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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families

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06/25/2013

Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...

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Ford Foundation

Start a Giving Circle This Summer

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06/15/2011

Dr. M. Starita Boyce Ansari, President and Chief Change Officer at MSBPhilanthropy Advisors LLC, talks about how the ...

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These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?

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01/12/2012

Bruce Trachtenberg, Executive Director of The Communications Network, and Philanthropy New York's new Vice President of Communications & Public Policy, Michael Hamill Remaley, discuss the changing responsibilities of foundation communicators as...

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Philanthropy New York

Why Bring People Together In Person?

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08/13/2013

Robert Garris, Managing Director of the Bellagio Programs at The Rockefeller Foundation, answers that question while talking about Gather, the new Rockefeller guide for planners and change agents...

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Grants to Individuals: Investing in People and Their Communities

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09/2008

... program, including developing a theory of change , using the right funding mechanism, and finding the ...

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Community Development

Call for Nominations: Community Food Funders Champions Award

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03/02/2017

Call for Nominations: Community Food Funders Champions Award The ... new award to recognize the leaders empowering food system change in our region. The Community Food Funders Champions Award will... Call ...

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RFPs Etc

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Food Systems

42nd Annual Meeting Recap - Looking Back, Moving Forward

... 3rd, more than 200 Philanthropy New York members gathered for our 42nd Annual Meeting. It was an afternoon of ... What are we listening for ? We cannot focus on large-scale change without...

How One Foundation Is Making Waves With Art And Social Activism

Release Date:

09/05/2013

... that operates according to the idea that "art can change the world," it may because the organization has ... the radar since its founding in 1990. That's about to change . Artist Robert...

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Effective Philanthropy Takes Time

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06/26/2014

... Philanthropy Takes Time In this episode of Making Change , a podcast of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Phil ... is about working toward a long-term goal, even if change is barely noticeable in the first few...

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Surdna Foundation

Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India

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03/24/2015

... innovative, community-led and market-based solutions that change lives through safe water and sanitation. The grant ... safe water and sanitation solutions, accelerating positive change in their homes and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Supported by Sloan, Rita Allen, New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study

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08/05/2016

... deactivating long before the liquids imbibed can actually change the composition of the bloodstream. The results stand ... of thirst regulation, which hold that the brain signals for drinking to stop when it...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Health

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According to Forbes, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Sets Example for Philanthropists

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08/17/2016

... to Forbes, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Sets Example for Philanthropists Major philanthropies like the Edna ... unusual. Could the world be changing? If donors want to change the world—and recent Bridgespan...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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09/20/2016

... Potter says, some simple policy changes could start to change all that... Century Foundation Releases Report on ...

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The Century Foundation

Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

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06/12/2013

... and the Social Impact Bond Technical Assistance Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School have announced the six winners of a national ... to state and local governments looking to develop "pay- for...

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09 Oct 2012

College and Career Ready: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... of young New York City immigrants -- many of them high school students -- waited on line on August 15 to begin the process of applying for deportation deferrals under President Obama’s Deferred ... John...

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13 Nov 2013

Where is Opportunity in America? - New York Index Launch

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 -

3:00pm to 6:00pm

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Each year, Opportunity Nation releases new data for the Opportunity Index , the nation’s only composite measure of economic opportunity at the state and county level. In addition to traditional ... Index...

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Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs

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05/06/2014

... the knowledge and skills of aspiring and current K-12 school leaders. The online learning guide highlights excerpts ... and incorporates knowledge from 13 years of work with school districts and from research...

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Pinkerton Foundation Launches Literacy Initiative in Queens

Release Date:

06/01/2014

... will collaborate on efforts to help children read at grade level by third grade and sustain that success beyond elementary school . In addition, the organizations will engage in community- and school...

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to American Museum of Natural History

Release Date:

08/13/2014

... science education and personal development programs for promising middle and high school students from traditionally under-resourced ... in 2010, supported the development of the Museum’s After- School...

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