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Helen Chin Named New Director of Sustainable Environments Program at Surdna

Release Date:

12/22/2014

... Chin spent a significant amount of time in Africa and Asia working directly with local communities and went on to ... held positions with the Natural Resources Defense Council working on national environmental...

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Surdna Foundation

Informal But Important: Improving the Lives of Informal Workers

Release Date:

08/19/2014

... is projected to grow, many of us are examining new ways of working with these communities to meet their health needs. ... have little spare time because typically if they aren't working they don't...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Eero Simoncelli Leads New Center for Computational Neuroscience at The Simons Foundation

Release Date:

01/26/2021

... capabilities to measure lots of details from a living, working brain,” says Simoncelli. “To make use of all ... staff. The center will house several overlapping research groups , with two to start with...

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The Simons Foundation

17 Jun 2009

Challenges & Needs of African-American Girls in NYC & Strategies for Making a Difference

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... their responses to the report and share their experiences working with girls in New York City. Kanyere Eaton, ...

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Network Building

Are Your Grantees Keeping Workers in Poverty?

Release Date:

10/22/2014

... published as the feature article for the October 2014 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. It is ... as many questions as it answered. Should we be working to ensure living wages across all...

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PNY News

Open Comment Period: Simplifying the Excise Tax on Private Foundations

Release Date:

08/01/2012

... tax on private foundations. Click here to read a full issue guide on this topic. This is our full official ...

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Deeper Than Political Sound Bites on Economic Inequality

Release Date:

04/15/2015

... published as the feature article for the April 2015 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. Last ...

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PNY News

14 Nov 2018

Postponed Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... students, and advocates who brought attention to this issue and how they are working to turn the budget win into real opportunities for ... amount of time What promises New York City made on this issue...

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Children, Youth and Families

Disabilities

Education

Media Development Investment Fund Launches Blended-Value Media Loan Fund

Release Date:

11/16/2016

... markets. In a ground-breaking partnership MDIF, a New York- based investment fund for media companies in countries where ... equipment, content production and work-space, as well as working capital and short-...

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Media Development Investment Fund

Arabella Advisors Announces Sharyn Church as New Managing Director for Southern California

Release Date:

09/15/2020

... experience, has joined the firm as its first Los Angeles- based Managing Director. Sharyn’s leadership will increase ... oversight, and re-branding of the renowned L.A.- based arts center Inner-City Arts,...

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Arabella Advisors

Insights from Indonesia: Protecting Our Coral Reefs

Release Date:

02/08/2018

... Philanthropies, our Vibrant Oceans Initiative is working to replenish fish populations and create a more ... using homemade bombs to stun and kill fish for easy catch. Working with communities directly to ban...

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Insights

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

10/31/2014 - Documentaries That Pull Back the Curtain on Big Oil - Live stream Recording & Materials

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10/2014

View the materials and livestream recording of the program, "Documentaries That Pull Back the Curtain on Big Oil."

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Animal Welfare

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26 Sep 2019

When A Job Is Not Enough: Next Generation Benefits and The Role of Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Thursday, September 26, 2019 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... Funders Network, for a webinar to launch its newest issue brief When a job isn’t enough: Employee financial ...

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Economic Security

Leigh Bonney Named Chief Financial Officer for The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Release Date:

03/01/2012

Leigh Bonney has joined the staff of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust as its Chief Financial Officer.

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Pfizer

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Simons Foundation Names Boyana Konforti Director of Education & Outreach

Release Date:

09/02/2014

... and led publications at both Cell and Nature publishing groups , Konforti contributed broadly at both publications, ...

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Health

Technology

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The Simons Foundation

19 Mar 2015

Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees

Thursday, March 19, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... 990 Parts I & II", or a minimum of two years of experience working with nonprofit financial and tax forms is .....

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Professional Development

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All Funders

New Staff

American Express, BofA, Citigroup, & JP Morgan Chase Adopt Policies to Deter Human Trafficking

Release Date:

04/04/2016

... is for private businesses to join in. . . In 2014, our working group provided the financial services industry with ...

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Gender Justice

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Citi [Corporate]

American Express

How the Art For Justice Fund Hopes to Reduce Mass Incarceration

Release Date:

08/16/2018

... grant-making: $22 million to 30 criminal-justice reform groups and education and arts initiatives. And in late June, ... organizations such as writers' workshops and theater groups , the most recent round...