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Rockefeller Foundation's Boltz: Take a Fluid Approach to Build Fresh Water Resilience

Release Date:

08/26/2016

... resource, with shifting and changing states and flows. In one of our more foolish endeavors, however, rather than ... continually tried — and failed — to control water. We succeed — for a time. Sometimes even...

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Disaster Relief

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Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation In Fall 2012, The New York Women’s Foundation launched our ... in low-income communities most devastated by the storm. We recognized that...

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Disaster Relief

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Livestream Test

PhilTV This Week Jan 20

Release Date:

01/20/2017

Featuring: Milbank Memorial Fund, Open Society Foundations, Mastercard, Ford, Blaustein, Levy and Overbrook Foundations

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

Release Date:

03/28/2017

... a few of its affiliated poets to the film’s showing in Princeton. “It seemed like a natural fit for us,” ... 1986 has biannually sponsored the largest poetry festival in North America. In...

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Arts

Environment and Climate Change

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Watch A Behind-The-Scenes Video of the Clean Dream Act Rally From The Brooklyn Community Foundation

Release Date:

02/26/2018

Last December, Brooklyn Community Foundation Brooklyn Youth Fellows traveled to D.C. to rally for the Clean Dream Act. Fellows joined members from our Immigrant Rights Fund grantees Atlas:DIY and the New York Immigration Coalition to show support...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Watch Christine Quinn's PHIL Talk at our February Program on Homelessness

Release Date:

03/13/2018

Christine Quinn speaks to PNY members at the February program, Homelessness Innovations: Are Known Solutions Informing NYC’s Response to Youth Homelessness?

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PhilTalks

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Women In Need

Is Grantmaking Getting Smarter? A National Study of Philanthropic Practice

Publication date:

03/2012

... and improving practices to achieve better results. In light of the global economic downturn, this survey also highlights some of the key shifts in grantmaking since 2008 and what they mean for supporting nonprofit resilience. Is ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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TCC Group

Funding Community Organizing: Social Change Through Civic Participation

Publication date:

11/2008

... hesitate to take up community organizing as a strategy. In this guide, funders and organizers discuss what makes community organizing unique and uniquely ... the value of process, and the grantmaker's special role in fostering change. Funding Community Organizing: Social .....

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Report

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Community Development

Social Justice

Working with Start-Ups: Grant Makers and New Organizations

Publication date:

04/2003

In this GrantCraft guide, grant makers from a wide range of ... they negotiated the path from idea to organization, and what they learned along the way about how to solve problems ...

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Grants Managers

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Underwater Mortgages, Drowning Cities, and Rogue Financiers

Release Date:

08/06/2013

... week, the city of Richmond, Calif., will be the first of what will ultimately be many cities to begin taking bold ...

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Public Policy

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The Century Foundation

A New Guide Helps Foundations Become More Transparent

Publication date:

04/2014

... to meet demands for greater transparency have some help in the form of a new guide. “Opening Up: Demystifying ... offers concrete steps on how foundations should decide what information to share and how to share it “ in an easily accessible and timely way,” says Jen Bokoff, ...

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Bessemer Trust's Paul Connolly Wants Better Advice for Wealthy Donors

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... 2016 election just weeks behind us, it is still uncertain what the Trump administration’s influence on philanthropy ... odds are good that the number of huge gifts to nonprofits in America will continue to...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

Release Date:

09/23/2015

... operations entirely with renewable energy, the latest in a wave of commitments suggesting that corporations are ... have already reached the 100 percent target; others do not expect to do so...

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Goldman Sachs

An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

Release Date:

02/22/2016

... a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation) One afternoon in late January, prominent New York restaurateurs, including ... Blue Smoke, has recently embraced this cause, pledging to do away with tipping at his...

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Economic Security

Food Systems

Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/06/2016

... temperatures, crop yields will likely decrease if farmers do not adapt to new management or technology practices. ... strategies is particularly difficult for sorghum farmers in West Africa where seed...

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Environment and Climate Change

Food Systems

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Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities

Release Date:

09/29/2014

Bloomberg Funds Road Safety in World Cities The World Health Organization estimates ... other global public health concerns such as tobacco use , has given $125 million since 2010 to promote tougher ... laws, train...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/20/2014

... are also benefiting from a giving surge by people in their 50s and 60s, especially those seeking to get their ... example, now produces grant-making forms that are filled in with key details, making it simpler...

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New York Community Trust Gives $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond

Release Date:

07/07/2016

... $100K Grant to Encourage Resilient Building Practices in NYC and Beyond The Urban Land Institute (ULI), a global ... and education institute dedicated to responsible land use and building thriving communities...

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Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, and Klingenstein Foundations

Release Date:

09/09/2016

Long-Sought ‘Warm-Sensitive’ Brain Cells Identified in New Study Supported by NY Stem Cell, Rita Allen, Sloan, ... the myriad responses that animals, including humans, use to lower their temperature—from “...