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Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State

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02/05/2016

... Tisch, will be the featured speaker. The breakfast event will honor Suzette Brooks Masters, JM Kaplan Fund; ... Trust; and Laurie Dien, Pinkerton Foundation. For more information, visit City & State...

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The New York Community Trust

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Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

... (Rockefeller Foundation) I recently went to an event at the Center for Strategic and International Studies ... 'Impact Investing: An Opportunity for Development?'. The event brought together a...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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A Better Gala—Here's How Pershing Square Marked a Key Milestone

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06/19/2017

... hedge funder Bill Ackman and his wife Karen, is one of the more interesting new funders to emerge from the finance world ... didn’t feel like donning the heels and the energy this event would require of me...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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Ford’s President Highlights Government’s Role in Reducing Inequality

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10/30/2015

... grantees. In the near future, Ford plans to articulate a more detailed grant-making strategy to combat racial, gender, ...

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board

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06/02/2016

... and visual storytelling, can contribute to a fairer and more just society... Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander .....

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Arts

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Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education

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09/13/2016

... vision" for the humanities. It's interesting stuff and, more to the point, this funder is hugely important given its large footprint in higher ed grantmaking . If you're hustling for one of its...

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Education

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Carnegie Teams Up With City, Other Local Foundations to Help New Yorkers

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12/21/2016

... provide money and technological capacity. New York-based grantmaking foundations distributed about $10.7 billion of the more than $60 billion given to grantees across the United ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Where Have Conrad Hilton Foundation's Global Grants Been Going Lately?

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12/22/2016

... size and reach, it keeps a relatively low profile. It's more of work horse than a show horse as a funder. Even it ... claims to be on the cutting edge of this or that fancy grantmaking trend... Where Have...

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29 Apr 2015

Measuring Impact: Joys, Monsters and Opportunities in Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation - Webinar

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... interventions? This webinar will give a 30,000 foot overview of the state of the evaluation field in ... funders can support better learning and impact in their grantmaking , and how both funders and grantees...

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Barbara Picower Is Back In Business As One Of The Nation's Top Philanthropists

Release Date:

09/09/2014

... top philanthropists, heading a new foundation with more than $2 billion in assets. Operating out of one of ... a person familiar with its activities, and currently has more than $2 billion of assets. That...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Health

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Freedom Together Foundation

Three Essential Insights on International Impact Investing

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09/08/2014

... impact investments. Arabella recently hosted a series of webinars focused on impact investing in Sub-Saharan ... investment environment. Though the region is becoming more economically stable, 70 percent of...

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15 Leaders of Color Selected for Pinkerton Leadership Network

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03/03/2021

... at the hands of the police, the initiative includes a series of grants to organizations doing exceptional work on ... • Shauwea Hamilton, Bottom Line To learn more about these leaders, click here ... * The...

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Social Justice

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Program Recap—Perpetuity or Limited Life: How Do Family Foundations Decide?

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07/29/2009

More than 30 grantmakers gathered on July 9th for a ... that while spending down doesn’t inherently affect grantmaking strategy, for them it did mean that the Fund ... payout. UPDATE: Anita Nager was gracious...

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Recording: The Youth Mental Health Crisis: A Half-Day Convening Focused on How Philanthropy Can Make All the Difference

... of Behavioral Health Laurel Dumont , Senior Director, Grantmaking , the Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Panel 3: ...

Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

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03/15/2017

... change in the world. Programming will include strategic grantmaking , cross-sector convenings and ... strategic area for investment. The 2016 #PopJustice report series , supported by Unbound Philanthropy and...

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Arts

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Why U.S. Foundations Should Take the Global Sustainable Development Goals Seriously

Release Date:

06/21/2016

... create a common agenda. When that impasse finally thawed, more efficient economies, more effective governance, greater social justice and a ... with civil society and local communities through our ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

... people by raising money and providing support faster and more nimbly than government can often do. I began to think ... and communities most affected by this type of unexpected event . Our office was located in...

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Mike Bloomberg Publishes Annual Letter on Philanthropy

Release Date:

05/23/2018

... is underway, Bloomberg writes: "As Washington has grown more dysfunctional, American cities have grown more dynamic. Mayors in both parties are leading .....

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