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“Googley Philanthropy”: Brainstorming for A Talk with Jeff Jarvis

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09/28/2009

... New York is pleased to welcome Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? and Associate Professor and Director ... our offices for an October 1st discussion on how Google’ s model can be applied to the...

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09 Dec 2015

How to Win Friends and Influence Philanthropy

Wednesday, December 9, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... Club and open to all Philanthropy New York members. What does the leadership road map look like from where you ... - no matter where you are within your organization’ s hierarchy. What does...

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11 May 2017

Balancing Family Privacy and Public Trust: Transparency in Family Philanthropy - Webinar

Thursday, May 11, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... While transparency is an important value in principle, what do you do when your foundation’ s privacy is also your family’ s privacy? How do we balance ... public accountability with a family...

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14 Sep 2017

The First Year in the Life of a New Executive Director - Webinar

Thursday, September 14, 2017 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... transition plan to maximize your new executive director’ s prospects for success? What is the board and board chair’ s role in orienting the new CEO, and what tips do those...

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Professional Development

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Family Foundation

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Private Foundation

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Governance

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Agnes Gund Sells a Lichtenstein to Start Criminal Justice Fund; Ford Foundation to Manage Fund

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06/12/2017

... sale now, revealing that she parted with the painting (for what was actually $165 million, including fees) for a ... with works by Jasper Johns and Mark Rothko. “This is what I need to do.” Ms. Gund, together...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

New Milbank-Supported Report: The Impact of Primary Care Practice Transformation on Cost, Quality, and Utilization

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07/11/2017

... Fund. “The PCPCC evidence report helps everyone learn what is working and what adjustments to make in their efforts to transform ...

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Better Understanding Business Models in the Nonprofit Sector

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09/08/2017

... day. 2016 research from Bridgespan sought to understand: what really are the true indirect costs (or “overhead”) ... to understand their true overhead costs, and we came to what should have been an...

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Opinion: Why Small, Local, Organic Farms Aren’t The Key To Fixing Our Food System

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Our Food System The food movement has a problem: It’ s right about what ’ s wrong with our system, but wrong about how to fix it. But what is the “food movement?” I hear you...

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Food Systems

How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings From The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... to Scale: The Elusive Goal.” The Wallace Foundation’ s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: ... Partnerships and Fidelity,” is the latest entry in what the Wallace Foundation itself calls...

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David Rockefeller’s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy

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11/08/2017

David Rockefeller’ s Thoughtful Path to Philanthropy Somewhere beneath ... be issued before everything is sold five months from now. What is going on is exactly what David Rockefeller wanted. The...

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15 Mar 2018

Imagining the Future: Pursuing Excellence in Family Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, March 15, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... landscape, how do you see the field changing? What new tools, strategies and collaborative initiatives ... How should the NCFP position the Center and our programs? What would excite and engage you personally...

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Simons Foundation Funded Research Finds That Neural ‘Tug-Of-War’ May Explain Fragile X Learning Issues

Release Date:

01/24/2018

... an inability to learn new information that contradicts what they initially learned, a new study shows . FXS is the ... neurons are active in both encoding and remembering, it’ s unknown what...

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A Look At The Building Bridges Program, Funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Release Date:

04/10/2018

... a foolproof way to identify, much less quantify, just what makes us change our mind about others. Researchers can measure changes in people’ s intrinsic biases, but they don’t agree on which tools to ... They...

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New York Community Trust Central to Shaping the Mayor's Office of Strategic Partnerships

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05/15/2018

... shake up mental health treatment in the city, but before what eventually became Connections to Care could get ... be beneficial throughout his tenure as mayor, de Blasio’ s next campaign was to get city...

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

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Julie Sandorf, President of The Charles H. Revson Foundation on Supporting New York’s Libraries

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05/30/2018

... The Charles H. Revson Foundation on Supporting New York’ s Libraries Several weeks ago, on a frigid, unspring -like ... the place. Young, old, middle-aged, black, brown, white— what I saw was a coming together...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Its Top Ten Lessons Learned in Hindsight

Release Date:

06/19/2018

... live long enough to make them all yourself.” It’ s in that spirit — and out of a desire to leave behind a ... efforts they believe fell short, why things went wrong, what lessons were learned, and what...

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Simons and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations Fund Study That Reveals How the Brain Overcomes Its Own Limitations

Release Date:

10/24/2018

... Still, this task is very difficult for most people. That’ s because it requires the brain to perform a mental transformation that it’ s not familiar with: using what it sees in the mirror to...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

Release Date:

11/15/2018

... the impact of potential interventions, and share what works. "Today, economic mobility is top-of-mind for city ... cities will work closely with a team of advisors from What Works Cities , a Bloomberg...

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08 Aug 2019

Family Philanthropy Through Multiple Vehicles - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, August 8, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... systems and structures that accommodate this complexity? What processes are these “complex” families using to ... human capital to the various governance structures? What approaches are they using to address...

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