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01 Jun 2011

From Sustainable Foods to Sustainable Communities: Stories from the Northeast Region

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

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

... register, please fill out this online form . Non-members will receive a confirmation by email no later than two ... agriculture to institutional food procurement to land use planning. However, many of these...

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Making Lunch Free Was Just the Beginning

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12/10/2019

... By David Sandman, President and CEO, New York State Health Foundation. This article was originally published by Medium on November 20, 2019 . It was a proud moment for New York City when its public ... can...

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What It Means To Be A Philanthropist -- Gen Xers and Millennials Weigh In

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04/01/2013

... and Sergey Brin, are just the well-publicized tip of a much larger iceberg of major philanthropic giving by rising next gen donors... What It Means To Be A Philanthropist -- Gen Xers and Millennials ...

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Seven Reasons Why Your Foundation Should Pay Attention to Fracking

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05/16/2013

Health and Environmental Funders Network Program Manager ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Awards $41.5 Million in Grants

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07/20/2013

... are to organizations working in the areas of education, health , the arts and social welfare, and will also go in part to the foundation’s three-year ...

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Arts

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Our Move

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10/10/2018

... Ford Foundation Center for Social Justice in early 2019. It was exciting news for us to share with our membership and a decision we believe will build a stronger, more collaborative and uniquely ... new...

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Initiative Launched to Improve Accountability of Climate Change Adaptation Finance

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12/12/2012

... by Oxfam, the Overseas Development Institute and the World Resources Institute to increase the transparency and ... the accountability of climate finance adaptation programs will be launched today in Doha, at...

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What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully?

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08/2015

... they intend to give away all of their philanthropic resources within a specific, limited timeframe and then close ... exhausting their resources in relatively short order, they will be able to have a larger and more immediate impact on ... see as simply too pressing to delay action on. What Does It Take to Spend Down Successfully? ...

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4 Organizations Team On Mapping Tool For U.N. Sustainable Development Goals

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09/20/2017

In a collaborative partnership, Global Impact, Blackbaud, the Council on Foundations and the Foundation Center have developed and launched a resource to support organizations in aligning and tracking charitable giving to the United Nations (U.N.)...

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Philanthropy Can Help Build a Thriving Democracy by Building Up Programs and Places That Fuel Civic Involvement

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01/20/2022

... a year of action. The United States, Biden promised , “ will serve as an example by investing in our own ... on local issues, public meetings, and elections, making it easier for residents to stay informed and...

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UJA-Federation of New York Leads Charge for Creation of a Nonprofit Infrastructure Fund in Repsonse to State Budget Allocations

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04/22/2015

... reasons to be hopeful that this might be a good year when it came to negotiations over the state budget for fiscal year ... the human services sector could clearly demonstrate that it had taken it...

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

A new study, billed as the first of its kind, by the Ford Foundation and the Kapor Center for Social Impact set out to better understand why people leave theoretically cush tech jobs.

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Workforce Development

Is Online Fundraising a Bad Idea?

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09/29/2017

... getting up. Many nonprofits embrace online giving because it makes asking for gifts, processing payments, and thanking ...

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City to Expand 3-K Program to 6 New Neighborhoods

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10/13/2017

... for the 2018-2019 school year. In fall 2019, the program will come to District 9 in The Bronx and District 31 in ... Bronx and District 23 in Brownsville, at an operating cost of $36 million. Once all eight...

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Education

Spending a Week on Food Stamps Taught Me a Lesson That Could Aid All Grant Makers

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04/07/2013

... CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. The number of Americans who are too financially strapped to pay for food ...

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100 Years on, Rockefeller Foundation Still Busy

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05/12/2013

... the foundation’s history and institutional approach as it celebrates its centennial. For the richest American family ...

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Ford Foundation’s Darren Walker In NY Times Piece on Criminal Justice

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07/15/2016

... Piece on Criminal Justice In 1962, 85 percent of white Americans told Gallup that black children had as good a ... person home to dinner. This complacency among us white Americans has been a historical...

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