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The Simons Foundation

Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... standard of living. Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and in recent decades, several localities ... oil wealth. But the pace of experimentation has picked up sharply of late. Early this year...

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Environment and Climate Change

Schumer Calls On EPA To Resume 'Abandoned' Cleanups Of Radioactive Hot Spots

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10/10/2017

... The EPA recently abandoned cleanup activities to clean up hot spots that resulted from radioactive waste byproducts ... properties when the work was halted. "EPA just packed up the trucks, abandoned the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation's Rebuild By Design Project Reveals Proposals From Cities To Protect Them From Next Sandy

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10/30/2017

... and towns affected by the storm and residents to come up with plans for projects to make their coastlines more ... from west 57th Street down to The Battery and then up to East 42nd Street. There are three...

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Community Development

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JPB Foundation-Funded Research Reveals Potential Target For Alcohol Liver Disease

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08/22/2017

Drinking too much alcohol can damage the liver, but investigators have discovered a protective response in the organ that might be targeted to help treat alcoholic liver disease. The team - led by researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Health

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Mellon Foundation and Digital Preservation Coalition Sponsor Formation of Task Force for Email Archives

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11/03/2016

... toolkit. The task force will aim to construct a working agenda for the community by focusing on the following ... societies by supporting exemplary institutions of higher education and culture as they renew...

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Technology

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Mellon Foundation

Frameworks for Private Foundations: A New Model for Impact

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07/2017

... new societal challenges, new players, and new strategies. Funders are seeking to increase their effectiveness, and want ... that shape private foundations, and offers a roadmap for funders interested in reflecting on these frameworks to ... of the Foundation, some of its benefits, and a roadmap for funders interested in exploring their own foundations’ ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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15 Sep 2010

Can You Hear Us Now? Evaluating Policy Change and Advocacy

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... trustees, program officers, evaluation officers, and other funders interested in assessing whether their public policy ... philanthropic investment. But do you know if it’s working , especially when advocacy...

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Make Room for Makerspaces

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12/08/2015

... York Community Trust’s Hive Digital Media Learning Fund, NYC Youth Funders and Philanthropy New York presented the ... Space for Tinkering, Design-Thinking and Technology in Education...

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The New York Community Trust

DeQuendre Neeley-Bertrand Joins the Schott Foundation as Communications Director

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02/22/2017

... advance the foundation’s mission and raise its profile, working with a team of communications strategists to develop ... advisor to one of the foundation’s partners, the Education Justice Network. Before...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Casey Family Programs Among Supporters of Grandparents Rally on Lawn of U.S. Capitol

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05/10/2017

... Church, Wilmington, North Carolina Brittney Barros – Youth being raised by grandmother from Ypsilanti, Michigan ... – Policy Specialist, Foster Club Shasta Dazen – Youth raised by grandparents, Fort Apache...

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Casey Family Programs

Novo Foundation Launches New Website and Film Series,The Life Story: Moments of Change

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02/01/2018

The stunning new interactive website explores 13 moments when survivors, service providers, funders, advocates and allies can make a difference for girls and women.

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Kay Takeda Senior Director of Artist Programs

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05/09/2018

... of artist programs. Takeda joins the foundation this June, stepping down as vice president of grants and services at the ...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation

David Rockefeller Fund announces Lourdes J. Rodriguez, Dr.PH as Chief Executive Officer

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09/21/2022

National public health leader brings 20 years of experience with community organizing, population-level interventions, and philanthropy

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The David Rockefeller Fund

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New Report From The Redlich Horwitz Foundation: New York Should Use Family First Act As “Tailwind” for Curbing Congregate Care

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04/24/2018

... foster care system, with an eye on placing more foster youth in the homes of relatives and improving support for all ... for the state, including limiting the allowable use of group settings and helping...

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Redlich Horwitz Foundation

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25 May 2017

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network Spring Program: Effective Communication Across Generations

Thursday, May 25, 2017 -

8:45am to 10:00am

... Our workplaces likely contain employees from all five working generations: Veterans, Baby Boomers, Xers, ... Across Generations where she will unpack the challenges of working in today’s multi-generational...

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Executive Support Staff

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Caroline Kennedy Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees

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03/09/2018

... board," said Ambassador Kennedy. "I look forward to working with its members and staff on the important issues of ... great accomplishment: a diplomat, an author, a champion of education , ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation

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03/31/2021

... to have Margaret join our Board and look forward to working together to drive an equitable economic recovery that ... opportunity available for everyone. I look forward to working with Markle’s leadership to...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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05 Mar 2020

Financial Series: What to Look for in a Nonprofit's Financial Statement

Thursday, March 5, 2020 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

... , Principal, PKF O'Connor Davies, LLP Designed for Funders with less than two years of experience in the field .....

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Ford Foundation announces five-year, $25 million grant to women-led global worker networks calling for a just economic recovery for the world’s 2.1 billion informal workers

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11/16/2021

... policy and advocacy network focused on empowering the working poor, especially women, in the informal economy to ... 97% of street vendors and 74% of waste pickers stopped working . By July, neither ...

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