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Leadership Transition at Philanthropy New York

... The simple truth is that being Philanthropy New York’ s President is wonderful. I love this job because of all of ... and member community, thank you, Ronna, for sharing with us the gifts of your talents and...

Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals

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02/22/2018

... of any time in the history of mankind.” For many of us , the first months of 2018 will go down in history as a ... the announcement from Amazon, Chase and Warren Buffet’ s company, Berkshire Hathaway , around a...

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Flexible Funding Is the New Kid on the Block

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03/04/2020

... have also been discussing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ s award of unrestricted funding through his Day 1 Families ... costs; a funder deciding to invest in an organization’ s sustainability in order to carry out...

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Build Up Companies

Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures

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01/11/2017

... fact: while two out of three foundation CEOs think it’ s possible for foundations to make a significant difference ... in the world, only about one out of every eight of us feel we actually are making such a...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces New Program Officer for Democracy, Hannah Furstenberg-Beckman

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08/31/2022

... Officer for Democracy. Her portfolio includes grants to protect voting rights, support free and fair elections and ... In 2020, she worked on the Biden for President campaign’ s voter protection program,...

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United Way of New York City Board of Directors Elects Donald F. Donahue and Michael J. Schmidtberger as New Co-Chairs

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06/21/2016

... transition demonstrates United Way of New York City’ s commitment to long-term succession planning and keeping ... outgoing Board Chair, Bob Kueppers . “Don and Mike’ s combined service to UWNYC spans more...

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Arcus Foundation's Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry

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03/29/2018

Arcus Foundation' s Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive ... and south of the equator. About 70 percent of the world’ s cacao comes from Ghana and Cote d’Ivoire, where cacao farming has...

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An Update on Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Limited Life

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10/23/2018

An Update on Edna McConnell Clark Foundation' s Limited Life "Today Blue Meridian Partners is announcing ... formed Blue Meridian Partners, Inc., which will enable us to continue offering high-quality...

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17 Jan 2019

The Border and Beyond: Federal Immigration Policy Outlook and Philanthropic Engagement - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, January 17, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... stretched on for nearly three weeks over President Trump’ s demand for funding for his signature campaign pledge: a wall on the U. S .-Mexico border. The past year saw a wide range of funders ... for the...

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26 Sep 2019

A Threat to Health and Wellbeing: Public Charge's Expected Impact and How Philanthropy Can Respond - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, September 26, 2019 -

10:00am to 11:15am

... on a first come, first served basis.* In August, the U. S . Department of Homeland Security filed and officially ... rule embodies all three elements of the administration’ s anti-immigrant agenda and...

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Open Society Foundations to close OSI-Baltimore after 25 years; will invest $20 million to seed the future of social justice philanthropy

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02/16/2023

... In partnership with the leadership of Open Society-U. S . and Open Society Foundations, and with the generous ... better meet the tests of these times, we will carry with us the lessons we have learned,” said...

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Social Justice

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Navigating Backlash: Lessons for a Thriving Multiracial and Multicultural Workplace

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02/10/2025

... events, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which the U. S . Department of Justice recently acknowledged was a ... “law-and-order” rhetoric cemented President Nixon’ s Southern Strategy, which targeted affirmative...

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Citi Foundation Announces Recipients of $50 Million Community Finance Innovation Fund

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09/12/2022

... Fund. Building on Citi and the Citi Foundation’ s long history of promoting financial inclusion, these grants ... been an economic lifeline for communities across the U. S . hardest hit by the economic impact...

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Hurricane Sandy Giving Stories

... Recovery Donors Collaborative, at wendy@wendyfleischer. com . Ford Foundation has donated $5 million to help create a ... Committee for Occupational Safety and Health, $60,000 to protect Superstorm Sandy...

We are In a Time of New Suns

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10/19/2022

... in August of 2022. The Center for Effective Philanthropy’ s report, Much Alarm, Less Action: Foundations and Climate ... see an opening. We invite funders to consider how each of us can enter the climate space...

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Unbound Philanthropy

Occupy The Box

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03/21/2012

... on February 28, 2012.) When I heard the title of today’ s symposium, “Thinking Outside the Box: meeting today’ s ... to, not because we have to. This is what distinguishes us . We value...

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Philanthropy New York 2021 Member Survey

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03/2022

... conducted a survey of a sample of Philanthropy New York’ s (PNY) current members. CEP received 147 responses from ... rate by organization). The memo below outlines CEP’ s key findings and recommendations from Philanthropy New York’ s survey results and follows the preliminary set of findings ...

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Giving While Living

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09/2017

... the highest and best use of our resources. It requires us to ask questions like: What are our best opportunities to ... What are grantee organizations accomplishing? What’ s working… what’ s not? Or, as Chuck Feeney, founder of The Atlantic ...

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McNulty Prize Catalyst Fund Awarded to Emerging Organizations Challenging Entrenched Inequities

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10/14/2020

... to advance an anti-racist and equitable vision in the US , to incubating a social entrepreneurship ecosystem in ... Social Enterprise Ghana is steering the country’ s burgeoning entrepreneurial sector into a...

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