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Senators Fight To Save Tax Break For Newman's Own Foundation

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01/19/2018

... the past 25 years, Newman's Own Foundation in Westport has donated $512 million to charities. But a provision in ... for more than five years. The Internal Revenue Service has issued a delay to Newman’s...

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Judge Orders Trump Administration To Remove 2020 Census Citizenship Question

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01/16/2019

... Census Citizenship Question A federal judge in New York has ruled against the Trump administration's decision to add ... such a question on the census since 1950, although it has been asked of a sample of...

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Can We Still Improve Philanthropy?

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07/17/2009

... away from the day-to-day administration of a foundation has allowed me some time to think about how philanthropy can be improved. That is a huge topic that ... given justice in this short piece. It is also a...

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The People’s (Climate) March: A Tipping Point Towards the Clean Revolution

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09/26/2014

... clean/benign/non-toxic technologies , and must have the health and well-being of people and the planet front and ... want different results at COP21 then we need to think and act differently than we have in...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Health

Why Bring People Together In Person?

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08/13/2013

... beyond what they could achieve on their own. Convening has been a critical tool for The Rockefeller Foundation’s ... the emergence of impact investing in order to combine financial , social and environmental...

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Robert Sterling Clark: Supporting Our Grantee Partners in the Era of COVID-19

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03/19/2020

... notices the ground beneath him is missing. That moment has been slow and painful for me – in the first days after ... And to reflect that reality, we are making some changes in how the foundation does business...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Jonathan Horowitz of The Klarman Family Foundation Wins 2021 JJ Greenberg Memorial Award

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04/01/2021

... New York metropolitan area grantmaking in the fields of financial empowerment and economic development. Before that, ... the divine image) within our civic and social fabrics. How we do this work is as...

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26 Mar 2010

Getting It Right: Reauthorizing NCLB To Leave No Child Behind

Friday, March 26, 2010 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... “No Child Left Behind,” it’s easy to see where the act (also known as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act ... short. It’s not so easy to see – or agree on – how to fix it. But, after...

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13 May 2013

TED: Media As A Catalyst for Ideas and Community

Monday, May 13, 2013 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... decades ago as a conference forum for spreading ideas, TED has since evolved and grown into an organization with ... with foundations to meet shared objectives. Explore How the original vision for TED ...

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Representing the Old And New in Brooklyn

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03/10/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation Chairman Alan Fishman, who has donated $1 million to the foundation, was also the Wall ... to contribute to causes close at hand, but just don't know how best to do so. Linking...

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Ford Foundation Launches 'Art of Change' Fellowship Program

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04/10/2015

... the world for a series of conversations to help determine how the foundation can most effectively advance the arts — ... social change. As part of the initiative, the foundation has awarded thirteen...

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Examining the 990: An Informative Series on Completing the Form

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08/2016

... form with the IRS. Due to popular demand, The Chronicle has released a series of articles to help readers come away ... understanding of the form, section-by-section, including how to fill it out, and why it’s so important. ...

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On Time.com, Carnegie’s Gregorian: Voters Responsible for Protecting Democracy

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11/04/2016

... Carnegie President, Vartan Gregorian, writes about how only committed citizenship can preserve our individual ... but liberty, as the history of our nation and many others has shown, is an irreplaceable prize...

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Rockefeller, Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit'

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03/20/2017

... for Philanthropy-a Toolkit' An important new report has developed a framework for understanding and valuing the ... comprehensive framework providing guidance to funders on how to implement best practices...

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NoVo Foundation to Unveil Plan to Help Girls of Color

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04/13/2017

... what their needs are, rather than be told what the money has to be used for. The foundation on Thursday will officially announce how its $90 million commitment over seven years will be ...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama's Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap

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08/31/2017

... administration vowing to fight for women in the workplace, has blessed a White House plan to roll back an Obama-era ... 2016, would have required employers to collect data on how much they pay their workers,...

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August 2013 Working Group Updates

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08/28/2013

... organizing project formed in 2011 to provide information, resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ... at Local Economies Project/New World Foundation Public Health and Healthy Food Access...

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... and Martha Wilson, The Intersectional Self questions how notions of femininity (and alternately, masculinity) have ... in the context of newly defined gender identities, and how family structures have been...

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National Service and Grassroots Youth Organizing Groups: A Strategy for Building Diverse Nonprofit and Civic Leadership for New York

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01/14/2010

... and civic leadership pipeline, funders must consider how to support and involve grassroots youth organizing ... positive solutions for community problems—yet organizing has been shown to have particular...

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