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Brooklyn Org

Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

Release Date:

09/15/2016

... wondered the following: Why didn’t my community have the resources to help people when they were in trouble? ... and law enforcement. Scaling LEAD still remains a funding issue. While Seattle was fortunate...

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Health

Justice Reform

NY Women’s Foundation Projects Precarious Situation for Young Girls Dependent on Struggling Caregivers

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12/01/2016

... to the basic guidance, support, respite and childcare resources needed to be effective nurturers and first ... support for family child care providers by increasing funding for the organizations assigned to...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Nature and NYC Communities Can Thrive Together Through These 5 Goals

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04/19/2018

... NYC2050 coalition’s capacity. The coalition needs more resources to ensure regular communication and promotion and ...

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New Humanities in Place Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $15 Million to Organizations Doing Place-Based Work

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09/30/2021

... and critical time to direct much-needed and deserved resources to shaping these landscapes and narratives to ... tossing away the history of the Black experience, and the funding from this grant allows us to...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Arts

Communications/Media

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Mellon Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announce 2022 Soros Equality Fellows

Release Date:

11/09/2022

... Fellows will be working on: multimedia educational resources on race and equity in intellectual property law, a ... property law, by developing multimedia educational resources designed to reach a range of...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Open Society Foundations

Beyond the Glass Cliff: Redefining Leadership in the Non-Profit Sector

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06/28/2024

... organization’s issues, without the necessary support or resources , and without room for error – though the risk of ... counterparts. As the sector grapples with an uncertain funding landscape, destabilization...

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Leadership Development

27 Mar 2013

Your Foundation in Crisis: Will You Be Ready?

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2:45pm to 5:00pm

While funders tend to think of our organizations as highly ethical, organizationally conservative and unlikely to face public controversy, foundation crises do frequently arise. How often do we read news about situations like these? A foundation CEO...

“The City Where America Is Going to Find Herself Again”: A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Release Date:

01/12/2011

... that don’t rely predominantly on federal and state funding . The entire past decade has been one of continual ... suggestions, including asking the audience to share their grantmaking experiences with others to...

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The Spend-Out/Perpetuity Distraction…and the Merger Option

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02/08/2010

... advice and services much deeper than consolidation of grantmaking . This includes community foundations but also ...

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Can We Still Improve Philanthropy?

Release Date:

07/17/2009

... of determining—and communicating—what really effective grantmaking is. KEEPING THE SECTOR INDEPENDENT? Many writers ... gay marriage? When the Bush Administration banned federal funding of stem cell research,...

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When It Comes to Youth Justice, a Look Abroad Could Teach Us Lessons

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05/05/2015

... cultivation of senior policy makers to their point of view . We were told there were essentially two prison reform ... at 16!). We also learned that there may be significant funding available in NYC for...

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Justice Reform

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

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05/02/2022

... over the entirety of the three-year initiative. The funding will not only strengthen organizations’ artistic ... artists, writers, and performers means granting them the resources they need to pursue their...

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Arts

Community Development

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Mellon Foundation

Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

Abigail Westbrook, Special Assistant to the Founder and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, shares the details of Atlantic’s recent support for the North Star Fund and the Alliance For A Just Rebuilding’s ongoing relief and recovery efforts in the...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Disaster Relief

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North Star Fund

Community Organizing and Advocacy Funder Collaboratives

Publication date:

07/2013

This North Star Fund report illustrates how several national and local funders have worked together to support community organizing and advocacy groups working together in coalition.

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Public Policy

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North Star Fund

Response Guide Identifies Optimal Roles For Funders Disaster Planning & Response Guide Identifies Optimal Roles For Funders

Publication date:

02/2014

The Jessie Ball duPont Fund published this guide based on its experience in working with colleagues in Alabama to recover from that state's devastating tornadoes in 2011.

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Report

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Disaster Relief

Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

Release Date:

04/14/2016

... a collaborative effort to examine how results-based funding could revolutionize America's approach to entrenched ... practical considerations of the move toward results-based funding , and includes the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ford Foundation

In Hurricanes’ Wake, Nonprofits Worry About Fundraising Impact

Release Date:

10/16/2017

Since Hurricane Harvey flooded Houston's Alley Theatre in August, fundraisers have brought in $150,000 for a fund to aid its employees, $175,000 for cleanup and repairs, and $150,000 in unrestricted money.

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