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Jay Geneske Named New Media Director at Rockefeller Foundation

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03/01/2013

Jay Geneske became the Rockefeller Foundation' s first New Media Director in December 2012. He will devise ... and implement an online media strategy for the foundation' s Centennial in 2013 and pioneer...

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09 Nov 2012

Organizing Philanthropy's Response to Sandy -- Philanthropy New York’s Teleconference Series

Friday, November 9, 2012 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

... for All interested funders. Organizing Philanthropy' s Response to Sandy -- Philanthropy New York’ s Teleconference Series .....

Russell Sage Study Shows Average Americans Get Poorer as Per Capita Wealth Reaches New High

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10/01/2014

... as a whole is getting wealthier, the average American’ s share of those assets is declining. Despite a near doubling ... in America over the past ten years, the typical American’ s net worth has actually...

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Arcus Foundation Launches New Website

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10/21/2014

Arcus announces the relaunch of arcusfoundation.org.

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Ford Joins Other Major Foundations in Requiring Funded Projects to Be Open Through Creative Commons License

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02/04/2015

... “all rights reserved” copyright and encourages sharing intellectual property in a digital global commons. By ...

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Casey Family Programs and the President's Advisory Council Work to Improve Financial Capability for Young People

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03/09/2015

Casey Family Programs and the President' s Advisory Council Work to Improve Financial Capability for Young People This week the President’ s Advisory Council on Financial Capability for Young ... House to...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs the National Dance Project

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04/13/2015

... to share with audiences in communities throughout the U. S . Since then, the program has distributed more than $27 ... of the most significant sources for dance funding in the U. S . NDP has reached over 3.6...

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The Gender Divide in Ballet Leadership and Choreography

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09/29/2015

... grants to help create eight ballet companies across the U. S . Most of these companies were founded and cultivated by ...

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NYTimes Publishes OpEd by Tiffany & Co. Chairman on Environmental Sustainability

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11/09/2015

... to encounter firsthand the land and people put in harm’ s way by the proposed Pebble Mine. This vast open-pit gold ... and thousands of wilderness acres that sustainthe world’ s largest sockeye salmon fishery...

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Westchester Community Foundation Names Jennifer Hu Corriggio as Philanthropy Chief

Jennifer Hu Corriggio

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12/07/2015

... Corriggio will be responsible for leading the foundation’ s initiatives for donors seeking to make an impact through ...

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As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats

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01/22/2016

... go to 32 elementary schools that are part of the city’ s “community school” initiative, which seeks to boost ...

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JPB Foundation Supports Best Practices, Models for Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities

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03/10/2016

The Great Urban Parks Campaign: Green Infrastructure in Underserved Communities is bringing together thought leaders from around the country to explore solutions to stormwater management through the use of green infrastructure that also benefits...

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Freedom Together Foundation

Despite Legacy Connections, Rockefeller Family Fund Sets Trend by Changing its Fossil Fuel Investments

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04/04/2016

... ExxonMobil, the modern descendent of their patriarch’ s monopolistic money machine, Standard Oil. “While the ... investments in these companies,” the Family Fund’ s trustees wrote. . . Despite Legacy...

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20 Sep 2016

New York Grantmakers in the Arts - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, September 20, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Arts and Culture funders, come together to discuss what we see as the pressing issues in the field so as to inform our subsequent discussions for the next 12 months.

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic' s Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A ... puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U. S . philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck ... is...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In Brooklyn

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01/04/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ... imagined new solutions... Brooklyn Community Foundation’ s Resident-Led Investment Program Targets Challenges In ...

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Sloan Foundation Gives Wikimedia Foundation $3M for Structured Data Project

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01/12/2017

The San Francisco-based Wikimedia Foundation has announced a $3 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to make freely licensed images accessible and reusable across the World Wide Web.

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Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program

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01/17/2017

... residents. The third cohort of cities in the foundation' s Innovation Teams program — Anchorage, Alaska; Austin, .....

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

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03/20/2017

David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...

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Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust is now seeking proposals to support City-based advocacy coalitions using culture as a strategy to advance policy.

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