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10 Jan 2013

The First Year: How to Hire, Inspire and Empower a New Family Foundation CEO

Thursday, January 10, 2013 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

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Hiring a new CEO is one of the most important transitions that any ... Co-Founder, TransitionGuides Leah Gary, President and CEO, William J. and Dorothy K. O’Neill Foundation...

07 Jan 2014

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Tuesday, January 7, 2014 - 7:00am to Friday, January 10, 2014 - 6:00pm

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers (ESS) provides an introduction to grantmaking ... philanthropy for program officers with less than two years of experience in the philanthropic sector. The three...

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Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

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11/20/2017

Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation Dana K. Bezerra will assume the role of President at Heron as of December 31, 2017, the...

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Obama Foundation Announces Wally Adeyemo as President

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08/14/2019

Obama Foundation Announces Wally Adeyemo as President The Obama Foundation announced that former Deputy ... Advisor for International Economics and Deputy Director of the National Economic...

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Heckscher Foundation Supported EdTrust–NY Launches New Data Tool “The New York FAFSA Challenge” to Highlight Success and Encourage FAFSA completion.

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02/19/2019

Heckscher Foundation Supported EdTrust–NY Launches New Data Tool “The New York FAFSA Challenge” to Highlight Success and Encourage ... their wealthier peers to attend schools with low rates...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Education

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Salesforce.org And United Way Are Teaming Up To Change Corporate Giving

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02/27/2018

... employees donate through company charity programs. Most of these are straightforward and transactional: There’s ... app that allows you to learn more about causes, suggests new ways for you to get involved,...

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Technology

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Steven Denning Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

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01/15/2019

... that Steven Denning has been elected to its Board of Directors. Mr. Denning is the Chairman of General Atlantic ... he joined in 1980 at its founding and helped to establish as a leading...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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NY State Health: Medicare Snapshot - Stories from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs

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09/26/2017

... Medicare Snapshot - Stories from the Helpline - Improving New York State Access to Medicare Savings Programs Half of all New Yorkers with Medicare live on annual incomes...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

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03/29/2017

Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform ... assets. The all-volunteer organization will debut a new recreational space and water harvesting cistern this ... donations from Garnier®,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Joins More Than 80 Philanthropic Leaders to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals

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02/15/2018

Silicon Valley Community Foundation Joins More Than 80 Philanthropic Leaders to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals Coming out of a historic meeting that brought together philanthropic ... change. During the...

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JPMogan Chase Announces New Initiatives to Create Affordable Housing in the South Bronx

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10/07/2015

JPMogan Chase Announces New Initiatives to Create Affordable Housing in the South ... housing developers. As the lead philanthropic partner of both developments, the investments will help support...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow

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10/07/2015

Michelle Alexander Joins Ford Foundation as Senior Fellow Legal scholar and ... over the past two decades. Her best-selling book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of...

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New York Health Foundation

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Who Are the One Million New Yorkers Still Without Healthcare?

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06/25/2014

... President , Public Policy & Communications, Philanthropy New York When the deadline for insurance coverage through our ... was roundly lauded as a major success story in...

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PNY News

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Health

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Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards

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05/20/2015

Brooklyn Community Foundation, OSF and New York Foundation Accept National Impact Awards The NCRP ... United States. As the country's only independent watchdog of...

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Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City Cannot Accept Donations for World Cup Parade

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07/10/2015

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City Cannot Accept Donations for World Cup Parade ... reported that corporate sponsors were falling well short of the parade’s $2 million projected tab,...

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Wallace Foundation President Explains Foundation’s “Unified Approach”

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12/20/2017

... into this. Wallace’s approach is grounded in the notion of “working in and through” the marketplace of ideas to find workable solutions to complex problems, such as how to effectively train...

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12 Feb 2020

Prose for Program Officers: A Workshop in Writing for Philanthropic Audiences

Wednesday, February 12, 2020 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... consultant to local and national foundation staff, as she provides the tips and tools to write with ... your objectives drive the structure, approach, and tone of your writing Presenter Joanne Tzanis ,...

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Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream

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01/05/2018

Johnson & Johnson Joins the Coalition for the American Dream Johnson & Johnson ... American Dream—not only to advocate for the protection of America’s Dreamers and find a bipartisan, long-term .....

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