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Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street

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01/19/2016

... Wall Street. She will create and lead the church’s first in-house investment team, shepherding the ... hire for a new investment team under the Corporation’s first Chief Investment Officer, Ellen Shuman. At...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Trinity Wall Street

NoVo Foundation Announces $90M Investment in Girls & Young Women of Color Across the U.S.

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03/23/2016

... the next seven years. In the United States, the foundation first began working with girls and young women of color, ... the Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, the first ever caucus devoted to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Philanthropy Must Shift Power to Others

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05/06/2016

... systems that keep women from accessing their power in the first place. We have been around long enough to know that ... norms and beliefs that marginalize women and girls in the first place, by carefully...

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Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

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06/14/2016

... for charities is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. The First Amendment prohibits the federal government from ... food banks, and public radio, along with the nation’s first charitable tax credit for gifts...

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NYC Cultural Agenda Fund Places Marker on Racial Justice Initiative Ahead of City’s Cultural Plan Release

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10/12/2016

... Cultural Plan Release As New York City prepares its first comprehensive cultural plan, the New York City Cultural ... equity during this historic moment as the City crafts its first cultural plan," says...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

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01/23/2017

... San Francisco Bay Area. This innovative challenge is the first -ever to be modeled after the award-winning Rebuild by ... by Design will be divided into two phases: in the first phase, teams will participate in...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

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02/13/2017

... Post and re-posted with permission by the author. These first two weeks in Trump’s America have been chaotic and ... to the work in these uncertain times. Put Progress First Philanthropy has always been a...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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The Largest Philanthropy Network Has a New Name: United Philanthropy Forum

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07/19/2017

... Forum opened its membership to national PSOs. In just the first six months under this new membership structure, the ... site on your website New emails for Forum staff will be ( first name)@ unitedphilforum...

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

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Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals

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02/22/2018

... any time in the history of mankind.” For many of us, the first months of 2018 will go down in history as a similarly ... to accelerate SDG progress through partnerships. First , there is a clear need for agreed...

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Johnson & Johnson

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

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05/17/2018

... across all medical schools administering it. Dr. Jagsi’s first paper on the inaugural year of FRCS revealed much new ... Thirty-three supplemental grants were made in the first year, ranging from $33,000 to $...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job: A Landscape Scan of Assessment Tools

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08/02/2018

... and adapt to changing contexts, nonprofits need, first , to be able to gauge organizational health. This can ... several things that can make using a tool more effective. First , it is important to be prepared...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Nonprofit Resource Equity and Access: A Call to Close the Gap

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08/14/2018

... Nonprofit leaders in attendance demonstrated expert first -hand knowledge of their communities, deep commitment to ... comply with funding requirements. Individuals also shared first -hand accounts of struggles...

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Nonprofit Finance Fund

Reflections on Launching a Philanthropic Fund in Six Months

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09/19/2019

... a drop in the proverbial bucket. That’s why one of my first tasks when I joined the fund was to articulate—in ... Fund adopted a “learning by doing” approach for our first year. We hope that, by orienting our...

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World Education Services / WES Mariam Assefa Fund

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Blue Meridian’s Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

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04/10/2020

... response funds will flow to communities in two ways. First , we will support community-based organizations to ... to especially vulnerable individuals and families. Our first investments include the Family...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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CUNY Receives $10 Million from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to Expand Pandemic and Racial Justice Initiatives

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08/13/2020

... of New York City. Founded in 1847 as the nation’s first free public institution of higher education, CUNY today ... historic mission continues to this day: provide a first -rate public education to all students...

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Solon E. Summerfield Foundation, Inc. Announces Two New Board Members

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10/14/2020

... COOP , a nonprofit organization with a mission to help first generation college graduates overcome underemployment ... into leadership positions. Randy led partnerships and first -year student success at CUNY’s...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Releases Results of 4-Year Study of Restorative Justice Implementation in Schools

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10/08/2020

... York City Department of Education. “They were among the first to partner with us on restorative justice and helped ... findings from the Brooklyn Restorative Justice Project’s first year (2016) based upon...

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Education

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Brooklyn Org

Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families

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01/20/2021

... supporters) could have imagined this role when they first invested in creating these networks, but without them, ...

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is Building an Anti-racist, Anti-sexist Institution

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02/09/2021

... staff working group in 2008, the year America elected its first Black president. Those efforts reached an inflection ... persistent racism that began 400 years ago when white men first brought enslaved...

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