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United Way of New York City Board of Directors Elects Donald F. Donahue and Michael J. Schmidtberger as New Co-Chairs

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06/21/2016

... 15 years, and during that time they have had a significant impact as Board members and Chairs of key committees. ... Together, they bring an ideal blend of finance, community impact , and business expertise—as...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation Selects Rey Ramsey as Independent Trustee

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05/15/2017

... serves as the Managing Partner at Centri Capital, an impact asset management firm focused on investments in ... its giving in 2017 and 2018 and new progress around impact investing . “Rey is a bold thinker and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Mellody Hobson and Admiral James Stavridis to Board of Trustees

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12/11/2017

... James to identify innovative solutions and achieve massive impact .” Mellody Hobson is the current President of Ariel ... admired The Rockefeller Foundation’s efforts to maximize impact through strategic...

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Novo and Surdna Foundations Key Backers in Push to Build Community Wealth

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04/04/2018

... piece , Foxworth throws down the gauntlet on impact investing, arguing that without proper attention to ... the piece got a lot of traction among funders, including impact investors, “who are trying their best...

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Pamela Shifman, Executive Director of the NoVo Foundation, to Step Down at the End of 2019

Release Date:

11/07/2019

... executive director since 2014, Pamela has had an indelible impact across our work. Pamela co-created Move to End ... sector: she led efforts to create more and better resources for girls’ and women’s rights...

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UJA-Federation of New York Announces More Than $23 Million in Grants and Loans to Meet Needs of New Yorkers Affected by COVID-19

Release Date:

03/23/2020

... to small businesses. New York City COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund UJA provided a grant and will serve on the ... steering committee of New York City COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund, a consortium of...

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Surdna Foundation Announces Additional $36 Million for Racial Justice

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10/14/2020

... an America in which all communities have opportunities, resources , and power to thrive.” As a longtime funder of ... Program- and mission-related investments that extend the impact of the Foundation beyond...

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27 Apr 2021

How Philanthropy Can Help Avoid A Tsunami of Evictions

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... more than $1 billion in unpaid rent. As with the health impact of the pandemic, the economic impact of the pandemic has been disproportionally felt by ... coming and have the chance to get ahead of. The scale...

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Partners with Echoing Green to Invest in Social Innovators of Color Addressing Racial Equity and Immigrant Justice

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02/16/2022

... more inclusive economies, we seek to shift power and resources to leaders with direct knowledge and firsthand ... all people can thrive. We know this work will have a great impact on our Fellow community, the...

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International Crisis Group Receives Grant from Open Society Foundations Aiming to Combine Local Voices and Global Expertise to Reduce Human Suffering

Release Date:

04/25/2022

... of Ukraine, I want to amplify our voice and magnify our impact as advocates for humanity”. With this grant, Crisis ... will position Crisis Group to have an even greater impact ”, said Alex Soros, Deputy Chair...

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). “They see firsthand the impact of the structural injustices baked into the systems that impact health. At RWJF, we understand that their expertise ...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Board Elects Vicki L. Fuller as New Trustee

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02/08/2023

... to our mission.” “Vicki Fuller has had a profound impact on her field, and the RWJF Board members look forward ... of professional and managerial experience, including her impact in opening career...

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Philanthropy New York's 2022 - 2027 Strategic Framework

... to make your work more meaningful and effective. The collective reckoning with racial inequity that has gripped ...

Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... built on principles of cooperation, transparency, and collective decision making. And finally, institutions must find the resources to enable faculty to develop integrated curricula ...

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A Letter from Ronna Brown

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03/17/2020

... virtually to share information and find opportunities for collective action. Action Item: If you are hosting virtual ... administration to announce flexibility in contracts, new resources , and several other...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Spring 2022 Grantees

Release Date:

06/29/2022

... both inside and outside the art world to share resources , expand their communities and activate new publics ... of newly commissioned land art projects representing the collective work of more than twenty-five...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

Release Date:

09/23/2016

What can microbes from space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown from microbe samples collected from the International Space Station (ISS).

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

Release Date:

10/18/2017

The digital Lanciani archive project is just one part of a larger scholarly collaboration called “Mapping Rome,” for which Camerlenghi is a principal investigator, along with scholars from Oregon, Stanford, and Italy.