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North Star Fund Welcomes New Executive Director Jennifer Ching

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02/01/2017

... them. In the policy arena, Jenn designed and advanced critical public policy projects as director of New York ... would like to give deep thanks to Richard Burns for his leadership as interim executive...

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Melissa Bradley To Step Down As Tides CEO

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04/01/2013

... change. As a pioneer in fiscal sponsorship and through its leadership in philanthropic consulting and grantmaking ... work in the social sector. Under Bradley’s leadership , Tides innovations have reached new...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Samantha Power to Board of Trustees

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10/19/2020

... the Anna Lindh Professor of the Practice of Global Leadership and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School , and William D. Zabel ’61 Professor of Practice in Human Rights at Harvard Law School...

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Three Will Share $625,000 From Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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06/09/2014

... has announced the three winners of the Special Grant Initiative to help further its charge to devote resources to assist blind and visually impaired people. ...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Funds Heart Attack Care in the Rural Midwest

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02/09/2015

... change in protocols and processes, and also in providing resources such as life-saving equipment. The funding for this initiative will enhance existing efforts in Iowa.... ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... Foundation with its 100 Resilient Cities program. The initiative recognizes the demographic imperative of a world ... more crowded and urban, with an increasing scarcity of resources and less predictable...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Century Foundation Pledges Support to Advancing Equity for Women and Girls of Color

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11/18/2015

... Foundation has joined two dozen organizations in pledging resources to the goal of advancing equity through research on ... commitment over the course of the next five years. The initiative ’s announcement came...

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Gender Justice

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Deutsche Bank Gives USD 1 Million to Address Homelessness in New York City

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12/04/2015

... individuals and their families – as grantees for its initiative to address homelessness in the five boroughs. ... of Homeless Services. The combined USD 1 million in resources will allow the four organizations...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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JPB Foundation Partners with Others in Support of Energy Efficiency for All

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02/12/2016

... population of tenants and property owners. EEFA is an initiative specifically designed to help low-income families ... said Cai Steger, project director of EEFA at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Freedom Together Foundation

Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... report by Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities initiative , city officials say they simply lack the capacity ... Nearly half pointed to a shortage of staff and financial resources dedicated to...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs

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01/12/2017

... (P2A). She served as the Board President of the Red Hook Initiative from 2005 - 2013. Lisa is a third-generation New ...

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... Liberty Defense Fund . According to the press release, the initiative would spend “more than $1 Million” in ... announcement “to provide pro bono legal and additional resources for immigrants threatened by...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It

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05/19/2017

... Walker approached the foundation’s Talent and Human Resources team and asked us to create a professional ... development program for graduates of the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI). At the foundation, we’ve long...

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NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

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09/20/2017

... making their own choices about how they spend their resources to advance their mission. But in this case, the ...

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Surdna Foundation, Open Society Foundations and Ford Foundation Collaborate to Start Amplify Fund

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01/05/2018

... Amplify Fund is all about giving communities the power and resources to influence local development on their own terms. ...

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Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft and Facebook Launch Coding for Employment Program

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06/07/2018

... path to prosperity. By 2025, the Jobs for Youth in Africa Initiative will equip 50 million youth with employable skills ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Education

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LISC Announces $10 Million From Citi Foundation for Bridges Program

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02/27/2019

... education courses, personal financial counseling, and resources designed to help job seekers address impediments to ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Community Development

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Let's Get Explicit About Power

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09/24/2020

... of power that may be manifesting in your organization: resources , structures and processes, identity and ... expertise, relationships, and lived experience. The use of resources to achieve desired results is...

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Eight Cities Selected to Participate in National League of Cities Project to Build Financial Inclusion for Families (MetLife Foundation)

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01/20/2016

... to participate in the Financial Inclusion Systems and City Leadership (FISCL) project. The eight mayors will come ... In addition to the Mayors' Institute, NLC's FISCL initiative will support the...

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