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John E. Craig, Jr. to Step Down as Chair of NPCC Board

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10/13/2014

... has served as NPCC’s board chair for the past 28 years. In addition to departing NPCC’s board December 1, he will ... National Center on Philanthropy and the Law, and the TIFF Education Foundation, and on the...

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28 Jun 2012

Foundation Executive Assistants Network Meeting

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -

12:15pm to 2:00pm

... Assistants. Strong demand for a professional networking group for EAs (and those in similar roles) led to this convening. At this first ... outside the network. Designed for Members who serve in...

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MetLife Foundation Launches $200 Million Campaign for Financial Inclusion

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10/28/2013

... to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the ... to bring financial services to low-income communities in Asia, Europe, Latin America, the...

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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

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03/13/2014

... cooperation with South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s, but many people know what it means now: companies and institutions can stop investing in corporate or business actions that are harmful...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

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09/18/2014

... survey by the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit policy group . Another 61 percent believed their plans were ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

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11/03/2014

... made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group , is making good on its promise to give away all of its money in the next two years. But unlike the early days of the ... wants to go out with a...

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Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New York City, which attracted some 400,000 people to ... cancer. Oddly, this wasn’t obvious to one important group : philanthropists.... Foundations...

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

... free from the threat of nuclear weapons.” The fund is in turn financed by a small number of foundations, including ...

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Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

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11/24/2014

... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in the nation’s...

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

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12/17/2014

... president’s executive action on immigration announced in November. All together, an estimated 5 million ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

... Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films What happens when specific groups of people are ... or exclusion. The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, U.N. Women and The Rockefeller...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure In a seven-page letter to the SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ... oil demand...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... will continue to finance projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which ... is a key cause of inequality and social injustices in Africa. The absence of a proper...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

... devastate communities and leave their deepest wounds in already unstable low-income neighborhoods. Physical ...

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of ... thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to live in more affordable apartments. The Greater...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one more thing in common, something that many of their peers will no doubt ...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

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10/16/2015

... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational concern expressed by boards and ...

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Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston

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11/24/2015

... Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for over eight years. In light of the shift in the company’s portfolio and relocation of most ...

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

... Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, explained in a commentary in the same issue. They may feel uncomfortable or too ...

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