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23 Apr 2025

Grantmaking Equity Hour: Deepening Your Practice - A Series for Programming Staff

Wednesday, April 23, 2025 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

Virtual Meeting - Register by 4/22

... not limited to: Approaching your role as a grantmaker with greater power awareness Embedding trust and partnership into ... Stay tuned for upcoming sessions on our program calendar. How do you sign up? Members...

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Network Building

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Roundtable Discussion

Webinar/Teleconference

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Grants Managers

Program Staff

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27 Feb 2013

Vulnerable Populations & Disaster: Lessons from Katrina and a Sandy Update

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... Officer, Altman Foundation Designed for All interested funders . Vulnerable Populations & Disaster: Lessons from ...

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Issue-Based

29 Oct 2015

Exploring Grantmaking Strategy: Options and Approaches

Thursday, October 29, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... If you had $1 billion to start your own foundation, how would you strategically use your resources to accomplish your mission? Would you: Weigh the ... ideas for funding Your values as a grantmaker and...

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Network Building

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Emerging Leaders

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HR & Operations

Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... Club Sandra Schwarzer, global director of human resources at Open Society Foundations, one of the largest ... months at 70 percent pay — with tons of flexibility of how they chose to use it. This benefit...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

13 Oct 2021

Adopting Equity Practices - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Wednesday, October 13, 2021 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... governance, and management and operations. Explore How to apply a racial equity lens to internal and external practices How to discuss equity with staff and board Explore resources for...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Family Foundation

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

“Googley Philanthropy”: Brainstorming for A Talk with Jeff Jarvis

Release Date:

09/28/2009

... New York to our offices for an October 1st discussion on how Google’s model can be applied to the philanthropic sector. Mr. Jarvis has asked readers of his blog for their ideas on how “a...

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Insights

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Research Supported by The Tow Foundation Reveals Small Part Brain That Steadies The Body

Release Date:

02/06/2018

... Steadies The Body New scientific research has revealed how a small part of the brain singlehandedly steadies the ... balance, while also offering insight into the mechanics of how animals stay upright when...

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Science

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The Tow Foundation

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Announces the 2022 Sloan Research Fellows

Release Date:

02/15/2022

... the names of the 118 early-career researchers who have been selected to receive a 2022 Sloan Research ... since 2007. A database of former Sloan Research Fellows can be found at https://sloan.org/fellows-...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

Release Date:

01/18/2017

... to work to translate them into concrete interventions funders can support... Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host ...

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Economic Security

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Russell Sage Foundation

A Spectrum of Change: Why Is An Art Foundation Tackling Mass Incarceration?

Release Date:

10/06/2017

... same terrain, sharing Rauschenberg's vision that the arts can be a powerful vehicle for social change. The Rauschenberg ... differentiated itself from a growing space filled with funders concerned with...

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Arts

Towards a Fine-Free Future: JPB Foundation Tackles a Barrier to Public Library Engagement

Release Date:

10/27/2017

... Engagement Recent coverage of public library giving can be summarized in a single word: access. Funders including the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the John ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Crain’s Top 15 List of Foundations Is a Showcase of PNY Members

Release Date:

10/21/2015

... of PNY Members The top 15 foundations on Crain's list have grown 14.3% compared with last year, once again showing how the fortunes of philanthropists are closely tied to the ... through JPB. Compared...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Open Society Foundations

Bloomberg Philanthropies

New Disclosures on Mozilla Foundation and its Supporters (Ford, Helmsley)

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... operating system with the world. If you’re wondering how Mozilla spends its money, the answers — including a few surprises — have just arrived. Bear in mind that Mountain View, ... the rest of Silicon Valley’s...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Technology

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Ford Foundation

At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

Release Date:

03/30/2016

... to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with ... issues of inequality and so many economic isues, cities have to innovate solutions, because no...

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Economic Security

Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

Release Date:

07/11/2017

... of two short films that feature eight couples, all of whom have children with autism. These families are interviewed about their children, and the great love they have for them is clear. Then the dads are...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Scientist Asked To Remove ‘Climate Change’ From Grant Blames ‘The Ongoing Politicization Of Science’

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... for federal funds. Bowen’s project aims to explore how environmental factors such as climate change affect the ... marshes, which serve as an important carbon sink. “I have been asked to contact you to update...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... I welcomed our daughter Norah into the world. I couldn’t have imagined the rush of emotions I would feel or that I could have so many thoughts at once. One thing I wasn’t thinking ... that provides paid...

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Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... pharmaceutical distributors, pharmacies and doctors have come under intense scrutiny in recent years, but the ... pharmacy benefit managers that run their drug plans — have played in the opioid crisis has...

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Health

After Stabbing, Teachers Will Get Training on Defusing Behavior Issues

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... Department would focus its training for teachers on how to defuse behavior crises and make sure that bullying was ... another, Ariane Laboy, 16, seriously wounded. The police have said that Mr. Cedeno told...

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