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Morgan Stanley Foundation Announces $1 Million in Grants to Local Food Banks Across the United States

Release Date:

05/28/2015

... expand and sustain critical childhood feeding programs. Through its partnership with Feeding America, Morgan Stanley ... of 200 local food banks that help address childhood hunger through a series of programs...

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Food Systems

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Citi Foundation and Citi Canada Announce a $700,000 Commitment to Youth

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... Youth In an effort to reduce youth unemployment in cities through first jobs, internships, business training and ... 100,000 young people across ten cities become career-ready through first jobs, internships,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Matthew Nelson Joins New York Life Foundation as Corporate Vice President

Release Date:

10/01/2012

New York Life has announced that Matthew Nelson has joined the company as Corporate Vice President and Senior Program Officer in the Corporate Responsibility Department. He reports to Christine Park, President of the New York Life Foundation.

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How Should Philanthropies Respond to Emergencies?

Release Date:

05/13/2014

For funders bailing out Detroit, does the funding commit them to a long-term engagement or is it a one-time rescue mission? Ford Foundation discussed in The Atlantic.

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Philanthropy Leaders Call for Greater Role in Tackling Global Challenges Defined in New Sustainable Development Goals

Release Date:

09/25/2015

Ahead of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit, where member states are expected to adopt the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, Ford, Mastercard and RPA under the SDG Philanthropy Platform call for greater philanthropic engagement...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

The Promise of Skills-Based Volunteering

Release Date:

09/07/2017

One of the fastest-growing corporate citizenship programs is skills-based volunteering—in which a team of corporate employees works for an extended period of time to help a nonprofit solve a complex operational problem. The benefits of the program...

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Warm Up Potential Major Donors Via Digital

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) discussed the importance of engaging and stewarding major-gift donors. Following an ...

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Greg Ratliff named VP at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Release Date:

04/04/2019

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors just named Greg Ratliff as its newest vice president. Greg will manage client engagements with a range of individual, family and corporate donors.

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Salesforce And United Way Worldwide Introduce New Salesforce.Org Philanthropy Cloud Volunteering Capability

Release Date:

06/16/2019

With new volunteering capability, companies can organize, administer and report on employee-led philanthropic initiatives on one unified platform.

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Technology

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation Request for Proposal: SmartSimple GM360 Implementation and Refinement Consultant

Release Date:

01/23/2020

The Mertz Gilmore Foundation is a private, independent grantmaking institution that supports and promotes vibrant communities, the performing arts, a sustainable environment and a people-centered democracy. We are a small staff of nine with the...

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Sophy Yem Promoted to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

05/11/2022

Sophy Yem Promoted to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation We are thrilled to announce Sophy Yem’s promotion to Senior Program Officer, Philanthropy at the Surdna Foundation. In this role, Sophy will...

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The Post-Copenhagen Funding Landscape: Thoughts from Rachel Leon and Terry Odendahl

Release Date:

02/12/2010

... short period that the Climate Bill has to make its way through the U.S. Senate. For immediate impact, I cannot ... people, and women—to the global climate change table. Through the establishment of our new...

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Westchester Community Foundation Met $2 Million Goal and has Distributed $861,500 in COVID-19 Grants to Date

Release Date:

08/03/2020

... that they could comply with public health measures through the purchase of protective equipment and cleaning of ... to us, it felt entirely right that we should give back through a donation to the Westchester...

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Funding From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Helps Find First Evidence of Transitive Inference in Lowly Paper Wasp

Release Date:

05/14/2019

A new University of Michigan study provides the first evidence of transitive inference, the ability to use known relationships to infer unknown relationships, in a nonvertebrate animal: the lowly paper wasp.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Race to the Top: What Grantmakers Can Learn from the First Round

Publication date:

06/2010

The nation's foundation community has provided critical financial and technical support to states applying for the first round of the U.S. Department of Education's "Race to the Top" education reform competition. Yet according to this issue brief from the Foundation Center, created from interviews conducted in March and April 2010 with foundation staff, education consultants, and government leaders who had guided the first-round application process in nine states, the success of future collaborations will depend on government including grantmakers in the development of new policies and...

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Education

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2013

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation President Nancy Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.

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Ruskay Reflects on 15 Years At Helm of UJA-Fed NY

Release Date:

06/11/2014

Reflecting on his years at the helm of the UJA-Federation of New York, John Ruskay, who is stepping down as CEO, says the organization's mobilization in response to crises is an example of the speed and depth that only a major federation could...