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“The City Where America Is Going to Find Herself Again”: A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Release Date:

01/12/2011

... tourism and travel, and the Great Recession created by the housing and mortgage crisis in 2008. For New Orleans, these ...

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Insights

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All Funders

18 Oct 2022

Putting Equity at the Heart of Government: 3 Ballot Proposals to Dismantle Structural Racism

Tuesday, October 18, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In New York City, race- based inequities have been baked into our institutions and ... institutions that shape lives, such as wages, education, housing and criminal justice, we must confront the ways that ...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Social Justice

The Grantmaking Formula for the New Normal

Release Date:

03/25/2013

An op-ed by Douglas Bauer, Executive Director of the Clark Foundation.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Clark Foundation

Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science

Release Date:

03/15/2014

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Simons Foundation profiled in New York Times article on billionaires privatizing American science research.

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Science

Technology

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The New York Times Company

The Simons Foundation

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing Opens in Berkeley

Release Date:

04/16/2014

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, established in 2012 by a grant from the Simons Foundation, brings together leading researchers to explore both the theoretical underpinnings of computer science and its potential to shed light on a...

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Science

Technology

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The Simons Foundation

Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

Release Date:

07/22/2014

Two individuals with organizations supported by both the Rockefeller Foundation and the Surdna Foundation were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of Change" for their efforts to ensure that no American working 40 hours a week should have...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Surdna Foundation

Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

Release Date:

10/01/2014

Simons Foundation will be providing findings from its neuroscience research to the Brain Initiative.

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

Release Date:

12/18/2014

... of helping the poor and providing education, health care, housing , and other local services.... Foundations Should Push ...

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Topic(s)

Finance & Asset Management

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Surdna Foundation

McCray, Glen and Citi Launch Initiative to Support Women Entrepreneurs

Release Date:

03/13/2015

First Lady Chirlane McCray, Deputy Mayor for Housing and Economic Development Alicia Glen and Citi will ...

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Food Systems

Gender Justice

Workforce Development

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Citi Foundation

Congress Returns from Recess, Resumes Work on Tax Issues

Release Date:

04/13/2015

Independent Sector reports that the Death Tax Repeal Act of 2015 will be voted on this coming week.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to Receive National Medal of Arts

Release Date:

09/08/2015

President Obama will present the award in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals.

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Member News

Funding Area

Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

New York Stem Cell Foundation Expands Offices in New York

Release Date:

12/01/2015

Nonprofit's midtown lease indicates growing strength of biotech industry.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Science

Technology

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... the bank’s broader philanthropic investment to improve housing , hunger and jobs in communities across the nation. . ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Bloomberg, Others Give Hopkins $125M for Cancer Research that Helped Jimmy Carter

Release Date:

03/30/2016

Research into immunotherapy, which cancer experts are calling the most promising approach in decades, got a boost Tuesday when Michael Bloomberg and other philanthropists announced $125 million in donations to Johns Hopkins University for a new...

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Funding Area

Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Three Ways the Arts are Advancing Equity in NYC

Release Date:

04/06/2016

... into a tale of two cities. The inequities we see in housing , health, labor, and education are mirrored in the ... threatens New Yorkers’ access to health care, housing , education, green space, food, and more...