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15 Jun 2017

Trauma and Resilience Supporting Immigrant Children, Their Families, and Our Communities through Collaboration - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, June 15, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:15pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), ... Somers Landsberger (Moderator), Director of Programs, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees...

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21 Mar 2019

Asylum Under Attack: The Dismantling of the System and What Philanthropy Can Do - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, March 21, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

*This program is hosted by our partner, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (GCIR), ... erode protections for them. In response to these attacks, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees (...

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Justine Koch Joins Leon Levy Foundation

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05/01/2013

The Leon Levy Foundation has appointed Justine Koch as its new Controller.

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Kresge Foundation, NCB Capital Impact Launch $30 Million Detroit Revitalization Fund

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09/18/2013

With support from MetLife and the Max M. & Marjorie S. Fisher Foundation, among others, the fund will provide long-term fixed-rate loans to mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented projects that promote density, diversity, vibrancy and...

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Goldman Sachs Brings 10,000 Small Businesses Initiative to Detroit

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12/01/2013

PND reported that Goldman Sachs has launched its 10,000 Small Businesses initiative in Detroit.

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Community Development

Rockefeller Foundation President Profiled in BusinessWeek

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10/03/2014

... its own money, it’s focusing on what it calls “impact investing ”—highly targeted spending that opens the ...

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A Great Wall of Funding? American Philanthropy and the Rise of China

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11/11/2014

... think that U.S. foundations and philanthropists would be investing heavily in work that aims to ensure the best ... in some way over the past decade. But funders are not investing as heavily in China as you...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

Together with the City of Newark and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), the $30 million project will redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ

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JP Morgan, Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer Lead the Charge to Develop Dementia Treatment

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03/18/2015

The foundations have joined the $100 million Dementia Discovery Fund.

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Names the 2015 Doris Duke Artists

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04/02/2015

The foundation will have awarded $22 million among 80 Doris Duke Artists since the awards program’s inception.

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Why Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access?

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07/02/2015

... Should Climate Philanthropy Care About Energy Access? Investing in clean energy access provides a disruptive ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funding Spurs Federal Synthetic Biology Research

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09/17/2015

... research in synthetic biology, with less than 1 percent of total federal funding going to risk research. ...

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NY Women’s Foundation President and City Council Speaker Announce $20M More for Young Women’s Initiative

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05/16/2016

... announced a lasting blueprint for moving policies and investing in the future of young women and girls in New York ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints John Irons as Director of Inclusive Economies

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05/19/2016

... of work: 'Quality Work and Economic Security' and 'Impact Investing .' As director, he will advance Ford's work in .....

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U.S. Trust Annual Survey Finds Entrepreneurs Choose The Career Path Of Most Resistance

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05/31/2016

While there are distinct differences between younger and older owners, entrepreneurs of all ages share a strong desire to control their own destiny.

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Economic Security

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... backers. The investment will help finance as much as $ 1 .9 billion for green energy on the continent... Rockefeller ...

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

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09/2016

For foundations, there are lots of questions to reflect on when thinking about which evaluation practices best align with their strategy, culture, and mission. How much should a foundation invest in evaluation? What can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they share what they have learned

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Funded by Soros and Mastercard, New Human Ventures Project Seeks to Help Refugees

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02/01/2017

With the United States moving to ban refugees from around the world, efforts to help these people where they are will now become even more important. No philanthropist is doing more on this front than George Soros.

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation’s Nurse Family Partnership Endorsed as Positively Impacting Children

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07/25/2017

The Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program, which provides services to new mothers from pregnancy through the child’s second birthday, positively impacts children up through the age of 12 but affects male and female children differently, according...

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Overbrook Foundation: A Small Family Funder Trying to Cure What Ails Environmentalism

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08/01/2017

... program. Or Heron’s unparalleled commitment to impact investing . Or Wallace Global Fund’s incubation of the ...

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