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22 Oct 2020

Lunch Discussion on the State of Youth Service Providers During COVID-19

Thursday, October 22, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... members of the Neighborhood Family Services Roundtable will share what is happening to youth service providers ... proposed changes in budgets, legislation and policy that will impact community-based services...

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Global Relief Initiative to Help Alleviate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic

Release Date:

04/08/2020

... working closely with grantee partners around the world, will focus both immediately and in the long term on some of ... that combating the virus effectively at the global scale will require both new vaccines...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Urging the U.S. Senate to Pass the America Gives More Act

... bill would make the IRA charitable rollover permanent law. It would simplify the private foundation excise tax on net ... year. These are all important legislative proposals that will improve our nation’s tax...

Kimberly Roberts

... Although a proud native New Yorker, she has spent much time abroad as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer working as a ...

Ira R. Halperin Named Vice Chair to Long Island Community Foundation Board

Release Date:

02/01/2012

... CPA, and lawyer, having him serve as our Vice Chair will propel our organization forward and help us effectively ... an excellent way to give back to a community that means so much to me.” Halperin heads the...

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Long Island Community Foundation

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12 Mar 2014

What Philanthropy Can Do To Help Reduce Poverty in America Today

Wednesday, March 12, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty has inspired much national soul-searching on what has been accomplished ... United States and what philanthropy can do to help address it now and into the future. Explore...

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Private Citizen Bloomberg on Philanthropy

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04/25/2014

When it comes to giving away his fortune, Michael R. Bloomberg, ... the amount of money that government spends,” he said. “ It ’s trillions of dollars. Private philanthropy can’t do ... was a hallmark of Mr...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Health

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Greer Leaving Post as President and CEO of Nathan Cummings Foundation

Release Date:

06/10/2014

... In his own email, Greer wrote: "In recent months, it became clear that my vision and the Board’s vision for ... the Foundation had diverged. Despite our agreement around much of the substance of the...

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Governance

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Bipartisan Report Warns of Extreme Threat to Economy From Global Warming

Release Date:

06/24/2014

... Entire states in the Southeast and the Corn Belt may lose much of their agriculture as farming shifts northward in a warming world. Heat and humidity will probably grow so intense that spending time outside...

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Disaster Relief

Economic Security

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Time Warner Foundation Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack

Release Date:

04/14/2015

... Announces the Retirement of Dan Osheyack Dan Osheyack will be leaving and beginning his retirement from Time Warner ... collaborations we share. As you can well imagine, it is a challenge to summarize Dan...

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Communications/Media

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Carnegie Corporation Trustee Louise Richardson Named Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford

Release Date:

05/29/2015

... first woman ever to occupy this leadership role, which she will assume on January 1, 2016. She is currently the ... during an exciting time for higher education. I am very much looking forward to working with...

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Life and Work of Robert Rauschenberg Profiled in NYTimes

Release Date:

06/04/2015

... be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)” Much of what MacLear and Snyder encounter falls into that ... sculptures and other three-dimensional works, although it was nowhere apparent which ones. On...

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The Robert Bowne Foundation Spends Down

Release Date:

01/15/2016

... Foundation, the loss of over one-third of its funds forced it to consider spending down its remaining assets. ... “The most we ever had was back in around 2000, and it was about $22 million. So when we lost so...

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Simons Foundation Study Shows New Insights on Ocean Microoganisms

Release Date:

01/26/2016

... 2016 in the journal Nature Microbiology shows that there's much less certainty about the size of these viral populations ... two senior co-authors. "Because viruses are parasites, it was assumed that...

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Lee Wasserman Fights Climate Change with Rockefeller Funds

Release Date:

04/18/2016

... oil tycoon John D. Ro ckefeller , Lee Wasserman has spent much of his time spearheading initiatives to tackle clima te ... the end of March, the $130 million fund turned heads when it announced it...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Warhol Foundation Brings "I Like the Sound of That" Exhibition to Artspace

Release Date:

04/22/2016

... to during the work’s creation. Each body of work will be paired with a soundscape specific to the studio ... unorthodox information about the artist. The soundtracks will function much like...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump

Release Date:

03/15/2017

... of the city's property is non-taxable, and the tax base is much smaller than many suburbs. The result is a serious ... for not doing enough to help local residents, and so it was big news when three major...

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Rauch Foundation Research On Government Spending & Early Childhood Published

Release Date:

07/26/2017

... at all levels in the U.S. spend more than twice as much on a per-child basis for children ages 5–17 as on ...

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

Release Date:

08/09/2017

... subdisciplines,” Sciarra added. “Her innovative spirit will help the foundation make a powerful case for the ongoing ... As Wenner-Gren marks its 75th anniversary, Rutherford will create a new strategic plan...

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