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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Foundations Vow to Invest in Clean-Energy Technology

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06/17/2015

More than 90 foundations are committing at least 5% of their total endowment assets to new energy over the next five years, including RBF and Overbrook.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in Funding

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08/27/2015

Simons Foundation Partners with Kennedy Krieger’ s Interactive Autism Network, Provides $2.18 Million in ... individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their families in an online environment designed to...

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Pinkerton, Kaplan and NY Community Trust Staff to Be Honored by City & State

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02/05/2016

... State Reports, and New York Law School announced this year' s Corporate, Foundation, and Family Philanthropy honorees. .....

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The New York Community Trust

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Rockefeller Continues to Fight Exxon Mobil on Climate Change

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11/22/2016

Exxon Mobile, which has been accused of scheming to pay surrogates to deny the threat of climate change, is trying to turn the tables by calling its opponents the real conspirators.

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Bad Landlords Poised To Profit On De Blasio Plan To Turn Rent-Stabilized Buildings Into Long-Term Homeless Shelters

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08/30/2017

... the Bronx, have more than 300 apartments between them and are either partially or entirely occupied by homeless families . Rather than convert them to low-rental housing and ... them as family shelters (a...

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Housing and Homelessness

City Council Examines Effectiveness of Domestic Violence Courts

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09/19/2017

... of Domestic Violence Courts The City Council’ s Courts and Legal Services Committee held an oversight hearing on Monday dedicated to New York’ s Integrated Domestic Violence Courts, a program designed to .....

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Children, Youth and Families

Casey Castañeda Appointed National Head of Private Foundation Services and Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank

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02/01/2018

... Executive Director at J.P. Morgan Chase Bank J.P. Morgan’ s Private Foundation Services (PFS) team is a specialized ...

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

... on the opioid epidemic, which is plaguing communities, families , and individuals across the United States. In fact, ... determinants like clean air, good schools, and walkability are suffering from this...

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Health

A Practical Guide to New York's Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act

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03/2011

... asked questions. A Practical Guide to New York' s Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act .....

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Finance & Asset Management

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Public Policy

Foundation Communications Today: Findings from the Communications Network 2011 Survey of Foundation Communications Professionals

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06/2011

This survey of 155 foundation communicators shows that U. S . foundations are making use of all forms of digital communications, ...

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Communications Staff

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Communications

Learning Together: Collaborative Inquiry among Grantmakers and Grantees

... grantee effectiveness or advance a field of practice. It' s a worthy endeavor, but how can you make it happen in the real world? This guide explores an .....

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Mapping Change: Using a Theory of Change to Guide Planning and Evaluation

" What are we doing, and why do we think it' s going to make a difference? Are we being effective?" Grantmakers ask .....

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Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund Launches $15 Million Healthy Foods Initiative

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02/15/2013

The five-year Healthy Food & Community Change initiative will work to improve access to healthy foods for people in low-income neighborhoods.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Community Development

Food Systems

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How to Build Strong Ties With Companies

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10/08/2013

... in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor. ...

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Live From Independent Sector Conference: Innovation Coming Faster, Needs Collaboration

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09/30/2013

... partners, often opposites who get together and then make change happen. Musician Wynton Marsalis said change ...

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The New York Community Trust

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How to Determine If a Charity Is Effective

Release Date:

11/10/2013

... Philanthropy Advisors President & CEO Melissa Berman are quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about evaluating charity effectiveness. Do you want to really make a difference? Then don't commit your...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arabella Advisors

Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive

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03/2014

... as rich as they were before the downturn, and that’ s putting a damper on their giving. What it’ s not doing though: crimping ambitious new grant-making ... efforts to deal with vexing problems…. Foundation Assets Are Climbing, but Grants Are Still Competitive ...

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Investing for Real and Permanent Good

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06/06/2014

... and Permanent Good Carnegie Corporation of New York' s co-Chief Investment Officers Kim Lew and Meredith Jenkins ... recently were interviewed for the Harvard Business School' s "In the Business...

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