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Smart Donors Are Putting Nonprofits Back in Charge

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07/20/2015

... focus much of its grant making on inequality, aiming to use its capital to create a "social-justice infrastructure." .....

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Arabella Advisors Noted in NPR Report: Solutions that Could Help The U.S. Slash Food Waste

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03/16/2016

Each year, an estimated 133 billion pounds of food that farmers grow never makes it to our plates. That's enough to fill 44 skyscrapers. And tons of it ends up in landfills, where it emits methane, a greenhouse gas.

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Food Systems

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Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

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04/04/2016

... “While the global community works to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, it makes little sense — financially or ...

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Mellon Foundation Awards Nearly $3.8 Million for Theater Program

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04/11/2017

... and devised theater works. To that end, NEFA will use the grant to make several elements of the program permanent. They include ...

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Bloomberg-Supported Coal Documentary, “From the Ashes,” to Air June 25

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06/20/2017

Once there were fish, but then the coal mining began. The stretch of bone-dry, cracked land doesn’t look like much. Rancher L.J. Turner of Wright, Wyo., says, “It used to be, there was fish in there.” Now it’s one of 20 nearby springs that have...

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A DeVos Speech on Title IX Heightens Advocates’ Fears That a Rollback Is Imminent

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09/07/2017

... would appear at George Mason University on Thursday to make a "major policy address on Title IX enforcement." That .....

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Aetna Foundation Pledges Funding To 25 Community-Based Nonprofits To Promote Active Living and Increase Access To Healthy Foods

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11/13/2017

... The grants tackle unequal access to everyday things that make us healthier in the long term, like spaces for exercise ... is financially secure and disproportionately white. “We use the social determinants of...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20 Billion Investment in Employees, Branch Expansion and Local Economic Growth

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01/23/2018

... The firm has always believed that the highest and best use of its capital is to support employees and local ... increase wages and benefits for hourly U.S. employees, make increased small business and mortgage...

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Economic Security

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Citigroup Sets Restrictions on Gun Sales by Business Partners

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03/23/2018

... offer credit cards backed by Citigroup or borrow money, use banking services or raise capital through the company. ...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for public use . Funding for the 2019 transfer is in place, according to ...

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23 Jan 2020

Essential Skills and Strategies for New Program Officers

Thursday, January 23, 2020 (All day) to Friday, February 7, 2020 (All day)

... the class size small (20 to 25 participants) so attendees can build relationships with peers and develop a peer ... change ecosystem Identify legal and ethical issues Explore how program officers come to...

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09 Jul 2012

Conversation for Grantmakers: Update on the Cultural Data Project

Monday, July 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Join this teleconference to hear how The Pew Charitable Trusts founded the powerful online ... What is the advantage they see in this? Explore How this tool has impacted arts and cultural organizations New...

13 Oct 2022

Organizational Change: Building a Successful Culture - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, October 13, 2022 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... as the way we work continues to evolve. What will I learn? How to address organizational change and rebuild culture How to integrate practices that best serve the organization ... Lewis , Chief People Officer...

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Family Foundation

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Pat Jenny To Oversee Grants at The New York Community Trust

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09/06/2013

... of more than $130 million to organizations in New York City and the suburbs as well as several national grantees. ... "We’ll keep emphasizing a strategic approach to make sure the projects we fund fit...

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The New York Community Trust

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What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

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12/06/2019

... on ways in which private foundations and other donors can support fair representation work, which produced a memo ... surveys people through deep conversations about how they perceive and define the...

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Burke Foundation Executive Director Atiya Weiss Selected as a 2021 Aspen Institute Ascend Fellow

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10/07/2021

... and breaking barriers, so children and their families can thrive. Each fellow is a groundbreaker in their own ... to remake our society, dismantle discrimination, and make opportunity a destiny we all share.”...

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CrainsNY Looks at Helmsley-Supported DATA2GO.NYC

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12/18/2015

... data reveals a yawning chasm in life expectancy among the city ’s residents, with startling implications. While the ... across our neighborhoods. A baby born today in Tribeca can expect to live more than 11...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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NYS Health President Speaks Out for Free Lunch for NYC Children

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05/23/2017

... promised to enact universal free school lunch in New York City public schools. The Mayor has aggressively pursued policies to decrease inequality in the City and clearly understands the important links among...

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New York Health Foundation

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Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All

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04/05/2018

Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All How can philanthropy be a vanguard in confronting the ... and he’ll give you this answer: Philanthropists can assume some of the risk by...

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