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15 Nov 2024

2024 Philanthropy 101 - Foundation Governance and Legal Issues

Friday, November 15, 2024 -

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... Philanthropy 101 Series will be fully virtual in 2024. Foundations outside the New York metropolitan area can take ...

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14 Nov 2025

2025 Philanthropy 101 - Foundation Governance and Legal Issues

Friday, November 14, 2025 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... Philanthropy 101 Series will be fully virtual in 2025. Foundations outside the New York metropolitan area can take ...

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Arcus Foundation Names Kevin Jennings Executive Director

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07/02/2012

The Arcus Foundation has announced that Kevin Jennings has been named Executive Director. Jennings, a respected leader with a strong record of accomplishment in the nonprofit and public sectors, is currently CEO of Be the Change, Inc., where he was...

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Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation

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03/31/2021

The Markle Foundation is pleased to announce that Margaret Hoover has been elected to its Board of Directors.

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

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02/17/2017

“Bryan is a courageous, transformational leader and a stalwart advocate for justice who has done an extraordinary amount to challenge the legacy of racial inequality in this country,” said Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. “It is a...

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Philanthropy’s Best

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

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06/25/2014

... innovative group of nonprofit leaders had concluded that foundations are the last place to go with a bold and risky idea. What’s behind this disconnect? Foundations are in part to blame. We say, Bring us bold...

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Insights

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Foundation Center Appoints Two New Board Members

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12/03/2014

... giving by individuals, families, corporations, and major foundations . With experience providing guidance to a broad ...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Ellen Braune Joins the Surdna Foundation as Director of Communications

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11/15/2016

Bringing more than 20 years of communications, media production, advocacy, and strategic planning experience, Braune joins the Foundation to lead the organization's internal and external communications efforts.

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Sophia Stewart Joins Ford Foundation as Department Coordinator

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07/01/2013

Sophia P. Stewart is the new Department Coordinator in the Office of Communications at the Ford Foundation. Before joining the foundation, Stewart was the Office Coordinator at The NGO Committee on the Status of Women, New York (NGO/CSW/NY).

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The Rockefeller Foundation and USAID Launch $100 Million Partnership

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08/04/2014

The Rockefeller Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development have announced a $100 million partnership to build resilience to chronic stresses and increasing climate shocks in communities across Africa and Asia.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation Launches Arts in a Changing America With Webcast

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10/23/2015

The Ford Foundation, along with artists, arts organizations and community leaders, will present a live webcast of the Arts in a Changing America (ArtChangeUS) launch event.

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Arts

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Jerome Foundation

Citi Foundation Supports Young Entrepreneur Challenge

Release Date:

11/03/2015

Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) brings together young entrepreneurs together into a series of competitions. This year's winner entered a locket to protect from assault.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

Release Date:

11/20/2015

In Syracuse, almost two-thirds of the black poor live in high-poverty neighborhoods, defined as areas where 40 percent or more of residents live below the federal poverty threshold, according to an analysis of census data by Rutgers professor Paul...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Nation Details Eric Holder’s Appearance at Ford Foundation

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12/14/2015

The country’s first black attorney general candidly discussed the state of civil rights in America.

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Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

A recent Center for Strategic and International Studies event, 'Impact Investing: An Opportunity for Development?,' brought together a panel of experts to discuss impact investing and its potential to address global issues.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

Release Date:

02/25/2016

The Tow Foundation-supported residency will give six emerging playwrights creative homes at theatres in New York City.

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Arts

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

Release Date:

03/07/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of Rauschenberg work much more widely available free.

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Arts

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Ford Foundation's Chris Cardona on Inequity in Grantee Inclusion

Release Date:

07/29/2016

Cardona writes in SSIR that it’s time to recognize how inequity shapes funders’ choice of partners.

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NYTimes Examines the Legacy of Newman’s Own Foundation

Release Date:

11/03/2016

Mention the name Paul Newman and many movie buffs will describe the charismatic actor with the piercing blue eyes who starred in films like “Cool Hand Luke,” “The Sting” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

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