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Insights from The Mechanics of Working Through Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - A Workshop Led by PRE

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12/06/2022

... Led by PRE PRE insights banner.png What does it mean to use a racial justice lens in your grantmaking? And what ... or shift towards racial justice. The goal is to understand how racialized lack of investment...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

20 Sep 2012

Luncheon Program with John Feather, Grantmakers in Aging

Thursday, September 20, 2012 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... age in communities throughout the country. Explore How GIA can better meet our needs as metro-NY area members What you would like to see GIA do in the future How GIA can remain at the cutting edge of improving...

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09 Jan 2014

Generation Next - Young Donors Inspiring a New Generation of Philanthropists

Thursday, January 9, 2014 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

... philanthropists. The webinar will include a discussion of how involvement in their family’s philanthropy led them to ... their organizations are doing to encourage new donors, and how they envision the future...

Improving Education May Come Down to Changing Principals

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09/08/2014

... of the principal has, traditionally, been overlooked. How about a new education reform push, one that focuses less ... managerial jobs and oversee instruction, too — what and how students are learning. The...

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Ford Foundation Asks if Capitalism Can be Made to Work Better for Society

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10/02/2014

... of the capitalist economic system, Walker asks, “ How do we support efforts to change a system in which our own grantmaking resources are cultivated? How can we inform a more inclusive capitalism in which free...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing President Obama's Executive Actions

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05/07/2015

... The Century Foundation, The New Era of Executive Action: How President Obama Is Advancing a Progressive Agenda , we ...

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Education

Environment and Climate Change

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MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

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09/18/2015

... Act® will feature a “Be the Change” segment on how corporate America is empowering people to build better ... “Providing quality, affordable financial tools and know- how for those in need” is the objective...

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Communications/Media

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MetLife

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Share Research on 'The Theory of the Foundation'

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03/23/2016

... for leaders to stop focusing on what Drucker labeled “ how to do” techniques, and instead think about three ... revisit their specific assumptions and beliefs about how they function at an institutional level...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

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01/24/2017

... you hang around philanthropy, the more you'll realize how deeply family background influences people's giving. Read ... philanthropic families we've also often been struck by how closely the...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Foundation

Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role

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02/14/2017

... and professional and personal networks - for example, how it is that when you have Philanthropy or Foundation after ... interview, Nicole Thomas of Citi Foundation, talks about how she is re-thinking power...

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Ford Foundation Supports 'Stay Midtown Program' to Respond to Recent Rental Cost Increases in Detroit

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03/22/2017

... The Stay Midtown program is one tangible example of how these recommendations can be implemented. Launched in ... quality of life will also be monitored along with how it affects neighborhood and community...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Ford Foundation

Aging Out of Foster Care Makes Eating Right a Challenge

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... to start. Turner realized he rarely received guidance on how to prepare nutritious meals or how to shop for healthy food on a budget so he decided to ...

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Children, Youth and Families

NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Director Pamela Shifman (pictured) to get the full scoop: How is the Radical Hope Fund different from your usual ... we believe in organizations making their own choices about how they spend their resources to...

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NoVo Foundation

Open Society Foundations, Ford and the Rockefeller Foundation Pledge Initial $5M For Battered Puerto Rico

Release Date:

11/16/2017

... 55 people across the U.S. territory. "We have to reimagine how we're going to rebuild," said Miguel Soto-Class, founder ... who will submit a report by early next year on where and how federal...

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Disaster Relief

The Aetna Foundation Launches Healthiest Cities & Counties Challenge to Empower Local Group Efforts

Release Date:

04/06/2018

... genetic code. Where you live impacts what foods you eat, how you exercise, how healthy your environment is, and what care you have ready ...

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Health

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Aetna Foundation

Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Judges Panel to Be Chaired by Clark Foundation President Douglas Bauer

Release Date:

10/22/2018

... Giroux) – A prizewinning poet and journalist examines how fracking affected the environment of a small Appalachian town, and how a struggling single mother fought back... Goddard ...

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Social Justice

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NYSHealth's Patients as Partners Provides $230,708 Patient Empowerment Grant

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... Grant To ensure that New Yorkers have a stronger role in how health care is delivered and how health policy is made, NYSHealth issued a request for ...

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Health

Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

Release Date:

06/12/2019

... question, the key ingredient is expertise: the know- how to harness technology, science and innovation in ways ... We encourage you to watch and listen to learn more about how many of today’s biggest...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

17 Jan 2013

A Holistic Approach to Education Reform in Brooklyn’s Community School District 16

Thursday, January 17, 2013 -

7:30am to 10:30am

... organize and maintain a community voice that can effectively reshape DOE policy in ways that structurally ...

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Issue-Based

10 Nov 2020

Financial Coaching with a Racial Equity Lens: Recommendations for Funders

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 -

9:30am to 10:30am

Grantmakers are increasingly applying a racial equity lens to their investments as an essential element to effective philanthropy. This session, in partnership with the Asset Funders Network, will offer an in-depth discussion on best practices,...