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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New Grants for Immigrant Families Facing Deportation

Release Date:

06/21/2017

... long-term needs, and Action Fund grants of $2,500 for civil resistance trainings and events. Sustained Response ... Just Immigration for May Day 2017 activities, including an event highlighting issues...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Donita Volkwijn

... and leadership development programs. Donita brings to this role great skills in facilitation, an orientation toward ... She holds extensive experience in the performing arts as an opera singer and has sung in...

Ellen Meltzer Joins the Schott Foundation as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives

Release Date:

09/25/2015

... team as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives. In this role , Ellen will guide collaborative efforts with ... are thrilled to have Ellen on our team in such a crucial role ,” said Schott President and CEO John...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Education

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Dyson Foundation Names Jennifer Killian New Program Officer

Release Date:

11/09/2015

... a grantmaker. As such, she is uniquely qualified for this role . She will be a welcome addition to the Dyson Foundation team.” Prior to her role with the Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley, Ms. .....

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Weinberg Foundation Selects New Trustee, Paula Pretlow

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... management experience that will be meaningful in her role as trustee. Paula’s decades of volunteer leadership in the nonprofit, education, and arts communities demonstrate a commitment to a broad range of .....

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Aging

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust adds Nevada to Rural Healthcare Program, grants more than $11.3M to hospitals for advanced equipment

Release Date:

11/02/2021

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust has added Nevada as the eighth state in its Rural Healthcare Program

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Human Services

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25 May 2023

Elevating and Mobilizing Voices from Across New York to Advocate for an Equitable 2023 Farm Bill - A Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Thursday, May 25, 2023 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... Food for the Spirit’s (F4tS) mission is to use the arts and creative facilitation to cultivate racial healing, ...

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Issue-Based

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Panel

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Food Systems

Corporate Social Responsibility

08 Dec 2016

Trends in Family Philanthropy: A Conversation with NCFP Fellows Katherine Lorenz and Doug Bitonti-Stewart - Webinar

Thursday, December 8, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... interests with shared priorities, considering the role of general operating support in your grantmaking, taking ...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Board & Trustees

Family Foundation

Corporate Donations For Hurricane Maria Relief Top $24 Million

Release Date:

10/03/2017

Companies are stepping up to rebuild Puerto Rico.

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'Field Trip New Jersey' Launches (Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation)

Release Date:

01/14/2016

... to $700 to cover transportation costs for field trips to arts and culture sites, historic landmarks, nature preserves, ... of New Jersey’s young people are not only exposed to arts and culture, science and...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Warhol Foundation Offers $1.6 Million in Emergency Relief Grants to Artists Affected by the Coronavirus Crisis

Release Date:

04/01/2020

... Crisis The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts is offering $1.6m in emergency grants to individual ...

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The Long Island Unitarian Universalist Fund Awards over $200k in Social Change Grants

Release Date:

04/25/2023

... efforts to advance progressive social change, like an arts program to empower Latino immigrant youth, protect the ... EXPERIMENTAL YERBABRUJA $25,000 for a social justice arts program to empower Latino...

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Long Island Community Foundation

Immigration

Public Policy

Social Justice

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16 Jul 2014

Healthcare Reform Update: Are Your Populations Getting Covered?

Wednesday, July 16, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... populations need more attention? And what could be the role for philanthropy to support such efforts? On June 25th ... Vice President, Health Initiatives, Community Service Society Danielle Holahan, Deputy...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

Release Date:

05/12/2014

... as actors, but also as advocates. Philanthropy has a large role to play to encourage more investors to take up the cause ...

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Impact Investing

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Numerous PNY Members Investing in New $31M Living Cities SIB Fund

Release Date:

03/31/2016

... capital to address the most pressing problems facing society today." Unlike a traditional grantmaking fund, the ... we believe that the private sector has an important role to play in finding solutions to...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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MetLife

Ford Foundation

Prudential Financial (Non Member)

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

Release Date:

05/17/2018

... intellectual and developmental disabilities, described the role FRCS support plays for individual researchers and society ’s benefit overall: “I had been considering ...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

Surdna Foundation President Don Chen Named Co-Chair of Presidents' Council on Impact Investing

Release Date:

11/30/2020

... and am excited to see him take on this new leadership role with the Presidents' Council. I look forward to ... committing to building a more inclusive and sustainable society ." Chen became the third...

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