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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Promotes Maurine Knighton to Role of Chief Program Officer

Release Date:

10/18/2022

... programs." Since joining DDCF in 2016, Knighton has led development and oversight of grantmaking programs to ... jazz and presenting fields. During her tenure, she has overseen many of DDCF’s signature...

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Creating a ‘Movement-Led Family Foundation’: A Conversation with the Kolibri Foundation

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01/14/2026

... foundation — by 2027. The New York City-based foundation has created a fund focused on reimagining safety, supporting ... governing, narrative, cultural, and economic power. It has nearly 80 active grantees...

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Children, Youth and Families

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Fund for Shared Insight

Philanthropy New York Welcomes Stephanie Boarden as Chief of Staff

Release Date:

09/16/2021

... Making at the Open Society Foundations (OSF) in the Public Health program. Boarden has a background in public health , research, and program evaluation and has applied those...

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PNY News

Ford Foundation Asks if Capitalism Can be Made to Work Better for Society

Release Date:

10/02/2014

... of the capitalist economic system, Walker asks, “ How do we support efforts to change a system in which our own grantmaking resources are cultivated? How can we inform a more inclusive...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report Detailing President Obama's Executive Actions

Release Date:

05/07/2015

... The Century Foundation, The New Era of Executive Action: How President Obama Is Advancing a Progressive Agenda , we ...

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Education

Environment and Climate Change

Immigration

LGBTQ

Philanthropy 101: Re-Thinking Power Beyond the Grantmaking Role

Release Date:

02/14/2017

... and professional and personal networks - for example, how it is that when you have Philanthropy or Foundation after ... in the room (operations, communications, finance, human resources , administration, and...

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After the Q&A

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Citi Foundation

NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... Director Pamela Shifman (pictured) to get the full scoop: How is the Radical Hope Fund different from your usual ... we believe in organizations making their own choices about how they spend their ...

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07 Nov 2017

From There to Here: Adapting Global Solutions to American Problems

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... a faraway land? Although social challenges in education, health , youth engagement, and community development play out ... in one place could be adapted to work in another. But how often do U.S. grantmakers...

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Civic Engagement

Health

The Visionary Freedom Fund, Launched by the Andrus Family Fund, Announces Inaugural Cohort of Grant Recipients in Grantmaking Led by Youth Organizers to Transform Youth Justice System

Release Date:

09/28/2021

... and funders to set the grantmaking strategy and determine how VFF’s resources are deployed. Power Table members know firsthand ... of young people. “We know that the youth legal system has to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Justice Reform

Social Justice

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Andrus Family Fund

Century Foundation Releases New Report: Finding Workers Where They Are

Release Date:

02/07/2019

... movements in the nation’s history—the labor movement— has not launched a coherent, large-scale digital organizing ... success. And this is true even though the labor movement has a significant brag—union...

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Member News

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Workforce Development

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The Century Foundation

Can Philanthropy Help Shape the Next Economy? A Workshop Series for a Just Transition

... they fund — from poverty and inequality, to climate, health , food systems and democracy. Through a series of six ... together by a short film produced for this series entitled How We Live: A Journey Towards a...

Jerome and Camargo Foundations Appoint New President

Release Date:

06/05/2015

... ( www.camargofoundation.org ) announce that Ben Cameron has been appointed President of both foundations, and will be ... Charitable Foundation, in New York City, a role that he has held since 2006. In that...

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Arts

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14 Dec 2010

A Conversation with Jonathan Mintz, NYC Commissioner of Consumer Affairs

Tuesday, December 14, 2010 -

2:00pm to 5:00pm

... And did you know that the Department of Consumer Affairs has made it possible for very low-income families to open ... – avoiding check-cashing fees and building their financial assets? Or that the Department...

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Issue-Based

16 Mar 2011

Foundations on the Hill

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 -

8:30am to 12:30pm

L'Enfant Plaza Hotel, 480 L'Enfant Plaza, SW, Wash DC.

... foundations Encourage Congress to view foundations as resources on key public policy issues PRESENTERS: For a ...

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Ford Foundation Launches Effort To Diversify Art Museum Leadership

Release Date:

11/29/2017

Walton Foundation and Ford Foundation announced today they are each committing $3 million over three years to support creative solutions to diversify curatorial and management staff at art museums across the United States.

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

30 Oct 2025

Journalism and Democracy: A Convening on Philanthropy's Role in Strengthening the Press

Thursday, October 30, 2025 -

2:00pm to 5:30pm

... community leaders, funders, and experts to explore how shifts in the media landscape affect our democracy. Together, we’ll examine how the news media portrays nonprofits and philanthropy, and how...

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Civic Engagement

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Wendy Liscow to Leave The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation After 17 Years

Release Date:

11/13/2020

... to pursue other opportunities. During her tenure, Wendy has worked in Dodge’s Arts grantmaking area, then went on ... Dodge’s Education and Technical Assistance programs. She has been a champion of the...

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation

Release Date:

03/17/2015

... evaluations, the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) has learned from experience how difficult it can be to build an evidence base and extract ... may find helpful as starting points when they consider...

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Member News

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Evaluation

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

Release Date:

08/28/2015

... -- must protect its DNA at all costs, but precisely how a cell distinguishes between damage to its own DNA and the foreign DNA of an invading virus has remained a mystery. Now, scientists at the Salk Institute...

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Health

Technology

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Meet The Woman Driving Sustainability And Corporate Responsibility At Tiffany & Co.

Release Date:

01/26/2016

... a reason for it. We spoke with Kamadoli Costa to find out how she ended up with two jobs, and how the synergy between the Foundation and the company has helped drive Tiffany & Co.’s...

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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