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How Propel Capital is Charting New Paths For Venture Philanthropy in Progressive Organizing

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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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Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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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

Release Date:

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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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

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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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Open Society Foundations

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

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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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Social Justice

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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

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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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Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

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03/25/2013

This initial commitment to support district-based school design work uses the ... use teaching, time, technology, money, and other resources to bring all students to the much higher levels of...

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New Jersey Recovery Fund Awards $3.8 Million for Sandy Relief

Release Date:

08/07/2013

... New Jersey-based corporations and individuals committed to supporting local nonprofits working in communities affected by Superstorm Sandy. The New ... today announced 27 grants totaling nearly $3.8 million...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Domestic Workers Bill of Rights passes Legislature

Release Date:

09/12/2013

... cook, a maid or other domestic employees would be required to pay them overtime wages under a landmark bill that awaits ... Francisco, would make the state the first in the nation to mandate time-and-a-half...

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B. Altman, a Store From Yesteryear, Still Makes Its Presence Felt in the City

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11/28/2013

The New York Times examined the history and work of the Altman Foundation and spoke with its president, Jane B. O'Connell, who is the daughter and sister of the last two presidents of the store and the foundation.

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JPMorgan Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills

Release Date:

12/11/2013

JPMorgan Chase's new $250 million initiative aims to close the "skills gap in in some of the largest United ... phone interview. “I need resources.”... JPMorgan Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills...

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Community Development

Workforce Development

New York Life Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

Release Date:

12/23/2013

... Center for School Crisis and Bereavement's capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools, reports ... Foundation has announced a four-year, $1.4 million grant to the National Center for School...

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Peggy Saika Named a 2014 North Star Award Honoree

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04/15/2014

... multi-generational organizing and activism, and has led to the creation of new models of social justice ...

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Effective Philanthropy Takes Time

Release Date:

06/26/2014

... Foundation, discusses why effective philanthropy is about working toward a long-term goal, even if change is barely ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Surdna Foundation

Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers

Release Date:

07/07/2014

Some of the most exciting research in medicine is taking place at the New York Stem Cell Foundation, and almost all its work is being paid for by private donors.

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The Rockefeller Foundation and the Urban Institute Evaluate Rebuild by Design

Release Date:

09/04/2014

... even though the Rebuild by Design competition was limited to the Sandy recovery area, it has the potential to transform the way disaster recovery efforts are designed, ... collectively communities and decision...

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