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12 Mar 2024

Elevating International Grantmaking With A Gender Lens

Tuesday, March 12, 2024 -

9:00am to 10:30am

To mark the International Women's Month,The International Grantmakers Network (IGN) invites all funders with interest in international grantmaking to attend a virtual session on gender equity. Join us for a morning conversation with female leaders...

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Issue-Based

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Livestream

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Gender Justice

International/Foreign Affairs

Peterson: With Primaries Near, Majority Of Voters Want Leaders To Focus On Fiscal Future

Release Date:

01/26/2016

... Overall, 65% of voters say their concern about the national debt has increased in recent years. "As voting ... Fiscal Confidence Index measures public opinion about the national debt by asking six...

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Member News

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Economic Security

Public Policy

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Despite Gridlock In Washington, Funders See Enormous Potential to Move the Needle on America’s Gun Crisis

Release Date:

11/15/2016

... funding gun violence prevention? NV: Gun violence was a national crisis in the early 1990s, with death and injury ... years, we have funded gun violence prevention coverage in national media such as The...

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Insights

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Communications/Media

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Media Impact Funders

What’s Strategy Got to Do With It?

Release Date:

08/27/2013

TCC Group Director of Philanthropy Chris Cardona analyzes a recent discussion about the role and value of strategic philanthropy for the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

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Member News

Topic(s)

Governance

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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TCC Group

Investors Devote $13.5-Million to Combat Recidivism in New York

Release Date:

01/03/2014

A group of investors drawn from high-net-worth Bank of America clients have invested in a social-impact bond issued by Merrill Lynch and U.S. Trust for a program combating recidivism in New York, reports The Chronicle of Philanthropy.

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Social Justice

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Bank of America Private Bank

Investors Devote $13.5-Million to Combat Recidivism in New York

Release Date:

01/03/2014

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Member News

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Social Justice

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Bank of America Private Bank

Rockefeller Foundation-Funded Research Examines the Dearth of Youth Employment Opportunities

Release Date:

05/28/2015

The study addresses the challenges that business have in filling entry-level positions with employees under the age of 25.

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Member News

Funding Area

Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

Release Date:

07/14/2015

Energy company wants to drill natural-gas well using waterless method.

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Environment and Climate Change

Open Society and MacArthur Foundations to be Banned by Russia Along with Many Others

Release Date:

07/14/2015

... Soros’s Open Society Foundations, as well as smaller groups that seem unlikely targets. Martyna Bogaczyk, vice ...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

Release Date:

10/21/2015

Officials at Families for Excellent Schools have declined to name the nonprofit’s funders since it was founded in 2012.

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Education

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community Development Fellowship Graduate Class Selected

Release Date:

05/23/2016

... of the applications from both the fellows and the host groups was the strongest yet... Morgan Stanley/ANHD Community ...

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Member News

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Morgan Stanley

Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'

Release Date:

11/16/2016

... for decades before finding a building to house women's groups . "We've been looking for a women's building and hoping ... City into the Women's Building, to offer women-focused groups...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Surdna, JPB Foundations Provide Grants to Help Low-Income Communities Access Solar+Storage Solutions

Release Date:

03/29/2017

Seven community-based nonprofits and affordable housing developers have been selected to receive grants from Clean Energy Group’s Resilient Power Leadership Initiative , as part of the Resilient Power Project, to build their organizational capacity...

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Member News

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Community Development

Environment and Climate Change

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Surdna Foundation

The JPB Foundation

Furthering Conflict with George Soros, Hungary Tightens Rules on Foreign-Funded NGOs

Release Date:

06/13/2017

... calls from the European Parliament and human rights groups to drop the bill, it passed a law drafted by ... Hungary from foreign influence, but NGOs and human rights groups say the bill stigmatises them and is...

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Member News

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

Release Date:

08/11/2017

The Macquarie Group Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Macquarie Group, has announced Cerebral Palsy Alliance as the recipient of the 2017 Macquarie Social Innovation Award.

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Member News

Funding Area

Disabilities

Technology

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Macquarie Group Foundation

The Overbrook Foundation Tries to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

Release Date:

08/11/2017

... movement.” Those problems include competition among groups and an inability to identify shared goals and align ... strategies—using grantmaking power to connect groups with shared interests and making...

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Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

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The Overbrook Foundation

Donors Offer Berkshire Museum $1 Million To Delay, Study Art Sale; Board President Turns It Down

Release Date:

08/28/2017

A group that emerged Friday has company in wanting the Berkshire Museum to hit the brakes on a planned auction. But what it put on the table may stand alone: $1 million.

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Sector News

Funding Area

Arts

Opinion: Nonprofits Have a Big Stake in Overtime-Rules Debate

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... protecting employees comes up in Washington, business groups do all they can to show how their interests are in ... the scales in their favor. At the same time, worker-rights groups presume that charities are...