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Charles H. Hamilton to Retire from Bessemer Trust

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05/01/2013

Charles H. Hamilton, the Principal and Director of Philanthropic Advisory Services at Bessemer Trust, will retire at the end of May 2013.

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

06 Jun 2012

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Innovative Approaches to Better Serve Youth and Young Adults

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Attendees will learn from presentations by JobsFirstNYC and the New York City Department of Education about new initiatives to better connect youth and young adults with an increasingly competitive labor market. Particular emphasis will be placed on...

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KACF Expands to San Francisco

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06/19/2014

The Korean American Community Foundation has announced plans to open an affiliate in San Francisco.

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Fate of Detroit’s “Grand Bargain” In Hands Of City Workers, Pensioners

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06/20/2014

City workers and pensioners will decide the fate of Detroit's "Grand Bargain," an effort to save the Detroit Institute of Art’s collection from the auction block—and to which the Ford Foundation has pledged $120 million and Andrew W. Mellon...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Examines the Role of Older Workers in Small Business

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04/23/2015

... Business A variety of simultaneous trends are keeping more Americans in the workforce longer, and a newly published ... nation’s well being and the public’s health that older Americans have the opportunity to...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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The Next Generation in Philanthropy: From The Rockefeller Foundation To The Zuckerberg Chan Initiative

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01/05/2016

When $45 billion dollars is pledged to charity, it’s bound to start a lot of conversations. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Dr. Priscilla Chan's announcement has received a lot of attention and has started discussion about the next...

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Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

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03/08/2016

... they're calling the Year of the Woman and trusting that Americans will finally recognize the importance of women's ... disparities all around us? Could this be the moment when Americans finally stand...

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Vivian Tseng Promoted to Senior Vice President, Program of The William T. Grant Foundation

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03/29/2017

... on the Boards of the Forum for Youth Investment, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and Evidence ...

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Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million

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07/26/2017

The New York City-based Surdna Foundation awarded 72 grants totaling more than $14 million to organizations working to foster just and sustainable communities in the United States.

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Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

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11/01/2017

According to the 2017 edition of Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys (36 pages, PDF), the fluctuations in funding explicitly designated to benefit African-American men and boys might be due, in part, to large grants...

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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished attorney and...

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

The still indomitable Nina Simone will be honored by the National Trust as her childhood home in Tyron, N.C. will be named a national treasure.

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Report Funded by Helmsley Charitable Trust Looks at Human Well-Being in NYC

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07/03/2018

... in NYC New Yorkers on average are faring better than Americans as a whole on key barometers of human well-being, ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Inside Philanthropy Looks at The Helmsley Charitable Trust Work to Improve Stroke Outcomes in Rural America

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09/11/2018

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is one foundation that keeps the healthcare needs of rural communities in mind, particularly in the upper Midwest. A recent example is the three-year, $6.5 million grant out of its Rural Healthcare...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

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11/15/2018

Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today a new $12 million project that will help communities analyze economic mobility in American cities and develop interventions that can increase...

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$4 Million From Ford, Mellon, and Alice Walton Fund Goes to Promote Diversity on Museum Boards

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01/15/2019

A board-member matching service to identify and train candidates of color — and assess groups’ readiness to engage people of different backgrounds — will be key to change.

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Four Foundations, Including Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Buy Historic Archives of 'Ebony' Magazine

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07/25/2019

The foundations will donate the archive to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture as well as the Getty Research Institute.

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