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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

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05/14/2009

... essential. Look for leverage and where your deployment of resources can best be used. Remember that size may matter, ... Foundation, the Jerome L. Greene Foundation, and the Brooklyn Community Foundation. A...

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To Frack or Not To Frack in New York: Observations from a Donor Briefing

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08/16/2012

... excavation alter rural landscapes and put stress on communities . The states are in the driver’s seat in ... of Catskill Mountainkeeper , Julia Walsh of Frack Action and Wenonah Hauter of Food and Water Watch...

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... in Nepal, along with the ongoing and tragic aftermath in local cities and villages, bring to mind inevitable questions ... more crowded and urban, with an increasing scarcity of resources and less predictable...

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Marianna Islam Joins the Schott Foundation as Director of Programs and Advocacy

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04/01/2016

... Marianna has a range of experiences working with communities across the country to advance equity through ... Way of Central Massachusetts. In this capacity, she helped guide and support investments in early...

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Seaport Museum's 110-Year-Old Lightship To Be Restored To Its Glory Days

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08/29/2017

... of lower New York Bay between Coney Island, New York, and Sandy Hook, New Jersey.” This could often be a treacherous ...

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New United Hospital Fund Framework Addresses Health and Housing Partnerships in New York City

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06/25/2020

... areas: • grass-roots, neighborhood-level action • community-wide partnerships • ... cross-sector collaboration. In 2017 it expanded to Brooklyn ; to date the Bronx and Brooklyn consortia have...

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19 Sep 2017

Documentary Film Screening - "Unrest": Women, Resilience and the Disease Medicine Forgot

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Join us for a screening and panel discussion of the documentary film Unrest , which exposes deep flaws in the U.S. healthcare system in its treatment of patients afflicted with rare, orphaned diseases.

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Ford Foundation and Open Society Initiative for West Africa Launch New Fund to End Sexual Violence in West Africa

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12/02/2021

... Africa , a bold five-year initiative to boost feminist action and advocacy against sexual violence in West Africa. ... on Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal, Kasa! (meaning ‘ speak ’ in the Twi language) will be a fund...

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Women on the Front Lines of ACA Implementation

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03/28/2014

... leading community efforts to link women and families to resources that can help them through the enrollment process. ... in organizations that are trusted messengers within the communities that stand to...

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New Momentum in Youth Justice Reform

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02/08/2017

... for justice system reform at a federal, state, and local level, the David Rockefeller Fund has recently drawn ... Through “Redirect New York” legislation in 2011, resources were invested in community-based...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation expands Health Initiative with partnerships to fight infectious disease and mental illness worldwide

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06/29/2022

... and to connect young people with the mental health resources they need. SNF’s ongoing approximately $750 ... a mission of expanding access to life-changing health care resources , a belief in the importance of...

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Ana Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women's Foundation, Named a Lifetime Achievement Honoree in City & State's 2023 50 Over 50 List

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02/02/2023

... a group of distinguished New Yorkers whose decades in local and state politics and government are worthy of ... generosity, values of empathy, values of we are one so to speak ,” Oliveira says. “That we aren’t...

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Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

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03/30/2016

... which can be used to make nuclear bombs. The two grant makers decided to make their own gift basket to highlight the ...

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Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism

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02/23/2018

... and how we measure the capacity to do great work. Grant makers must take conscious action to challenge our deepest, and sometimes unconscious, ...

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Winning Was Just Part of the Reward

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09/17/2013

by Cecilia Clarke, President and CEO, Brooklyn Community Foundation ; Founder and former Executive ... possible to change so many young women’s lives. This post first appeared on the Official Blog of the Nonprofit...

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Every Experience Builds Expertise

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08/16/2016

... obstacles in educational success because they lack the resources needed to prosper. Family income shouldn’t be the ... habits. They encourage young people to give back to their communities and enrich their...

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UJA-Federation of New York Screens Holocaust Film Premiere in Long Island

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01/03/2017

... people recently gathered at the Gold Coast Cinema at LIU- Post for UJA-Federation of New York’s Long Island screening ... resident of Port Washington who currently resides in Brooklyn , returned to Poland two...

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26 Mar 2019

alt.gov - Governance in the Twenty-First Century - A Roundtable Discussion

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

... Foundation Designed for All interested funders who are decision - makers in their foundations; one representative per ...

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Hartford Foundation's Amy Berman Receives 2016 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy

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03/11/2016

... stories about serious illness and patient engagement in decision -making, including articles published in Health Affairs and the Washington Post . "As a grantmaker, Amy Berman is bold, strategic, a .....

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