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Philanthropy As “Invisible Aid”

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08/31/2009

By Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York Philanthropy was once described as “invisible ... the “30 Grants in 30 Days” section of Philanthropy New York’s website. There are now 32 profiles of...

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PNY Members Among Companies Pledging Not to Lay Off Workers Amid Coronavirus Unemployment Crisis

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04/02/2020

... 14,000 in the United States, Marsh & McLennan chief executive Dan Glaser made a pledge to his employees. “I ... week they will suspend layoffs until the end of the year . “We don’t want our teammates to...

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PHI Granted $50,000 Award to Commemorate Retirement of President of John A. Hartford Foundation

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07/15/2015

... commemorate her retirement; she chose PHI. “Since I first came to know PHI more than a decade ago, I have always ...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... ordinary folks from abusive lenders who charge 400% a year interest for a “payday loan” or help them to budget ... get smarter. As a self-described math geek, Fellowes’ first instinct was to create a giant...

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Economic Security

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Commonwealth Fund Finds Both 'Private Option' and Traditional Medicaid Expansions Improved Access to Care

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01/06/2016

... examines the experiences of low-income adults during the first year of the ACA Medicaid expansion in three states that ...

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Addressing Poverty Through Digital And Financial Literacy (Capital One)

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01/07/2016

... . . The Points of Light Civic Accelerator, the first national accelerator program and investment fund in the ...

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Jonas Center Supports Global Health Nursing in the Dominican Republic

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02/03/2017

... communities in the Dominican Republic (DR). The first funded project was implemented in four communities in ... 2016 with mobile clinics held every three months for one year . The team reports that the access...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

The 2017 National Center for Responsive Philanthropy Impact Awards Winners Announced

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09/05/2017

... The 2017 NCRP Impact Awardees have been announced. This year ’s awards are special because of the challenging ... Mark Ruffalo is being honored for providing some of the first rapid-response funding to...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Open Society Foundations Seek Clarification on Pakistan NGO Ruling

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12/14/2017

... over 5,000 local staff. The Open Society Foundations first started working in the country in 2005, providing $3m of emergency relief aid for victims of that year ’s devastating earthquake. The Foundation Open...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2018 Sloan Research Fellows

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02/15/2018

... are quite literally the future of twenty- first century science.” Available to tenure track faculty ...

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Andrus Family Fund and Groundswell Fund Amongst Leading LGBTQ Funders

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05/07/2018

... shooting pushed total support above $200 million for the first time ever, a goal advocates hoped to achieve by happier ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Awards $18 Million to Expand Health Equity Fellows

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08/08/2018

... in building healthier, more equitable communities. The first two cohorts of fellows each comprised fifteen health ... will support an expanded cohort of twenty fellows a year . The support from Atlantic also...

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Researchers Find Alzheimer's One Day May Be Predicted During Eye Exam

Release Date:

08/23/2018

... to the appearance of clinical symptoms," said the study's first author, Bliss E. O'Bryhim, MD, PhD, a resident .....

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... Rico Youth Fellowships Program Hurricane Maria, which first made landfall about a year ago, took a devastating toll on Puerto Rico, wreaking ...

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Support From JPMorgan Chase and Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Aids Launch of Hudson County Workforce Leadership Academy

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04/19/2019

... Academies in the United States and Canada, and the first to offered in partnership with a community college. The ... Leadership Academy is one of four to be launched this year through the support of JPMorgan...

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With Support From the Surdna Foundation, This Organization Is Focused on Creating a National Black Tech Ecosystem

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07/31/2019

... vision of creating a national black tech ecosystem. The first grant awarded was from the Surdna Foundation whose ...

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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards Over $3 Million For Emergency Grant Program

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01/22/2020

... program, and anticipates making additional grants this year for Helping Hands to bring the total close to $4 ... recent round of grantmaking comes on the heels of the first Helping Hands convening, held in...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Gerstner Philanthropies

Build Up Advisory Group Shares Part III of How to Build an Effective Grant-Making Process

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03/26/2021

... This third building block comes after consideration of the first two building blocks, which are understanding your ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?

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02/10/2016

... association of state health policy leaders from both the executive and legislative branches, which we have supported ...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation and Social Justice Impact Investing

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07/05/2018

For many institutions, especially those with social justice missions, there are big questions about how exactly to execute a hugely varying set of tactics that get lumped under the same rubric of impact investing. One of those institutions is the...

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