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New York Community Trust to Collaborate with NCRP's Philamplify to Assess Community Foundations

Release Date:

09/09/2015

... assessments, we took the same approach for deciding which funders to assess, and chose two of the nation’s largest community foundations: The New York ... leadership at both foundations recognize the value...

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The New York Community Trust

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) fund much of the U.S. government’s research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. The ... time period, the...

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... minors from adult prisons and the state's legalization of same-sex marriage in 2011... NCRP Reviews New York .....

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Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... 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 Foundation, the John ... spaces fostering...

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Children, Youth and Families

SeaChange Capital Partners Co-Authors Report Highlighting Challenges Faced By Non-Profits In Philadelphia

Release Date:

11/27/2017

... SeaChange Capital Partners titled “The Financial Health of Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits.” We at NPQ say the report ... the need for nonprofits to build reserves, the importance of contingency planning by...

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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

... to Legal and Juridical Gains and Back Again, a case study of Colombia’s LGBTI movement. Colombia’s peace processes ... precedent for including LGBTI people as a key sector of the population. Although the...

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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

... to gun control,” said George Soros, Founder and Chairman of the Open Society Foundations. Over the past year, ... leading campaigns against corruption and for the promotion of human rights in Latin America. He...

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Open Society Foundations

Personal Strategy: Mobilizing Your Self for Effective Grantmaking

Publication date:

09/2005

... develop personal strategies to meet the "soft" challenges of grantmaking. Effective personal strategy helps practitioners use their understanding of self and role - as learner, analyst, bridge builder - to ... the job. In this guide, contributors discuss the elements of personal strategy and how it helps grantmakers to leverage .....

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Grants Managers

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TD Charitable Foundation Awards $2.5 Million for Affordable Housing

Release Date:

12/11/2012

Grants of $100,000 each were awarded through the foundation's ... annual Housing for Everyone competition to nonprofits working to provide transitional housing and homeless shelters in the District of...

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Community Development

Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

Release Date:

02/15/2013

Mr. Bagwell, a director and producer of some of the most influential documentaries about the civil rights ...

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Social Justice

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The Met and Crystal Bridges to Share a Trumbull Portrait

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03/14/2013

A portrait of Alexander Hamilton by John Trumbull, the celebrated ... by its owner, Credit Suisse, to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Arkansas in...

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Arts

Carnegie Corporation Commits $15 Million for Rethinking School Design

Release Date:

03/25/2013

... report as a starting point. Carnegie Corporation of New York today published a new report, Opportunity by ... resources to bring all students to the much higher levels of achievement necessary to meet the...

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New Jersey Recovery Fund Awards $3.8 Million for Sandy Relief

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08/07/2013

... Dodge Foundation, and hosted by the Community Foundation of New Jersey, the fund is a collaborative effort of local and national foundations, New Jersey-based ... and individuals committed to supporting local...

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Disaster Relief

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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...

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JPMorgan Plans to Unveil a Program for Job Skills

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... initiative aims to close the "skills gap in in some of the largest United States and European job markets, ... reports The New York Times. When Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago received a call earlier this...

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Workforce Development

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

Release Date:

12/23/2013

... Hospital for Children and the Drexel University College of Medicine, the center provides counsel and training to ...

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New York Life Foundation

Spending Down the Family Foundation

Release Date:

03/10/2014

... careers and were raising families in different parts of the country--and they simply weren't interested in the .....

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Family Foundation

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Arabella Advisors

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Effective Philanthropy Takes Time

Release Date:

06/26/2014

Effective Philanthropy Takes Time In this episode of Making Change , a podcast of the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Phil Henderson, president, ... Foundation, discusses why effective philanthropy is...

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Surdna Foundation

Private Funding Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers

Release Date:

07/07/2014

... Provides Lifeline For Stem Cell Researchers Some of the most exciting research in medicine is taking place at ... program in this country,” said Susan Solomon, C.E.O. of New York’s Stem Cell Foundation......