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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $750,000 Grant to Bard College for "Cultures of Conservation" Curriculum

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07/13/2017

... the degradation mechanisms of artists’ pigments and developing nondestructive depth profiling methods for imaging ... Active Matter” with the goal of creating intellectual resources with which 21st century...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Michael Burke as New Chief Operating Officer

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01/02/2012

... and experience will help the Foundation to build the resources and attract the investments we need to strengthen ... and in the future.” A graduate of Columbia University School of International and Public...

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Jean Ross Has Joined the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust As Senior Program Officer

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04/22/2019

... working with private foundation and nonprofit clients on state , national, and global policy matters, with a focus on ... in 2015). Jean also has worked as staff to the California State Assembly’s Revenue and...

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21 May 2019

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

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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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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The New York Community Trust, Commissioned A Report on what Cultural Institutions of Color Need to Thrive

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02/20/2018

... develop something that might serve as a pilot or a step in developing a pilot for equitable grantmaking," Knighton says. ... for, and about communities of color. These groups create excellent work that is...

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The New York Community Trust

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Reflections on Board Service: Something to Consider

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12/01/2017

... created strong relationships with peers. Being in these learning communities were incredibly beneficial and ... and identified new ways to communicate with our members. Learning and hearing from staff and...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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New Board Leadership at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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08/22/2013

... elected new trustee Daniel Levy. Ms. Wayne is a middle school special education teacher specializing in adolescents with learning differences and emotional disabilities. She first ... Century Foundation ...

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Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis and Physics First Annual Meeting

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07/31/2017

The Simons Collaboration on Special Holonomy in Geometry, Analysis, and Physics will hold its first Annual Meeting at the Simons Foundation on September 14 & 15, 2017. Spaces with special holonomy are of intrinsic interest in both mathematics...

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NYT Interviews Schott Foundation VP Edgar Villanueva

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11/28/2018

... competition, specialization and consolidation of power and resources , Edgar Villanueva writes in his new book, “ ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Asked and Answered, With Implications for Philanthropy

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12/16/2015

... the U.S. OMB Uniform Guidance on Overhead mandating state and local contracts with nonprofits that use any amount ... On October 15, Philanthropy New York convened New York State and City leaders, the leaders...

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... can build relationships with peers and develop a peer learning framework that will enhance their practice going ... as directors and program officers Discuss evaluation and learning methods used in...

Surdna Foundation & Andrus Family Fund Pledge $800,000 to Next-Generation Social Justice Philanthropy

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02/06/2018

... the Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Fund are providing resources for family foundations, community foundations and ... on social justice, race and equity - but many lack the resources and relationships to...

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Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

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05/12/2015

... overdoses – an approach that has now been implemented state -wide. Through these and other efforts, The Staten ...

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Centering Disability Justice

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02/06/2019

... journey—we’ve focused on Ford’s internal learning and changes to its grantmaking practice to catalyze ... alternative-text descriptions, and changes in our human resources practices. We detail these and other...

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Responding to Haitian Devastation, At Home

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08/16/2010

... Knickman President and Chief Executive Officer, New York State Health Foundation The devastating earthquake in Port au ... globe to ask, “What can I do to help?” At the New York State Health Foundation (...

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Using Data to Save Lives: The Rockefeller Foundation and Partners Launch $100 Million Precision Public Health Initiative

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09/25/2019

... predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning . The initiative aims to prevent 6 million deaths in ... to better deploy life-saving health tools . These include developing real-time risk...

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