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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... 2014 Brooklyn Insights project, the foundation created a new vision, mission, and strategy that resonates not only in ... $1 million to our Community Fund last year. Now it’ s full steam ahead. The launch of...

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Brooklyn Org

Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

Release Date:

02/24/2016

... to their visit notes. Neither a software program nor a new technology, experts say this basic change in practice ... if spread nationwide, can improve the performance of the U. S . healthcare system. Peterson...

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JP Morgan Chase Report Addresses Summer Youth Employment Deficit

Release Date:

02/25/2016

... business sector and with a skills focus, which can open new pathways to future career options. They are working ...

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Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT)

A new Foundation Core Capacity Assessment Tool (FCCAT), an ... exist that measure nonprofit capacity (including TCC Group' s Core Capacity Assessment Tool, or CCAT, which has helped .....

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches Conversation-for-Action Series, Insight Dialogues

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04/28/2016

... action around the most pressing issues of our time. The new series will facilitate an exchange of ideas and inform the Foundation' s ongoing work to improve the lives of poor and vulnerable .....

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The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

Release Date:

11/18/2016

... and put considerable strain on privacy. Edward Snowden’ s disclosures of mass surveillance programs, beginning in ... we think they have made the NSA tyrant-proof. In Snowden’ s first interview from Hong Kong...

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HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits

Release Date:

11/28/2016

... on Nonprofits As nonprofits prepare to comply with the new Fair Labor Standards Act rule on exempt employee status, ... to sign onto this letter, please send your organization' s logo to Tracie Robinson...

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Longtime Director June Makela Steps Down as Lorraine Marasigan Promoted to Lead the Norman Foundation

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12/12/2016

... and activism to help shape the family foundation’ s strategic vision. Under her leadership, the Norman ... To ensure the continued commitment to the Foundation’ s social justice legacy, Makela helped the...

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16 Feb 2017

Spark Session: Readying Your Community Foundation to Serve Philanthropic Families - Webinar

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... services. The webinar will also preview NCFP’ s two new tools for community foundations: a self-assessment ...

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Leadership Development

BNY Mellon and United Nations Foundation Publish Report for Advancing Gender Equality

Release Date:

01/26/2017

... than three million people around the country -- that' s one out of every 100 Americans -- and upwards of another ... many of those same people woke up and asked, "What' s next?" Supporters...

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BNY

09 Mar 2017

Secret Film Screening & Funder Discussion of Sundance Award-Winning Documentary

Thursday, March 9, 2017 -

4:30pm to 7:00pm

This program is a part of our new Climate Change Series. We invite you to join ... with the filmmaker and the production company' s impact director about strategies for shifting awareness, .....

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Arts

Environment and Climate Change

Science

With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

Release Date:

04/25/2017

... research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one' s gender is considered a critical part of early childhood ... early gender development among transgender preschoolers, a new study has found that...

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Surdna-Funded Study Calls for Targeted Federal Policies to Create Quality Jobs

Release Date:

05/09/2017

... offering high-quality employment opportunities — the New Markets Tax Credit Program, the Community Reinvestment ... programs, the General Services Administration' s federal procurement system, and...

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Workforce Development

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Surdna Foundation

For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together

Release Date:

05/30/2017

... appeared on the Center for Effective Philanthropy' s CEP Blog and is reposted with permission. As the Surdna ... group of equals; Planning for specific processes to select new family board members as the...

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Insights

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

The 2017 Rita Allen Foundation Scholars Announced

Release Date:

06/05/2017

... whose research holds exceptional promise for revealing new pathways to advance human health. The selected Scholars ... United States and selected by the Rita Allen Foundation’ s Scientific Advisory Committee...

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

Release Date:

06/12/2017

... to reduce mass incarceration in the United States. This new Art for Justice Fund — to be announced Monday at the ...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... have been so successful, but also how the mainstream media' s failure to adapt to new means of communication plays into internet malcontents' .....

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PhilTalks

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Communications/Media

Unusual Times Lead to Unusual Grants from the Rockefeller Foundation

Release Date:

06/28/2017

... Political hot buttons aren't the Rockefeller Foundation’ s usual fare. Like many other big foundations, it avoids ... of humanity throughout the world." The foundation’ s priorities in recent years...

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‘Bro’ Adams Joins Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as Senior Fellow

Release Date:

07/11/2017

... fellow. Adams, who lives in Falmouth, will begin his new job Aug. 1. When he resigned as NEH chairman in May, ... said a press release announcing the appointment. Michael S . McPherson, outgoing president of...

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Mellon Foundation

Helmsley-Supported Research Finds Pigments Made by Beets May Help Boost Resistance to Disease & Nutrition Value of Crops

Release Date:

08/15/2017

... benefits and are used in the food and drug industries. A new study conducted at the Weizmann Institute of Science, ... was poorly understood. Prof. Asaph Aharoni of Weizmann' s Plant and Environmental...

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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