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16 Sep 2020

Ray Madoff vs. Daniel Hemel: Should DAFs Be Reined In?

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:15am

... North Star Fund Webinar Designed for All interested funders , regardless of role within your foundation. What to ... by which organizer you were invited. (no fee) Non-Member Funders : Please email register@...

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08 Dec 2021

2021 Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Winter Meeting

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... and networking needs for individuals serving in an administrative support function to senior leadership in ... by PACNET's Co-Chairs. Designed for All interested funders , regardless of role within your...

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14 Jun 2022

Defining Your Family’s Philanthropic Purpose - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Tuesday, June 14, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... and legacy and succession. What will you learn? Why funders have chosen to utilize this method of grantmaking How funders engage community members in the decision-making ...

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19 Sep 2023

State Voting Rights Acts: A Racial Equity Framework for Protecting Community Interests in Redistricting, Representation and Access to the Ballot

Tuesday, September 19, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... Fair Representation in Redistricting, who has extended an invitation to PNY members. With brazen attempts to ... in the states Who should attend? This webinar is open to funders , advocates and other...

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Change Captial Fund Launches Initiative to Support Community Development

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06/02/2014

[Altman Foundation; Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ; Brooklyn Community Foundation; Capital One; Citi Foundation; Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation; F.B. Heron Foundation; Goldman Sachs; Mizuho Bank USA; M & T Bank; New York Community Trust; New...

Mark Abrahams Joins FJC as Chief Financial and Investment Officer

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08/19/2014

... managing and analyzing financial data at Credit Suisse Group . Abrahams currently serves as a trustee and Chair of ... New York and Long Island and lends his talents as an advisor for the Berkley Center for...

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... to do the hard thinking about the effects of so radical an experiment. One concerned observer is John Krieger, ...

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NoVo Executive Director Finds Correlation Between Domestic Violence and Other Violent Crimes in NYTimes Editorial

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02/04/2015

... Chocolate cafe in Sydney, he had already been charged as an accessory to the murder of his ex-wife. Before George ... 2014 included the murder of a current or former spouse, an intimate partner or a family...

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How Big Foundations Saved the Detroit Institute of Art

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04/24/2015

... mediating between the city and its creditors. He called in an all-star squad of foundation presidents—the newly ... All they had to do was come up with more money than any group of foundations ever had. At...

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Commonwealth Explores Ramifications of Higher Premiums for Older Adults

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09/15/2015

Analysis shows that if limits on premiums for older adults were relaxed, federal spending would rise.

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The Century Foundation Welcomes New Trustees Sonal Shah and Damon Silvers

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09/25/2015

... Company Accounting Oversight Board’s Investor Advisory Group . These new board members will strengthen the ... bringing experienced and creative thought leaders to an already distinguished Board of Trustees...

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Overdeck Family Foundation Funded Research on ‘Bedtime Math’ Featured in the Journal Science

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10/16/2015

... by three months more than children in a reading control group . Most notably, children of the most math-anxious ...

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Gould Foundation’s Tyre is Author of In-Depth Atlantic Investigative Piece on Math and Low-Income Students

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02/12/2016

... reading books like New Problems in Euclidean Geometry and An Introduction to Diophantine Equations. . . Gould ...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

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02/17/2016

... often not identified as art centers. For the inaugural group of fellows, five writers of diverse backgrounds were ...

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Sloan-Supported Study Shows Whales Dine With Their Own Kind

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03/03/2016

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, the Institute of Marine Research in Norway, and NOAA, have found that as multiple species of whales feast on herring, they tend to stick with their own kind.

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New Board President Selected to Lead the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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07/11/2016

... and the Harvard Law School Venture Fund Advisory Group . In 2015, Ms. Butler Plum was selected as one of 50 ...

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... and is published in the journal Child Development. " An increasing number of transgender children--those who ... peers on basic tasks related to gender development at an early age." The study looked...

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Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

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08/15/2017

A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, has now opened the way to numerous potential uses of betalains, the highly nutritious red-violet and yellow pigments...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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When a Company Is Making Money From the Opioid Crisis

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09/07/2017

... 100,000. “We were texting when he OD’ed” and died, an Ohio acquaintance of mine told me in a May catch-up phone ... users—some of whom are profiting from it. Last month, a group of shareholders of one...

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