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Morgan Stanley

Movement Building and System Change

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05/18/2012

... and CEO of the New York Women’s Foundation , and young leaders from four grassroots nonprofit organizations, ... was established, Oliveira noted, around what many people at the time thought was “a crazy idea...

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Mellon Foundation Grants Over $13M to the National Park Foundation to Support Thirty Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities

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06/29/2022

... and connect the public with interpretive and educational resources that consider the complex histories of the sites ... where we can reflect on our collective past and learn more about the country we call home...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Rockefeller Supports Training Workshops on Impact Investing in Ghana and South Africa

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03/03/2017

... this is new terrain for evaluators, there are several resources on both impact investing and impact ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Legacy Foundations and Risk-Taking: Different Approaches to Empowered Philanthropy

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06/07/2017

... Yes, fear. For years, we’ve endured debates about thinking like a business and not thinking like a ... the basic rights, health and safety of millions of people – undocumented, black, white, LGBTQ, older and...

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The Role of Philanthropy in Addressing the Greek Crisis

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08/21/2015

... trying to address this question since the beginning of the ongoing crisis. We have, so far, committed €300 million ... Leaving aside personal opinions on how the crisis came about , who’s to blame, and how it...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Reflections on Board Service: Something to Consider

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12/01/2017

... work. A colleague mentioned Philanthropy New York as a resource that might be helpful, so I poked around the website ... quickly became a huge fan of FAN. FAN was an invaluable resource to me, my ‘kitchen...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Philanthropy New York

New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth

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11/04/2015

... is making 12 new grants, worth nearly $900,000, to help young people across New York City to use digital media and ... projects harness the power of these technologies to keep young ...

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The New York Community Trust

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

26 Mar 2012

Changing the System: Effective Strategies for Grassroots Activism to Make NYC More Fair, Just, and Compassionate

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2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Join funders and grassroots activists in a discussion about the leadership, strategy, and resources required to change the underlying systems that ... and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and co-hosted by Demos...

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The Long Island Sound Funders Collaborative has granted $377,250 in 2020 to nine nonprofits through its Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation

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12/29/2020

... working to restore and protect the health and living resources of Long Island Sound. The Long Island Sound Funders ... Collaborative has worked together to educate the public about the myriad issues facing the...

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26 Oct 2016

Members Want to Know: How Are the Policy Fellows Doing?

Wednesday, October 26, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... to the Fund for 2025, to ask their own questions about what the Public Policy Fellowship is accomplishing and ... identifies early-career professionals (we are targeting young people who are...

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Philanthropy Has a Duty to Respond Quickly to the COVID-19 Outbreak. Here's How We Can Do It

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03/18/2020

... has exposed our industry’s failure to think holistically about our grantees’ financial needs as functioning ... and childcare when schools are closed. We can move resources now to make sure our grantees are...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Disaster Relief

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U.S.-Cuba Thaw Reverberating Through Nonprofits

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06/04/2015

... the U.S. embassy in Havana. Some expressed trepidation about what explosive private-sector development in Cuba could do to its people and its ecology. Among them is Kate Barnes, a program ... Cuba "has a...

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Mastercard and Rockefeller Foundation Announce Data.org: A Platform for Data Science Partnerships

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01/23/2020

... change that improves the lives of vulnerable people and helps solve the world’s most pressing ... civic and public sector institutions still lack the resources to do so,” said Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of The...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

... business, labor and education, and to expand the resource base (human and financial) for social and economic ... aims to end the injustices suffered by one group of people at the hands of another. These...

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Arcus Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

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10/15/2021

... in and benefit from the sustainable management of natural resources in important gorilla and chimpanzee habitats in the ... Liberia, a protected tropical rainforest that is home to about 1,000 critically...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship

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08/29/2017

... the time of World War I, two organizations set out to mold young Americans into resourceful and virtuous future leaders, ... There was one major difference: The Boy Scouts admitted young men, and the Girl...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook Launch Coding for Employment Program

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06/07/2018

... for tomorrow’s jobs and unleashes the next generation of young digital innovators from the continent. Coding for ... accelerates investments in Africa’s most valuable resource – its young...

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Education

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The Burke Foundation Announces Three New Staff Members

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11/18/2020

... stress by connecting families to important community resources . Before her time with the Burke Foundation, Renée ... programs for the parents, caregivers and educators of young children. For over a decade, she...

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces New CEO

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11/06/2015

... and then as an executive vice president with Integrated Resources . She joined JPMorgan Chase in 1994, where she spent ... to public service, will be immensely beneficial to the ongoing development of the Trust...

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