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To Bolster Support for the Arts, Move Hearts and Minds

Release Date:

11/10/2015

... Agenda Fund made a grant to The Opportunity Agenda . The group trained arts and cultural advocates to craft ... and visions. Trainers encouraged advocates to step back from their organizations’ immediate needs...

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

The Opportunity Agenda

Foundation Transparency: What Nonprofits Want

Publication date:

05/2013

The first analysis of data from Center for Effective Philanthropy’s annual survey, ... 59 percent of the respondents increased their total giving from 2007 to 2012, and that noncash contributions as a percentage of total giving grew from 57 percent in 2007 to 69 percent in 2012. Foundation ...

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Supported By The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The National Alliance for Audition Support Looks to Increase Diversity in Orchestras

Release Date:

04/18/2018

... made up only 2.5 percent of orchestra players in 2014, up from 1.8 percent in 2002. Small orchestras were more racially ... factors have been cited as contributing to the problem, from the lack of diversity at...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Sampriti Ganguli, CEO of Arabella Advisors, Joins Denver Frederick on The Answer WNYM

Release Date:

02/24/2020

... philanthropists and investors take their idea and turn it into impact. So, essentially, we provide a full suite of services – everything from a strategy to implementation. We are the de facto grant ... your...

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Arabella Advisors

Newman's Own Foundation Names Dr. Rafael Pérez-Escamilla to Board of Directors

Release Date:

01/11/2022

... Newman, by turning all net profits and royalties from the sale of Newman's Own products into donations, totaling more than $570 million to date. ... Foundation, and we are grateful that we will now...

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Newman's Own Foundation

UJA-Federation of New York Makes Emergency Grant to Met Council to Support Food Distribution to Vulnerable New Yorkers

Release Date:

03/22/2023

... will enable Met Council to procure and distribute food from its warehouse to its network of food pantries in New ... of benefits will likely drive more people to seek support from food pantries and other free...

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Food Systems

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UJA-Federation of New York

Urging the U.S. Senate to Pass the America Gives More Act

... of the deadline for claiming charitable contributions from December 31st to April 15th of the following year. ...

29 Mar 2012

Strategic Partnerships: Unlock the Keys to Maximizing Cross-Sector Relationships

Thursday, March 29, 2012 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... The criteria and characteristics of strategic partnerships from both the nonprofit and corporate point of view A ...

12 Apr 2012

Family Philanthropy: Diverse Voices in Family Giving

Thursday, April 12, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... diverse donors and families? How can diverse donors learn from multi-generational family foundations, and vice versa? ... Explore How diverse donors and families factor into the future of philanthropy. A...

05 Jun 2013

Conversation with Ford Foundation’s Luis Ubinas

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 -

4:00pm to 6:00pm

... of having interviewed Luis in a similar format a year into his tenure at the Ford Foundation. The candid session ... to pick up some of the fascinating lines of discussion from that previous program with a...

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Tools & Strategies

04 Aug 2010

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Health Care Reform: What Employers Need to Know Now!

Wednesday, August 4, 2010 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... Foundation Administrators Network is a resource for those working in foundation administration. The network meets ... is very important. Please do not share specific details from the meetings with individuals...

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Network Building

13 Mar 2014

So Far So Fast: A Family Foundation Finds its Focus

Thursday, March 13, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... no staff, no structure and a family that was never brought into the fold pull itself together to fashion a high ... and the just plain hard work required to create something from almost nothing. The George B...

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Family Foundation

Four Reasons to Champion Leadership Development

Release Date:

06/11/2014

... in Stanford Social Innovation Review discusses findings from a recent evaluation of an American Express program to ... important leadership behaviors." They include: Working more effectively and...

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Leadership Development

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American Express

'Docu-Ad’ Exposes Hardship of Those Without Bank Access

Release Date:

06/03/2014

... of Those Without Bank Access A new commercial from American Express , presented like an investigative ...

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Communications

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Economic Security

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American Express

In A Shift In Giving, JPMorgan Chase Focusing On Economic Growth

Release Date:

07/13/2014

... place at the JPMorgan Chase Foundation as it moves away from "broad-based giving" to a focus on "economic growth," .....

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Community Development

Economic Security

Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Fannie E. Rippel Foundation-Funded Study Shows Younger Women Delay Seeking Help for Heart Attacks

Release Date:

02/25/2015

... Outcomes, examined the experiences of women ranging in age from 30 to 55 years old who were hospitalized with acute ...

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Member News

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

Ella Baff will Join the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Program Officer

Release Date:

07/15/2015

... Jacob’s Pillow, which hosts more than 50 dance companies from around the world each year, expanded its programs, ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Bloomberg's Investment in Renewable Energy Instrumental in Phase Out of the United States' 200th Coal Plant

Release Date:

07/16/2015

... are winning. Iowa is a leader in America’s transition from coal to renewable energy, and is providing a model for ...

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Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Simons Foundation Creates Center for Computational Astrophysics, Appoints David Spergel Director

Release Date:

11/16/2015

... years, CCA will be recruiting outstanding scientists from the U.S. and abroad for both junior and senior positions ...

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Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Supports NeuroBioBank for Autism Research

Release Date:

11/18/2015

... high-quality brain tissue, and the need for donor tissue from individuals both with and without an autism spectrum ... sites across the country, have accomplished this feat by working in unison to raise public...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

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