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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement Recent coverage of public ... library giving can be summarized in a single word: access. Funders including the Stavros Niarchos...

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Children, Youth and Families

19 Apr 2018

Civil Conversations in Uncivil Times - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 19, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and family foundation staff and trustees only.* ... What roles can family foundations play in finding ways to support meaningful dialogue...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Family Foundation

SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia

Release Date:

11/27/2017

... nonprofits face perilous times, as 40 percent skirt close to the financial edge. Burnley’s observation is based on a ... on universal themes—among them, the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the...

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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

Release Date:

12/12/2017

... Propel Democracy, a new $5 million effort that seeks ' to catalyze investment in local organizing strategies that ... additional $2 million in 2018. The fund will move quickly to support partners leading...

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Civic Engagement

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Propel Capital

Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Release Date:

12/10/2018

... Foundation The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is pleased to announce that Rini Banerjee will join the Foundation as its fourth president and first woman to lead the foundation. Banerjee’s appointment concludes...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Surdna Foundation Appoints Sophy Yem as Program Officer, Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/01/2019

... has been appointed Program Officer for Philanthropy. Prior to her appointment, she served as the Foundation’s grants manager since 2017. “I’m thrilled to that Sophy will serve the foundation as its first-ever...

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Surdna Foundation

Championing Colombia’s LGBTI Movement: Latest Report from the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Release Date:

02/18/2021

... Lesbian Foundation for Justice Astraea is excited to share our newest report, The LGBTI Movement’s Spiral Trajectory: From Peace Processes to Legal and Juridical Gains and Back Again, a case study of .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

LGBTQ

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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... In 2012, Open Society spent more than $28 million to promote drug policy, criminal justice, human rights, access to information, and migration in the region. “Latin America ... entrenched issues facing the...

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TD Charitable Foundation Awards $2.5 Million for Affordable Housing

Release Date:

12/11/2012

... seventh annual Housing for Everyone competition to nonprofits working to provide transitional housing and homeless shelters in the ...

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Community Development

Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

Release Date:

02/15/2013

... American experience, will leave the foundation in June to make his own documentaries once again. As a substitute ... a fledgling filmmaker, was hired by public television to work on a piece about a South...

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in Grants to Greek Organizations

Release Date:

02/05/2013

The organizations are working to ease the effects of the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in ... Niarchos Foundation’s Board of Directors continues to support efforts to provide...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait

Release Date:

03/14/2013

... painter, has been given by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges ... portrait of Alexander Hamilton has been given by its owner to two institutions, New York’s...

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Arts

CECP Announces 2013 Excellence Awards in Corporate Philanthropy

Release Date:

02/26/2013

... Corporate Philanthropy awarded its Chairman's Award to IBM for the Smarter Cities Challenge, a three-year, $50 million competitive grant program to make cities around the world smarter and more livable...

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Corporate Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

Release Date:

03/25/2013

This initial commitment to support district-based school design work uses the ... use teaching, time, technology, money, and other resources to bring all students to the much higher levels of...

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

New Jersey Recovery Fund Awards $3.8 Million for Sandy Relief

Release Date:

08/07/2013

... New Jersey-based corporations and individuals committed to supporting local nonprofits working in communities affected by Superstorm Sandy. The New ... today announced 27 grants totaling nearly $3.8 million...

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Disaster Relief

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature

Release Date:

09/12/2013

... cook, a maid or other domestic employees would be required to pay them overtime wages under a landmark bill that awaits ... Francisco, would make the state the first in the nation to mandate time-and-a-half...

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Workforce Development

B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City

Release Date:

11/28/2013

The New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, who is the daughter and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation.

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JPMorgan Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills

Release Date:

12/11/2013

JPMorgan Chase's new $250 million initiative aims to close the "skills gap in in some of the largest United ... phone interview. “I need resources.”... JPMorgan Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills...

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Community Development

Workforce Development

New York Life Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

Release Date:

12/23/2013

... Center for School Crisis and Bereavement's capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools, reports ... Foundation has announced a four-year, $1.4 million grant to the National Center for School...