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18 Nov 2015

Policing Reform: Building on NYC Successes for a National Reform Movement

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 -

1:45pm to 3:30pm

... communities they serve. We invite you to join CPR and funders for a briefing to contextualize the recent victories ... United for Police Reform (CPR) Designed for All interested funders . 1:45 - 2:00 PM Check-...

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17 Sep 2025

NYC Charter Amendments on the Ballot: Housing, Democracy, and the Future of the City

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... of proposed changes on housing and democracy. How funders can engage in the Charter Revision process. ... Director, GoVoteNYC Who should attend? All interested funders in grantmaking, public policy, and...

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Civic Engagement

Housing and Homelessness

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Public Policy

For Profound Change in America, Think Local

Release Date:

01/29/2014

Open Society Foundations' Kenneth Zimmerman shares the latest news about the Open Places Initiative — a multi-year effort to promote real and sustainable opportunities for civic, economic and political change in local communities.

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"Culture Changes Us" Campaign and Retreat Series Launches with Support from Nathan Cummings Foundation

Release Date:

05/20/2016

... and identifies opportunities for future philanthropic investments that can harness and influence pop culture, and ...

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Communications/Media

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Infrastructure Design as Innovation

Release Date:

04/02/2019

Here is a well-kept secret: the most innovative, transformative foundations have the most robust infrastructure. In other words, the foundations that are the bravest, the most visionary, and become trailblazers in the philanthropic sector, take...

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Build Up Companies

Brooklyn Community Foundation President & CEO, Cecilia Clarke, Announces Departure

Release Date:

03/17/2021

... Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund . We have deepened our investments in nonprofits led by people of color and provided ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Brooklyn Org

Morgan Stanley Builds Digital Platform to Help Billion Oyster Project Speed Up Oyster Bed Growth

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06/08/2021

In recognition of World Ocean Day, Billion Oyster Project announced a new data collection system powering its efforts to restore one billion oysters by 2035 to benefit the N.Y. Harbor habitat and water quality

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Environment and Climate Change

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Salesforce Gives $19M to Support Five School Districts Across the US and Education Nonprofits

Release Date:

09/20/2021

... to support current needs due to the pandemic, and ongoing investments around STEM. These grants include... Salesforce ...

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Education

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Borealis Philanthropy's Racial Equity in Journalism Fund Moves $4.9 million to BIPOC Newsrooms and Field Building Partners

Release Date:

10/04/2022

The REJ Fund’s grantmaking aims to ensure Black, Indigenous, Latine, and Asian people have access to the news and information they need to navigate today’s geographies and social systems.

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Communications/Media

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Deepens Commitment to Moving the World Beyond Coal with Plan to Turbocharge Clean Energy Finance in Global South

Release Date:

11/07/2022

Bloomberg Philanthropies will also partner with the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero to mobilize finance for clean energy projects by supporting project preparation facilities

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Environment and Climate Change

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International/Foreign Affairs

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ASPCA Awards Nearly $7.4 Million In First Half of 2014

Release Date:

08/08/2014

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) awarded nearly $7.4 million to animal welfare organizations nationwide in the first half of 2014.

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Animal Welfare

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27 Jan 2015

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Tuesday, January 27, 2015 - 7:30am to Friday, January 30, 2015 - 5:00pm

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers (ESS) provides an introduction to grantmaking and philanthropy for program officers with less than two years of experience in the philanthropic sector.

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Professional Development

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Program Staff

Big Gaps in the Big Apple: Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

Release Date:

05/10/2012

By Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen Lewis, Co-Directors, Measure of America What does well-being and opportunity look like in the New York metropolitan area? The typical Asian-American resident of the New...

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Takeaways From the Supreme Court Obamacare Ruling

Release Date:

06/25/2015

NYSHealth President and CEO James R. Knickman writes a Huffington Post column on New York State’s achievements to date under the ACA; the implications of the Supreme Court ruling for New York and the rest of the country; and the health care coverage...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’s, Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of Microlender Kiva NYC

Release Date:

12/11/2015

... last night at a special small business marketplace event in New York City featuring Kiva President and ...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Community Development

Economic Security

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MetLife

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Pershing Square Foundation

David Berg Foundation Supports New York Historical Society Exhibition that Traces the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Germany

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02/17/2016

The New-York Historical Society will present a powerful exhibition that examines the rise of a culture of hatred during the period 1919-1939 in Germany. The exhibit will trace the gradual and deliberate indoctrination of German citizens into active...

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Jewish Interests

The David Berg Foundation

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After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

Release Date:

07/12/2017

After A Decade, George E. Thibault, MD to Step Down as President of the Josiah Macy Jr. F oundation After 10 years at the helm, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation President George E. Thibault , MD announced today that he will step down at...

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Health

Workforce Development

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Do More with What You Have

Release Date:

06/26/2019

The college admissions scandal made news on the same day that this year’s high school seniors, including my son, were getting their first admissions emails (the days of skinny and fat envelopes are long gone).

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