The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards
Release Date:
01/10/2023
... more about the projects and recipients. “This is our first time offering this award and we received an impressive ...
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Mellon Foundation Appoints Sheree Carter-Galvan as Chief Legal Officer
Release Date:
01/11/2023
... within their collections. Carter-Galvan spent the first 10 years of her career in the New York City offices of ...
Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies announced our 2022 grants total of $57 million
Release Date:
01/31/2023
... for dioceses across Kenya. And in 2022, we welcomed the first class of Trinity Leadership Fellows, with participants ...
Brooklyn Community Foundation Partners on $2.2M "Welcome NYC" Initiative for Nonprofits Serving Asylum Seekers
Release Date:
03/03/2023
... own communities. It was clear from the moment when the first buses arrived at the Port Authority that giving asylum ...
University of Montana Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Native American Humanities
Release Date:
07/13/2023
... the country in the arts and higher education. This is the first time the Mellon Foundation selects UM for funding to ...
Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?
Release Date:
09/12/2013
... with foundations points to a number of problems. First , people who work in foundations are naturally ... : I would split your argument in half and agree with the first point. Whether it is big foundations or...
As National Momentum Grows, Advocates’ Voices Ring Out On Capitol Hill
Release Date:
12/19/2012
... and hog-tied like an animal. It was in that meeting that I first remember hearing the phrase “school to prison ... Education and Dignity in Schools Campaign, testify at the first -ever Congressional hearing on...
Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State
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02/29/2012
... Governor, Andrew Cuomo, took office in January 2011. His first budget proposal was entirely directed at achieving the ... are tracking projections; this can be seen as a big first step toward Ravitch’s...
Capacity Building Begins At Home
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06/04/2009
... of funding practices…” (emphasis added). The first step is to identify what foundations should do to ... true when we are talking about our own practice. Thus, the first two steps could be: Survey grantees...
Some Measure of Leadership
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04/23/2009
... progress, they struck me and others as no more than first steps, given the importance of the sector (in his ... help too. The Mayor’s speech raises two larger issues. First , it simply isn’t clear from the...
Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx
Release Date:
10/07/2015
... of a new interdisciplinary food studies program – the first in the US at a community college. The food studies ... program was two years in the making, and last month, the first official class of students...
The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants
Release Date:
11/20/2017
... have been awarded a combined total of $1,000,000, the first recipients of Resiliency-NYC grants from The New ... provides support for NALP leadership programs that prepare first and second-generation women to...
UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges
Release Date:
07/10/2019
... the power to make a difference on this critical issue. First , funders concerned about the census can feel ... for those community-based GOTC efforts. The Fund’s first grant was to the Rockefeller Institute of...
Native Wisdom: A Review Of Edgar Villanueva’s Decolonizing Wealth
Release Date:
09/24/2019
... both a grant maker and a member of the continent’s first tribes. Drawing on Native American wisdom, he presents ... own experience as a member of the Lumbee tribe, the very first people on the North American...
How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly
Release Date:
12/05/2019
... serve as a vehicle for justice? We believe that the first step is recognizing that philanthropy has a problem, ... are the people, families, and communities that have first -hand experience with the problems we...
Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting
Release Date:
02/19/2020
... competition Climate-change efforts are putting people first . Some of the most powerful environmental work are those ... grant makers do that, the J.M. Kaplan Fund is, for the first time, opening up our trove...
Philanthropy New York Signs Letter to Governor Cuomo for Prompt Contracting and Payment of Nonprofits
Release Date:
07/29/2020
... law. State agencies should pay any interest due with the first payment under a contract to help NFPs avoid cash flow ... do not impose retroactive cuts. Nonprofits put mission first and often continue to...
Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations
Release Date:
06/10/2021
... impact (including in the 2020 elections) received their first grants, and their most consistent and flexible funding, ... with extraction and gentrification by doing two things: first , sapping the precious...
Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply
Release Date:
01/27/2023
... social inequality that made their wealth possible in the first place has not invited, welcomed, or appreciated the ... skills, and experience. To change this system, the first step is for fundraisers to name...
Elevating Feminist Leadership and Thought on International Women's Day
Release Date:
03/08/2023
... Brothers Fund. March 8 is International Women’s Day. First recognized by the United Nations in 1977, this global ... intersectional. The Combahee Woman’s Collective for the first time really understood...