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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize

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01/10/2017

... by a distinguished committee of civic, business, and neighborhood leaders all hailing from Brooklyn. The Spark ...

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Capital One, Howard Gilman, and Doris Duke Support City Parks SummerStage 2017 Season

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04/11/2017

... bringing more than 100 performances to Central Park and 15 neighborhood parks throughout the five boroughs. This year's .....

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

Changing Americans’ access to healthy nutrition and replacing those food deserts with well-stocked stores starts at the local level, says Dr. Garth Graham, president of the nonprofit Aetna Foundation, which each year provides funding to local...

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NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement

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05/04/2017

NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement Climate ... environment. It has before. . . NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement ...

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Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools

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08/31/2017

... Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan’s Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she ...

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Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows

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09/26/2017

Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows ... enrolled. . . Red Tape, Frustration Pushing Out Applicants for Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Program, Report Shows...

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City to Overhaul 11 More Parks on Restoration Program As Its Cost Grows to $318 Million

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09/27/2017

... by $33 million. It will now cost $318 million to rehab 67 neighborhood parks under the Community Parks Initiative, up ...

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NYCHA Plans Market-Rate Brooklyn Units

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10/02/2017

... housing development in the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of East Williamsburg. The new mid-rise ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Brooklyn Community Foundation and the Power of Participatory Grantmaking

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12/12/2017

... spending to the people that it is supposed to help. For example, soon after joining the Brooklyn Community ... grantmaking effort in Crown Heights, a rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood of Hasidic Jews, West...

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issues Report on Undercount of Young Kids in 2020 Census

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06/29/2018

... policymakers and child advocates of troubling consequences for the nation’s kids with the likely undercount of about 1 ... at risk hundreds of millions of dollars of federal funding for programs that are...

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TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change

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05/28/2013

... Vincent Stehle, the Executive Director of Media Impact Funders , provide a recap of our recent program on the vision that drives TED, its plans for the future and the ways that TED is partnering with...

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Far Rockaway Leaders Look Ahead

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02/12/2013

New York Foundation Executive Director Maria Mottola talks about a recent funder trip to meet nonprofit leaders in Far Rockaway and what she and others learned about the challenges that community faces.

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Impact Investing in New York and Beyond

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07/12/2012

... discuss recent investment projects across New York and how funders can successfully implement their own impact investing ...

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Great Power, Great Responsibility: Grantmakers’ Role as Conveners

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01/2013

Funders are finding ways to use the power of convening to ... and their communities in countless ways. Grantmakers for Effective Organizations' digital publication contains a .....

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14 Mar 2013

Adding Nonfamily Trustees and Community Voices to Your Family Foundation Board

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... and what qualifications and characteristics to look for ? How should we go about the search and invitation process for non-family trustees? What are the biggest advantages to ... The Weaver Foundation Designed...

19 Oct 2010

Leaders in a New Era: A Conversation on Leadership Development and Race

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8:30am to 11:00am

... Committee. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: CEOs, trustees, and other funders interested in creating and increasing diverse ... have equal access to opportunity and are responsible for their fates by virtue of their...

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The New York Community Trust Hires Environmental Program Officer

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02/12/2014

... has joined The New York Community Trust as Program Officer for national and New York City environmental grantmaking. Garcia-Costas, who has worked for state and federal environmental agencies as well ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke, Ford, Nathan Cummings, JPB, Open Society and Others Support Initiative to Transform Our Nation’s Cultural Landscape

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11/15/2017

... Our Nation’s Cultural Landscape The National Trust for Historic Preservation, in partnership with the Ford ... of African-Americans by establishing a grant fund for the protection and restoration of African-...

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