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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Meeting My Philanthropy Peers in This Incredibly Small, Incredibly Big World of Ours

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03/07/2017

... pleasure of attending a global conference in Mexico City that brought together people who work for philanthropy ... and leadership issues as the Forum’s U.S. members: how to attract and retain members in the...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Names Ruth Brenner New Senior Vice President, Finance & Operations

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06/29/2021

... and collaborating with Grants Management, Human Resources , IT, and the Foundation’s other administrative ... of the public, helping mission-driven organizations use their resources to...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2018 U.S. Mayors Challenge Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally

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04/19/2018

... Entry Helps Homeless Store Their Vital Documents Digitally City officials on Wednesday announced the first step in ... as part of a Pop-Up Resource Clinic event hosted by The City of Austin and community...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Monument to Commemorate Destroyed African American Land in Central Park Funded by Ford Foundation, JPB Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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10/20/2019

... forced out by the park’s creation in the 1850s, the city is planning a privately funded monument to a revered ... of the de Blasio administration’s push to diversify the city ’s public art and recognize...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Social Justice

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

JPB Foundation Research Finds Advanced Energy Driving Job Growth in Renewables, Smart Buildings

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05/02/2016

... on a state's strengths in advanced energy technology can maximize job growth and give a state a competitive economic edge . That is according to research from the American Jobs .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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Freedom Together Foundation

Simons Foundation Supports CUNY Graduate Center to Diversify Astrophysics Education

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02/09/2022

... Simons Foundation for its generous support, which helps make this work possible.” “Gaining experience conducting ... promising students lack the financial support and other resources to do so,” said Robin L...

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The Simons Foundation

Getting Out of our Comfort Zone in Response to COVID-19

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04/07/2020

... endowment, this was a significant decision. Our ability to make grants at any given time is directly related to how much we are able to fundraise. Our additional $1 ... in their operations at this moment. We...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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North Star Fund

08 Apr 2021

Effective Governance: Principles, Policies, and Practices - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, April 8, 2021 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... a formal governance structure. But what is governance and how can a family adopt its framework to effectively guide their ... and practices—that define who makes decisions and how decisions...

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Family Foundation

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17 Nov 2010

If Not Superman, Who? Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... students different access to educational opportunity, resources , and effective teaching – differential access ... issues and identifies strategies by which philanthropy can address the systemic inequity...

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PNY Members Fund Youth Slam Poetry

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09/24/2014

... nature of slamming, and the ways that empowerment can translate into other spheres of life, helps explain why a ... poetry events, festivals, and slams. They will also use some of the money to develop a robust...

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Glo Ross Joins Arcus as U.S. Social Justice Program Officer

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11/13/2020

... U.S. strategy by engaging with and learning from activists , leaders, and others within the LGBTQ and allied ... in research and analysis to assess data and knowledge that can enable the foundation to...

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Arcus Foundation

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Shares New Report on Data-Driven Strategies to Improve Outcomes For Youth

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12/16/2016

... Outcomes For Youth The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Lessons From the Field is a compilation of initial research ... and a peer network. They gained the mastery to collect, use and apply data for ongoing...

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Building Trust and Following the Field

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02/11/2020

... Langeloth Foundation would describe ourselves and how we work is that we “follow the field.” We pride ... of color ( Justice Reform , which focuses on ending the use of solitary confinement, and Safe and...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Works to Demystify NYC High School Admissions Process

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07/13/2015

... Process Applying to public high schools in New York City can be a daunting task, from the sheer number of options ... difficult admissions process. As a result, a number of resources have...

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Pinkerton Supports Internships for Young Adults in Foster Care

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07/18/2017

... Adults in Foster Care The Pinkerton Foundation will make grants of nearly $1 million to help eight of the ... in foster care, and to help drive larger system change in how we prepare youth for the world of...

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Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying

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12/07/2016

... we fund to focus on short-term projects, to spend valuable resources accounting for how they use our support, and to hold our priorities above their ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

New York State Health Foundation releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State"

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10/04/2017

... snapshot highlights key cost drivers and trends and shows how New York compares nationally and with other states. New ... synthesize a wide range of data into an objective, easy-to- use resource... New York...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Supports Database that Tracks Health Equity Implications of State COVID-19 Policies

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07/28/2021

... what we have learned and where we have yet to go. How It Started States responded to the pandemic with a wide ... once also revealed a pattern of exclusion. CUSP captured how state minimum wage policies...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

PhilTV: Partner Buy-In Is More Likely When a Funder’s Long-term Commitment is Clear

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12/21/2016

... President of Programs Kaberi Banerjee Murthy explained how transparency with the organization’s board and ... the full session. It runs 1 hour 47 minutes. Additional resources from the program can...

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