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Saying Yes/Saying No: Strengthening Your Decision-Giving Skills

Publication date:

06/2004

Most grant makers review more proposals than they can recommend for funding. Decision making about what to fund is challenging and so is decision giving to hopeful applicants. How do you say Yes, or No, so that grant applicants understand your foundation's rationale, feel that they've been treated fairly, and can make realistic plans about their next steps? This guide offers observations and suggestions from grant makers and grantees to make this task easier and more meaningful.

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Evaluation

Rockefeller Pledges $100-Million to Help 100 Cities Cope With Crises

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05/14/2013

The 100 Resilient Cities Centennial Challenge was announced to mark the 100th year, to the day, that the Rockefeller Foundation was incorporated.

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Thousands participate in Susan G. Komen Global Race for the Cure

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05/11/2013

Attendance at the charity’s signature fundraising event did decline for the second consecutive year.

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Komen Cancels 2014 Fundraising Events in Seven Cities

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06/07/2013

Susan G. Komen for the Cure has cancelled the Race for the Cure events due to economic uncertainty and competition from other nonprofits.

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Ask the Right Questions: Funders Toolkit

Publication date:

02/2015

The Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers as released two toolkits both designed for structured group reflection. The first is a self-assessment tool that can help affinity groups engaging in policy work determine how well they're set up for success. The second is a set of planning checklists that affinity groups can use to do policy work and regional associations can use to support that work.

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Public Policy

NJ Residents Concerned About Doris Duke Mansion Demolition

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10/14/2015

Local residents are protesting the proposed demolition of the Doris Duke mansion that has been requested by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

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JPMorgan Commits $125 Million to Help Urban Neighborhoods

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04/05/2016

Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan and JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon introduced a program called PRO Neighborhoods to support areas of the country that have missed out on the benefits of recent urban development.

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Community Development

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Consultant & Vendor Lists: Accountants & Auditors

Publication date:

12/2015

This list was submitted by Philanthropy New York members and may not be distributed. Inclusion on ... this list does not imply an endorsement from Philanthropy New York. Accountants & Auditors BKD 655 Third Avenue, ... Recommending Organization: Philanthropy New York View all Consultant & Vendor Lists Consultant & Vendor Lists: ...

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Benchmarks

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The William C. Bullitt Foundation

Mediacracy — A Dialogue With Experts on the Troubled Intersection of Media and Democracy

Release Date:

11/26/2013

... On November 7, Media Impact Funders and Philanthropy New York invited three experts to discuss the fraught ... with illustrated journalism tablet magazine Symbolia to create a comic on the same topic, Big Deal...

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Grant Foundation Shifts Research Focus, Invites Studies that Improve Use of Research

Release Date:

12/17/2015

... is responsive to the concerns of decision makers. A New Direction Understanding the problem of research use is ... what conditions research is used to understanding how to create those conditions. This shift...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

With Support from NoVo Foundation, Buen Vivir Fund Heralds a More Democratic Kind of Impact Investing

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03/22/2018

... The fund operates similarly to The Working World , a New York City-based nonprofit which has been federally ...

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Don't Overthink It

Release Date:

04/30/2019

... and utility bill payments, and other hardships. Here in New York, thanks to the existing and collaborative ...

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Disabilities

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Workforce Development

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars

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02/02/2022

... Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars ( NEW YORK) – The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Community Development

Gender Justice

Social Justice

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Learning in Place

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07/14/2011

Maria Mottola, Executive Director of the New York Foundation, talks about the lessons she learned and the new perspectives she gained as an executive-on-loan to the staff of Commissioner Gladys Carrión of the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Foundation

Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges

Release Date:

05/28/2015

... of low-income students into the middle class with few resources . A report released by the Century Foundation today ... students who have the greatest need receive the fewest resources and those who have had...

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Education

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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

Release Date:

12/09/2015

... Autism BrainNet is a key step in developing the necessary resources to understand and treat autism spectrum ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

The Right Starting Point for Productive Grantee Relationships is Putting Power Points Aside

Release Date:

09/03/2014

... the ones seeking the funds--needs to be overcome. It all starts, of course, at the first meeting—with everyone ... grantees don’t consider these meetings much fun at all . That hit home to me a few years ago...

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