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Name-Dropping: Donors Get Tired. Models Do, Too

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... lapsed donor files — are among the most valuable sources of names for their campaigns. Karen Gleason, senior director ... donations. This raised an interesting question: Could the way the names were picked be...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease ... would reduce the need for repeated, continuous use of other malaria control measures,...

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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

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04/27/2018

... Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless ... the evidence that our young people are in harm’s way , we...

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How Ms. Foundation Sees Taking Children to Work Day as an Opportunity to Build Careers, Education and Upward Mobility

Release Date:

02/09/2018

... Upward Mobility To bridge the various gaps in our world of work today, and to find ways to work even smarter and to introduce new career paths, we should start by shifting the mindset of .....

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Open Society Foundations to close OSI-Baltimore after 25 years; will invest $20 million to seed the future of social justice philanthropy

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02/16/2023

... after 25 years; will invest $20 million to seed the future of social justice philanthropy The Open Society Foundations ... of excellence for testing and trying out solutions to the city ’s...

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Weinberg Foundation Names Jonathan D. Hook Their First Chief Investment Officer

Release Date:

04/17/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation , one of the largest private foundations in the United States, has named Jonathan D. Hook as its first Chief Investment Officer. Hook will work ...

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13 Nov 2025

Exploring Alternative Operating Models for Nonprofits

Thursday, November 13, 2025 -

9:30am to 12:30pm

** Please Note New Date: November 13, 2025 (moved from October 23) ** As funding cuts and uncertainty in the political environment continue, an increasing number of nonprofit leaders may need to...

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Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

Release Date:

05/06/2014

... to have the unique experience in my professional life of spanning different sectors – much of my career was spent ... the public sector, and served in the philanthropy sector as chief...

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Pennsylvania College Consortium Created With $800,000 From Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

07/03/2014

... $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new consortium designed to help them save money and improve ... by collaborating across campuses. The 10 members of the Pennsylvania Consortium for the...

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PNY Members Fund Youth Slam Poetry

Release Date:

09/24/2014

PNY Members Fund Youth Slam Poetry The empowering nature of slamming, and the ways that empowerment can translate into ... The money will flow through Youth Speaks and its Brave New Voices Network Initiative (BNV...

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Surdna Foundation

Ford Foundation

What's Next for Community Philanthropy

Publication date:

02/2015

... Next for Community Philanthropy toolkit includes a series of interactive exercises, conversation starters, and even ... challenge old assumptions, understand the full range of possibilities, and generate creative new approaches and models for the future. According to ...

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Monitor Institute

Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

Release Date:

05/07/2015

... at the Salk Institute have discovered a novel type of pluripotent stem cell–cells capable of developing into ... May 6, 2015 in Nature, the scientists report using these new stem cells to...

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Health

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Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth

Release Date:

01/22/2016

Chronicle of Social Change Profiles Hilton Foundation and Its Massive Growth As I discussed in my post last week on funders helping foster ... organized, shows how the foundation seeks out and supports new...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Salk Institute Awarded $25 Million Grant From Helmsley Charitable Trust

Release Date:

11/22/2016

... Studies has received a $25 million grant — a renewal of the largest research gift in the Institute’s 56-year ... humankind’s most devastating afflictions, and paves the way to new therapies...

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Staten Island Foundation Supports Worker-Owned Co-Op Businesses Starting Up on Staten Island

Release Date:

06/20/2017

... putting together final details, before the official launch of two new businesses. “Exciting because we're going to be our own ... we have our own business and we're going to run it the way...

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Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... that is so darn good you wonder why no one had thought of it before. Such is the case with Peconic Care, a proposed ... facility that promises to deal with the opioid crisis in a way that exists nowhere else...

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Sustainable Innovation: 5 Questions Every Company Should Ask Itself

Release Date:

09/25/2017

... Every Company Should Ask Itself In his book ‘The Way to Design,” Steve Vassalo quotes John Arnold, who ... early ‘60s called ‘How to Ask a Question’: “Each of man’s advances was started by a question….Knowing...

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Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream

Release Date:

01/05/2018

... American Dream—not only to advocate for the protection of America’s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term ... Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), but also as an important first step toward...

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Immigration

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Johnson & Johnson

Funded by The Tiffany & Co. Foundation, Scientists Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching

Release Date:

03/27/2018

... Develop Sun Shield to Prevent Coral Bleaching A group of scientists developed a "sun shield" that they hope can ... to corals. The project was also designed to explore new ways to reduce the impact...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

Arts Are A Strategy To Build Racial Equity

Release Date:

11/15/2016

... Racial Equity by Randy Engstrom, director Seattle Office of Arts & Culture at NY Community Trust, which will present ... in Practice: Current Policy and Research and the Future of New...

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Arts

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