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13 Feb 2018

Learning from the #MeToo Moment: Building an Anti-Harassment Practice in Your Foundation

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

If 98 percent of organizations in the United States have a harassment and discrimination policy, why does sexual harassment and discrimination continue to be such a persistent and devastating problem in the American workplace?

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Professional Development

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HR & Operations

13 Apr 2023

Employee Ownership Strategies for Economic Resilience and Equity: Pathways for Philanthropy - A Webinar Hosted by AFN

Thursday, April 13, 2023 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... Employee ownership is a powerful tool for resilience. It is gaining momentum as a catalyst for better jobs and ... a force for equity, and recent innovations in the field, it is beginning to realize its...

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Issue-Based

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Finance & Asset Management

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Mellon Foundation Announces Imagining Freedom, An Arts & Humanities Initiative Supporting Creatives and Thinkers Reenvisioning the Criminal Legal System

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02/15/2023

... and its effects, catalyzing us to address the damage it causes, and envisioning and enacting just responses to ... and the captivity of its most vulnerable populations. It is an honor to be among the grantees...

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Social Justice

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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

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03/10/2014

... Brooklyn, was intended to grow in influence and size when it transitioned from the private Independence Community ...

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Brooklyn Org

The Wall Street Journal

Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

... of checks and often take a deep and long-term view of what it means to invest in solving global and/or local problems. ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Voices Of Brooklyn Communities Helping Refine Foundation's New Strategy

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07/02/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation, which already gets high marks for putting residents' voices at the forefront of its work, is taking that commitment to a new level.

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Brooklyn Org

Bloggers Falsely Accuse JPMorgan Chase of Employee "LGBT Loyalty Test"

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07/07/2014

JPMorgan Chase appears to be the victim of right wing bloggers who have been making erroneous posts alleging the bank requires its employees to take an "LGBT loyalty" test.

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LGBTQ

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bloomberg Philanthropies' Global "To Do" List Has Familiar Look

Release Date:

08/23/2014

As mayor, Michael Bloomberg fought against smoking and sugary drinks in NYC and now--as a philanthropist--he's taking those fights, along with other efforts to save and improve lives, to cities and countries around the world.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, plans to refocus grant distribution to sectors the foundation is not currently funding, but has supported in the past.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Social Justice

Do Health Care Costs Fuel Economic Inequality in the United States?

Release Date:

09/09/2014

... gap between America’s rich and the rest? The evidence, it turns out, is suggestive, but not definitive. From the ...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Improving Health Care Is Billionaire Peterson’s Next Mission

Release Date:

11/24/2014

Peterson Center on Healthcare will be an offshoot of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Health

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ASPCA Responds to Tyson's Move to Ban Antibiotic Use in Chickens

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04/29/2015

ASPCA asserts that companies also need to give chickens more room and improve sanitation protocols.

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Animal Welfare

Food Systems

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ASPCA

Ford Shifts Grant Making to Focus Entirely on Inequality

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06/12/2015

... financial, racial, gender, and other inequities, but it will give lots more money in a way grantees have been clamoring for: It hopes to double the total it gives in the form of unrestricted...

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Ford Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

Release Date:

06/29/2015

Three nonprofit organizations were selected to take advantage of one year of free co-working space and a $5,000 stipend for start-up costs.

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Workforce Development

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Brooklyn Org

The Mellon Foundation Backs Bard's Innovative Masters Program in Orchestral Performace Studies

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08/14/2015

Bard College has been awarded a $2 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the launch of an innovative Master of Music Degree Program.

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... principals for public schools. According to the report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state policy ...

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Mellon, Ford and NYCT Support WNYC Series on Gentrification

Release Date:

03/03/2016

... Series on Gentrification There Goes the Neighborhood takes an in-depth look at gentrification in Brooklyn and the ... in the process. But to many tenants and homeowners, it feels like a violent shove out of...

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Communications/Media

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The New York Community Trust

Ford Foundation

Rauschenberg Fee Dispute Goes to Florida Supreme Court

Release Date:

03/23/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is asking the Florida state Supreme Court to take up a dispute about $24.6 million in fees awarded to trustees who managed the assets of artist Robert Rauschenberg after he died in 2008.

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

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Mellon Grant Aims to Raise $75 Million for National Gallery

Release Date:

03/18/2016

The National Gallery of Art announced a $30 million challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Thursday that could bring the Smithsonian museum two and a half times the pledged amount, reports The Washington Post.

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