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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Chair Peter O. Lawson-Johnston Passes Gavel to Longtime Board Member Peter Lawson-Johnston II

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06/21/2023

... Gavel to Longtime Board Member Peter Lawson-Johnston II ( NEW YORK) — After fifty-two years of leadership, Peter ... remains a member of the board and assumes the new title of chair emeritus . The board has...

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28 Sep 2023

BBB® Forum on Corporate Responsibility XVI - Stepping Forward: Challenges and Possibilities

Thursday, September 28, 2023 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

... and discuss how these issues can present important new opportunities. A Philanthropy New York Collaborative Program with the Better Business Bureau Foundation of Metropolitan New York. Event...

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Debate Your Philanthropic Philosophies

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... start to shift: donors give doers the dough they need to create impact; doers give donors the impact they need to ...

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Sarah Brennan Joins Rockefeller Family Fund as Associate Director

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03/02/2022

Sarah Brennan to join Rockefeller Family Fund staff - will play a leadership role for the funder collaborative on oil and gas.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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NYS Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, Unfiltered

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02/17/2016

... as the feature article of the February 2016 issue of the New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition. One of Philanthropy New York’s most important public policy priorities is ... wherever it may. For many funders...

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Education

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... get “trapped inside the box” when considering new proposals, looking through the narrow lens of...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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LIBN’s 2013 Outstanding CEO Gregory Demetriou Appointed to Long Island Community Foundation Foundation Board of Advisors

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06/03/2013

The Long Island Community Foundation proudly announces the appointment of Gregory P. Demetriou, CEO of the Lorraine Gregory Corp., to its Board of Advisors.

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Gilman Louie Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

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12/03/2012

The Markle Foundation has announced that Gilman Louie has joined its Board of Directors. Louie is currently a partner at Alsop Louie Partners, a San Francisco-based venture capital firm.

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

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08/22/2013

The Open Society Foundations has announced that Pedro Abramovay, a leading Brazilian human rights advocate, will head up its work in Latin America.

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Finance & Asset Management

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22 Sep 2016

Telling Your CSR Impact Story: An Outcomes Framework for a Portfolio of Programs

Thursday, September 22, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Companies are facing increasing pressure to report on the impact and results of their various corporate citizenship programs, not only to customers and advocacy groups, but also to senior leaders and employees. Yet programs focusing on community and...

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09 Aug 2017

Strengthening Your CSR Impact Story with a Program Outcomes Framework - A Webinar Hosted by TCC Group

Wednesday, August 9, 2017 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

Companies are tackling numerous issues through their corporate citizenship programs, and they often struggle to tell a coherent CSR Impact story about their achievements. In many cases, that story is even more difficult to communicate due to unclear...

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Rockefeller Playhouse and Family Properties Gifted to the National Trust for Historic Preservation

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07/31/2018

... and come together in a beautiful space to imagine and create a better future,” said Stephanie K. Meeks, president ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Russell Sage Foundation Author/Grantee Edward Wolff Cited in NY Times Article About Record-setting Bull Market and Uneven Wealth Distribution

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08/23/2018

The party has been going for more than a decade. But a lot of Americans haven’t been celebrating. Stocks crossed a major threshold on Wednesday, when the 10-year-old bull market arguably became the longest on record.

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Economic Security

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First Phase of Love My Air Denver Program Measures Air Quality to Tackle Asthma Rates and Track Pollution with Support from Bloomberg Philanthropies

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10/17/2019

... it will be used in coordination with health data to create programs aimed at reducing youth asthma levels. ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

Environment and Climate Change

Health

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Rats Replay Memories Forward and Backwards to Make Decisions, Understanding the Memory Process Will Lead to Treatments for Diseases Where Memory is Impaired, Research Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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12/10/2019

While making decisions, rats’ brains replay their memories, a process called memory consolidation, researchers report.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces Homeboy Industries as the 2020 Recipient of the Annual Humanitarian Prize

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08/03/2020

The Los Angeles based, nonprofit organization Homeboy Industries has been chosen as the 2020 Humanitarian Prize recipient and will receive $2.5 million in unrestricted funding.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Community Development

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16 Feb 2022

Complexities of the Collective: Balancing Individual and Family Interests - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... For many, family philanthropy presents an opportunity to create a shared experience, unifying the family by working ...

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Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Partner to Strengthen Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts

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11/12/2020

The partnership will address the academic obstacles that community college students face when trying to transfer to independent four-year colleges.

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Education

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14 Nov 2024

Imagining 2025: What’s Next for Disaster Philanthropy? - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, November 14, 2024 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

This program is hosted by our partner, Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. “Prediction, not narration, is the real test of our understanding of the world.” ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb...

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