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High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa's Demographic Dividend

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09/22/2017

High-Level UN Dialogue on Harnessing Africa' s Demographic Dividend At the United Nations, His Excellency ... CEOs and other development partners, the event explored how smart investments in health...

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Schott Foundation Report Offers Framework Providing All Children Equal Opportunity To Succeed

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03/01/2018

... framework, the Loving Cities Index helps cities evaluate how well they are doing at providing all children – ... inequality and opportunity gaps in areas like housing, health care and community involvement...

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09 Aug 2018

Cultivating A Healthy Family Culture - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, August 9, 2018 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... and family foundation staff and trustees only.* The health of a family is often defined by its culture. Creating ... is much easier said than done. Join NCFP as we explore how to create a vibrant family...

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Family Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funded Research Finds Gut Bacteria Play Critical Role in Anti-Seizure Effects of Ketogenic Diet

Release Date:

05/25/2018

... and other microbes that reside in the human body’ s intestines. The ketogenic diet has numerous health benefits, including fewer seizures for children with ... However, there has been no clear explanation for...

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Health

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Philanthropic Leaders Call for Protecting the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation

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11/20/2018

... the Independence of Special Counsel Investigation It’ s astoundingly rare for foundation leaders to make statements ... institutions, we care deeply about the long-term health of our republic, our two-party...

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BoardServeNYC: Responding to the Challenge of Strengthening Grantee Boards

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06/07/2010

... to data reported by the Foundation Center, the nation’ s more than 75,000 grantmaking foundations distributed nearly ... over an organization, many funders are not certain about how to address the topic of...

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Oscar Raposo Jr. Joins United Way of New York City

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08/18/2016

... said Wright. “I’m especially thankful for John’ s willingness to allow for an extended transition—giving us ... and operational roles, including divisional CFO for GE’ s Components Business. “Oscar brings...

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United Way of New York City

MetLife Foundation Will Appear on 'Be the Change,' A Lifetime TV Network Program

Release Date:

09/18/2015

... Act® will feature a “Be the Change” segment on how corporate America is empowering people to build better ... in need” is the objective behind MetLife Foundation’ s on-going efforts in communities across the...

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MetLife

Intragovernmental Collaborations: Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector?

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09/08/2017

... Pipedreams or the Future of the Public Sector? How policy labs can foster greater collaboration and policy ... to collaborate in government is usually lacking. So how did these leaders—some with competing...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Williamson Foundation’s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership

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09/19/2017

Williamson Foundation’ s Caroline Williamson Interviewed on Adaptive Leadership This post explores whether philanthropy practitioners have used adaptive leadership, the framework developed by Dr. ... B. Robert...

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The B. Robert Williamson Jr. Foundation

12 Oct 2017

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network Fall Program: Performance Review and Self Advocacy

Thursday, October 12, 2017 -

8:30am to 10:30am

... and seeks to develop a community for the purpose of sharing questions, experience and resources among peers in a confidential setting. This program comes right before many of the Network’ s...

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Professional Development

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Panel

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Executive Support Staff

Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Selects Genaro Lopez-Rendon as Next President

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... to social movements across the country. “I have always fought for a better world, but now as a new ... will continue to be at the heart of the Noyes Foundation’ s giving and programs.” "We could not be...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows

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07/15/2020

... inequities in our societies that marginalized communities have faced for generations. That’ s why the work of our fellows is so urgent, as they work on ... York, United States / Ramallah, Palestine) will...

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Open Society Foundations

19 May 2022

Leadership Transitions Funders Group - An Invitation to a Community of Practice

Thursday, May 19, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Over the last few years, Philanthropy New York' s Leadership Transitions Funders Group has engaged a group of ... transitions as a lens to philanthropy' s shift towards sharing and/or...

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Network Building

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Breakout Discussion

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Leadership Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack

Release Date:

04/14/2015

... passion and intellect to this work. She was the city’ s first Chief Service Officer under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, ... imagine, it is a challenge to summarize Dan Osheyack’ s 35-year career at Time Warner,...

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Arts

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Time Warner

Teagle Foundation Gives $2M for College/Community Partnerships

Release Date:

03/14/2016

... for College/Community Partnerships The Teagle Foundation’ s Board of Directors has approved over $2 million in grants ... program. Funds were also awarded under the Foundation’ s “Graduate Student Teaching in...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Statement on Allegations of Workplace Misconduct

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04/19/2018

... the core values at SVCF, accountability and transparency have helped our organization grow to where it is today. In ... these values, I wanted to openly address issues that I have been focused on lately and...

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Patients with Macular Degeneration Show Improvement with High-dose Statin Treatment (Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/08/2016

... and Ear/Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I/II clinical trial investigating the ... lacking. Ophthalmologists and vision researchers have long suspected that there may...

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Health

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Lori Bezahler Writes Op-Ed on Activism Led by Young People of Color for The Nation

Release Date:

03/28/2018

... The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have catalyzed a social movement demanding an end to gun violence. While their leadership and moral authority have undoubtedly taken the movement to another...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Report From Century Foundation: English Learners and School Choice: Helping Charter Schools Serve Multilingual Families

Release Date:

04/30/2019

... in American history. Over twelve million school-aged U. S . children speak a non-English language at home—about ... commensurately. During the same period, charter schools have become an increasingly large...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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The Century Foundation

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