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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

Release Date:

06/25/2014

... are the last place to go with a bold and risky idea. What ’s behind this disconnect? Foundations are in part ... our faces when we suggested that to be the case. Based on what seemed to be bitter experience,...

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Arcus Foundation

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore

Release Date:

05/11/2015

The grant is part of the $1.5 million Summer Youth Initiative in partnership with the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Family League of Baltimore.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

Release Date:

07/06/2015

... funding to finance public services — the Adolescent Behavioral Learning Experience was launched in 2012 and ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Goldman Sachs

Ford, Atlantic Philanthropies Bring U.C.L.A. Center on Police-Community Ties to John Jay College

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03/22/2016

A national research center focused on interactions between the police and the communities they serve will open this summer at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, with the college’s first endowed professor as its director.

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Justice Reform

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Russell Sage Report Finds Non-Citizen Latinos Politically Engaged

Release Date:

06/28/2016

Non-citizen Latino immigrants may not be able to vote, but they could still help decide the outcome of the upcoming presidential election.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

A lack of concrete information about student misconduct—and how to address it—may be hindering efforts to make campuses safer.

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Education

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Brooklyn Org

Scientists Supported by Simons Foundation Determine How Birds Soar to Great Heights

Release Date:

08/12/2016

Migratory birds often use warm, rising atmospheric currents to gain height with little energy expenditure when flying over long distances.

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Simons Foundation

Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

Release Date:

09/02/2016

... author Sara Webb, UW Medicine researcher in psychiatry and behavioral sciences. “Where does this disorder develop ...

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Health

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Rockefeller Foundation Gives $150K to Leading Disaster Relief Organization

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11/23/2016

All Hands Volunteers, the leading disaster relief organization powered by volunteers, has been awarded a grant of $150,000 by the prestigious Rockefeller Foundation to establish a Global Rapid Response Fund.

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How To Balance Policies And Guidelines To Prompt Different Levels Of Employee Engagement

Release Date:

08/30/2017

Most see policies and guidelines as bureaucratic inhibitors and constraints. However, used the right way, those same policies and guidelines free people to do their jobs by directing focus. They key is applying the right degrees of freedom to prompt...

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William T. Grant Foundation Focuses on Inequality Research

Release Date:

05/04/2018

... the potential to reduce inequality in academic, social, behavioral , and economic outcomes. To improve the use of ...

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Economic Security

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27 Nov 2018

Achieving Equity: Do We Know Who We’re Serving?

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... ask in collaboration with grantseekers and grantees: what demographic data should be collected; how should it be ...

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17 Jun 2020

Support, Sustainability, and Succession - A Conversation on Supporting Leadership Transitions

Wednesday, June 17, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... with Hez Norton, who led transition work at TSNEMission Works and is the current Interim Executive Director at the ... or hinder successful nonprofit leadership transitions What are the elements of a “healthy...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Social Justice

22 Sep 2020

Real Talk: Are CSR Teams Advancing Racial Equity and Justice?

Tuesday, September 22, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... Founder, CGR Consulting Designed for Corporate Funders. What to expect: presentation followed by Q&A. Registration ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Carl F. Nathan Joins Rita Allen Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

02/06/2023

... a group that is committed to helping citizens appreciate what science is and isn’t and how it can be a force for ...

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Rita Allen Foundation

Pamela Shifman, Executive Director of the NoVo Foundation, to Step Down at the End of 2019

Release Date:

11/07/2019

... sector: she led efforts to create more and better resources for girls’ and women’s rights work by creating ...

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NoVo Foundation

Beyond Divestment: Decarbonizing Our Investment Portfolio - New Report from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

02/02/2023

... weather-related migration and competition for natural resources . The 2023-24 budget approved under this plan ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Promotes David Gilmore to Role of Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Release Date:

01/06/2021

Since joining the Foundation in 2014, Mr. Gilmore has served as Managing Director of Investments.

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These Leaders Are Rallying to Stop New NY Taxes on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits

Release Date:

08/22/2018

... Business Income Tax, how it will cost nonprofits and what ’s being done about it in Washington. But the action happening here in New York is what ’s most exciting now . Our local nonprofit leaders have ... The...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Philanthropy New York

E-Learning: Philanthropy Fundamentals

Philanthropy Fundamentals is an on-demand, online course for staff in the philanthropic sector.

... staff who want to deepen their knowledge of the sector. What : Philanthropy Fundamentals includes a series of short ... Explore a broad overview of the philanthropic sector. What motivates philanthropies to...

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