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Nadia Alia Appointed Manager, Grants and Communications at The Tow Foundation

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04/20/2015

... at The Tow Foundation Nadia Alia has been promoted to a newly created position of Manager, Grants and ... at The Tow Foundation. She joined The Foundation in 2013 as grants manager. She will continue this work...

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San Diego Grantmakers Hires Beeta Jahedi as Senior Director of Learning and Programs

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06/22/2015

In late 2014, San Diego Grantmakers launched a three-year fundraising campaign to build its capacity to ... our fellow regional grantmaker association, Philanthropy New York. San Diego...

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HSBC Names Kelly W. Fisher Senior Vice President and U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability

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07/15/2015

... President and U.S. Head of Corporate Sustainability. In this role, she will have oversight of sustainability and ... served on the executive board of Corporate Volunteers of New York. She is an active...

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Ms. Foundation CEO Puts Spotlight on Needs of Women and Girls

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02/05/2016

... Ms. Foundation for Women 18 months ago. She has launched a 52,000-mile “listening tour” and has made appearances around the country, including one Thursday in Santa Fe. “We have to provide leadership and...

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Century Foundation Report Recommends Universal Child Allowance

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03/17/2016

... Universal Child Allowance The child poverty rate in the United States is stubbornly high, with more than 12 ... children—currently living in poverty. But according to new research out today...

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... The Ford Foundation named Kathy Reich as director of a new foundation initiative to help strengthen institutions and ... Reich will guide the foundation's BUILD efforts in the United...

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2016 Grantmakers Salary Survey Benchmarking Now Available

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10/03/2016

... annual initiative of the Council on Foundations conducted in partnership with the Foundation Center. The Council also ... this survey to the philanthropic field. Philanthropy New York members must log ...

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Newman's Own Names Walter Harrison to Advisory Board

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11/02/2016

... is currently President of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, CT, where he has served since 1998, marking nearly a third of the University's history. Under his leadership, ... quality, finances,...

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Five More Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Aspen Institute’s Global Initiative on Autonomous Vehicles

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01/31/2017

... of the next year, the multi-city cohort will produce a set of principles and tools that cities around the world can use to chart their own paths forward with the new technology... Five More Cities Join...

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Surdna Foundation Commits $100 Million to Impact Investing

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02/06/2017

... $100 million of its endowment to impact investing as a way to advance its social justice mission and grow the ... one of the oldest and largest family-governed foundations in the U.S., Surdna is not just...

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... Research The University of Edinburgh has announced a £20 million ($24.5 million) grant from the Simons Foundation in support of pioneering studies into the biological ... to researchers at the center, the...

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Century Foundation Fellow Argues for an "Economic Fair Housing Act" to Combat Racial Zoning

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08/04/2017

... outlawed racial zoning hardly ended racial discrimination in housing, as whites adopted biased policies like economic ... notwithstanding the disparate racial impact, we need a new “economic...

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

... Heifetz and colleagues at Harvard’s Kennedy School, as a form of reflective practice. Marc Manashil, with Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant, created a variety of programs at New York University’s (NYU...

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

... Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “...

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Despite the Pall of National Politics, We Are Bending Toward the Light of Justice

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12/20/2017

... is hard not to dwell on the setbacks we’ve experienced in 2017 for some of the most vulnerable people in our ... da Vinci Shortly after the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal...

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Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity

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02/28/2018

Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity We spent the hour hearing a panel discussion that Celeste Headlee hosted last week at the Carter Center in...

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Teagle Foundation Names Andrew Delbanco Next President

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03/22/2018

... foundation, whose grants support liberal education, with a strong emphasis on the teaching role of faculty members, ... on the Teagle board since 2009 and has mixed scholarship in the humanities with a...

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

... geometry and number theory. The Leopoldina, founded in 1652, is the oldest continuously operating scientific society in the world. The academy is a free association of scholars that works to...

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Carnegie Corporation's July Fourth Tribute Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants

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06/28/2018

... Honors 38 Distinguished Immigrants Carnegie Corporation of New York released its annual list of Great Immigrants on June ... celebrate these distinguished individuals by participating in its online tribute...

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