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Choose the Fund for 2025 for #GivingTuesday

Today is #GivingTuesday, which you no doubt are aware of from the staggering number of year-end donation requests you’re receiving. If you are thinking about making a personal donation in the coming weeks (no pressure at all!) the Fund for 2025 is...

Philanthropy New York urges state and local government to ensure full, on-time payment and contracting with the nonprofit sector to ensure the health and safety of New York’s most vulnerable residents

PNY urges state and local government to ensure full, on-time payment and contracting with the nonprofit sector, without significant cuts to an already lean budget, to ensure the health and safety of New York’s most vulnerable residents....

Kathryn Haslanger Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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01/15/2014

Kathryn D. Haslanger, Chief Executive Officer of JASA (Jewish Association Serving the Aging), has been elected to the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors.

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Evan Michelson Joins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Program Officer

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02/12/2014

... Foundation President Paul L. Joskow . “I look forward to working with him to help advance the Foundation’s mission ...

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18 Nov 2014

Food Chains - Documentary Film Series

Tuesday, November 18, 2014 -

4:30pm to 8:45pm

There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. "Food Chains" reveals the human cost...

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11 Feb 2015

Citizenfour - Documentary Film Series

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 -

4:00pm to 9:00pm

... Security Agency (NSA). Poitras had already been working on a film about surveillance for two years when ...

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Open Comment Period: Simplifying the Excise Tax on Private Foundations

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08/01/2012

Last year, the Philanthropy New York board approved a formal process for our organization to take an official position on pressing policy concerns, and earlier this year we formed a Public Policy Committee to advise staff on how to proceed on such...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces Former Ambassador as New Trustee

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11/12/2015

The Weinberg Foundation announced that Ambassador Fay Hartog-Levin (Ret.) will succeed Judge Ellen M. Heller as the next Trustee of the Weinberg Foundation.

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

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04/18/2018

The new initiative — created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony and the League of American Orchestras — will train musicians for auditions, pair them with mentors, showcase their work in concerts and give them stipends to travel to...

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Arts

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The Rockefeller Foundation and CrossBoundary Launch Mini-Grid Innovation Lab in Nairobi, Kenya

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04/24/2018

... business model innovations in the minigrid sector. Working with over 15 minigrid developers across Africa , as ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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United Hospital Fund Report Find's NY's Individual Health Insurance Market Held Its Ground in 2017

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10/09/2018

Despite concerted efforts by Congress and the Trump administration to roll back key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), New York State’s individual health insurance market largely held its ground in 2017 in terms of enrollment, the cost of...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Doubles Support To Prevent Global Road Traffic Deaths

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02/18/2020

... are completely preventable. After more than a decade of working with our international and in-country partners, we ...

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UJA-Federation of New York Provides New Round of Emergency Funding For COVID Relief in New York and Israel

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12/15/2020

... opened in October 2020. About UJA-Federation of New York Working with a network of hundreds of nonprofits, UJA extends ...

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Miriam Nelson Named President and CEO of Newman’s Own Foundation

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01/12/2021

Miriam E. Nelson, PhD, prominent health and nutrition scholar, U.S. policy advisor, and bestselling author, has been named president and chief executive officer of Newman’s Own Foundation.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Promotes Maurine Knighton to Role of Chief Program Officer

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10/18/2022

In this role, Knighton will oversee DDCF’s five national grantmaking programs: Arts, Environment, Medical Research, Child Well-Being and Building Bridges.

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2023-2024 African Fellows

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03/13/2023

The ten fellows were chosen through a rigorous peer-review process. All are doctoral candidates at African universities exploring important problems of violence related to the African continent.

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