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How Surdna Foundation Is Using its Grantmaking to Champion Impact Investing

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01/18/2018

The funder just announced $650,000 in grants to organizations that strengthen the field by providing resources and otherwise helping institutions that want to take the plunge.

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18 May 2018

How Racially Equitable is Your Foundation? Assessing Your Practice

Friday, May 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

Are you a foundation executive interested in holding a mirror up to your policies and practices internally to ensure they’re not racially bias or inequitable? Are you unsure of where to start and how to get a process like this going?

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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With Support From the Tow Foundation, Soho Rep Gets a Safer Space for Its Dangerous Plays

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02/05/2018

After nearly a year and a half in exile, Soho Rep has returned to Walker Street, and is kicking off its 43rd season with a typically startling play, Aleshea Harris’s “Is God Is,” which begins previews Feb. 6.

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Arts

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The New York Women’s Foundation and PwC Launch “Radical Generosity at Work”

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03/08/2018

Radical Generosity at Work will engage employees by offering a simple and direct way to become philanthropists that impact communities where they live and work.

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation has Announced the Launch of The Communities Thrive Challenge

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04/05/2018

The Rockefeller Foundation, in partnership with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, has announced the launch of the Communities Thrive Challenge, a $10 million initiative to identify and support successful community-driven approaches to expanding...

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25 Apr 2018

Investing in Workplace Financial Wellness: Help for Lower-Income Employees - A Webinar

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

Workplace financial wellness programs are seen as a win-win for employers and employees. They help employees to create economic stability while contributing to employee satisfaction and an employer’s bottom line. How can philanthropy support and...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Economic Security

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Casey Family Programs Played Key Role In Changing Foster Care Forever

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04/12/2018

Since 2012, Casey Family Programs, which has long advocated for and invested millions of dollars in family preservation efforts, has retained Melanie Nathanson and Megan Hauck, whose firm made Bloomberg’s top ten lobbying firms list in 2016, to...

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Michael Bloomberg Takes on the Coal Industry

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04/12/2018

On Monday afternoon, Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire businessman and former three-term mayor of New York City, escaped to a deserted ballroom at the Grand Hyatt, in midtown Manhattan, to talk about climate change. Moments earlier, he had...

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Environment and Climate Change

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New Report From The Redlich Horwitz Foundation: New York Should Use Family First Act As “Tailwind” for Curbing Congregate Care

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04/24/2018

The grant maker laid out a slate of recommendations for the state, including limiting the allowable use of group settings and helping private providers change their business models.

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

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Health

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Evaluation of OSF-Funded Education Program for Boys of Color Finds Efforts Didn’t Improve Outcomes

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05/10/2018

Four years and $24 million, the program has not lived up to its promise, according to a report released Wednesday by the Research Alliance for New York City Schools. Schools in the program turned out to be no better at preparing young men of color...

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In Bloomberg's New Education Push, a High-Stakes Test of His Big Philanthropy

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06/12/2018

Michael Bloomberg recently pledged $375 million over the next five years to improve education in the United States. He laid out his plans during a speech he made at the New York Times Higher Ed Leaders forum. The strategies he outlined sound a lot...

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Education

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Jessie Smith Noyes Report Finds Gaps, Opportunities in Impact Investment Field

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06/26/2018

The report, Building Power Across the Impact Investment Field (29 pages, PDF), highlights findings from the foundation's seven-month-long search for a mission-driven investment advisor as part of an effort to better align its endowment with its...

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06 May 2019

From Transaction to Transformation: Relational Organizing as a Winning Civic Engagement Strategy - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, May 6, 2019 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Join Ethan Frey of Ford Foundation, Nick Chedli Carter of 2020 Vision Ventures, and Julie Fernandes of Rockefeller Family Fund for a discussion of relational organizing practice and power building strategy. They will discuss their own trajectories...

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Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Announces Grant Portal Is Now Open

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04/23/2019

One hundred thirty years ago, a humble Italian nun was greeted upon her arrival in New York by the news that her accommodations were not ready and her plans to establish an orphanage were in danger of being scrapped.

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Mother Cabrini Health Foundation

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Health

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Research Funded by William T. Grant Foundation Aims to Show Why Some Veterans Go Hungry

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05/30/2019

... recognized," Kamdar said during an interview with Military. com . "I really wanted to understand what was happening in the .....

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03 Oct 2019

Funder Roundtable: Supporting a Culture of Consent in Our Grantee Organizations

Thursday, October 3, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In the era of #MeToo, funders increasingly want to support their grantees to proactively create cultures of respect and consent in their organizations, and respond appropriately when allegations of sexual harassment arise within their grantee...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

New York Life Foundation Awards Grants to Out-of-school Time Programs to Help Middle School Students Transition to 9th Grade

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08/05/2019

The New York Life Foundation in partnership with the Afterschool Alliance today announced $1.35 million in new grants, to be awarded to 26 youth development organizations across the country to support middle school youth during the out-of-school...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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New York Life Foundation

Arabella Advisors Launch "Good Food Ventures III" to Transform Food System

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09/24/2019

... Food System WASHINGTON, September 24, 2019 (Newswire. com ) -Today, Arabella Advisors and its food-system ...

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Food Systems

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Announcing Equitable: A New Day for a 160-Year-Old Financial Services Company

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01/14/2020

Equitable, a leading financial services company and subsidiary of Equitable Holdings (NYSE: EQH), today unveiled the brand it will operate under as an independent, U.S.-based company. Formerly known as AXA Equitable Life, the company will begin this...

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