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Surdna Foundation Appoints Melissa D’Arienzo, Miguel A. Santana, and Ommeed Sathe to its Board

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12/16/2022

... the City’s $9 billion budget and designing its first comprehensive homeless strategy.   Learn more about ...

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... more about the projects and recipients. “This is our first time offering this award and we received an impressive ...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Mellon Foundation Appoints Sheree Carter-Galvan as Chief Legal Officer

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01/11/2023

... within their collections. Carter-Galvan spent the first 10 years of her career in the New York City offices of ...

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Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies announced our 2022 grants total of $57 million

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01/31/2023

... for dioceses across Kenya. And in 2022, we welcomed the first class of Trinity Leadership Fellows, with participants ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Partners on $2.2M "Welcome NYC" Initiative for Nonprofits Serving Asylum Seekers

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03/03/2023

... own communities. It was clear from the moment when the first buses arrived at the Port Authority that giving asylum ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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University of Montana Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Native American Humanities

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07/13/2023

... the country in the arts and higher education. This is the first time the Mellon Foundation selects UM for funding to ...

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Philanthropy Must Act Now — Vulnerable Communities Can’t Afford to “Wait and See”

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04/01/2025

... during Covid or the so-called Muslim ban during the first Trump administration. “Please,” we asked, “can ...

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Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?

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09/12/2013

... with foundations points to a number of problems. First , people who work in foundations are naturally ... : I would split your argument in half and agree with the first point. Whether it is big foundations or...

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As National Momentum Grows, Advocates’ Voices Ring Out On Capitol Hill

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12/19/2012

... and hog-tied like an animal. It was in that meeting that I first remember hearing the phrase “school to prison ... Education and Dignity in Schools Campaign, testify at the first -ever Congressional hearing on...

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Capacity Building Begins At Home

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06/04/2009

... of funding practices…” (emphasis added). The first step is to identify what foundations should do to ... true when we are talking about our own practice. Thus, the first two steps could be: Survey grantees...

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Some Measure of Leadership

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04/23/2009

... progress, they struck me and others as no more than first steps, given the importance of the sector (in his ... help too. The Mayor’s speech raises two larger issues. First , it simply isn’t clear from the...

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Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

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10/07/2015

... of a new interdisciplinary food studies program – the first in the US at a community college. The food studies ... program was two years in the making, and last month, the first official class of students...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Education

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The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants

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11/20/2017

... have been awarded a combined total of $1,000,000, the first recipients of Resiliency-NYC grants from The New ... provides support for NALP leadership programs that prepare first and second-generation women to...

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Overcoming Setbacks

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09/11/2018

... and more than 50 years later we finally elected our first black president. Examples of loss and recovery abound ... in his life, Benjamin Franklin—arguably America’s first philanthropist—conceived of a...

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UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges

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07/10/2019

... the power to make a difference on this critical issue. First , funders concerned about the census can feel ... for those community-based GOTC efforts. The Fund’s first grant was to the Rockefeller Institute of...

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How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

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12/05/2019

... serve as a vehicle for justice? We believe that the first step is recognizing that philanthropy has a problem, ... are the people, families, and communities that have first -hand experience with the problems we...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Leaders in Nonprofit Innovation Show How Power Dynamics in Philanthropy Are Shifting

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02/19/2020

... competition Climate-change efforts are putting people first . Some of the most powerful environmental work are those ... grant makers do that, the J.M. Kaplan Fund is, for the first time, opening up our trove...

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces the 12 Awardees of the Opportunity Challenge

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09/24/2020

... in Brooklyn, New York, will expand Brightly, the first worker cooperative franchise in the United States, ... Oakland Bloom in Oakland, California, will launch a first of its kind cooperatively run commissary...

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