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5 Questions for...Kimberleigh J. Smith, Board President, Paul Rapoport Foundation

Release Date:

06/28/2013

PhilanTopic’s Laura Cronin talks with Kimberleigh Smith about the Rapoport Foundation’s decision to spend down by 2015, what they’ve learned about the spend down process and how they are helping their grantees navigate a difficult funding...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Paul Rapoport Foundation, Inc.

Better Prepared for Tomorrow

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08/01/2013

... New York Community Trust’s Hive Digital Media Learning Fund , recap our recent program on the impact of digital media ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Communications

Information Technology

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De Blasio drafts biz execs to push pre-K tax

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01/29/2014

... Lee Wasserman, Director of the Rockefeller Family Fund , have signed on to Mayor de Blasio's plan to raise taxes to fund citywide pre-K and after-school programs, reported ... signed on to Mayor Bill de...

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New Nonprofit Leaders to Receive Boost From Open Society

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06/16/2014

... The Open Society Foundations today announced it will fund nine nonprofits—from the U.S. to Ghana—to help their ... organizations are part of the $2 million New Executives Fund launched last June, "...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Hurricane Sandy Activism Report

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07/2014

... Sandy recovery work, this report from the North Star Fund presents the largely unacknowledged role that ...

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Report

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Disaster Relief

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North Star Fund

JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment

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03/18/2015

... with the UK government to launch a new multimillion pound fund to encourage research into treatment for dementia. ... with the government to structure the Dementia Discovery Fund in such a way that it would...

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Health

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D.C. Schools Attracted Record Amounts of Philanthropy in Recent Years

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08/27/2015

... of the funds raised went to the D.C. Public Education Fund , which was created in 2007 to support reform efforts in ... or to organizations, including the New Schools Venture Fund , that support charter schools...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards More Than $1.5 Million to 11 Arts Organizations

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09/03/2015

... jazz and theatre. As recipients of grants from DDCF’s Fund for National Projects, these organizations are empowered ...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

... after New York lawyer Sherman Day established a charitable fund to help poor and elderly married couples in the city continue living together, the fund ’s officers had to admit they were stumped. Times .....

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The New York Community Trust

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A Big STEM Gift from Simons Foundation Grabs Attention in the Field

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08/24/2016

... Another Big STEM Diversity Give, This One Backed By Hedge Fund Wealth Diversifying the pool of STEM students and ... Smith gave $50 million to his alma mater Cornell to help fund scholarships and fellowships...

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Education

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PhilTV This Week Jan 20

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01/20/2017

PhilTV This Week Jan 20 Featuring: Milbank Memorial Fund , Open Society Foundations, Mastercard, Ford, Blaustein, ...

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PhilTV This Week

Modernizing the 990-PF to Advance the Accountability and Performance of Foundations: A Modest Proposal

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03/2011

In this essay, Commonwealth Fund Executive Vice President and COO John E. Craig analyzes ...

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Private Foundation

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Commonwealth Fund

School-based Health Centers in New York State: Ensuring Sustainability & Establishing Opportunities for Growth

Publication date:

01/2014

... this NYSHealth -supported report, the Children’s Defense Fund identifies ways to sustain New York State’s ...

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Report

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Health

Workforce Funders Collaborative

... of the Workforce Funders makes grants to the collaborative fund to develop joint projects that test innovations in the ... Collaborative. The New York City Workforce Development Fund in The New York Community...

Understanding Muslim America

Release Date:

08/11/2011

... Daphne Foundation, the New York Foundation, the North Star Fund , the Open Society Foundations, the Proteus Fund , and the Trinity Church Parish Grants Program—provided ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

Release Date:

03/15/2010

... Smith Noyes Foundation, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund , and The Elmezzi Fund —which focused on ways that the public, private, and ...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Community Development

Food Systems

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Philanthropy New York

Atlantic Philanthropies to Award €15 Million to Address Child Poverty

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08/07/2013

The $19.78 million grant from Atlantic to the Irish state agency Pobal will be used to support children at risk of poverty within the mainstream education and child care systems.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields

Release Date:

10/09/2013

... national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF's Fund for National Projects and are designed to strengthen the ... nine national arts organizations. Awarded through DDCF's Fund for National...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

Release Date:

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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