13/2017

... on Sunday, November 5, 2017. “UJA-Federation of New York is proud to serve as an Official Charity Partner of the 2017 ... Marathon,” said UJA’s CEO Eric S. Goldstein. “2017 is our centennial year and it will...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far

Release Date:

05/09/2017

... Community Foundation's "Insights to Impact" blog, and is reposted with permission. Brooklyn Community Foundation ... are also facing an added level of risk in a system that is historically...

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