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08 Oct 2013

Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event and Panel Discussion

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Trinity Wall Street, 74 Trinity Place, 2nd Floor, NYC

... careers, driven by one question: How can we improve on what ' s working in NYC? This event is the public launch of the ... A top leader from the DoE will provide perspectives on what the...

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09 Jan 2014

Generation Next - Young Donors Inspiring a New Generation of Philanthropists

Thursday, January 9, 2014 -

11:00am to 1:30pm

... and giving back to future generations of one’ s family. In some cases, this love of philanthropy translates ... include a discussion of how involvement in their family’ s philanthropy led them to choose this...

The School That Will Get You a Job

Release Date:

02/13/2014

TIME Magazine examined Chicago' s Sarah E. Goode STEM Academy, where every student graduates ... with a promise of a $40,000-plus job at IBM, the school' s corporate partner and a key developer of its...

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07 May 2014

Philanthropy New York's 35th Annual Meeting, with Hillary Rodham Clinton

Wednesday, May 7, 2014 -

12:45pm to 6:15pm

... participation of women and girls at home and abroad, and what philanthropy can do today to improve human rights and ... 1:30-2:45 p.m. Break Out Sessions Option 1: Women’ s Economic Security in the United...

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Boys & Girls Clubs of America Taking Arts Programs to the Next Level with The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

03/20/2014

... self-expression. The largest arts funder in BGCA’ s history, The Wallace Foundation has made a $5.35 million, ... & Girls Clubs across the nation. Described in Wallace’ s report, Something to Say: Success...

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The Wallace Foundation

More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation

Release Date:

06/10/2014

More Details Emerging About Greer' s Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation A report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy has shed more light on what led to the announcements Tuesday from the Nathan ... causes...

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NY's Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New Orleans Arts Center

Release Date:

06/12/2014

NY' s Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New ... new construction. With that investment on top of what has been and is being spent hosting visiting artists, ... roughly $20 million into the New...

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Funders Teaming Up to Strengthen Voices of LGBTQ People of Color

Release Date:

06/16/2014

... change, the LGBTQ Racial Justice Fund hopes to expand what people, organizations and funders see as the full ...

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Ford Foundation

Arcus Foundation

Stonewall Community Foundation: Working Towards a Better Future Since 1990

Release Date:

06/18/2014

... a Better Future Since 1990 The needs of New York City' s LGBT community are so vast and varied, it is hard for any ... person to try and support them all. Yet that is exactly what Stonewall Community...

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Warren Buffett Honors His Hero, The Billionaire Who Secretly Gave It All Away

Release Date:

06/18/2014

... 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy. “It’ s a real honor to talk about a fellow who is my hero and Bill Gates’ hero. He should be everybody’ s hero.” Feeney cofounded Duty Free Shoppers and made a...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

19 States May Be Violating Laws Requiring Them To Assist Consumers With Health Care Choices

Release Date:

06/25/2014

... their insurance options and make informed decisions about what coverage is right for them. Federal rules released last ... action to remove restrictions that are impeding people' s ability to navigate...

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The Commonwealth Fund

The Right Starting Point for Productive Grantee Relationships is Putting Power Points Aside

Release Date:

09/03/2014

... keeps track of time, and his questions deftly elicit what topics staff members are passionate about and how they ... identify the pride they feel about their programs. What we hear is not a sales pitch but a...

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Arts

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The Pinkerton Foundation

All Health Care is Local: The Power of Community to Drive Improvement

Release Date:

09/11/2014

... to Drive Improvement In many communities across the U. S ., poverty is a depressingly reliable indicator of health ... to this general rule, as The Commonwealth Fund’ s 2012 Scorecard on Local Health System...

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Donations for Ebola Relief Efforts Are Slow to Take Off

Release Date:

10/20/2014

... natural disaster. Or it is harder for people to understand what their money can do to fight a disease with such a high ...

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PNY Members Funding LGBT Senior Care

Release Date:

10/30/2014

... even though research shows these are some of the nation' s most isolated seniors. Fortunately, a number of ... onto this issue for a while now. Recently, I wrote about what the New York Community Trust...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Daphne Foundation President Highlighted as one of "Seven Women Who Change Their Worlds"

Release Date:

11/05/2014

... as one of "Seven Women Who Change Their Worlds" Disney' s approach to philanthropy focuses on supporting what women "could do for themselves," an outlook shared by those involved with...

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Foundations Work Together to Improve Broadband Service in Low-Income Communities

Release Date:

12/10/2014

... to best bring broadband to their citizens, whether that' s figuring out how to build out Internet connections to ... is in its infancy, its early expansion is a signal of what seems to be a shift in the...

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

In the Aftermath: How to Help in the Philippines

Release Date:

11/13/2013

... already working in the disaster zone, not only to find out what is going on and what people need, but to ask if their ideas for philanthropic ... for funders who don’t work well with others. It’ s...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

From Katrina to the “Next Sandy”: Disaster Preparedness, Relief and Recovery for Older Adults

Release Date:

04/04/2013

... Commissioner Barrios-Paoli provided an account of DFTA’ s herculean efforts to reach older adults immediately ... and ideas. Thinking about older adults in particular … what needs were unmet? What...

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All Funders

Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

Release Date:

01/30/2015

... to reform education, particularly teacher evaluation. But what escaped notice was his reference in the State of the ... pay better attention, as the program could sap the state' s public education budget...

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