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24 Apr 2025

Considering the Future: Blending Fiction and Reality

Thursday, April 24, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... and reality, pragmatism and visionary utopianism. Join us for a dynamic and timely event, blending imaginative ... for Philanthropy and Fundraising at NYUSPS Center for Global Affairs Rockefeller Brothers Fund...

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Tools & Strategies

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All Funders

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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Communications/Media

Economic Security

Environment and Climate Change

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Taking a Stand for New York

Release Date:

04/12/2018

... to today. The current political moment has forced most of us off the sidelines and into the advocacy arena. There ... only if there is an opportunity to share information and resources on how to implement...

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Insights

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New York Foundation

Inside the Joan Mitchell Foundation: How a Visual Arts Funder Is Evolving

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... by the Urban Institute in 2003, Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structures for U.S. Artists. This study looked specifically at the needs of individual artists ...

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21 May 2019

Race to Lead: Women of Color in the Nonprofit Sector

Tuesday, May 21, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Lead data of over 4,000 staff in the nonprofit sector. The study reveals the systemic barriers women of color face as ... and the continued challenges once they get there. Join us for a presentation...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The Century Foundation Releases Report: How Robots Are Beginning to Affect Workers and Their Wages

Release Date:

10/17/2019

Much has been written about the rise of robots and the potential impacts of automation on the economy. Yet most analysis tends to be prospective in nature, and estimates of future impacts on employment vary widely, with some studies predicting that...

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Technology

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Hartford Foundation Funds New Geriatric Workforce Center

Release Date:

01/21/2016

... component of the GWEP platform administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the U.S. ... opportunities, mentoring, a centralized repository of resources for professional and...

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Aging

Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

New STARS Community, Funded by Josiah Macy Foundation, Will Focus Wise Choices And Value in Health Care

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... a dynamic community of future leaders with training and resources to improve health care in America." By tracking ... physicians about their professional roles as stewards of resources in service to...

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Health

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Resilience Begins at Home

Release Date:

07/30/2013

Rockefeller Foundation Vice President of Global Communications Neill Coleman discusses the findings of ...

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Disaster Relief

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Contributes Funds for Online Tool to Reveal Commercial Fishing Activity Worldwide

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that ... vessels in near real-time. By providing the first free global view of commercial fishing...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Edwin Gould Foundation and the Education Writers Association Announced the Winner of the Eddie Award

Release Date:

06/19/2018

... which are college access programs, the New York outpost of Global Glimpse, which sends students from low-income and affluent backgrounds on summer study programs in Central American together, BEAM, which ...

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Arts

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

09 Nov 2023

Indigenous Land Management: Decreasing Disasters and Increasing Resilience - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, November 9, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... more at risk of climate change and natural hazards. One study found that Native Americans living in tribal ...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

María Teresa Ronderos, Award-Winning Reporter, to Lead Open Society’s Work on Independent Journalism

Release Date:

05/15/2014

The Open Society Foundations today named María Teresa Ronderos as the director of its Program on Independent Journalism.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Open Society Foundations

Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... of the United States Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010, and served on the board of ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Rockefeller Family Fund

Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

Release Date:

07/14/2015

Energy company wants to drill natural-gas well using waterless method.

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Environment and Climate Change

Simons Foundation Supports Research That Sheds New Light on RNA’s Journey Out of a Cell’s Nucleus

Release Date:

11/10/2016

... code stashed in a vault. However, the tightly controlled borders of the nucleus create a challenge: In order for the ...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

'Massive Anxiety' As Turkey Cracks Down On International NGOs

Release Date:

10/02/2017

Just before Ramadan in late spring 2017, the full might of the Turkish state descended on a foreign aid agency in the border town of Gaziantep. Six different government agencies, among them the migration directorate and the gendarmerie, had come to...

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Sector News

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International/Foreign Affairs

Long-Held Political, Ethnic Rivalries Heating Up Fight Over Brooklyn Pfizer Site

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... trajectory of development in a section of Brooklyn that borders Hasidic Jewish, Hispanic and African-American ...

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Community Development

The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation

Release Date:

01/05/2018

Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and human & disability rights advocate Judy Heumann investigates how our grantmakers are including a disability lens in their areas of work.

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Member News

Video

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Disabilities

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Ford Foundation

Investing in Leadership Volume 2: Inspiration and Ideas from Philanthropy’s Last Frontier

Publication date:

02/2006

A Grantmakers for Effective Organizations publication that explores a sampling of the leadership development being utilized now in the nonprofit sector. Also contains case studies about leadership development.