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Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

Release Date:

01/23/2017

... Sandy Design Competition , which was pioneered by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in partnership ... “Tackling our most pressing challenges requires all of us – policymakers, nonprofits,...

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Community Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Taking the Long View on Health Care – A Note to Congress

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... goal here is a longer lifespan for everybody in the US . Health insurance is necessary but not sufficient for that ... CDC reports that from 2014 to 2015 life expectancy in the US declined for the first time...

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TCC Group

A Critical Time for Philanthropy’s Voice to Be Heard

Release Date:

02/03/2017

... and remains committed to healing divisions. “All of us have a responsibility to do more, to reach outside our ... as much charitable giving as possible to benefit all of us . To ensure that federal policymakers...

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Forum of Regional Association of Grantmakers

Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway

Release Date:

03/27/2017

... emotions to express common human experiences and connect us with one another. An evocative piece of writing, intensely ... and narrow-mindedness.” The arts can also transport us to cultures far away, or even...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

We Made a Comprehensive Investment in Board Service, and This Is What Happened

Release Date:

04/20/2017

... share about our employees’ service, the survey allowed us to move beyond anecdotes to reveal many promising ... resulting in better boards. Rather, it has moved us to have a greater sense of urgency around the...

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Credit Suisse Americas Foundation

Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

Release Date:

05/17/2017

Yale School of Management announced that $10 million has been raised to expand the Yale Program on Financial Stability and launch the “Crisis-Response Project," which will codify best practices and provide training that can help governments fight...

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Economic Security

International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Design and Health: Back Together Again?

Release Date:

06/21/2017

... it’s not just consumption of fat and sugar that has led us here. Sure, we can regulate our food, but we need to ...

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Our Democracy, Philanthropy and What’s Next

Release Date:

06/21/2017

... on democracy building will lead. But we want you to point us in the right direction. With crucial advice from both our ... Philanthropy New York is taking this on, and they told us that that they wanted to go...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges

Release Date:

07/18/2017

... We send and receive more emails than many of us know how to conveniently organize. That’s no major ... record are, too often, left feeling the way many of us do with our personal inboxes: searching in vain for...

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation

The Long Haul: Lessons from Charitable Responses to Previous Disasters

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... with those affected by Hurricane Harvey, what has inspired us the most are the stirring images of neighbors and ... their gift. Michael Dell noted --“It will take all of us together, over the long term, to...

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Philanthropy’s Best

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

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The New York Community Trust

Time To Revisit Reporting

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... program officers, and other thought leaders tell us this scenario is more common than we might want to ... have the freedom to set reporting requirements as each of us sees fit, and knowing these requirements...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

A Creative Approach to Advocacy: How One Foundation Tackles a Complex Issue, Part Two

Release Date:

11/08/2017

... outside of the typical grant-making playbook has allowed us to advocate for people with disabilities in creative ways. ... of one of our innovative national partnerships is the US Business Leadership Network’s...

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Poses Family Foundation

Talking Politics

Release Date:

02/06/2018

... There’s too much at stake to delay. So it’s on all of us — funders and grantees alike — to get beyond talk of ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

The Issues We’re Taking to the Hill

Release Date:

02/21/2018

... work in communities and the policy issues that would help us do our work better. Foundations on the Hill is taking ...

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PNY News

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Public Policy

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Philanthropy New York

Gun Violence, Advocacy, and Leadership

Release Date:

04/05/2018

... a year from shooting, help the 4.5 million women in the US who, it is estimated, have been threatened with a gun or ... other public health issue. Moderate Republicans have asked us not to have public...

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Philanthropy and the Interfaith Imperative

Release Date:

05/24/2018

... in Belfast or Boston, Mosul or Minneapolis. It would serve us well to look into our own history and the tremendous ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Religion

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The Teagle Foundation

Changing The Conversation Around Mergers and Collaborations

Release Date:

06/13/2018

... they busy pursuing collaborative deals but just not with us ? Most discussions benefit from having a jointly retained ... of working together in collaborative ways and engage with us as partners in exploring...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

18 Apr 2019

Through the Eyes of Children - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

The Office of the Inspector General announced in January 2019 that thousands more children than previously reported have been separated from their parents at the southern border by our government. The impacts of this failed and cruel U.S. policy to...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Immigration

How Philanthropy Can Turn the Tide on Violence

Release Date:

08/14/2019

... the highest crime rates in New York City. But for those of us who have been working together, we had felt that we had ... because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” Do we see...