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Is Nonprofit Board Service Worth It? Reflections from a One-Time Skeptic

Release Date:

01/16/2014

... not surprised to be showered with flattery and pursued by people who hoped I might just write a check to support their ... down. I realized that there were probably only a couple people in the world who had my...

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Surdna Foundation

Wallace Foundation: New Report Sheds Light on How Effective Nonprofits Expand Their Reach Through Partnerships

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... Through Partnerships While nonprofits see growing interest among private foundations and government agencies in scaling ... through partnerships, and it finds some common patterns among them. The selected...

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For Noyes Foundation, Fixing Food Means Racial and Economic Justice

Release Date:

11/09/2016

... a way for us to build structural equity, because there are people of color and low-income people throughout the United States that are organizing and ...

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Food Systems

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

15 Nov 2016

Rise Above the Noise: Using Internal Communications to Move Stakeholders Beyond Engagement Into Action

Tuesday, November 15, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... connect employees to a corporate vision and goals. Recent research shows nearly 80 percent of people prefer to work for a socially responsible company so ... communication tools, stakeholder engagement...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Selects Genaro Lopez-Rendon as Next President

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... fought for a better world, but now as a new father of two young daughters, I see the world through their eyes and my ... our efforts to catalyze philanthropy to build the power of people directly impacted so...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

10 Nov 2015

Justice Reform: The End of Mass Incarceration

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 -

8:30am to 12:00pm

... this session? View recording here . With 2.3 million people currently behind bars in the United States - and an ... means for advocates working on these issues. How personal knowledge of the criminal justice...

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Children, Youth and Families

Justice Reform

Social Justice

New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump's DACA Decision

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... Trump may soon announce the end to protections for 800,000 young immigrants in the United States. Organizers say the ... phase out a program that gave hundreds of thousands of young people a...

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Immigration

Gates Foundation Names Robert Hughes as New K-12 Strategy Director

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... the very core of his work to improve opportunity for all young people . With a relentless drive and refreshing humility, he ...

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Education

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Rita Allen Foundation Announces 2015 Scholars

Release Date:

07/09/2015

... honoring seven early-career biomedical scientists whose research holds exceptional promise for advancing the frontiers of knowledge about how biological systems function in health and ... per year for a...

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Rita Allen Foundation

Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

Release Date:

05/04/2016

... global impact and actually challenge entrenched systems of inequality . Too many similar scholarship programs launched in ... despite their best intentions, end up perpetuating inequality and an increasingly...

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Education

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Ford Foundation

Philanthropy New York Elects New Board Members and Announces 2019 -2020 Executive Committee

Release Date:

06/05/2019

... as diverse as budgeting, accounting, investments, human resources , facilities, and information technology. Neill ... at Trinity Church Wall Street, leading the Grants Mission Investing team. Trinity is a...

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PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Philanthropy New York

John E. Craig, Jr. to Step Down as Chair of NPCC Board

Release Date:

10/13/2014

... and on the investment committee of the Social Sciences Research Council. He is a founding board member and secretary ...

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Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of NY

Ford Foundation Launches Effort To Diversify Art Museum Leadership

Release Date:

11/29/2017

... 16 percent of art museum leadership positions were held by people of color, despite the fact that 38 percent of ...

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

Community-Based Organizations Across The U.S. Receive $10 Million Through The Citi Foundation And LISC

Release Date:

02/20/2019

... the 40 community-based organizations that will receive funding and technical support through the Bridges to Career ... courses (to strengthen math and reading skills), and resources to help job seekers secure...

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Community Development

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Citi Foundation

Girl Scouts Accuse Boy Scouts of Recruiting Girls, Souring Century-Old Friendship

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... the time of World War I, two organizations set out to mold young Americans into resourceful and virtuous future leaders, ... There was one major difference: The Boy Scouts admitted young men, and the Girl...

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Gender Justice

14 Apr 2015

Philanthropy in Nations with Weak Civic Infrastructures: Exploring the Challenges

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... environment to flourish. Foundation staff considering funding to improve civil society in other nations need to ... consider how to factor context into grantmaking, so your resources are invested in ways that...

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Issue-Based

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Panel

Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Funding Area

International/Foreign Affairs

Location

New York State

Don't Overthink It

Release Date:

04/30/2019

... rather than placing bandages. And detailed analysis and research have their place in evaluating grant requests both ... course, federal workers were not the only ones affected. People who depend on federal...

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Insights

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Disabilities

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Workforce Development

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Simons Foundation Continues Quest to Understand and Treat Autism on Both Ends of the Spectrum

Release Date:

07/19/2016

... autism in the U.S., the Simons Foundation Powering Autism Research for Knowledge (SPARK). The goal is to gather DNA samples from ...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

Editorial: A Promising Idea To Fight Opioids

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... Park site in Calverton, would combine world-class research with clinical care such that every patient who comes to Peconic Care for rehabilitation will help add knowledge in this vital field of how the brain...

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UJA-Federation of New York Named an Official Charity Partner of the 2017 TCS New York City Marathon

Release Date:

03/13/2017

... has distributed more than $3.8 billion to help people around the world. The UJA annual campaign remains the ... address issues that matter most to them, pooling their resources to care for Jews everywhere and...

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Member News

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UJA-Federation of New York

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