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As Youth Giving Since 2001 Totals $19M, Brooklyn Community Foundation CEO Reiterates the Importance of a Youth-Led Strategy

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... a Youth-Led Strategy Philanthropists under the age of 30 have given a total of more than $19 million since 2001 ... fifty known youth giving programs in thirty-four countries have adopted grantmaking models...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Whiting Foundation Announces The 2018 Whiting Award Winners

Release Date:

03/22/2018

... Award Winners The winners of the 2018 Whiting Awards don't have much of a track record. None on this list has the ... to seeing for literary prize winners. Several don't even have a second book to...

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Harriet and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces $12 Million Grant to Make Camps More Accessible

Release Date:

10/05/2018

... “We do not want parents of children with disabilities to have to choose between giving them the meaningful experience ... no longer necessary by ensuring campers with disabilities have access to transformative...

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Commonwealth Fund Partners with New York Times and Harvard to Analyze Financial Reality of Being Sick

Release Date:

10/19/2018

... most. To be included in the results, a respondent had to have been hospitalized twice in the last two years, and to have seen at least three doctors. In some cases, when ...

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Health

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Salesforce.Org Expands Philanthropic Efforts to Improve Schools

Release Date:

12/12/2018

... or expanding programs. San Francisco and Oakland have been the biggest recipients , with Salesforce.org ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Adds Olga Viso, Stephen Pitti, Cathy Davidson as Fellows

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04/03/2019

... Mariët Westermann said, “It is an honor and pleasure to have Olga, Cathy, and Stephen join us. The foundation works ... diverse, fair, and democratic societies. Several fellows have already joined us...

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New Staff and Promotions at The New York Community Trust

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12/19/2019

... Additionally, the following staff members at The Trust have received promotions. Salem Tsegaye and Leigh Ross have been promoted to Program Officer. Tsegaye will manage ...

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The Wallace Foundation Names New Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

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12/16/2014

... play an important role as we continue to strengthen the impact of our philanthropy." Prior to joining Wallace, ... as the Foundation continues its rich history of positive impact ." Martin succeeds...

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Open Society Foundations Commit $15 Million to Gender Equality in Africa

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05/08/2020

... YORK—The Open Society Economic Justice Program, via its impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund ... These transactions are two of a batch of social impact investments totaling $33 million...

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Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk

Release Date:

05/13/2020

... mitigate the impacts of climate change. Open Society’s impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund ...

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Economic Security

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Sheena Wright, United Way NYC President & CEO, named in City & State NY Power of Diversity: Black 100 List of 2021

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10/18/2021

... of New York City in 2012. First she had to deal with the impact of Superstorm Sandy, and now she’s contending with COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on Black and Latino New Yorkers. Wright has taken ...