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08 Feb 2024

Beyond Breaking News: Local Journalism’s Role in Disaster Recovery - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, February 8, 2024 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... in their communities, telling the stories that people need to know. Media coverage of disasters is wide-ranging. ... provide information about where they can access immediate resources and support. Panelists...

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Communications/Media

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Mark Zuckerman Named New President of The Century Foundation

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02/24/2015

... of the Board, Bradley Abelow. “It’s clear Mark has the experience , grit and determination to transform progressive ... workplace discrimination, increasing wages for home health care workers...

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Children, Youth and Families

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New York Life Foundation Awards $1.4 Million to National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

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12/23/2013

... Crisis and Bereavement's capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools, reports Philanthropy News Digest. The ... operations and build its capacity to provide bereavement resources in schools...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Leon Levy Foundation Names Meredith Ross President, Justine Koch Promoted to Director of Finance/Administration, Jennifer Ellis to Senior Program Officer

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09/15/2022

... nearly a decade. They are precisely the leadership team we need to continue the momentum into the Foundation’s third ... Justine Koch Ms. Koch has over 31 years of accounting experience in the not-for-profit...

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Perpetuity, continued

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04/24/2014

... (developmental disabilities, clean energy, environmental health , and regional food systems) and that it injects an ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints John W. Bernstein as Chief Operating Officer

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11/07/2014

... brings to the Ford Foundation over twenty-five years of experience managing not-for-profit institutions and their financial and operational health and effectiveness. Since 2004, he has served as the ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Patrick Gaspard Named President of the Open Society Foundations

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12/14/2017

... which support human rights, justice, and access to public health and education in more than 140 countries . “I am delighted to have Patrick as leader of the ... vision of where we are going, drawing on a broad...

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Supported in Part by the Rita Allen Foundation, Researchers Discover New Protein Factor That Contributes to Cancer Cell Migration

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11/01/2018

... that connect the genetic material in the DNA to proteins need to be processed from their initial to final form. Little ... molecules is important for cell migration. To understand how fibroblast cells migrate...

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Health

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Rita Allen Foundation

Pennsylvania Joins Skillful State Network, Initiative of the Markle Foundation

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04/18/2019

... will share information about the tools and skills workers need to thrive and how to break down barriers that keep too many people from ...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Column from Hartford Foundation: Independence—It’s What Older People Want

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12/01/2015

... personal goal requires that we design and provide good care in our hospitals and clinics, and expand that care beyond traditional boundaries. It requires the involvement of both health...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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PNY Members Named to Commission Examining Closures of Nonprofits

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03/10/2015

... Renewal, Inc. Jim Purcell, Council of Family and Child Care Agencies Joanne M. Oplustil, CAMBA Hilda Polanco, Fiscal ...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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The New York Community Trust

A New Guide Helps Foundations Become More Transparent

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04/2014

... an arm of the Foundation Center, which provides resources to grant makers. The guide offers concrete steps on how foundations should decide what information to share and how to share it “in an easily accessible and timely way,” ...

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26 Mar 2020

Advancing Natural Climate Solutions in New York - A Webinar

Thursday, March 26, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... renewable energy. COVID-19 has also unexpectedly impacted how we think of these natural climate solutions on both a local and global scale. How will society’s thinking on this change for better or .....

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Environment and Climate Change

Philanthropy's Social Compact In A Changing World

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10/09/2019

... there is a sense that wealthy individuals “game the system ,” including through their charitable works, further ... and commentators. The question for philanthropies now is how to react and remedy these...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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What Philanthropy Can Do to Stabilize Homeless Families and Break the Cycle of Homelessness

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03/13/2018

... and Chief Executive Officer of Win (formerly Women in Need ). Christine Quinn was a speaker at our February 6th ... a homeless adult. Understanding the families in need – nine out of ten are...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Women In Need

21 Jun 2012

-- POSTPONED -- Saving Our Communities: Historic Preservation Initiatives in NYC

Thursday, June 21, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... City now has 29,000 landmarks, including private homes, high -rises, monuments, cemeteries, parks, historic houses and ... preservation needs into their ongoing grantmaking. How funders have worked successfully...

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Funded By Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Field Study Looks At Chemistry Of Indoor Home Environments

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06/18/2018

... with the hope of learning what role they may play in human health . The month-long project incorporates measurements from ... “HOMEChem is a deep, multifaceted field study into how indoor chemical compounds may...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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Overcoming Setbacks

Release Date:

09/11/2018

... the resilience of our founding values and our democratic system of self-governance. We can recover from setbacks, ... climate change since the 1990s. In the early 2000s, we had high hopes for federal Cap and...

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