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Susan L. Solomon, Co-Founder of New York Stem Cell Foundation, is on a Quest

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02/23/2016

... Susan L. Solomon to leave a career in law and business for medicine. Ms. Solomon, 64, co-founded the New York ... research institute has gained more notice lately for its breakthroughs in stem-cell research,...

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Health

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... Bureau, we'll have to wait until the 150th observance for the wage gap between men and women to close. The women ... on this day in 1857 and again in 1908 demanding safer working conditions, a ten-hour...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

... a bloodthirsty mob and other dangers; the only doctor for half a million people in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains; a Pakistani advocate for indentured laborers who helps extricate them from debt; ... Armenian genocide...

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Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

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03/30/2016

... announced that all of its 800 employees are eligible for six-months parental leave, half of it full pay, three ... professional accomplishment” — one rooted in gratitude for her own experience enjoying four-...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic Agendas

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05/06/2016

Ms. Foundation for Women Spearheads Initiative to Develop a National Blueprint for Women’s Economic Agendas The push for an increase in ... power of low-income families and advocacy organizations...

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Ford Foundation Is A Sponsor of New Exhibits at the Muhammad Ali Center

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06/22/2016

... death earlier this month. “The project’s been ongoing for months,” Donald Lassere, president and CEO of the Ali ...

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Brad Tito Joins Westchester Community Foundation Board Of Advisors

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11/08/2016

... to its Board of Advisors. The Board provides leadership for carrying out the Foundation’s mission to promote ...

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

Release Date:

11/18/2016

... Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition For six years—from 2006 to 2013—I worked inside the .....

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08 Jun 2017

21st Century Philanthropic Pipelines for Twentysomethings - Webinar

Thursday, June 8, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

*The National Center for Family Philanthropy limits attendance to private and ... and prepare the best generation of philanthropic leaders for the field and for our family work? Now in NCFP’s 20...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation Announces Hiring of George Suttles as Program Officer

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01/06/2017

... of U.S. Trust, where he served as a relationship manager for private family foundations, charitable trusts, and ... excited to welcome George Suttles to our outstanding team working to improve the care of...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

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Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition

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01/23/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M for Bay Area Resilience by Design Competition Through the ... collaborative five-month intensive design phase with teams working in partnership with residents, businesses, .....

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Community Development

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Report Highlights 20 Urban Resilience Strategies In The Rockefeller Foundation-Supported Resilient Cities Network

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01/25/2017

... While cities committed to building resilience are actively working to boost their capacity to survive, adapt to, and ... to support risk management projects; and technologies for community engagement. The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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President Of Montauk-Based Environmental Advocacy Organization Stepping Down

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02/02/2017

Concerned Citizens of Montauk (CCOM) recently announced that its President, Jeremy Samuelson, who has been with the organization since 2012, will be stepping down at the end of March, 2017, to join The Nature Conservancy as the Director of Mashomack...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Novo Foundation's Peter Buffett On The Power—And Limits—Of Art And Money

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02/13/2017

... resources, though due to his father’s predilection for living modestly in Omaha, Nebraska, it wasn’t until he reached adulthood that he knew it. For much of his career, Buffett has recorded and ... wife...

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NoVo Foundation

I’m Having a CEO Moment. And You Can, Too

Release Date:

04/05/2017

... month we’re doing something a little different: A two- for -one! As you’ve probably noticed over the past few months, we’ve been working really hard to capture more and more of the great ...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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Tony Haile, Former CEO of Chartbeat, Joins Media Development Investment Fund Board of Directors

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04/12/2017

... University. He sits on the board of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism and the Weber Shandwick Innovation Council, ...

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Media Development Investment Fund

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Communications/Media

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Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize

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04/14/2017

... to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize The application deadline for The 2017 J.M.K. Innovation Prize is April 28th, 2017 -- ... per year, as well as a $25,000 "bank" of funds available for technical...

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Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

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06/22/2017

Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voice Heard, tells funders in this PHIL Talk that "basebuilding is a contact sport... change movements are built by a small cadre of people."

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Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board

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09/28/2017

Five Foundation Leaders Join National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy Board The National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy (NCRP) board of directors today ... Rockefeller Foundation, served as NCRP'...

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