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David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall

Release Date:

10/05/2017

David Geffen Criticizes ‘Shameful’ Lack of Support for Concert Hall The media mogul David Geffen, one of the ... philanthropists, attacked wealthy New Yorkers on Wednesday for what he called a “shameful” record of...

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... second term agenda. Published earlier this week by Center for an Urban Future -- a leading New York City-based think ...

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North Star Fund Announces 9 Catalyst Grants

Release Date:

01/16/2018

... organizations built by New Yorkers who are organizing for new solutions to challenges created in our city by ... We offer these organizations streamlined renewals for up to six years. If they can demonstrate...

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The Donors' Education Collaborative in The New York Community Trust Gives $740,000

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01/16/2018

... Trust Gives $740,000 With federal and state funding for schools under siege, a leading group of education funders ... dollars to help students, teachers, and parents advocate for their needs from City Hall to...

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The New York Community Trust

Rita Allen Foundation Supported Research Details Consequences of Kansas’ Lifetime Property Tax Exemptions on Local School Districts

Release Date:

03/02/2018

... station KCPT’s digital magazine) and the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting shed light on the consequences of ... how those exemptions left local school districts starving for revenue. By the end of...

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The JPB Foundation Supports Creation of ParkServe Database

Release Date:

05/01/2018

... Supports Creation of ParkServe Database Today, The Trust for Public Land launched www.ParkServe.TPL.org , providing ... on parks ever assembled. The site includes information for 14,000 cities...

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Freedom Together Foundation

The Artistic Gains of an Ethnically Diverse Society are Irrefutable

Release Date:

05/19/2020

... are Irrefutable By: Leah Krauss, Senior Program Officer for Dance & Special Projects, Mertz Gilmore Foundation The ... first and second generation artists have raised the bar for innovative choreography...

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Arts

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

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

Release Date:

06/17/2021

... are going to organizations that are focused on fighting for racial justice through breaking the cycles of mass ... Yorkers last year take to the streets united on the call for racial justice, it was also a...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

Sandy support from institutions underwhelms

Release Date:

10/25/2013

... article on our research into institutional giving totals for Superstorm Sandy. Institutional donors including private foundations and corporations gave $297 million for victims of Super storm Sandy as of...

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North Star Fund

PNY Welcomes Shanqua Harrison and Allyson Goldhagen

Release Date:

02/12/2014

... as needed. Prior to PNY, Shanqua worked as Controller for the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC), one of New York's oldest not- for -profit local development corporations, for...

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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

Release Date:

03/10/2014

... would rise, too. But that never really happened for the Brooklyn Community Foundation. Assets remained ... With superstorm Sandy serving as a kind of catalyst for the borough—and for local...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

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Science Studies Get a Big Boost

Release Date:

03/10/2014

... students by the year 2016, thanks to a big push by large philanthropies like Carnegie, Gates, and Helmsley, working ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Release Date:

03/13/2014

... was not a household word when it became a central strategy for ending international cooperation with South Africa's .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for championing climate change solutions over the past 20 ... on the harmful effects of coal ash, the Kentucky Coalition for a campaign targeting a rural...

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

Release Date:

07/10/2014

On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding ... Rights Among the goals Teresa Younger has set for herself as the new chief executive of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

Release Date:

10/07/2014

... and strategic philanthropy that got results, this is it. For nearly 15 years, a relatively small group of ... along with a handful of foundations, have pushed hard for marriage equality and other changes to...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

Publication date:

10/2015

Over the last several years, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations has been working to better ... that a positive internal culture is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy, but we have also, as a sector, ...