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09 Oct 2012

Service for Impact Working Group Breakfast

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

9:00am to 10:30pm

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

... this current economic climate. A well-designed volunteer program can increase nonprofit productivity and effectiveness ... “Reimagining Service and Cities of Service: A Funder’ s Guide to Driving Change...

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Laura Packer Named Executive Director of Howard Gilman Foundation

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07/07/2014

... Gilman Foundation, effective July 22. She had been Arts Program Director for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. ... Before joining the Dodge staff in 2001, she was the New Jersey Theatre Alliance’ s...

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Pennsylvania College Consortium Created With $800,000 From Mellon Foundation

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07/03/2014

... $800,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a new consortium designed to help them save money and improve ...

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... organizations to prepare future principals for the city' s schools. Among the stipulations of the foundation' s grant: a significant number of graduates from the city' s .....

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Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration's Brain Initiative

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10/01/2014

Simons Foundation Joins Obama Administration' s Brain Initiative The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, ... Foundation,...

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Wallace Foundation Announces $40 Million Initiative to Help Build Audiences in the Arts

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10/02/2014

... to build audiences through a variety of ways, including new programs as well as nontraditional venues. The ...

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From Poverty to Giving Away Millions: Darren Walker Shares His American Dream

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11/11/2014

... changed in 1965, when his mother, Beulah Spencer, a nurse' s aide, enrolled the 5-year-old in a new educational program called Head Start, which gave him "a window into a .....

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Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

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03/16/2015

... with LaGuardia for five years through the company’ s 10,000 Small Businesses initiative, a program offering management education and support services to new and aspiring entrepreneurs. The...

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Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising

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03/20/2015

... Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising A new study by Philly Political Media Watch finds that during ...

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Johnson & Johnson Makes $30 Million Commitment to USAID to Fight Tuberculosis

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04/01/2015

... FDA approval in 2012 under its accelerated approval program . Bedaquiline was among the first new classes of antibiotics approved by the FDA in close to ... five decades. USAID is hoping that Johnson &...

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Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards Provide Financial Literacy Workshops to Individual Artists

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04/08/2016

... elation. The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation created a new grant program — the Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards — that integrates Creative Capital’ s financial planning curriculum into...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... some help from the nonprofit sector. Today, Project New Opportunity was announced by an organization called the ... with funding from the Open Society Foundations. The program is aimed at assisting a few of...

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Tow Foundation, Columbia University Arts Announce Winners of Play Reading Series

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05/19/2016

... the Arts have announced the winners of Columbia@Roundabout' s New Play Reading Series. As part of the previously announced ... series awards three playwrights from the current MFA program...

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Century Foundation Report Criticizes Student Loan Guaranty Agencies

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09/29/2016

... Agencies When the federal government stopped guaranteeing new bank-based student loans on June 30, 2010, it left behind ... challenge, and now that the Guaranteed Student Loan (GSL) program that they were...

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Macquarie Announces $100,000 Social Innovation Award Recipient

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08/11/2017

... Award. The biennial Award recognises, promotes and rewards new ideas that work to meet pressing community social needs, ... use the $100,000 Award to fund its 'Remarkable Accelerator Program ', which...

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Community Development Lenders Go Where Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash

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10/06/2017

... Amazon Goes When It Needs Cash Nonprofit lenders in the U. S . with a mission to make capital meet the needs of poor ... Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund runs a program that prepares community...

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Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State

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10/12/2018

Markle Foundation Selects Indiana as Next Skillful State A new organization aims to help Hoosier employers recognize the ... Indiana, which launched Thursday, is based on a Colorado program that successfully has...

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23 Mar 2015

Holistic Monitoring and Evaluation for Peace and Security Work - Webinar

Monday, March 23, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In this webinar, we will explore how to use holistic–mixed-methods and gender-sensitive–monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to better understand the impact of programs, organizations and thematic grant giving.

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Oct 22 White House Conference on Criminal Justice Reform with Funders to be Live-Streamed

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10/22/2015

... The focus of the discussion will be how to make America’ s law enforcement, courts and correctional practices more ... who are doing their part to fix our criminal justice system ." His itinerary will...

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Why Oklahoma has the Highest Female Incarceration Rate in the Country

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10/06/2017

... are some of the top reasons women enter the state' s criminal justice system . And, they're staying longer. Stephens County, a ... over the last seven years. That' s due, in...

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