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Heckscher Foundation for Children Announces their Newest Leadership Fellow

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09/27/2022

... youth from realizing their full potential and the key junctures where the foundation’s grantmaking might ... National Science Foundation grants, including ones to strengthen the many STEM enrichment programs...

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27 Jun 2025

Navigating Headwinds: Lessons in Leadership, Capacity, and Allyship

Friday, June 27, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

Virtual Meeting - Register by 6/26

... practical strategies for funders and nonprofit leaders to strengthen collaboration. By reflecting on past leadership ... operations, and most importantly, our communities. Key strategies for funders to stand...

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For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together

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05/30/2017

Surdna Foundation President Phil Henderson says recognizing the importance of non-family members is one of several important practices of effective family foundation boards.

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Changing The Conversation Around Mergers and Collaborations

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06/13/2018

... mergers and collaborations from being an unnatural act undertaken out of desperation or funder coercion into a ...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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A Big Move to Build Our Community

... “serve as a connector of people, institutions, ideas and resources , as well as a catalyst for advocacy and action for ...

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Bard-Brooklyn Public Library College Degree Program

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10/30/2019

... ethos.” Together, BPL and Bard provide critical resources for classroom success including dedicated ...

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Mellon Foundation

Leadership Development

... intensive training for grantmakers, and investing resources in a diverse next generation of philanthropic ... to help foundation leaders gain the core tools and resources to work towards racial equity in both...

How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

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09/28/2011

... cope with this new reality, I would like to amplify four key needs identified in the survey findings: More general ... operating support. In a time of seriously constrained resources , our grantees need as much...

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At Rockefeller Forum, Companies Commit to Simplify Food Date Labels Worldwide by 2020, Reducing Food Waste

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09/21/2017

... food waste, save their families money, and conserve resources to protect our planet." "Walmart has worked with ... are measuring and reporting food loss and waste, a key step to identifying hotspots...

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Food Systems

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Time To Revisit Reporting

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10/04/2017

... benefit from capacity support, field connections, or other resources that the funder could offer. Grantmaker learning to ... requirements necessarily eat into our grantees’ finite resources , Project Streamline...

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Retaining and Sustaining Leaders in the Social Sector

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01/30/2025

... leaders have an abundance of ideas about the solutions, resources , and support they need to address the challenges ... addressing this issue and driving positive change in two key ways: Funding Research The...

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Capacity Building Begins At Home

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06/04/2009

... we should ask is “what is the best use of foundation resources ?” The whole independent sector would be better served if foundations invested resources more wisely in their own capacity to do a more ... and...

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42nd Annual Meeting Recap - Looking Back, Moving Forward

... organizational change Angela Park highlighted the key components of organizational work to transform ... Angela Park shared Embedding Justice and Equity Key Components of O rganizational Work and .....

Happy Holidays from Philanthropy New York: Our 2024 Year in Review

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12/19/2024

... Together, we’ve expanded our tools and strategies to strengthen our sector and the communities we serve. Along the ... attended FOTH to advocate for federal partners to allocate resources addressing urgent...

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PNY News

15 May 2025

Philanthropy New York's 46th Annual Meeting: Philanthropy For Our Time

Thursday, May 15, 2025 -

1:00pm to 6:00pm

... purpose, when they deliberate together, and when they act together, even when the future seems unknowable and the ... foundations must be prepared to navigate risk in order to act with courage. Led by...

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The Secret to More Effective Philanthropy: Funding the Unknown

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03/28/2013

... weren’t taken in isolation—they arose from the simple act of people talking and imagining potential solutions ...

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Doris Duke Grant Makes Community-Centered Production of 'Dreamgirls' Possible

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08/02/2016

This project – as part of a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Grant – was intended to mostly involve non-professional community members.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

State’s Delay on Final Sea-Level Rise Projections Chided

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11/11/2016

... State Legislature passed the Community Risk and Resiliency Act to ensure projects seeking state money and permits ...

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Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying

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08/29/2017

India has been investigating how Bloomberg Philanthropies, founded by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, funds local non-profit groups for anti-tobacco lobbying, government documents show, making it the latest foreign non-government organization to come...

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