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Public Policy Communicators NYC is an informal group of nonprofit and foundation communications executives that has been meeting roughly bimonthly over the past five years to explore contemporary, practical topics to improve our work. Whether it’s...

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11 Feb 2014

Promoting the Common Good: Standing Up for 501(c)(4)'s

Tuesday, February 11, 2014 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York

Attaining important policy changes often requires the engagement of different types of nimble nonprofits.

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Ford Foundation Appoints Lourdes Lopez to Board of Trustees

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03/12/2014

... and has continually broken barriers in her own life while working to expand opportunity for everyone.” Lopez is also ...

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Andrea G. Cohen Joins United Hospital Fund as New Senior Vice President for Program

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04/02/2014

Andrea G. Cohen joined the United Hospital Fund as its new Senior Vice President for Program. An attorney with extensive legal and policy experience in the health care world, Cohen comes to the Fund from the Office of the New York City Mayor, where...

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Elizabeth M. Hewitt to Join Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Chief Investment Officer, Senior VP

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10/08/2015

... and the CIO Search Committee. “I truly look forward to working with her in the years ahead.” As Managing ... (1998-1999). “Elizabeth has a decade-long history of working productively and effectively inside the...

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Education

Public Policy

Technology

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David Sandman Named President and CEO of New York State Health Foundation

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01/25/2016

... the Foundation has established itself as a vital player working to help New Yorkers stay healthy and ensure our ...

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Ned Wight, UU Veatch Program Executive Director, Plans to Retire in July 2016

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03/02/2016

Ned Wight, who has served as Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock for nearly a decade, will retire in July 2016.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Chad Shearer Promoted to Vice President for Policy at United Hospital Fund

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10/25/2016

... Hospital Fund is an independent, nonprofit organization working to build a more effective health care system for ...

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Health

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Patrick Gaspard Named President of the Open Society Foundations

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12/14/2017

... joined Open Society in January 2017 as vice president, working with outgoing president Chris Stone to oversee ... my faith in the people—our staff and grantees—who are working tirelessly to build a better,...

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New Journal From The Russell Sage Foundation Reimagines Approach to Eradicating Poverty

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02/21/2018

The proposed policies could help lift 23.3 million people of color out of poverty.

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Economic Security

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James Rothkopf Elected to Board of Directors of FJC – A Foundation of Philanthropic Funds

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03/12/2018

... creative organizations in its sector. I look forward to working with the whole organization.” Jim Rothkopf is a CPA ... 25 years' experience at major philanthropic organizations working domestically and...

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Seven Performing Artists Win 2018 Doris Duke Artist Awards

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06/26/2018

In a short film released today by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the foundation’s president and CEO, Edward P. Henry, was joined by several previous Doris Duke Artist Award winners in announcing the 2018 recipients of the $275,000 award.

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Arts

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The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

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11/08/2018

Pfizer Foundation is helping to empower women in Benin through the delivery of integrated family planning information and services and childhood immunizations.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Announces Grant Portal Is Now Open

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04/23/2019

One hundred thirty years ago, a humble Italian nun was greeted upon her arrival in New York by the news that her accommodations were not ready and her plans to establish an orphanage were in danger of being scrapped.