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30 May 2013

Knowledge Tools for Funders

Thursday, May 30, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... and their foundation colleagues and curate knowledge about their fields. Whether you’re a Luddite, a digital ... or a digital native, join us for a webinar to learn about online tools that can help you work...

Save the Date: Philanthropy Week in Washington 2014

Release Date:

01/15/2014

... media events, philanthropic leaders will tell policymakers about philanthropy at work in the daily lives of their constituents and raise public awareness about the sector's successes. Philanthropy Week...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits

Release Date:

06/04/2015

... the U.S. embassy in Havana. Some expressed trepidation about what explosive private-sector development in Cuba could ... Barnes said that while she and her colleagues were elated about the decision to re-...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

Release Date:

08/17/2015

... or a donor-advised fund*. You are probably concerned about where that money goes: which nonprofit will use it ... kind of difference it will make with the causes you care about . Yet as an investor, how and...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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F.B. Heron Foundation

NoVo Foundation Examines Unequal Funding for Women and Girls of Color

Release Date:

10/23/2015

... Change and Inside Philanthropy are convening a webinar about impact giving for women and girls of color in early ... with NoVo Foundation’s Executive Director Pamela Shifman about the new Grantmakers for Girls...

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Social Justice

Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

The Next Generation in Philanthropy: From The Rockefeller Foundation To The Zuckerberg Chan Initiative

Release Date:

01/05/2016

... received a lot of attention and has started a conversation about the next generation of philanthropy. A notable twist ... but in the end the Zuckerberg Chan Initiative is less about avoiding legal structures...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

BUILD Health Call for Partners

Release Date:

06/02/2016

... We hope you can help us spread the word to your members about this opportunity to join BULD Health. Attached you can find an outreach kit with more information about BUILD Health, newsletter blurbs, social...

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RFPs Etc

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Health

PhilTV This Week: Jan 27, 2017

Release Date:

01/27/2017

... the Classroom Darren Walker of Ford Foundation Speaks Out About Why It's Essential to Partner With Businesses Insights .....

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PhilTV This Week

Childcare Hasn’t Gained Much Traction with Funders. Who's Trying to Change That?

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... seems like a natural interest for funders that care either about early childhood education or the struggles of working ... investment in grassroots organizations. It got serious about childcare about...

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Sector News

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Children, Youth and Families

Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Food System The food movement has a problem: It’s right about what’s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But what is the “food movement?” I ... food, which make us fat and sick. While we can...

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Sector News

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Food Systems

Funded In Part by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard College to Launch ‘Microcollege,’ Targeting Low-Income Applicants

Release Date:

11/01/2017

... discouraged, excluded or underestimated. “The way we go about college access in the U.S. is a catastrophic ... and daring in thinking outside conventional ideas about how to locate and engage students.” Mr...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

Release Date:

11/02/2017

... and playwright Jocelyn Bioh decided to write a play about African characters — a searing play, a brutal play, a ... to write the ‘poverty porn,’ ” she said. “The play about African suffering.” She ended up...

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Arts

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The Tow Foundation

Surdna Foundation Announces Over $600,000 in Impact Investing Grants

Release Date:

01/11/2018

... Surdna’s commitment to impact investing is not just about furthering its mission, but it’s also about building and strengthening the field of impact ... its experience and lessons-learned with others thinking...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Surdna Foundation

F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

Release Date:

02/26/2018

... into impact investments. As of the end of the year, about 60% of Heron's funds were in such vehicles, with the ... hitting 100% by 2017. (Here's a previous post I wrote about going all in). I...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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F.B. Heron Foundation

New York State Health Foundation Funded Study Finds Most NY Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans

Release Date:

03/01/2018

... Health Providers Are Not Ready to Care for Veterans Only about 2 percent of the physicians and other health care ... veterans. The study is the first to gather information about the readiness of community-...

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Member News

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Veterans

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New York Health Foundation

All Proceeds From the Auction of David and Peggy Rockefeller's Art Collection Will Go to Charity

Release Date:

03/15/2018

... the fire at his farmhouse in upstate New York, reminiscing about his father, the late David Rockefeller. "One of his ... the best scrambled eggs I've ever had.' We used to kid him about it. But...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Salesforce.org Join Other Techies to Help Aid Groups Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis

Release Date:

03/16/2018

... overhaul the way they operate. “At the moment, there are about 65 million people displaced as result of conflict, and ... it’s not just weeks and months that we have to think about their needs–we have to think...

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Member News

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Salesforce

Newman's Own Foundation Launches New Website to Share the Common Good

Release Date:

09/12/2018

... Common Good website is aimed at filling a void of coverage about the philanthropic world by highlighting stories about people and organizations that are improving lives and ... charitable front and allow users...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Newman's Own Foundation

The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America Committed $1 Million to Children's Health Fund

Release Date:

12/03/2018

... Griffin will help students at Cook Elementary School learn about the importance good oral hygiene at a fun and ... among several activities designed to get them thinking about good oral hygiene at an early age...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

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The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

You Can't Count if You're Not Counted: Exhibition Explores Census in NYC, Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

11/06/2019

... curator at MCNY. Henry’s conversations with Salvo about the census began while he was a consultant on MCNY’s ... As the 2020 count approached, “The need to talk about data and why the census matters became...

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Member News

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Arts

Civic Engagement

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Mellon Foundation

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