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Leon Levy Foundation

11 Feb 2013

Money and Power in Post-Election America: Where is Philanthropy?

Monday, February 11, 2013 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 4:00pm

Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, NYC

... leaders will come together to examine what philanthropy’ s evolving relationship with public policy and government ... will engage on pressing issues such as K-12 education, health care reform and poverty...

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12 Aug 2025

Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series Part I: In Defense of Civil Society - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Tuesday, August 12, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... have taken root, with leaders cynically exploiting people' s fear and material suffering in order to aggregate dangerous ... have grappled with democratic backsliding; and hone in on...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

... unions. By stripping these unions of key financial resources — their fair share of fees provided by nonmembers ... the like — are the remaining bright spot in America’ s once-thriving trade union movement. In...

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Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

Gun Violence, Advocacy, and Leadership

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04/05/2018

... making of public policy to improve population health —I am brought up short; especially when the lessons ... this victim. If she had had a gun that night, it would have made no difference, she said. So when she...

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Heckscher Foundation Supported EdTrust–NY Launches New Data Tool “The New York FAFSA Challenge” to Highlight Success and Encourage FAFSA completion.

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02/19/2019

... on data released by NerdWallet, New Yorkers are missing out on an estimated $152 million in federal financial aid by ... TAP grants and Excelsior Scholarships. Ed Trust–NY’ s analysis shows that, as of...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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For Profound Change in America, Think Local

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01/29/2014

by Kenneth H. Zimmerman Director, U. S . Programs, Open Society Foundations We live in an age ... by profound changes: New technology has revolutionized how we communicate and get our work done. The Great Recession...

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Open Society Foundations

Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy

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03/24/2020

... of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund travelled to the U. S . South for a deep dive into our Democratic Practice ... embedded in the sidewalk a few yards away, which we may have stepped over, unnoticing, without his...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Laura Callanan Joins the Foundation Center as Visiting Fellow

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04/01/2013

... fellowship, Callanan will be in residence at the Center’ s New York City office undertaking a variety of activities to ... demands, and Laura’ s expertise can help us deliver the resources...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Rockefeller Foundation

27 Mar 2012

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Working with Vendors

Tuesday, March 27, 2012 -

8:30am to 10:30pm

... scenarios of challenges and learning opportunities you have experienced when working with a vendor. You may submit ... posted in the FAN section of Philanthropy New York’ s website and use the template...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World' s Most Innovative Companies The Ford Foundation funds ... social, and criminal reforms. The group is known for spending creatively to find new ways to...

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Ford Foundation

Newsmakers: Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

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12/23/2013

... to Ford, where he was vice president of the foundation’ s Education, Creativity and Freedom of Expression program, ... voted to appoint me president. Actually, I wasn’t sure how to respond, beyond saying, “Yes...

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Ford Foundation

Philanthropy New York Board Approves 2022 Public Policy Slate

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12/15/2021

... conditions in which those investments can thrive. PNY’ s public policy work engages diverse stakeholders to create ... meetings among funders concerned with Education/Youth, Health Policy, Arts and Culture,...

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PNY News

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Correspondence Archives in the Age of Email: Technology, Privacy, and Policy Challenges

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07/18/2017

... piece originally appeared on Andrew W. Mellon Foundation' s Shared Experiences blog and is reposted with permission. ... We send and receive more emails than many of us know how to conveniently organize...

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Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation

MLK50 Justice Through Journalism Receives Grant from the Ford Foundation

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01/26/2023

... awarded a $2 million grant from the Ford Foundation’ s Creativity and Free Expression team. The investment ... hard to overstate the impact a grant of this size will have on MLK50,” said Wendi C. Thomas, the...

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Jeff Jarvis, CUNY Professor and Director of the Tow Knight News Integrity Initiative, on Shifting Away from Media-Centric News Literacy

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06/22/2017

... identifying bad content, i.e. "fake news," and look at how misinformation propagates to learn from it and get ahead ... that we are being manipulated by an array of actors, who have related but...

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PhilTalks

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Dyson Foundation’s Leadership to Change in June

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03/19/2015

Dyson Foundation’ s Leadership to Change in June After leading day-to-day ... the Hudson Valley just as faithfully. Her tireless efforts have literally helped hundreds of thousands of people. Her ... of America,...

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The Dyson Foundation

Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

Mellon' s “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million ... announced that grants totaling more than $16.1 million have been awarded to 12 liberal arts colleges as part of its ... to the problem-...

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Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

06 Jun 2013

Community Food Funders Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System: Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a Post-Sandy World

Thursday, June 6, 2013 -

8:30am to 10:00am

... organizations for help. While government agencies have begun rebuilding, there are still significant barriers ... the most marginalized communities in accessing available resources . For many in the Rockaways,...

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What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

... he said, “what world do you want to live in?” It’ s a question that has stayed with me ever since. It ... In their world, the most pressing question – was how will we survive? They survived the Great...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development