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Mellon Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence

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07/26/2021

... #1 best seller, his latest narrative nonfiction book How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of ... Island, and the Whitney Plantation. The two Fellows will serve through August 2022 and pursue...

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Philanthropy New York Signs Letter to the U.S. Small Business Administration

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04/13/2020

... themselves shut out of the process to secure financial resources that are critical to their very survival. Letter ... an additional piece of data on SBA loans, which we believe will help uncover solutions to...

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Ellen Braune Joins the Surdna Foundation as Director of Communications

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11/15/2016

... rights, and economic and reproductive justice. Braune will use strategic communications to support Surdna's ... its impact and engage people to think differently about how best to...

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Equitable Recovery for All New Yorkers: The NY Stimulus Alliance

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08/09/2010

... are common enough around New York and unlikely to draw much attention—so it must have seemed unusual to see a large group on a guided ... the state. The purpose of the tour was to highlight how...

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Learning Exchange and Discussions (in partnership with Race and Equity in Philanthropy Group)

... to be better equipped to address these disparities in how they distribute resources , they have to look at themselves as institutions. ... commit to attending all three . Each learning exchange will...

Invest in Your Brand Endowment for Exponential Returns

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11/22/2016

... of their endowment. That’s a good place to start, but if it is the only place you look, you are missing a big ... them to magnify the impact of their grant-making. So how can you make best use...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn COVID-19 Response Fund

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03/17/2020

... Response Fund to provide immediate and longer-term resources to vulnerable residents across our borough. We ... the COVID-19 pandemic continues to intensify locally, it will have vastly...

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New Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance Launches in the U.S., Latin America, and Canada with $60 Million Investment

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03/09/2022

... Philanthropies’ City Data Alliance, a program that will identify 100 cities from across North and South America ... new challenges, expanding this program will help them do it even more...

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Responding to Change: A Look at Strategies Helping Wildlife and People Adapt to Shifting Climates

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03/28/2018

... workshops educate conservation professionals about how to design and implement their projects, and strategic ... “14 Solutions” and “Embracing Change” are great resources for understanding how...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees

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10/28/2014

... of Texas System, consisting of nine universities and six health institutions. He assumed the position in 2009 and as a ... A nationally renowned transplant surgeon, Dr. Cigarroa will return as head of...

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Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

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06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in ... oil plantations in Africa or the need to better understand how culture change can influence...

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Animal Welfare

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What Makes a Good CSR Leader?

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09/26/2013

... responsibility” leaders, but I think they are pretty much the same so I prefer “CSR leader.”) Those ... in the nonprofit world . It is critical to understand how nonprofits work. Paid work is...

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Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness, Study Shows Zika Virus Can Cause Blindness

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02/27/2017

... whether ZIKV causes abnormalities in the eye and, if so, how . The answer is published today in JCI Insight, a journal ...

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Health

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Podcast: A Conversation about Immigration and Immigrants

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04/24/2017

... former New York Times’ immigration reporter on how the national conversation about immigration is playing ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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President of Peter G. Peterson Foundation on the New Budget Deal

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02/09/2018

... focused on the country's fiscal challenges, comments on how more stimulus — and debt — to an overextended .....

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The Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Satellite Data & AI to Accelerate Economic Development and Climate Resilience in Africa

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08/29/2022

... and machine learning technologies, this three-year effort will produce unprecedented insight into the well-being of ... emerging economies. "We want to develop tools to measure how infrastructural...

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Technology

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Beyond Rigor - Building Philanthropy's Equitable Evaluation Infrastructure

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07/17/2019

... projects. In response to member demand for additional resources and tools to support their equity-focused missions, ... our members’ important equity-focused work. AAEEP will introduce our members to the...

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