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Surdna Foundation Names George Soule As Director Of Communications

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06/03/2013

... efforts. Soule will help Surdna find ways to use strategic communication to support and leverage its ... "The Surdna Foundation recognizes the powerful role strategic communication can play in creating a...

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16 Dec 2014

Best Practices in HR Compliance - Surviving a Department of Labor Audit

Tuesday, December 16, 2014 -

8:00am to 11:15am

... an attorney about compliance regulation and retirement plan consultants from a leading benefits brokerage firm. ... Services, Inc . Fran Farrante , Manager of Retirement Plan Administration, Alliant Insurance...

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07 Jun 2018

CFF Annual Gathering 2018

Thursday, June 7, 2018 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

... celebrate accomplishments from the past year and hear from your colleagues about different strategies being used to ... impact our regional food system. As part of the evening, we will spotlight the recipient...

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... can challenge and advance their knowledge and practices. We are a convener and a connector : we bring together funders from within and across sectors to ...

Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications

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12/04/2018

... groups that have had no previous connection with Arcus. We believe this process will provide greater clarity and ... long-term funding and collaboration. Through this process, we aim to identify a ...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Video: Celebrating 20 Years of Open Society Institute–Baltimore with Patrick Gaspard and the 2018 Open Society Institute Community Fellows

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04/01/2019

... the challenges to open societies around the world. We also introduced the new 2018 cohort of Open Society ... have lived the values of our tagline, “Bold Thinking, Strategic Action, Justice for All.” At this...

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09 Apr 2019

Service for Impact - Effective Strategies in Aligning Employee Engagement and Business Priorities

Tuesday, April 9, 2019 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... through volunteerism. As corporate citizenship leaders, we are uniquely equipped to connect our colleagues to ... benefit and positive social impact. Too often, however, we are tempted to pursue quick, one-off...

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14 May 2013

Service for Impact Working Group

Tuesday, May 14, 2013 -

9:00am to 10:30am

Supporting strategic volunteerism is a critical component to ... the need, to achieve maximum results and be sustainable. Strategic volunteer programs also provide a variety of ... while supporting business...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

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10/05/2017

... many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach. Many businesses are now looking to tap ... strategically. And he was right. “If you looked at what we were doing at the time, we...

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Community Development

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... of trans-identity, on view from February 9 through May 19, 2017 . Featuring the work of Janine Antoni, Andrea Bowers, ... how feminism in its many forms has changed the world as we know it... Shelley &...

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

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Arts

Gender Justice

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

... has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be ...

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Arts

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'Inside Philanthropy' Analyzes Doris Duke's Bet on the Arts to Counter Islamophobia

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04/12/2017

... in a positive light. Announced recently, DDFIA’s 2016- 2017 Building Bridges grants disbursed over $1.7 million to ...

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Sophy Yem Promoted to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation

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05/11/2022

... Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation We are thrilled to announce Sophy Yem’s promotion to Senior ... philanthropy and public service. Sophy joined Surdna in 2017 as Grants Manager, was...

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20 Feb 2013

Public Policy Communicators NYC: “Social Media Club”

Wednesday, February 20, 2013 -

11:00am to 2:00pm

... that generate new ideas. This Session: So, your organization has created a Facebook and/or Twitter ... account and has begun executing its “social media plan .” How’s that working out? Have you generated the...

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Beyond the Renovation: The Other Exciting Changes at The New York Public Library

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06/03/2013

... at 42nd Street , this project is only part of a larger plan . There is no question that we must invest in our library system at a time when use of ... skyrocketing, and by building capacity in targeted areas,...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... costs (or “overhead”) of nonprofit organizations? We examined the financials of 20 well-known, well-funded ... nonprofits to understand their true overhead costs, and we came to what should have been an...

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Democracy is a threat to white supremacy—and that is the cause of America’s crisis

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01/14/2021

... originally published by the Ford Foundation on January 7, 2021 . I have long believed that inequality is the greatest ... these last four years. It also casts a light on what we witnessed yesterday: A failed...

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Impact Investing in New York and Beyond

Release Date:

07/12/2012

... philanthropists, foundation executives and others who want to make an impact are harnessing the power of impact investing to pursue the changes they want to see in the world. For example: The W.K. Kellogg .....

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Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity: Thoughts from Maya Wiley

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01/07/2010

... of color. A race-focused systems analysis, which we at CSI call a “structural racism analysis,” reveals that the ways we have organized housing, jobs, transportation, education ... harmed communities are, why...

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