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Bank of America to Spur Economic Gains For Low-Income Families, Communities

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03/16/2017

The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) today announced a $3.8 million grant from the Bank of America Charitable Foundation to support programs focused on reviving local economies, including efforts to help residents build employment skills...

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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

The foundations weigh in on the challenges and strategies in reaching a diverse audiences and using art to build positive, relevant, and inspiring forces in the daily lives of diverse communities.

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... Bullitt Foundation, with its deep-green commercial office building and accompanying green building program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to ...

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Success Academy Boss Eva Moskowitz and Charter Leaders Demand Answers on Space Requests from de Blasio

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09/07/2017

The charter school war grinds on. Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz and other leaders of city charter schools held a demonstration Wednesday on the steps of City Hall to rip Mayor de Blasio for failing to respond to requests for space in city...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $55 Million to a Mid-Manhattan Library

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09/14/2017

... the ungainly stepsibling to the magnificent Beaux-Arts building across Fifth Avenue that houses its world-class ... Stephen A. Schwarzman gave in 2008. (The flagship building was renamed in his honor.)...

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Amazon Inks Office Space Deal on Manhattan’s Far West Side

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09/22/2017

... 360,000 square feet at Five Manhattan West, a revamped building that is part of Brookfield Property Partners L.P.'s .....

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... here’s one funder that’s actually walking the walk. Building on its initial focus, reproductive ... Fund has expanded to support broader movement building by women of color, low-income women and LGBTQ ...

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Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

The fight to compel landlords to return their properties to productive use is by no means a new one, but the discussion has a new urgency given the current severity of the homelessness crisis as well as the ongoing debates regarding the de Blasio...

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Toshiba America Foundation Announces $110,000 for 11 Innovative Classroom STEM Projects

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01/16/2018

The Toshiba America Foundation (TAF) today announced nearly $110,000 in grants for 11 innovative classroom STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic) projects in grades 6-12.

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Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program

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06/19/2018

... Arcus grantees to make progressive change through base- building , movement building , and other approaches that support the social ...

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Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones New Head of Fellowship Program

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12/05/2018

... Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith , an award-winning book on the origins and legacy of intersectional movement building ... Open Society Names Alethia E. Jones...

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University of San Diego Chosen for The Rockefeller Foundation-Acumen Student Social Innovation Challenge

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09/19/2019

... the experience of The Rockefeller Foundation and Acumen in building successful social enterprises. Winning teams from ...

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Funder Collaboratives: Why and How Funders Work Together

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05/2009

... for structuring a collaborative to fit its purpose, building strong relationships and resolving conflicts, and ...

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$15 Million Gift and New Name for Community College

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04/29/2013

... common, $15 million might buy naming rights to a new building or a laboratory. But for a community college, a ...

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp

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07/13/2013

... $1 million grant is in support of organizational capacity building for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for youth ...

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18 Jul 2012

Black Communities and Philanthropy: A Conversation on Past Trends, Current Challenges and the Future

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8:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York 79 Fifth Avenue, 4th Floor, NYC

Maya Wiley, Founder and President of the Center for Social Inclusion, will share her views about opportunities for philanthropic investments in Black communities and how the sector could more effectively advance strategies that close racial...

New York City’s Community Foundation Announces $6.5 Million in Grants to 81 Nonprofits

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10/16/2013

New York City’s Community Foundation awards $6.5 Million in grants to 81 New York City nonprofits.

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