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Simons Family 'Giving Big' on Climate Change

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08/21/2017

... Change The patriarch of the Simons clan is best known for his math chops and science philanthropy. But heirs Nat ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... criminal-justice system. The money will support the Center for Policing Equity, which tracks national statistics on ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Millions of Dollars From Corporations and Individuals Flow to Flood-Ravaged Texas

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08/29/2017

... Texas are attracting millions of dollars in donations for relief efforts, much of it from corporate sources but ... website of the intended recipient nonprofit, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, ...

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Growing Number of Companies Opt for Locally Driven Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports GlobalGiving

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09/08/2017

Growing Number of Companies Opt for Locally Driven Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports ... Conference Board. ... Growing Number of Companies Opt for Locally Driven Hurricane Relief Efforts, Reports ...

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

A conversation with Williamson Foundation's ED Caroline Williams explores how the foundation uses adaptive leadership, the framework developed by Dr. Ronald Heifetz and colleagues at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice.

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The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

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NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

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09/20/2017

... to go deeper with connection, collaboration, and courage. For the majority of our grantmaking, NoVo almost always ...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... few years ago, the Hudson River Park Trust floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a ... space — not the least of which seems to be a taste for order. Opinion: How Parks Lose Their...

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Community Development

After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’

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09/25/2017

... continue? Bob Ottenhoff is president and CEO of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, a Washington-based nonprofit group ... They want to help. He predicts the amount of money donated for the current cluster...

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Disaster Relief

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... Why is meat so cheap? McDonald’s sells a McDouble burger for less than $2. A rotisserie chicken costs $4.99 at Costco. ... programs that fund marketing (“Beef, it’s what’s for dinner”). They take advantage of...

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Food Systems

Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

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09/27/2017

The MacArthur Foundation’s 100&Change competition began as an experiment in openness, in response to criticisms that the philanthropic sector is too insular, not sufficiently focused on impact, and too risk averse.

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... as a funder, Groundswell stands out in a number of ways. For one thing, its staff and board of directors are ... women of color, and women of color occupy the top spots. For another, all of its grantees engage...

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Gender Justice

A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

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10/06/2017

... vision that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for social change. The Rauschenberg Foundation, meanwhile, ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

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11/30/2017

... led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic, local government, and ... months of deep engagement with local communities, NGOs, philanthropies , the private...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Open Society Foundations

John B. King Jr., President and CEO of The Education Trust Speaks at the First Annual PNY Policy Forum

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01/31/2018

John B. King, Jr., CEO of The Education Trust, former U.S. Secretary of Education, and former New York State Education Commissioner touches on ESSA implementation, equity in education and policy opportunities in today’s political environment.

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PhilTalks

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The Century Foundation

Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley

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05/03/2018

... reflects a growing shift in educational attainment for area students. Educate Texas, an educational arm of ... business, workforce, community-based organizations and philanthropies . To do this, RGV FOCUS works...

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TCC Group Study Reinforces Importance of Funder Affinity Groups for Collaboration

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05/18/2018

... Study Reinforces Importance of Funder Affinity Groups for Collaboration Funders are feeling a greater imperative to ... these contending priorities is a tall order, especially for nonprofits with limited time...

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Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018

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07/11/2018

... Fund at the End of 2018 Diana Davenport, Vice President for Administration at the Commonwealth Fund, has announced ... of the philanthropic and nonprofit worlds of New York for more than twenty years. In...

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03 Dec 2018

Second Annual PNY Policy Forum: In Conversation with Katrina vanden Heuvel

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5:00pm to 6:30pm

... The Second Annual PNY Policy Forum will be an opportunity for Philanthropy New York members to hear from Katrina vanden ... Teresa Younger, President and CEO of the Ms. Foundation for Women, will engage vanden...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation is a Proud Supporter of the Special Olympics

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10/29/2018

A three-year, $10 million grant by SNF aims to increase the impact of Special Olympics’ school-based inclusive sports and education programming in expanding it to more schools around the world.

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Disabilities

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