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Unlocking the Power of Co-Leadership: A Candid Conversation with Rebecca Tye and Camaro West, Co-Executive Directors of Peace is Loud

Release Date:

10/12/2023

... that showed us how being vocal about our insecurities could strengthen our working relationship. After reading it ...

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Insights

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Leadership Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

16 Sep 2015

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Industry Partnerships - Current and Future Strategies

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

New York City has made significant progress in the past ten years in developing a more employer-driven workforce system. The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the Workforce Funders have partnered on a number of sector-...

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Panel

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Workforce Development

Julia Metro Joins Brooklyn Community Foundation as Development and Marketing Associate

Release Date:

12/03/2012

Julia Metro joined the Brooklyn Community Foundation in November of 2012. Previously, she coordinated development and fundraising efforts for Friends of Materials for the Arts, the nonprofit partner of Materials for the Arts, NYC Department of...

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Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires

Release Date:

06/04/2014

[The Rockefeller Foundation] Foundations just make grants, correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector.

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Impact Investing

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Nick Hodges Named COO and Senior Vice President For Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Release Date:

07/09/2014

Nick Hodges has been named chief operating officer and senior vice president for Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

12 Mar 2015

Difret - Film Screening

Thursday, March 12, 2015 -

5:00pm to 9:00pm

In "Difret," a 14-year-old Ethiopian girl is abducted by a group of men in an attempt to force her into marriage, one of the country's oldest traditions.

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Film Screening

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All Funders

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International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

Gender Justice

Children, Youth and Families

The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grants $2 Million in Core Operating Support to Nine National Arts Organizations

Release Date:

09/23/2015

... relationship with the foundation and whose applications could clarify their multi-year organizational objectives, a ... them and benchmarks against which progress toward them could be measured.... The Doris ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

Release Date:

02/19/2016

... all the hype surrounding it these days, impact investing could easily be considered the magic remedy for international ... in the developing world - a gap that impact investing could help fill. . . Impact...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Foundation

City Comptroller Scott Stringer Wants Companies to Offer Retirement Plans

Release Date:

10/07/2016

... to offer their workers a retirement plan, a move that could provide more savings options for 1.5 million people. ... for Mr. Stringer’s office. New York City businesses could meet the proposed requirement by...

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Economic Security

Commonwealth Fund Report: The United States Health System Falls Short

Release Date:

07/17/2017

... care systems to respond. Timely and accessible health care could mitigate many of these challenges, but the U.S. health ... failing to deliver indicated services reliably to all who could benefit. In...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

CareConnect Pulling Out Of New York Insurance Market

Release Date:

08/28/2017

... was the risk adjustment program, a millstone CareConnect could never quite shake, which, despite state and federal ... the program, continued to cost the company more than it could afford. . . CareConnect...

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Health

Twenty Years After Suffragists Statue Victory, The Quest Continues For A National Women's History Museum

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... the excuses given for why a statue of three suffragettes could not be moved into the Capitol Rotunda, Joan Wages ... forward was halted by another objection: The Rotunda could not support the 13-ton statue. It...

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Gender Justice

Commonwealth Fund Survey Reveals Just How Little Access to Healthcare Americans over 65 Have

Release Date:

12/11/2017

... diabetes, hypertension — which aren’t curable but could have been headed off had people gotten better care ... like Medicare. So at the very least, perhaps Medicare could be adjusted to fit better with the...

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Member News

Funding Area

Aging

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

New Grant from Mellon Foundation Launches Boston Classical Music Initiative

Release Date:

09/27/2018

... And working together, she explained, the consortium could have a larger impact and serve more students than each organization could individually. New Grant from Mellon Foundation Launches ...

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Member News

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York of New York Helps Support Fellowship Program Providing Post-Harvey Legal Aid

Release Date:

11/20/2018

... will help directly with immigration legal issues. “That could be anything from citizenship to a green card renewal, ... member so they want to do a family petition and that could also include legal defense in...

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Member News

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Disaster Relief

Immigration

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Research Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Offers New, Solar-Powered Technology that Collects and Cleans Water from Air

Release Date:

03/18/2019

... in a recent issue of the journal Advanced Materials, could be used in disaster situations, water crises or ... of water contained in the atmosphere, this new system could tap into those reserves and...

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

How Groundswell is adapting to the COVID-19 crisis

Release Date:

03/30/2020

... mindset can take us through the COVID-19 crisis and could guide our way through the even larger crisis of climate ... in this moment, we have decided to: Dramatically increase resources and capacity building...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Health

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Groundswell Fund

Centro de Economía Creativa and Mellon Foundation Announce "Maniobra" in Puerto Rico

Release Date:

05/02/2022

... financial stability, but will also serve as a pilot that could be expanded in the future and has the potential of ... artists, writers, and performers means granting them the resources they need to pursue...