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The State of Philanthropy: How to Maximize Impact

Release Date:

03/26/2014

... the block. But in the mid-20th century the landscape began to shift. Multilateral funders , social entrepreneurs, even socially-minded business ... of good ideas, and a partner in bringing those ideas ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Nonprofit Excellence Awards Go to Leake & Watts, Row New York, and Graham Windham

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11/21/2014

Nonprofit Excellence Awards Go to Leake & Watts, Row New York, and Graham Windham ... selected for their use of excellent management practices to turn around a failing organization, to...

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The New York Community Trust

Helmsley Charitable Trust Funds Heart Attack Care in the Rural Midwest

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02/09/2015

... Midwest Affiliate, has received a $4.6 million grant award to enhance systems of care, save lives, and improve outcomes ... and the Bureau of Emergency and Trauma Services and other funders . Mission: Lifeline...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

Release Date:

09/17/2015

... with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. The report, U.S. Trends in Synthetic ... investments, for example, increased from near zero in 2010 to more than $100 million in 2014...

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... Community Trust The New York Community Trust is committed to investing in underserved communities and equity, and mostly follows through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National...

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13 Mar 2017

The Roles of Arts & Culture in Addressing Islamophobia

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8:00am to 6:00pm

... Asian communities. In recent months, we have borne witness to a growing number of hostile acts including vandalism, ... This growing crisis has propelled multidisciplinary funders to seek out...

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Children, Youth and Families

Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

Release Date:

06/14/2017

... It Few foundations provide most of their annual giving to individuals. The bias of most funders in favor of organizational grantees reflects a simple ... involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint,...

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Rita Allen Foundation

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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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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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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SeaChange Capital Partners

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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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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Surdna Foundation Appoints Sophy Yem as Program Officer, Philanthropy

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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