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Giving Circles in Cross-Cultural Context

Release Date:

11/14/2013

... in the complementary calendar of educational and social events that many giving circles hold, provide an unparalleled ... creative and fun ways to do what they can to get more resources to those in our...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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The Natan Fund

With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

... Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity Gender may be the earliest identity and social category to ... research suggests, and acquiring knowledge about one's gender is considered a...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arcus Foundation

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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Surdna Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Leadership in Government Fellows

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05/21/2021

... statehouse in 18 years. An authority on transportation policy in Massachusetts. A former New York City commissioner ... and equal protection of cultural and environmental resources in Guam. “At a time when our...

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Open Society Foundations

Cheers to the International Grantmakers Network!

... do; join IGN and its listserv, and hear about upcoming IGN events , please contact Shamira Lukomwa at Philanthropy New ...

Philanthropy New York Welcomes Amy Chen as Executive Coordinator and Secretary to the Board

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08/09/2022

... organization-wide projects and reports, member and board events and meetings, and draft communications from the ... with planning the department’s Friends group and donor events . Amy holds a B.A. in Art...

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PNY News

16 Nov 2011

Role Models in the Classroom: Creating Teaching Pipelines for Black and Latino Males

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 -

1:30pm to 5:00pm

Over the past decade, the achievement gap in New York City schools has remained almost constant, with Black and Latino males at the low end of that gap . While the City takes pride in a 2010...

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Youth Funders Working Group

... that help the city’s young people develop the skills and resources necessary to become healthy, happy, and ... practices and lessons with the larger philanthropic and policy community; Providing opportunities...

Lorelei Williams Joins The Sister Fund as Interim Executive Director

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... U.S. State Department’s U.S.-Brazil Joint Action Plan to End Racism (JAPER). As a Fulbright fellow in Brazil, she ... Editor for the Harvard Journal of African American Public Policy and Director of the Urban...

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Ford Foundation

HLH Family Foundation Inc

Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

Release Date:

10/14/2014

... Society donates roughly $4 million every year to the Drug Policy Alliance and its electoral arm, Drug Policy Action, each of which supports decriminalization and ...

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Health

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Open Society Foundations

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

Lukas Haynes Appointed Executive Director of the David Rockefeller Fund

Release Date:

11/21/2014

... succeeds Marnie Pillsbury, who will step down at year- end after nearly 25 years of leading the Fund and will ... a major initiative on international science and security policy and led the Foundation’s...

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Arts

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

The David Rockefeller Fund

The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

Release Date:

11/18/2016

... Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that include the end of bulk collection of metadata under that law. I have ...

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The Century Foundation

09 May 2024

Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future

Thursday, May 9, 2024 -

9:30am to 4:30pm

... how to leverage your position as a funder to influence policy changes that create a more favorable environment for ... Wright Group NY Marlon Williams , Vice President of Public Policy and Collaboration,...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Alliance Building in a Hyper-partisan Environment

Release Date:

02/25/2022

... tool that grantmakers can employ more. Regardless of the policy issue, if legislation is bipartisan, it will be ... to immigration, the Corporation funds the Bipartisan Policy Center, Cato Institute, the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

10 Jan 2012

Reimagining Service and Cities of Service: A Funder’s Guide to Driving Change through Volunteerism

Tuesday, January 10, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:00am

... and they’re doing this with the same financial resources as their counterparts. In an era of reduced ... the funding world and the need to think differently about resources . Help grantmakers see a role for...

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02 Sep 2021

Hurricane Ida: Funding Urgent Needs and Long-Term Recovery - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, September 2, 2021 - 2:00pm

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) is hosting a webinar to look at the impact of Hurricane Ida on communities along its path.

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Disaster Relief

Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

Release Date:

07/03/2017

... leader in philanthropic advocacy to ensure more and better resources for this field. Previously, Nicky served as the ... at the Global Fund for Women, a public foundation for gender equality that is based in...

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Foundation for a Just Society

Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR award Plant Humanities Fellowships Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Release Date:

08/19/2019

... of rare books and manuscripts, herbaria specimens, online resources such as JSTOR Global Plants, and scholarly ... the history of science and medicine, ethnobotany, and gender studies... Dumbarton Oaks and...