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In Effort Lead by Arcus Foundation, LGBTQ Groups Call for Unity in Wake of Orlando Shooting

Release Date:

06/14/2016

... than 2000 lives over the last 9 years. Bias crimes against US immigrant populations, which include significant numbers ... as anti-immigrant rhetoric has escalated. For those of us who carry multiple...

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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

Release Date:

07/05/2016

... service program that was the subject of the grant): All of us in the nonprofit ecosystem are party to a charade with ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

New Discoveries on Dark Matter from Sloan-Sponsored Scientists

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... team carrying out this effort. “This map has allowed us to make the best measurements yet of the effects of dark ...

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

Release Date:

07/15/2016

... a black person home to dinner. This complacency among us white Americans has been a historical constant. Even in ...

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Ford Foundation

20 Sep 2016

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months. Join us for an opportunity to share important updates, network ...

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Arts

Casey Family Programs Contributes to Initiative in Three Cities to Beat Youth Homelessness This Year

Release Date:

08/11/2016

100-day challenges will start on Sept. 7 in Los Angeles, Cleveland, and Austin.

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Housing and Homelessness

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Casey Family Programs

Century Foundation Fellow Comments on For-Profit Colleges Applying for Nonprofit Status

Release Date:

08/12/2016

Bob Shireman, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, said the department’s decision on the application should put an end to colleges’ attempts to dodge oversight by converting to nonprofit status.

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Education

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Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families

Release Date:

08/22/2016

Torres: Federal Section 8 initiative would cripple thousands of New York City families It has been said that history rhymes rather than repeats itself. For New Yorkers who have seen record levels of homelessness on the streets, in...

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Housing and Homelessness

Rockefeller Supports Research on Farming Adaptations to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/06/2016

... The work was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation, the US National Science Foundation, the NERC/DFID Future Climate ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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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

... are vital to health, as the metabolic processes that keep us alive have evolved to operate within a narrow temperature ...

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Health

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Klingenstein Philanthropies

Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

Release Date:

09/28/2016

... the topic of “community resilience” panelists reminded us that there’s personal hurt from injustice and that ...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

Release Date:

09/29/2016

The aim is to help "change the landscape" of American racial discourse by openly acknowledging a painful past, much as Germany has Holocaust memorials and South Africa a museum on its past state-sanctioned segregation - apartheid.

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

Release Date:

10/07/2016

A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies, ranks as the most...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Weinberg Foundation Makes New Commitment to Military Members and Their Families

Release Date:

11/16/2016

... assist those who have served our nation with honor. For us , this is also personal. A picture in our board room of my ...

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Veterans

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Racial Justice Is at Heart of Brooklyn Community Foundation Shift

Release Date:

12/06/2016

Cecilia Clarke, president and CEO, said in a statement announcing the decision: “Private prisons, gun manufacturers, and predatory lenders are three industries that have had a devastating impact on communities of color and low-income communities in...

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Social Justice

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Brooklyn Org

Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Joins Conversation on Innovative Finance, New Investment Tools and Climate Change

Release Date:

12/08/2016

For the first time since the Industrial Revolution, investment in renewable energy worldwide surpassed that of fossil fuels last year. That economic transformation leaves John Morton feeling optimistic about the worldwide response to climate change.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Report Cited in Washington Post Article on Syria Policy for Trump’s America

Release Date:

12/12/2016

The United States should continue to fight Islamic State, but not so single-mindedly and recklessly that it endangers other key U.S. interests.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund's Purpose-Driven Investing Highlighted by Forbes

Release Date:

01/27/2017

This socially conscious generation is saying they want to support companies that strive for prosperity, which means not just a wealthy few but rather the well-being of many.