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20 Jul 2017

Time of Opportunity: Best Practices in Summer Learning (Part 1)

Thursday, July 20, 2017 -

9:00am to 12:30pm

... higher income peers, and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. Research also shows that ... and even accelerate learning for many students. In order to explore what’s currently...

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Rockefeller Survey Finds Male Attitudes Are Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business

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08/03/2017

... Keeping Women From Getting Ahead In Business When it comes to explaining why there are so few female CEOs, a lot of ... there. But an intriguing new survey from the Rockefeller Foundation released Tuesday...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Closing a Racial Divide, One Swim Lesson at a Time

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08/28/2017

... Tuesday morning, Kiara García, now 8, hardly seemed to think she was doing anything unusual. And she wasn’t, at ... and 58 percent of Latino children reported having little to no swimming ability, compared...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts

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09/06/2017

Millions Pledged To Harvey Relief As Rebuilding Starts More than $275 million ... raised more than $38 million over the weekend, with a goal to raise $100 million. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and ... Harvey...

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Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era

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09/07/2017

Opinion: Nonprofits Aren’t Doing What It Takes to Protect Civil Society in the Trump Era Party politics and ... and interdependence that ties the U.S. government to America’s millions of nonprofits. While the news...

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Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy

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09/25/2017

Chefs Learn to Influence Food-Systems Policy The 14 American chefs who ... for several hours of PowerPoint presentations, trying to grasp how Congress works and wrestling with some of the ... and Washington, D.C...

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Food Systems

Mellon Grant Funds Stanford University Press Pioneering Digital Academic Publishing Program

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09/26/2017

... program. The press was the first academic publishing group to offer scholars a way to publish and peer review academic research that involves ... the help of a $1.2 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon...

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Protesters Demand Affordable Housing Outside City Hall

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10/10/2017

... gathered outside City Hall in the rain on Monday to demand more affordable housing from Mayor de Blasio. The ... — organized by activists from the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and attended by Comptroller...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing and Homelessness

07 Nov 2017

Protecting Our Precious Waters: New York City’s Impacts on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Estuary

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... with local and state environmental regulators can help to document and improve ecological outcomes. As greater ... The New York Community Trust Westchester Community Foundation Long Island Community ...

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IRS Audit Guides Inform Nonprofits about Review Criteria

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10/13/2017

... The prospect of being audited by the IRS is as unsettling to nonprofit leaders as to individuals and for-profit businesses. To assist nonprofit staffs and boards, as well as the tax ...

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Talking Politics

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02/06/2018

... It seems every conversation eventually wends its way back to politics. But the candid grantee feedback we’ve seen ... one of these areas. This is similar to what we heard from foundation CEOs...

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Insights

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Equalizing the Power Dynamic in Philanthropy

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03/01/2018

... by Ana Oliveira, President & CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation You may have seen a recent report released by The Ford Foundation that extolls the merits of participatory grantmaking. It’s gratifying...

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Casey Family Programs Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect

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03/16/2018

Casey Family Programs Launches New Mapping Tool to Help Advocate for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect Casey ... the Community Opportunity Map, a tool that allows users to see localized indicators connected ...

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Trinity Church Appoints Neill Coleman as New Chief Philanthropy Officer

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05/25/2018

... vice president of global communication at The Rockefeller Foundation as well as serving in the federal Department of ...

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30 Jan 2019

New Tools, New Partnerships: Is It Time To Break Your Engagement Mold?

Wednesday, January 30, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... funders stand out and still connect with stakeholders to raise awareness around important causes and inspire ... Prudential Financial, Viacom, and Credit Suisse Americas Foundation for a panel discussion on...

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The Philanthropic Closet: LGBTQ People in Philanthropy

... Jr. Fund . Thirty-four percent of individuals responded to the survey, resulting in the highest response rate of any ...

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Report

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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LGBTQ

Ingrid Rasmussen Joins Unbound Philanthropy as Chief Operating Officer

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06/05/2019

... Vice President for Finance and Operations at the Heron Foundation , and previously worked as Director of Financial ... New Community Corporation. Ingrid’s family immigrated to the US from Italy, and she is...

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18 Sep 2020

Philanthropy 101: Speaking the Same Language

Friday, September 18, 2020 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... the Same Language October 23 - So You're Working for a Foundation ... Power and Your New Community November 13 - Foundation Governance and Legal Issues November 20 - ... of philanthropy. This is an...

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