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19 Jun 2019

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Wednesday, June 19, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... same rules as legislative lobbying Private foundations may fund 501(c)(4) organizations The answers to these and many ... legal issues surrounding funding advocacy work Ways to fund advocacy and identify ways...

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Morgan Stanley, TruFund Financial Services and Ford Foundation Announce Launch of $26 Million Impact Developers Fund

Release Date:

06/22/2020

... Announce Launch of $26 Million Impact Developers Fund NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Morgan Stanley, TruFund ... today announced the launch of the Impact Developers Fund . The $26 million fund...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Flamboyan Arts Fund Partner on Arts Innovation and Management Training Program in Puerto Rico

Release Date:

10/21/2020

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Flamboyan Arts Fund Partner on Arts Innovation and Management Training ... NY – Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Flamboyan Arts Fund today announced their collaboration on the Arts...

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Workforce Development

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New Report Funded by Foundation for Child Development Focuses On Restructuring the Financing of Early Care and Education

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02/22/2018

High-quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high-quality services and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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22 Apr 2021

Leaning into Racial Justice with the Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Fund - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 22, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... before. Yet many foundations are grappling with how to fund racial equity and the best way forward for their ... Conversation, the Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Fund will explore their decision to...

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Catholic Publication Calls Funders ‘Clever’ for Funding Faith-Based Groups Supporting LGBT Rights

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09/17/2014

Ford, Arcus, Open Society and others were highlighted by Catholic San Francisco for distributing millions of dollars to faith-based groups that support LGBT rights.

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United Hospital Fund Report Details Lessons Learned in Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions

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10/14/2014

United Hospital Fund Report Details Lessons Learned in Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions A new United Hospital Fund report details lessons learned from a multi-hospital ... percent in 2011 to 10 percent in...

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Philanthropy’s Self-Appointed Critic Picks at PNY’s Fund for 2025, But Agrees It’s "Money Well Spent"

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11/04/2014

Philanthropy’s Self-Appointed Critic Picks at PNY’s Fund for 2025, But Agrees It’s "Money Well Spent" ... time to move into the next decade. PNY established the " Fund for 2025" to raise $2.5...

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MasterCard Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program

Release Date:

11/10/2014

... Commits $25 Million to Expand UN Capital Development Fund ’s Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) Program The ... has partnered with the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), a UN initiative to increase...

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Alfred P. Sloan and Simons Tapped to Offset Federal Budget Cuts in Science Funding

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03/17/2015

The coalition, the Science Philanthropy Alliance, has picked Marc Kastner as its first president.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact Investing

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03/19/2015

Rockefeller Brothers Fund and F.B. Heron Foundation Place More Emphasis on Impact ... some of his heirs did last fall. The Rockefeller Brothers Fund , a family foundation with $860 million in assets and a .....

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

Release Date:

11/04/2015

New York Community Trusts and Partners Fund Grants Bringing Digital Media Learning to More Youth ... The money comes from the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund , a donor collaborative housed in The New York...

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Altman Foundation

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Surdna-Funded Report Suggests Better Language, New Approaches to Community Wealth Building

Release Date:

11/11/2015

A new report, “Cities Building Community Wealth," defines and names a movement that has been brewing beneath the radar for at least 40 years: the community wealth-building movement.

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Community Development

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

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05/19/2016

Older women, minorities, especially Latinos, most at risk; aging baby boomers contribute to increase.

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Open Society Foundations Targeted by New Hungarian Law Requiring NGOs to Disclose Foreign Funding Sources

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03/10/2017

The law is widely viewed as targeting groups backed by the Open Society Foundations and its founder, Hungarian-born U.S. financier George Soros.

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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis Writes About the Absence of Federal Arts Funding

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03/17/2017

Since President Lyndon Johnson and a bipartisan Congress created the national arts and humanities endowments, no president has called for their elimination -- until now. We should pause and think about what our country would be like in their absence.

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Report Funded by The Clark Foundation Urges de Blasio to Prioritize Boosting Community College Graduation Rates in Second Term

Release Date:

12/11/2017

The report, "Degrees of Difficulty: Boosting College Success in New York City," which was funded by The Clark Foundation, urges Mayor Bill de Blasio to make boosting community college graduation rates a key part of his second term agenda.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds First-Ever Center for Empathy and the Visual Arts

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... Minneapolis Institute of Art, or MIA, a $750,000 grant, to fund a five-year project to build empathy in order to affect ...

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With Funding From The JPB Foundation, Cities Connecting Children to Nature, Engages Second Cohort of Cities in 2017-2020 Phase

Release Date:

12/18/2017

The Lates phase initiative from 2017-2020 will engage a second cohort of cities in 2.75 years of technical assistance to develop and implement strategies that equitably connect children to nature, with support of $75,000 in planning and...

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Civic Engagement

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Freedom Together Foundation

The Leon Levy Foundation and Charles H. Revson Foundation Fund New Nonprofit Local News Entity in New York City

Release Date:

09/28/2018

The Leon Levy Foundation and Charles H. Revson Foundation Fund New Nonprofit Local News Entity in New York City Funding ... The Leon Levy Foundation and Charles H. Revson Foundation Fund New Nonprofit Local News...

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Communications/Media

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Leon Levy Foundation

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