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28 Jun 2012

Foundation Executive Assistants Network Meeting

Thursday, June 28, 2012 -

12:15pm to 2:00pm

... Assistants. Strong demand for a professional networking group for EAs (and those in similar roles) led to this convening. At this first ... outside the network. Designed for Members who serve in...

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The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

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03/13/2014

... cooperation with South Africa's apartheid regime in the 1980s, but many people know what it means now: companies and institutions can stop investing in corporate or business actions that are harmful...

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

Release Date:

04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, housed on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, held an opening ... celebration on March 31, 2014. The institute, established...

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Commonwealth Fund Poll Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans

Release Date:

09/18/2014

... Shows Majority Happy with ObamaCare Plans A majority of people who signed up for ObamaCare over the last year are ... signed up, according to a new poll. About 70 percent of people who bought healthcare plans...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

Release Date:

11/03/2014

... funded by Chuck Feeney, who made his fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group , is making good on its promise to give away all of its money in the next two years...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

Release Date:

10/19/2014

... protests. But as such things go, last month’s march in New York City, which attracted some 400,000 people to ... which required real physical and moral courage, or issues of fierce contention like war, that...

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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

Release Date:

11/17/2014

... World Ploughshares opposes America’s development of a missile-defense system and contributes funds to scores of anti-war groups highly critical of U.S. foreign policy and ... free from the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

Release Date:

11/24/2014

... Next Mission Peter Peterson, the Blackstone Group LP co-founder who has championed the cause of U.S. debt reduction, is now taking aim at some $800 billion in annual waste in...

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President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

Release Date:

12/17/2014

... president’s executive action on immigration announced in November. All together, an estimated 5 million ... They also will have to reach older immigrants, many of whom have fewer language and literacy skills...

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films

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01/22/2015

... Foundation Releases International Study on Gender Images in Films What happens when specific groups of people are not seen or heard? The result is a potential ... into our languages and behaviors, which can...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

Release Date:

04/24/2015

... Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure In a seven-page letter to the SEC, organized by the nonprofit sustainability advocacy group Ceres, investors noted that the current low price ... is providing...

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Ford Foundation to Fund Projects That Help Fight Violent Extremism

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08/03/2015

... will continue to finance projects that address inequality in access to natural resources and social injustice which ... its global grant, says limited rights to access and use of natural resources to generate...

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A New Lens for Disaster Recovery

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09/16/2015

... devastate communities and leave their deepest wounds in already unstable low-income neighborhoods. Physical ...

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Disaster Relief

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The New York Women's Foundation

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of Jamaica's thriving arts ... to the New York Community Trust, which awarded...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

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10/16/2015

... they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their groups, the Center for Effective Philanthropy and ... And they started their jobs within a few months of each other in 2001...

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New York Community Trust Adds Funds to the QueensWay Plan

Release Date:

10/16/2015

... rail tracks, according to an Oct. 5 release detailing the group ’s 84 total grants given to various nonprofits. ...

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The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

In more than a decade of research on nonprofit leadership, The Bridgespan Group has observed little change in the No. 1 organizational ...

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Luff to Leave Hess Corporation, CSR Operations to Move to Houston

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11/24/2015

... Operations to Move to Houston Paula Luff, Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility at Hess Corporation, is ... Hess at the end of 2015. Paula built and led the CSR group for over...

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Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

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03/30/2016

... cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and ... as has Sidney Kimmel, a philanthropist and founder of Jones Apparel Group...

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Johnson & Johnson’s Campaign for Nursing’s Future Redefines Bedpans and Bandages

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04/06/2016

... and Bandages Today, nurses play multidimensional roles in countless infrastructures; we have become an extremely challenging group to clearly define, limit, or categorize. Understanding current day nursing...

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