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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

Release Date:

09/28/2016

... Resilient Place, co-hosted by The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions and Neighborhood Funders Group. Yet ... they can keep enduring under that mantle of oppression for years more, perhaps allowing...

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Andrus Family Fund

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... of the Duty Free Shoppers Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies , ranks as the most generous in terms of ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Hurricane Matthew Resources and Haitian Humanitarian Crisis Update

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... remarks from David Biemesderfer , President and CEO for the Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. ... Crisis & Tragedies A Twitter chat on best practices for funders responding to community crises...

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RFPs Etc

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Disaster Relief

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

21 Nov 2016

Trump’s Presidency and the New Congress: What the Future Holds for Immigrants and Refugees - Webinar

Monday, November 21, 2016 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... of unauthorized immigrants, cancel Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), suspend refugee resettlement ... wall plan. These policies, several of which are planned for the first 100 days in office,...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Immigration

Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

Release Date:

12/09/2016

... news in a new report from our organization, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). But there is bad news, too, ... cite a number of barriers that impede foundation impact. For the most part, foundation...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

Release Date:

01/18/2017

Founder-led organizations go through many stages – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it’s not always seamless! Philanthropic dollars, staff time, and end-user resources can be wasted through inefficient and counterproductive...

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After the Q&A

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

Release Date:

01/24/2017

Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice The longer you hang around philanthropy, ... Read through the letters of the Giving Pledge members, for example, and you'll see that many...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Foundation

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

Release Date:

03/03/2017

... If ever there were a problem that might seem tailor-made for philanthropy, it's fighting blindness. Losing sight is a horrifying fate for anyone to contemplate, and it's not surprising that blindness...

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Health

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge to Benefit 14 Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. and UK

Release Date:

03/23/2017

Morgan Stanley on March 22 announced the launch of the ninth annual Strategy Challenge, the Firm’s signature skills-based pro bono volunteer program.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Morgan Stanley [Corporate]

NCN Requests Foundations Sign on to Oppose Repeal of the Johnson Amendment

Release Date:

03/28/2017

The National Council of Nonprofits is putting out an urgent call to all nonprofits and foundations to sign on to a Community Letter in Support of Nonpartisanship.

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Complete This Survey on Foundation Openness and Shared Insights

Release Date:

04/19/2017

... Associations of Grantmakers is partnering with the Fund for Shared Insight to support foundation openness activities ... regional cohorts and dialogues. As part of the evaluation for this project, the Forum...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Conrad Hilton Foundation, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Noted Among Philanthropic Heroes of Refugee Crisis

Release Date:

05/24/2017

... year. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the conflict has resulted in over 5 ... launched the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) for 2017. The plan calls ...

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Member News

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting

Release Date:

06/05/2017

Ford Foundation Supports 'Groundtruth Project' For In-Depth International Reporting Foreign news bureaus ... They started fundraising in 2011, gained 501(c)3 status for GlobalTruth in 2014, and now...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Ford Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... past several years is the massive outpouring of investment for urban youth and employment. But financial giants are also ... Foundation continues a longstanding history of support for affordable housing...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

Release Date:

06/14/2017

... the field of biomedical research—investigators looking for breakthroughs to the world’s most persistent health challenges, from finding a cure for cancer to improving drug treatments for...

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Science

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Rita Allen Foundation

A Better Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone

Release Date:

06/19/2017

The Pershing Square Foundation stands out by backing some truly innovative grantees—and it highlighted social innovators through two panels.

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Pershing Square Foundation

NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... new money flowing into the social sector. What's a cause for concern, though, is that a tiny sliver of the .....

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The New York Community Trust

Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation

Release Date:

07/20/2017

Morgan Stanley Lights Up Times Square for the New York Women’s Foundation The New York Women’s ... at Broadway between West 47 Street and West 48 Street for the entire month. “Morgan Stanley has been a vital .....

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The New York Women's Foundation

Pershing Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use

Release Date:

08/10/2017

... Square, Ford, Open Society Among Funders of Measures for Justice, Putting Data to Better Use The world of crowded ... data wonks usually inhabit. But according to Measures for Justice (MFJ), better data is key...