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MetLife Foundation Creates Partnership to Innovate Financial Services for Real People

Release Date:

11/28/2017

... savings, to credit accessibility—should be designed for how real people act, using insights from behavioral science. ... many lower-income people throughout Mexico and Chile—as well as create a foundation on...

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MetLife

NYPL Lions to Receive Laser Bath Cleaning, Paid for by New York Life Foundation and Donations From Hundreds of New Yorkers

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08/12/2019

... Foundation and donations from hundreds of New Yorkers." How does a bath cost this much, you may ask? Well , it's a laser bath, a cleaning process that will aid in .....

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Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

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09/30/2019

... The Rockefeller Foundation’s mission of promoting the well -being of humanity is both impressive and noble. My focus ... Foundation and the other Residents as it begins exploring how to design a responsible AI...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces $4 Million in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits as Part of COVID-19 Response

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03/27/2020

... The emergency grants will support current grantees that are providing vital services within their communities while ... communities throughout the United States and Israel, as well as an additional $1.5...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

09 Dec 2016

Philanthropy 101 - Module 4: Great Debates in Philanthropy

Friday, December 9, 2016 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... Director, The Educational Foundation of America Ronna Brown (Moderator), President, Philanthropy New York ... five modules will build on each other, and participants are expected to commit to attending all...

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New Staff

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

08 Dec 2017

Philanthropy 101: The Great Debates

Friday, December 8, 2017 -

8:30am to 11:00am

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13 Dec 2019

Philanthropy 101: The Great Debates in Philanthropy

Friday, December 13, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... for the remaining modules once you register. Below are the links to the other modules: October 11 - So You're ... Director, The Educational Foundation of America Ronna Brown (Moderator), President,...

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New Staff

29 Apr 2015

Measuring Impact: Joys, Monsters and Opportunities in Peacebuilding Monitoring and Evaluation - Webinar

Wednesday, April 29, 2015 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... field continues to wrestle with questions of impact - how do we know that peacebuilding programs work? How do we measure the cumulative effect of programs in a ... field in peacebuilding, how...

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We Shouldn’t Be Batting 1000

Release Date:

03/07/2016

... I am a sports nut. In a recent lunch with PNY’s Ronna Brown , a conversation about philanthropic success led me to ... argue that a lot more breakthroughs might be achieved as well . If we were to do so, I would...

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We Need Ideas from the Right (and Left, and All Around)

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05/02/2017

... Left, and All Around) A message from PNY President Ronna Brown , published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost ... May 2017 edition. Regional Associations of Grantmakers are nonpartisan organizations. Our...

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12 Jan 2012

Family Philanthropy: Finding Common Ground, Valuing Different Views

Thursday, January 12, 2012 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

... and techniques to promote civil discourse. Explore How to handle conflicting opinions, values, religious beliefs ... Family Philanthropy series, presented with the National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP...

RPA, Ford and MasterCard Support Bogata Convening on World Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/12/2015

... United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Foundation Center , and a committee of leading foundations guided by ... of knowledge and data and identify opportunities around how philanthropy can engage in the...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

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08/25/2016

... After fits and starts going back to the previous decade, are local and community news sites ready to get serious about ... were more the exception than the rule. But next week the Center for Cooperative Media...

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Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... Disabilities . According to researchers at the center , the investment could lead to new treatments for ... of DNA changes known to cause autism and investigate how variations in the wiring of the brain can...

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Health

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Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... and associate professor at Northeastern’s Marine Science Center , had posted a letter Friday on her personal Facebook ... for federal funds. Bowen’s project aims to explore how environmental factors such as...

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Sophia Stewart Joins Ford Foundation as Department Coordinator

Release Date:

07/01/2013

... gaps by coordinating events educating NGOs on how to effectively communicate with the United Nations. Prior ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... Nikhil Naik, Scott Duke Kominers, and their collaborators are hoping to transform the way scientists study urban ... Street View images in an effort to measure whether and how urban areas are...

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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

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09/22/2017

... CEOs and other development partners, the event explored how smart investments in health, empowerment, education and employment can reduce vulnerability and support ... force for development, will ensure...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Working to Gather 20,000 Teen Opinions Across Western New York & Southeast Michigan

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11/29/2018

... "Where I live or work, one thing teens want when they are not in school is ...". Teen Opinions Count, the latest ... and youth organizations to collect data that will inform how future investments...

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03 Aug 2017

VR For The Real World: New Tools To Make The World Better

Thursday, August 3, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... 360 videos to gaming platforms, virtual reality developers are finding themselves more and more at the nexus of empathy ... awareness and motivate the viewer to action. Come learn how VR works for social...