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The Rockefeller Foundation, Open Society Foundations, and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Create New Multilateral Development Banks Challenge Fund To Increase Investment in Developing Countries

Release Date: 
10/12/2022
... climate crises,” said Mike Muldoon, current Chief of Staff at The Rockefeller Foundation and former member of the ... heels of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen remarks about the changes needed in...

What More Can We Do?

Release Date: 
02/03/2021
... of the borough’s residents are non-white. For our staff at the Brooklyn Community Foundation, the events of the ... as the first cases were reported in New York City, our staff and Board came together to begin...
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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

Release Date: 
06/10/2021
... In the decades leading up to this moment, when talking about race was still largely unpopular in philanthropy, the ... endowed, raising what we give out each year, and with staff and boards composed largely of...
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Regulating Donor Advised Funds

Publication date: 
10/2015
A donor-advised fund is a giving vehicle designed to manage donations on behalf of individuals, families or organizations. DAFs provide a flexible way for donors to give to charities—an alternative to direct giving or creating a private foundation. Donors to DAFs enjoy administrative convenience, tax advantages and cost savings compared to operating a private foundation.

Payout Redux

Release Date: 
04/09/2010
... example, another foundation was regularly paying out about 7 percent. That is a perfectly fine choice for a board ... rate) on those issues and grantees each foundation cared about . A higher payout not only...
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After We Say Goodbye

Release Date: 
01/29/2010
... and gender inequities on a regular basis. I think about the story one grantee told of an elderly client—a ... Not another soul there, however—neither client nor staff —was a person of color. She felt so...
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New Survey from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

Release Date: 
01/29/2019
... in 2018, was to help measure the change in museum staff diversity since the 2015 baseline survey. The survey ... 21 positions. Overall, the findings indicate that museum staff have become more racially and...
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Arts
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Mellon Foundation

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