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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

... the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is ... money. And now we're starting to get a better sense of how it...

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Immigration

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

Simons Foundation Awards $24.7 Million for Autism Research

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03/21/2017

... autism. The Simons Initiative for the Developing Brain will be based at the university's Patrick Wild Centre for ... autism spectrum disorders. To that end, researchers will use advanced...

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Health

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... San Diego (Scripps Institution of Oceanography), who will explore how environmental and ecological processes shape marine ... morphology. Erin Bertrand of Dalhousie University, who will study...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

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07/06/2017

... Street View images in an effort to measure whether and how urban areas are changing. In addition to demonstrating ...

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In New Memoir, Eva Moskowitz Offers a Look Behind The Curtain At Success Academy — And Tries to Reshape Her Reputation

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09/18/2017

... new book is a juicy political read. “We never hit it off personally,” the charter school leader writes of ... make fundamental reforms [to schools], I didn’t see how anybody else could.” But it...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

... spot between the two fields, a $4 million commitment that will back the deep ocean probes monitoring how ocean temperatures are changing. The funding goes ... resulting in financial support for the project and...

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Environment and Climate Change

The Rockefeller Foundation, the Open Society Foundation, and the Ford Foundation Working With Rebuild by Design In Puerto Rico

Release Date:

11/30/2017

... Advisory Commission”—announced on November 16, 2017— will be an independent and inclusive body led by Puerto Ricans and designed to offer recommendations for how to use private, philanthropic...

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Disaster Relief

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13 Nov 2019

Advancing Racial Justice in Organizations Training - Hosted by Interaction Institute for Social Change (IISC)

Wednesday, November 13, 2019 -

9:00am to 5:00pm

... Change (IISC) for PNY Members only. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis. Members ... can be applied within your organization. You’ll explore how racial justice is relevant...

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Study Reveals The Hidden Lives of America’s Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations)

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01/06/2016

... Poor and Middle Class (Citi and Ford Foundations) It hardly bears repeating that there has been massive change ... things are different. But we don’t know enough about how these changes are playing out in the...

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

... from Tyron, North Carolina, the home where Nina learned how to play the piano was named a National Treasure by the ... community to chart a new future for the property that will honor her tremendous... Backed...

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Morgan Stanley, TruFund Financial Services and Ford Foundation Announce Launch of $26 Million Impact Developers Fund

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06/22/2020

... launch of the Impact Developers Fund. The $26 million fund will provide much needed capital to emerging impact businesses that lack ... Fund has identified its first cohort of clients and it...

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Jo Christine Miles

... about community development with a particular focus on the use of partnerships across the philanthropic, private, and public sectors to connect people to resources , promote collective action, and ensure...

The ASPCA Gives 100,000 Animals Better Chance of Adoption Through National Relocation Program

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04/04/2019

... night of rest and arrived in New York City today where she will soon be available for adoption. "Using relocation to .....

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

New York Community Trust's HIVE Grants to Boost Digital Media Learning

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06/02/2014

... Digital Media Learning in NYC After-School Programs Teens will record residents' stories to make a multimedia map of ... interests. Furthermore, they have helped us demonstrate how partnerships between...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations, Including the Ford Foundation, Commit Unprecendented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations

Release Date:

09/24/2020

... Cultural Treasures.” Together, the funders will grant more than $156 million to support Black, Latinx, ... that have been impactful, despite historically limited resources and funding streams. They, along with...

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project

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01/19/2017

... for its 18-month Incubator Project residency, which will award up to three start-up nonprofits, community groups, ... information, idea exchange, and gathering of philanthropic resources across the borough...

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

15 Feb 2012

New Approaches to Collaborative Funding: A Case Study of the Young Men’s Initiative

Wednesday, February 15, 2012 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

A new model for social change will be investigated as those involved in The Young Men’s ... and $30 million from Bloomberg Philanthropies. Learn how these distinct agencies and foundations have come ... complex...

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Issue-Based

13 Jun 2012

2012 Conference on Scaling Impact

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 8:00am to Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 6:30pm

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Park Place, NYC

... Explore Strategies to achieve large-scale impact. How funder collaboratives can support scaling efforts. How major donors can co-fund with foundations to scale ... in education, youth development, poverty...

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In Diller Island’s Demise, a Cautionary Tale of Donor Influence

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09/21/2017

... hit the project with costly litigation. But ultimately, it was main backer Barry Diller who pulled the plug, ... for the project. The costs and controversy had become too much , he said. To be fair, it...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Leadership Doesn’t Just Happen

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05/12/2016

... New York’s board of directors. And wow, what a year it has been, for both me and for PNY! When Leisle Lin handed ... leadership as the area in which to do its work. We will remain committed to our work on...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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