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13 Jul 2020

New York Environmental Funders Network Meeting - via Zoom

Monday, July 13, 2020 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... is interest in a collaborative response fund. This week' s meeting will highlight environmental racism. Explore ... and needs of maintaining and advocating for NYC’ s green spaces Plans to support...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Disaster Relief

Social Justice

Whiting Foundation Awards 2019 Creative Nonfiction Grants

Release Date:

10/08/2019

... are essential to our culture, but come into being at great cost to writers in time and resources . The grant is intended to encourage original and ... and devote time to composition. The 2019 Grantees: Wil...

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Arts

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Whiting Foundation

Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Board Chair and Members

Release Date:

06/06/2025

... 15th, during the business meeting of Philanthropy New York' s 46th Annual Meeting, the membership elected a new Board ... where she oversaw the finance, accounting, IT, human resources , operations, and...

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PNY News

Open Society Foundations Announce 2022 Soros Equality Fellows

Release Date:

11/09/2022

... take on a range of issues at the core of Open Society’ s work advancing racial justice, including voting rights, ... Fellows will be working on: multimedia educational resources on race and equity in...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Open Society Foundations

Foundations Join Together to Create New Philanthropy Feedback Opportunities

Release Date:

09/04/2014

... the Rita Allen Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have joined together to create the Fund for Shared Insight, ...

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Legal Issues

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Communications/Media

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

Freedom Together Foundation

The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions

Release Date:

03/04/2015

... people of color right now — maybe we’re missing out on some of the talent if we don’t have diverse audiences, staffs and boards,” said Tom Finkelpearl, the city’ s commissioner of cultural...

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Arts

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

Release Date:

03/13/2015

Civil rights groups that typically march in lockstep have split over new net-neutrality rules, and their discord ... civil rights groups are accusing each other of selling out the communities they represent in...

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Technology

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Open Society Foundations

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

Release Date:

06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America' s Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public ... 1,600 institutions. “The Sloan and Knight foundations have been such generous...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

The Nonprofit Leadership Development Deficit

... survey of nonprofit leaders succession planning comes out on top. In fact, it is mentioned twice as often as the ... of the organization: larger organizations, which should have more opportunities to promote internal talent, are not ...

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Article

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

Release Date:

03/03/2016

... many tenants and homeowners, it feels like a violent shove out of the way, especially for black and brown Brooklynites who have lived here for generations. . . Support for There ...

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Communications/Media

Community Development

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Mellon Foundation

The New York Community Trust

William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

Release Date:

09/19/2016

... appealing is also the reason many poor students drop out , however. A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’ s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who ... in more debt and with...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Supported by Ford, JPB Foundations, 'America Divided' Series Provides Dose of Reality and Hope

Release Date:

10/04/2016

... to watch America Divided. The first installment laid out in compelling fashion some of the significant challenges ... election of President Barack Obama, yet seems today to have lost its inspiring hold on our...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Social Justice

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Arabella Advisors Report Finds Divestments from Fossil Fuels Top $5.2 Trillion

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... Investing heavyweights are moving their assets and funds out of fossil fuels at a record pace. A network of local ... wealthy individuals representing $5.2 trillion in assets have committed to — and in some...

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Arabella Advisors

Soros-Funded Charities Targeted By Trump-Inspired Crackdown In East Europe

Release Date:

03/23/2017

... own crackdown on foreign-funded charities drove Soros' s foundation out of Russia two years ago. And now, with President Donald ... House, anti-Soros campaigners in Eastern Europe say they have...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"

Release Date:

05/31/2017

... The Atlantic Philanthropies, he said he was doing it out of a belief in Giving While Living – the idea that ... of each, while also highlighting the tensions that have emerged between them and between limited...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

More Mayors in Rockefeller’s100 Resilient Cities Initiative Are Appointing Chief Resilience Officers

Release Date:

07/28/2017

... July, there were officially 79 within the initiative’ s namesake cohort — most of which have survived local political transitions. Given that the ... administration’ s decision to pull the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/05/2017

China’ s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change Chinese ... are a threat to American jobs and decided to pull the U. S . out of the Paris agreement on climate change. ...

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Sector News

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