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Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Two Staff, Promotes One

Release Date:

07/27/2017

... to welcome two new members to the Foundation's team, as well as announce a promotion: Andrea MacDonald joins our Philanthropy team as Manager of Donor Services. Andrea...

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Brooklyn Org

Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

Release Date:

04/16/2020

... have profound global consequences in the years to come. As the virus spreads across continents, we will also focus ... and individual freedoms, Open Society will also fund partners that are challenging...

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Open Society Foundations

Newman's Own CEO Shares: What Paul Newman Would Tell Small Foundations in the Pandemic: Don’t Shift Course

Release Date:

04/22/2020

... strike anyone, none will feel the brutality of its impact as much as those who are already disadvantaged or facing ... why: Our foundation doesn’t have enough money to fund the vaccine...

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Newman's Own Foundation

President's Message: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5.4 Million in Grants

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04/13/2022

... building, and new Imagine a New Way and Momentum Fund grantees. In our Imagine a New Way and Momentum Fund grantmaking, we have been investing in and taking ... Fund Grantees – First shared...

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Arts

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Brooklyn Principal wins Sloan Public Service Award and $10,000 Prize

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06/04/2014

[Alfred P. Sloan Foundation] April Leong, principal of Brooklyn's Liberation High School, will be honored at the 41st annual Sloan Public Service Awards for her efforts in improving the lives of older students.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

27 Nov 2018

From Anecdotes to Facts: Let’s Talk Maternal Mortality and Morbidity

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... driving the crisis.” Presenters Elizabeth Howell, MD , Director of The Blavatnik Family Women’s Health Research Institute, Mount Sinai ... and Mental Hygiene Chanel Porchia-Albert , Executive Director...

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A Conversation on Public Service Loan Forgiveness: The Philanthropic Community Can Help 250,000 New Yorkers Access $10 Billion in Loan Forgiveness (Part Two)

Release Date:

10/13/2022

... of student debt. In this whole country and in this city as well. I know that the philanthropic sector has been ... is a law that says when the President has certified it as a national emergency the Department...

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The New York Women’s Foundation and the YWCA of the City of New York Partner for Girls IGNITE! Grantmaking Fellowship

Release Date:

11/22/2016

... while also providing an opportunity to develop them as leaders. Dr. Danielle Moss Lee and the YWCA of the City of ... program offers participants the opportunity to work as a team to distribute The Foundation’...

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The New York Women's Foundation

Racial Justice and Eviction Prevention Dominant Themes in $15 million in Grants Awarded by Trinity Church Wall Street

Release Date:

06/17/2021

... nonprofits and hopes to further their work, especially as we respond to a racial reckoning and a looming eviction ... of color at the Rikers jails.” said Susan Shah, Managing Director for Racial Justice at...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

22 Jan 2015

What’s Next on the Healthcare Horizon? Five Big Trends Affecting Philanthropy

Thursday, January 22, 2015 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... and James Tallon , President of the United Hospital Fund – will be a wide-ranging one, with key insights from ... From community development to children, youth and family , this program will be of interest to...

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A Response to Louisiana Recovery Efforts

Release Date:

08/22/2016

... with the New Orleans Mayor Landrieu's NOLA Pay It Foward Fund . The Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Gulf Coast Resilience Innovation Fund Baton Rouge Area Foundation United Way Salvation Army ... and...

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For philanthropy, racial equity isn't enough: Why we've moved to redistribution to address the racial wealth gap

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10/14/2021

... Decolonizing Wealth Project , and its corresponding fund , Liberated Capital , have been proud to help spearhead ... tackle and close the racial wealth gaps in this country. As funders we have the opportunity...

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After Orlando – After the Anger and Sadness – There Is Work to Be Done

Release Date:

06/15/2016

... LGBTQ Anti-Violence Project and Beverly Tillery, Executive Director , AVP The largest mass shooting in recent US history ... hearts are heavy, and our thoughts are with the survivors as well as...

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Dara Major Philanthropy Consulting

25 Feb 2019

Census Jobs: How Do You Mobilize a Temporary Workforce of Half a Million People in Less Than Two Years?

Monday, February 25, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... and local nonprofit, government and business leaders – as well as our upstate sister organization New York Funders Alliance ... with technology, among others Speakers Jeff T. Behler , Director...

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Celeste Ford Appointed Chief Communications Officer of Carnegie Corporation of New York

Release Date:

07/24/2023

... of New York announces the appointment of Celeste Ford as chief communications officer. She is responsible for ... 10 years with the Corporation. In her most recent position as director of...

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Foundation for a Just Society Supports Report on LGBTQ Organizing in West Africa

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... to address the concerns of LGBTQ communities, including family mediation, working with media, documenting rights ... surveyed identified human rights literacy and legal aid as critical needs in their...

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Foundation for a Just Society

Edna McConnell Clark Scales Up Support for Communities in Schools

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05/21/2018

Communities in Schools, a nonprofit that places coordinators in schools to connect vulnerable students and their families with community resources, has gotten a big investment from a sun-setting supporter to kick-off its new strategic plan. The Edna...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

University of Houston Receives $10 Million Legacy Gift from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

Release Date:

03/03/2021

... leaders. “Hilton College has become world-renowned as a leader in hospitality education and research, in no ... adjunct professors in 1969, Hilton College today stands as a global leader in hospitality...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Presents Third Installment of 'Stories of Brooklyn Insights'

Release Date:

06/04/2014

ARTs East New York, the latest group to be featured in the series, is a storefront gallery and neighborhood hub that uses the arts to create community-led change.