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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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06 Apr 2016

New Pathways for Building Immigrant Women’s Leadership

Wednesday, April 6, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... their social change goals. Join Philanthropy New York’s Funders of Women and Girls for a robust conversation ... and programs What opportunities or next steps exist for funders and other stakeholders...

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Leadership Development

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Immigration

Gender Justice

Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking

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08/10/2015

... affected grantmaking. One question, for example, split the group (unbeknownst to respondents) between those who already ... DNA of an organization, a thorough discussion with staff about common biases—perhaps...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... programs—but also political, raising questions about how a host of well-connected directors, regulatory ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.1 Million to 41 Theater Programs

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07/06/2015

... annual budget between $75,000 and $3.5 million. Women lead about half of the organizations, while 25% have leaders of ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Supporting NJ Food Banks

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12/07/2015

... Americans relies regularly on food banks, equivalent to about 46.5 million people. In New Jersey, the ratio is ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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Food Systems

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Conservative Activist O’Keefe Targets Liberal Foundations, Foiled By Open Society Program Staff

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05/23/2016

... Street, where she helps oversee the nonprofit group ’s pro-democracy programs in Eurasia. The Foundations ... from unfamiliar callers to her e-mail inbox. She was about to review several messages when she...

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Open Society Foundations

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... are local and community news sites ready to get serious about collaboration to meet the demands of increasingly picky ... The Daily Progress (owned by Warren Buffet’s BH Media Group ) that serves the demanding...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Arts

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... American liberalism has slipped into a kind of moral panic about racial, gender and sexual identity that has distorted ...

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Public Policy

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Russell Sage Foundation

With Support from the Wenner-Gren Foundation, Fossil Hunters Discover New Primate Species

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02/28/2017

... jawbone related to lemurs — the primitive primate group distantly connected to monkeys, apes and humans, a USC ... Sivaladapidae primate family, consumed leaves and was about the size of a house cat, said...

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The Wenner-Gren Foundation

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Science

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

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09/06/2017

... Intent from BoardSource is a treasure trove of information about nonprofit board trends, but its purview is far too ...

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High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

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09/14/2017

... its second round of prizes last year. The top winner, a group from India that developed a wristband for detecting ... in infants, beat out roughly 800 other applicants to win about $53,000. "Somehow you...

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These Companies Support Climate Action, So Why Are They Funding Opposition To It?

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09/19/2017

... States’ role in the landmark Paris agreement ratified by about 160 countries. So why exactly would these 27 business powerhouses also support a GOP group that’s fought to undo a key Obama-era domestic ...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

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09/20/2017

... women, as depicted, were rather unattractive. Wages and a group of women had been pushing members of Congress to move ... members of Congress, including a few female lawmakers, about how the women looked, as...

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Gender Justice

In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

... Hudson River, is no more. A lot of people are very upset about its demise, angry at an opposition group that hit the project with costly litigation. But ...

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After So Many Disasters, Nonprofit Relief Organizations Struggle Against ‘Donor Fatigue’

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09/25/2017

... for Disaster Philanthropy, a Washington-based nonprofit group that consults on disaster giving, and raises disaster ... He says Americans are incredibly generous.When they hear about disasters. They want to...

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Disaster Relief

A Well-Intentioned City Redevelopment Plan Hits the Skids

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09/26/2017

... new apartments near Citi Field—and soon began helping a group of auto-repair shops that occupied the land move to a ... is stalled, the Bronx landlord for the auto shops is about to evict them, and the $7.5...

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Community Development

Trump’s Stake in Housing Complex Spurs Lawsuit Over Sale

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09/29/2017

... investors who are suing to stop the $850 million sale. The group of plaintiffs, including heirs of late real-estate ... of interest and refusing to turn over information about the “below-market” sale. The...

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Housing and Homelessness

Americans Fear Social Security Will Go Broke, Poll Shows

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10/02/2017

... three-quarters (78 percent) of future retirees in that age group and almost two-thirds (63 percent) of those who retired ... (63 percent) of future and recent retirees are concerned about cuts to Social...

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Economic Security

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

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10/04/2017

... it’s “very clean,” President Trump sure is blasé about making America’s food safer. (With so many important ... angry letters from almost every influential watchdog group — the Center for Science in the Public...

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