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NEO Philanthropy Promotes Melinda Fine to Vice President

Release Date:

01/14/2015

... opportunity, CPER invested $34 million in 140 grassroots groups and advocacy allies across the country over eight ... capacity building program for organizing and advocacy groups , expanded grant options, built...

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Appointments & Transitions

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NEO Philanthropy

New Chair and Vice-Chair for Noyes Foundation Board

Release Date:

02/11/2015

Wendy Holding and Brook Beardsley have been elected Chair and Vice-Chair, respectively.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Children, Youth and Families

Social Justice

Gender Justice

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

Release Date:

09/10/2015

... a high level of financial distress fell into one of three groups . The first group is students who enrolled knowing ...

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Member News

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Economic Security

Education

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William T. Grant Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund: How Do State Health Policy Meetings Make A Difference?

Release Date:

02/10/2016

... we have supported for twenty-three years. If any of the groups we engage with regularly could take action to improve ...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

JP Morgan Chase Report Addresses Summer Youth Employment Deficit

Release Date:

02/25/2016

... the economic recession over the last decade left many groups facing declining employment rates, teenagers and young ...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Economic Security

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Duke Foundation Gives $1.5M for Arts to Increase Understanding of Muslim Societies

Release Date:

03/04/2016

... to develop a series of high-profile events convening groups of Muslim and non-Muslim writers across specific ...

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Arts

Religion

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Doris Duke Foundation

Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)

A new Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), an online, statistically validated assessment measure was developed by TCC Group to help foundations make sense of their institutional capacity strengths and challenges.

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Website

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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TCC Group

16 Jun 2016

Making Big Bets for Big Results - Webinar

Thursday, June 16, 2016 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Bridgespan research reveals that 80% of the biggest donors aim for dramatic social change with their giving, yet only 20% of the biggest gifts (for research purposes, identified at $10M or above) over the past decade plus have gone to such causes.

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

Proteus Fund Reports on Orlando Rapid Response Fund Grantmaking

Release Date:

08/11/2016

... Rapid Response Fund to build the capacity for response of groups working at the intersection of LGBTQ rights and racial justice, with a particular focus on groups representing the Muslim, Arab, and South Asian...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

PhilTV This Week Dec 15 Features Edna McConnell Clark, Arabella Advisors and Hazen Foundation

Release Date:

12/15/2016

... Are We Criminalizing Our Students? Nonprofit Journalism Groups Are Gearing Up With Flood of Donations The New ...

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PhilTV This Week

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Ford, JPB, Novo, Carnegie Corporation of NY Listed as Top Funders of Refugee and Migrant Issues

Release Date:

02/15/2017

While foundation funding in support of global human rights initiatives rose to $2.7 billion in 2014, from $2.3 billion in 2013, the share of funding for migrants and refuges remained flat, a report from Foundation Center and the International Human...

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Member News

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Immigration

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Freedom Together Foundation

Ford Foundation

NoVo Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Alcohol Abuse Is Rising Among Older Adults

Release Date:

09/15/2017

Epidemiologists at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism last month reported a jarring trend: Problem drinking is rising fast among older Americans.

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Sector News

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Aging

Health

Childcare Hasn’t Gained Much Traction with Funders. Who's Trying to Change That?

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... partnered leaned heavily toward worker and parent advocate groups , like the Olé Education Fund in New Mexico and Parent ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Get It Right, Right Now

Release Date:

10/18/2017

It is no coincidence that the communities that are hardest to reach in the decennial census count are also those that are under-resourced and under-represented in federal, state and local government. Systematic undercounting of hard-to-reach...

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PNY News

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Public Policy

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The New York Community Trust

Long Island Community Foundation

New York Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Leading Philanthropists to Announce Co-Impact, A Global Collaborative for Systems Change

Release Date:

11/16/2017

Co-Impact will make large multi-year investments in health, education, and economic opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people around the world

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Member News

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Video Shows How a New State Prison Policy Hurts Nonprofits Like Books Through Bars in New York

Release Date:

01/10/2018

A new state policy would keep nonprofits like NYC Books Through Bars from sending books to inmates in New York.

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Caught Our Attention

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Justice Reform

Fair Health Launches New Healthcare Portal YouCanPlanForThis.Org with Support From the New York State Health Foundation

Release Date:

02/07/2018

... New York State Health Foundation Men and women of all age groups have been visiting YouCanPlanForThis.org , a free ... both women and men visited the site. Consistent with focus groups FAIR Health has...

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Member News

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Expands Arts Innovation and Management Program

Release Date:

05/11/2018

... to $108 million since 2011. “Small and midsize arts groups help form the backbone of local communities and they ... their success,” said Mike Bloomberg. “By helping these groups operate more effectively and...