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In December 2017, the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs Office of Financial Empowerment released a white paper entitled How Neighborhoods Help New Yorkers Get Ahead . The report shares the work and findings of the Collaborative for...

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08 Mar 2019

Applied Finance Part 1 of 2: Grantee Financial Resilience for Nonprofits - A Framework

Friday, March 8, 2019 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

What does it take for a nonprofit to move from surviving to thriving? And, what kind of support can funders provide to meaningfully shift the trajectory of an organization? Financially resilient grantees are able to successfully navigate current...

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Here Are The Leaders Of STOP: Bloomberg's $20 Million Tobacco Watchdog

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08/14/2018

STOP has just started and aims to bring new meaning to the phrase "asking for a light," when it comes to smoking. STOP is an acronym for a new $20 million Bloomberg Philanthropies initiative to create a global watchdog to shed more light on the...

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08 Nov 2018

Service For Impact – The Nonprofit Perspective: Building Volunteering Partnerships for Greater Impact

Thursday, November 8, 2018 -

8:45am to 11:00am

The Service for Impact Working Group, rooted in the principles of Reimagining Service , provides an opportunity for both corporate grantmakers and corporate volunteer leaders to foster a peer network, share successes and challenges...

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Simons Foundation Announces Launch of the Center for Computational Mathematics

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10/02/2018

... inspiring collaboration among the other units while creating original science itself. I was convinced, and ...

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Altman Foundation Announces Leadership Transition, New President and Chair

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10/10/2018

VP and Executive Director of Altman Foundation Karen L. Rosa will retire at the end of 2018. Debroah T. Velazquez will become President of the Foundation and Jane B. O'Connell, currently President, will become Chair of the Board of Trustees.

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Practices That Put Your Expertise Into Play

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10/16/2018

Jan Jaffe, Senior Partner of The Giving Practice writes "Learning how practitioners work well when philanthropy is trying to do its best has been an obsession of mine for decades. It started at the Ford Foundation with GrantCraft when I was able to...

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Century Foundation Reports Examines ESSA Learner Accountability Provisions

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12/13/2018

Now that all fifty states and the District of Columbia have received formal federal approval of their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) plans, the work of implementing the 2015 law—the United States’ primary K–12 education investment—is fully...

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06 Feb 2019

2020 Census and the Current Immigration Landscape: Lasting Implications for Young Children in New York - A Webinar Hosted by the NY Funders Alliance

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

When children are missed in the decennial census, children suffer the results for a decade. Over 2 million children under 5 years of age were missed in the 2010 Census; here in NY, there was a net undercount of 55,000 young children. An accurate...

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21 May 2019

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Studies show that the percentage of people of color in the executive director/CEO role has remained under 20% for the past 15 years, even as the country becomes more diverse. For women of color, the combination of race and gender biases create...

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Don't Overthink It

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04/30/2019

Admittedly, as grantmakers, we like to fund projects where we can anticipate long-range payoffs, systemic change, and solving problems at the root rather than placing bandages. And detailed analysis and research have their place in evaluating grant...

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New York State Health Foundation Funds Suicide Prevention Study in Four New York Counties

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06/17/2019

... York State Health Foundation to conduct the research, is creating a data collection tool for the counties that will ...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names The 2019 Doris Duke Artists

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07/09/2019

Six performing artists in the fields of Jazz, Dance and Theater receive up to $275,000 each, totaling $1.65 Million in Doris Duke Artist Awards.

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25 Jul 2019

The Power and Impact of Creative Aging Programs - A Webinar Hosted by Grantmakers in Aging

Thursday, July 25, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Creative aging programs provide older adults with a renewed sense of purpose, improved wellbeing and connection with others.

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Research to Prevent Blindness Grantee Dr. Gregg Semenza Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

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10/10/2019

Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) is pleased to announce that RPB Stein Innovation Awardee Gregg Semenza, MD, PhD, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, has been named a winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Dr. Semenza and two co-...

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05 Dec 2019

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Winter Meeting

Thursday, December 5, 2019 -

8:30am to 10:30am

Philanthropic Assistants and Coordinators Network (PACNET) is designed to address the professional development and networking needs for individuals serving in an administrative support function to senior leadership in their...

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26 Feb 2020

Legal Series - International Grantmaking

Wednesday, February 26, 2020 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Do you understand the options that are available to you when making grants to organizations around the world? Do you know what questions to ask, programmatically, operationally, and legally in order to make grants to support change internationally?...

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Cheryl C. Effron Joins the Board of the Markle Foundation

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01/16/2020

The Markle Foundation is pleased to announce today that Cheryl C. Effron has been elected to its Board of Directors. Ms. Effron has spent most of her career as a New York-based real estate developer.

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26 Mar 2020

Advancing Natural Climate Solutions in New York - A Webinar

Thursday, March 26, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

We’ll discuss the ways this is taking shape across New York, especially through related provisions of the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act.