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Jane Levikow Joins Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors as Director of Sponsored Projects

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12/03/2012

... served as Senior Vice President of Tides , a donor-advised grantmaking nonprofit, leading its fiscal sponsorship ... relief to education reform to women’s empowerment and more , help make philanthropy ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

16 Mar 2016

New York Foster Youth Funders Group - Spring Meeting

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and some initiatives focused on boys and men of color and more recently strategic development around girls of color. ... level as well as in New York. We invite you to learn more about this work and explore...

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Network Building

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

PNY Members Named to Council on Foundations' 2022 Career Pathways Leadership Development Program

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02/23/2022

... selective program represent a wide range of foundations, grantmaking institutions, and philanthropic organizations. ... will build an individuals’ capacity to become even more effective in their current roles...

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Thanu Yakupitiyage Appointed Program Officer, Sustainable Environments at the Surdna Foundation

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04/27/2023

... and power-building for racial justice, Thanu will guide grantmaking and partnerships that advance solutions by and ... collaboration with Surdna grantee partners, we can build a more regenerative and just...

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Surdna Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Strengthens Support of Media That Matters

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05/31/2016

... the ever-growing field of media that matters. Learn more at mediaimpactfunders.org. The Atlantic Philanthropies ... Africa, the United States and Vietnam, will complete all grantmaking in 2016 and conclude...

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Communications/Media

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Mellon Foundation Unveils New Visual Identity

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03/28/2022

... the centrality of social justice in the Foundation’s grantmaking . “Artists, scholars, and other cultural ... make sense of challenging times, and drive us to imagine a more beautiful, more...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

Release Date:

07/16/2015

... staff in the U.S. I looked into this trying to find a more solid number, and the best estimate I could track down ... of program staff, folks responsible for doing the bulk of grantmaking , is much smaller. In...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

United Hospital Fund Issues Report on Pediatric Primary Care

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01/08/2016

... for all children, it also pays special attention to the more complex issues of children living in ... advances suggest that the health care system can do more to leverage that access to promote lifelong health...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

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United Hospital Fund

Why Pickleball?

Release Date:

05/04/2017

... people live, learn, work, and play affect their health far more than genes or clinical care do. If a person can barely ... it was well known that health outcomes are determined by more than medical care, but...

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

07 Oct 2013

Transition Town NYC: Priceless Prosperity With Market Rate Returns

Monday, October 7, 2013 -

8:30am to 11:30am

Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Avenue, NYC

... an increasingly important issue, and helps to create more self-reliant and joyful communities. Supporting local ... energy and overall economic progress. This special event has been put together to teach...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Alfred Ironside Vice President for Global Communications

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11/21/2014

... in crisis, he was dispatched to war and disaster zones in more than 30 countries. He is widely respected in the ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

Education

Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Opioid Crises Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium

Release Date:

02/26/2018

... that she had no idea why she had been invited to the event . Someone knew what they were doing because by the time ... Justice’s Center on Media, Crime and Justice . The event , sponsored by the Harry Frank...

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Health

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

22 Feb 2022

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium XVI – Beyond Recovery: Transforming to Drive Change

Tuesday, February 22, 2022 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

... of Metropolitan New York. Additional Sponsors and Event Supporters include: Adelphi University/Center for ... click on the "Register Now" link above. (no fee). For more information about the ...

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Executive Leadership

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Rockefeller Foundation Announces ShiftLabs: A Community Design Lab on the Future of Work

Release Date:

02/28/2018

... A Community Design Lab on the Future of Work Work is more than just a paycheck. It is the way we support our ... cannot expect to stay in one job or industry for 40 years; more people are proactively creating...

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Member News

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Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Policy Experts Discuss Future College Affordability at Century Foundation Gathering

Release Date:

09/27/2018

... Ideas for the Next Congress and Beyond,” an event hosted by The Century Foundation that brought policy ... Higher Education Act is reauthorized – to make college more accessible and affordable. “One of the...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

University of Pennsylvania Receives $6 Million Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gift to Launch Paideia Program

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03/15/2019

... “Among the many aims of a great university, none is more essential than fostering the free exchange of ideas and ... of Pennsylvania will be dedicated to doing just that, and more than that. Paideia will...

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Education

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

GoVoteNYC Fund Announces $1 Million in Grants for Voter Engagement

Release Date:

04/26/2021

... Together, this cohort is working directly with more than 60 community and citywide groups and has a presence in more than 200 neighborhoods. They aim to build off of ... city’s mayor was in 1993. This year the...

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Civic Engagement

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The New York Community Trust

04 Apr 2024

A Conversation for Funders on Reforms for Disaster Assistance to Help Survivors Recover Faster - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, April 4, 2024 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... due to our changing climate. These reforms will create more equitable outcomes for all communities by increasing ... have echoed these concerns and pressed for simpler, more straightforward programs to assist...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

Gender and Transformative Giving

Release Date:

05/23/2013

... They wanted to then track how that was applied in actual grantmaking and through the programmatic work of grantees. ... a similar analysis ourselves and were unable to identify more than a handful of major...

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Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Surdna Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation Launch the Tipping Point Fund to Help Scale the Impact Investing Field

Release Date:

12/05/2019

... that is necessary to maintain the continued growth—and more importantly, the integrity—of the impact investing ... policy advocacy and implementation) to enable or encourage more investors to enter the market...