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The New York Women's Foundation

Money and Power in Post-Election America: Why This Conference?

... and political ecosystem. Its actions can have an impact on how entire systems function—say, K-12 education or income ... But it’s not at all clear that funders fully understand how they can make a difference...

14 Nov 2017

Hats on, Hats Off – A Creative Approach to Capacity Building

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... building and want to learn more about what it is and how you might integrate it into your grant making? Do you ... by a team of arts funders who will bring creativity into how we think about and approach...

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Tools & Strategies

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Bloomberg Philanthropies: Partnership for Healthy Cities Launches Online Platform to Support City Leaders Responding to COVID-19

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04/15/2020

... Response Center includes the latest tools and technical resources geared toward urban challenges, ranging from ... to provide city leaders with important tools and technical resources to take on the crisis and...

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Civic Engagement

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Health

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Sunsetting the Racial Equity in Philanthropy Fund at Borealis Philanthropy

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10/11/2023

... existence provide our partners with unique and necessary resources and/or opportunities needed to meet and grow ... REP Fund’s offerings serve as necessary additional resources and relational opportunities...

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Social Justice

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Borealis Philanthropy

Ford Foundation Appoints Rakesh Rajani as the New Director of Democratic Participation and Governance

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10/21/2014

... served as executive director for HakiElimu (“Education Rights ”) and transformed it into a well-known entity by ... Kuleana, which developed a leading center for children’s rights and established Tanzania’s...

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Community Development

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Ford Foundation

North Star Fund Welcomes New Executive Director Jennifer Ching

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02/01/2017

... organizing working together to advance immigrant rights , anti-racism, and economic and housing justice. As a ... the first case with the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights to obtain government...

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North Star Fund

Suzanne C. Sousa Steps Into New Role as Executive Director of the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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08/23/2017

Suzanne C. Sousa has been appointed Executive Director of the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation. Elizabeth Olofson has stepped aside as Executive Director and has been designated Senior Philanthropic Adviser.

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Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Flood-Resistant Neighborhood Would Be 80 Years in the Making

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05/22/2014

... projects around the city by selling the development rights , according to the study expected to be released today ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Public Policy

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Disaster Relief

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The Rockefeller Foundation

NYC Schools Chief Vows to Preserve Number of Gifted Programs and Their Exams

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06/17/2014

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña plans to preserve the hallmarks of New York City’s gifted programs, the immensely popular classes and schools that draw high achievers but have been criticized as shutting out low-income children.

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Education

The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes notes, the idea was first advanced 125 years ago when Andrew Carnegie, whose money endowed Carnegie Corporation of New York, wrote an essay encouraging other...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

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07/22/2014

... the National Employment Law Project, a leading workers’ rights advocacy organization.... Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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Surdna Foundation

Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

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10/07/2014

... equality and other changes to grow public support for LGBT rights more generally. They have spent hundreds of millions ...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

Foundations Shouldn’t Shrink From Supporting Marches to Curb Climate Change

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10/19/2014

... that curb climate change, was just that. Unlike civil- rights protests, which required real physical and moral ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... innovation in the fields of cultural heritage, human rights , the built environment, and the natural environment. ...

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Technology

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

New Data Illuminates Long Island's Education Inequities

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01/30/2015

... most segregated schools in America, according to the Civil Rights Project at UCLA, these studies should be the basis for ...

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The Rauch Foundation

Ford Foundation to Fund City Study of Diversity in Cultural Institutions

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03/04/2015

The study will be implemented by the Department of Cultural Affairs.

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

WSJ Seeks PNY Comment on Geffen $100 Million Gift to Lincoln Center

Release Date:

03/04/2015

... Center Entertainment mogul David Geffen has won naming rights for one of the premier venues in classical music with ...

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PNY News

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund has received a $485,000 planning grant for the first year of the project, focused on the development of a multi-phased, comprehensive initiative to help small-to-midsize arts organizations navigate, adapt and thrive amid ever-...

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