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Rockefeller Foundation Grant Helps Create Racial-Justice ETF Backed by the NAACP

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11/28/2017

Socially conscious investors can look forward to two new exchange-traded funds that aim to direct capital to companies that do well by minorities and women.

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

Release Date:

02/21/2018

... 5% of their endowments, putting 95% back into fund-related investments . In 2017, Ford pledged that it would deploy $1 ... of its endowment over the next decade on mission-related investments to match the...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

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11/29/2018

... organizations to collect data that will inform how future investments can best reflect youth interests and create more ...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Receives $2.25 Million Grant from CBS to support the Fund for the Me Too Movement and Allies

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12/14/2018

The New York Women’s Foundation (The Foundation) today announced receipt of a $2.25 million grant from the CBS Corporation.

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UJA-Federation of New York Succeeds in Securing $84 Million for Local Jewish Day Schools and Yeshivot

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05/20/2019

UJA-Federation of New York announced today that its Day School Challenge Fund (DSCF) has generated $84 million in new endowment dollars for participating Jewish day schools and yeshivot in New York.

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The Century Foundation Adds New Senior Fellow

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03/01/2013

The Century Foundation has announced the addition of Michael Likosky as Senior Fellow. Likosky founded and directed the Center on Law & Public Finance at New York University, and was Senior Fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge.

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Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now

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11/19/2012

The Schott Foundation for Public Education’s new report paints a bleak picture—nationally, 52 percent of black males, 58 percent of Latino males, and 78 percent of white males graduate from high school in four years

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The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown

Release Date:

03/28/2013

... D.C. What’s often forgotten in discussions of social investments , and measurements of their success, is that the ...

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18 Jul 2012

Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future

Wednesday, July 18, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC

... will share her views about opportunities for philanthropic investments in Black communities and how the sector could ...

22 Feb 2013

TDA Plan Administrators' Annual Meeting: Philanthropy New York's 403(b) Tax-Deferred Annuity Retirement Program

Friday, February 22, 2013 -

8:15am to 11:00am

This is the annual meeting for plan administrators, with representatives from Diversified Investment Advisors and American Funds, our pension plan providers and Cammack LaRhette and Thesco Benefits, our brokers. Please join us for discussion around...

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

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12/02/2013

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation President Nancy Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.

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JPMorgan to Commit $100-Million to Boost Detroit’s Recovery

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05/21/2014

Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase will commit $100-million in grants and loans over five years to aid Detroit’s revitalization effort as the city recovers from the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy, The New York Times and the Detroit Free Press...

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MetLife Releases New Corporate Responsibility Report

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09/25/2014

MetLife Inc.'s new corporate responsibility Report outlines the organization's corporate responsibility programs, including the MetLife Foundation, which commited $200 million of financial support in 2013.

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The PIMCO Foundation Sends Employees to Peru to Build Sustainable Small Businesses with Coffee Farmers

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08/26/2015

The project is part of PMCO's Emerging Enterprise Program (EEP) which encourages entrepreneurship and create opportunity in developed countries.

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Grants Over $2 Million for Medical Research in Israel

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10/01/2015

Since the Trust began awarding grants to Israel-related projects in 2010, it has committed more than $152 million to a wide range of charitable organizations in Israel.

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JPMogan Chase Announces New Initiatives to Create Affordable Housing in the South Bronx

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... the lead philanthropic partner of both developments, the investments will help support the construction of 200 ...

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Former Bessemer Trust Board Chairman Dinny Phipps Remembered

Release Date:

04/11/2016

Dinny Phipps, great-grandson of Henry Phipps, the partner of the steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, was chairman of the board at Bessemer from 1976-94.

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Jersey Water Works Initiative is a Powerful Collaboration

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04/27/2016

Jersey Water Works, the cross-sector collaborative formed to address the problems of New Jersey’s aging urban water infrastructure, today released its workplan for 2016. Focus areas include improving water system efficiency and engaging community...