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Open Society Foundations Fellow Makes Greece a More Welcoming Place for Refugees

Release Date:

01/23/2017

A group of people walking through the fields caught Vasilis Tsartsanis’s eye as he passed the railroad that connects Greece to the rest of the Balkans. It was a warm September day in 2014, outside the small, usually quiet town of Idomeni. He stopped...

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Video

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Proteus Fund Serves as Fiscal Sponsor for LGBT Nonprofits and Initiatives

Release Date:

01/26/2017

... federal funding for LGBT nonprofits and other progressive groups could dry up under the administration of President ... raising $500,000 by Inauguration Day to award to various groups during Trump's first...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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Gender Justice

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Why U.S. Foundations Should Take the Global Sustainable Development Goals Seriously

Release Date:

06/21/2016

... next generation of leaders capable of promoting evidence- based solutions that address the human development, health ... support and the support of several other California- based foundations for the Measure...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

The Perpetuity Debate

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04/29/2014

... was a disservice to the philanthropic community and the issue in general. The represented foundations included: ... in 2012 while earning 10.5%.. Spending down is a healthy issue for donors and Boards to...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Governance

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

The Rockefeller Foundation

Three Prominent Foundation Leaders Join Foundation Center Board of Trustees

Release Date:

04/20/2015

... sectors and extensive expertise in the most pressing issue areas of our time, including diversity, health, and ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

Health

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Private Philanthropy Cannot Replace the NEH

Release Date:

05/16/2017

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis on why the NEH remains unique in rallying private support, supporting rural and urban communities equitably, and bringing the humanities to the national forefront.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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08 Oct 2013

Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event and Panel Discussion

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Trinity Wall Street, 74 Trinity Place, 2nd Floor, NYC

... driven by one question: How can we improve on what's working in NYC? This event is the public launch of the .....

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Issue-Based

For Jobseekers: Facts About the Sector

Publication date:

04/2014

... don’t tell the whole story—the philanthropic sector is working hard to increase its diversity. Click here for more ... understanding of efforts within the sector to address this issue . Sampling of the Mean Salary for All Foundation Types, ...

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Job Seekers

Serious Policy Between Our Two Ferns

Release Date:

04/23/2014

... We will talk about what the foundation has learned about working with government from its very hands-on approach to ...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Wallace Foundation

ASPCA Awards Nearly $7.4 Million In First Half of 2014

Release Date:

08/08/2014

The ASPCA (The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) awarded nearly $7.4 million to animal welfare organizations nationwide in the first half of 2014.

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Animal Welfare

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How Philanthropy Can Address the Needs of Our Veterans

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11/05/2014

... 9 program will similarly lead to new ideas for funders working across a wide range of program areas, including ...

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President's Message

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Veterans

See the Storify and More: Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event

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10/10/2013

... deeper into the question: How can we improve on what’s working in NYC education? See the Storify and More: Education ...

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All Funders

TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change

Release Date:

05/28/2013

... education issues, and the Knight Foundation is formally working with TED to help create opportunities for action and ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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All Funders

21 Jan 2016

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers

Thursday, January 21, 2016 - 8:00am to Friday, February 5, 2016 - 5:00pm

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Grantmakers (ESS) provides an introduction to grantmaking and philanthropy for program officers with less than two years of experience in the philanthropic sector. The three day course will help newcomers...

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Professional Development

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Carnegie Supports New American Academy Of Arts & Sciences Report On The Public Good Of Public Research Universities

Release Date:

03/22/2016

Public research universities are anchors of stability and growth in their regions—vital to economic development and the creative economy. This is among the findings in "Public Research Universities: Serving the Public Good," a new publication...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Unbound Philanthropy, Nathan Cummings Explore the Promise and Potential of Pop Culture for Social Change

Release Date:

05/04/2016

Recently, pop culture has been “like an injection of hi-octane fuel into the engine of public discourse about institutional racism, gender identity, immigration, pay equity, and other issues of social justice.

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Unbound Philanthropy

19 Oct 2016

School Integration in NYC (Part 2): Strategies for Change

Wednesday, October 19, 2016 -

10:00am to 12:30pm

A study released in 2014 by the Civil Rights Project at UCLA found that New York State’s schools are the most segregated schools in the country, more segregated than they were a decade ago. Between 1989 and 2010, the percentage of schools in the New...

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