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Gates Commits $20 Million to Women's Groups

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09/21/2017

Gates Commits $20 Million to Women' s Groups The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will give $20 ... million during the next three years to strengthen women’ s groups worldwide, Ms. Gates said Wednesday...

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Four Communities Are to Receive Smart Growth Funds, Cuomo Announces

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10/05/2017

... was one of the recipients of four grants from the state' s Smart Growth Community Funds. The grants go for projects .....

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Community Development

Rockefeller Focuses on Skills Gap in India

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12/08/2017

... attacks the root causes of unemployability among India’ s youth and the team has an impressive track record in equipping and supporting the underprivileged youth in hard as well as soft ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and others Redefine Arts Funding

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05/18/2018

... speaking, embracing the view that the arts should be a means for positive social change is easy enough. The ... tolerance? How does proposed programming—to use Barr’ s definition of "relevance"—...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

20 Oct 2023

Funders Working Group for New York’s Newcomers

Friday, October 20, 2023 - 3:30pm

... on a weekly or bi-weekly basis as long as members find it useful . How do you sign up? 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM Program To ... York Community Trust Funders Working Group for New York’ s Newcomers ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Immigration

Elliot Berger joins Arabella Advisors

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05/01/2013

... as a Managing Director based in New York, NY. “Elliot’ s deep experience in philanthropy and his skills in ... suited to help our clients maximize the impact of their resources ,” said Bruce Boyd, Principal and...

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Arabella Advisors

07 Jul 2015

Foundation Administrators Network Brown Bag Lunch: Meet Our New FAN Members!

Tuesday, July 7, 2015 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... are forums for small, informal group discussions that can be shaped by current issues on members’ minds and desks. ... FAN—and FAN veterans can share more about the network’ s innumerable benefits. This brown...

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All Funders

HR & Operations Staff

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Novo Foundation's Peter Buffett On The Power—And Limits—Of Art And Money

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02/13/2017

Novo Foundation' s Peter Buffett On The Power—And Limits—Of Art And Money ... has spent a lifetime with access to nearly limitless resources , though due to his father’ s predilection for...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Whiting Foundation Announces 2019 Literary Magazine Prizes

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07/18/2019

... foundation also revealed that the caliber of this year’ s entries inspired the judges, who served anonymously, to ... the idea of place. The judges commented: “The Common’ s exemplary resources...

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Whiting Foundation

14 Jun 2018

Policy Core Course 2018 - June 14th Sessions

Thursday, June 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:45pm

... requirements. Back by popular demand, this year’ s redesigned course consolidates much of the policy-focused ... JUNE 14 TH – The sessions from this half-day will guide participants in how to use advocacy as a...

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Social Justice

The Carnegie Compact Revisited: Re-envisioning New York City’s Branch Libraries

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11/26/2014

... in motion the modern incarnation of New York City’ s neighborhood libraries. Carnegie agreed to provide the ... most important resource for lifelong and non-institutional learning —whether it is English-...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Can Conversational Leadership Shift an Entire System?

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07/28/2022

... as a means by which a trusting environment could be created. I’ll add that when I was introduced to the ... How willing were you to listen to the other person’ s point of view? How easy was it for you to share...

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Lessons on Movement Building

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06/27/2018

... timely panel discussion at Philanthropy New York’ s 39 th Annual Meeting, “Organizing is Everything: Race, ... panel probably didn’t realize just how timely it would be . The week of the meeting, the crisis of...

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Immigration

“Poor” is Washington’s Four Letter Word

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01/21/2015

... Policy Edition. I listened to President Obama’ s State of the Union address last night intending to write ... proposed $3,000 per year childcare tax cut. To be clear, many of the proposals put forth by the...

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Novo and Surdna Foundations Key Backers in Push to Build Community Wealth

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04/04/2018

... the most attention, growing philanthropic wealth can be found almost everywhere. Just this week, for example, the ... five years ago. In turn, as we often report, there' s a lot of local giving action...

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NoVo Foundation

Surdna Foundation

17 Oct 2018

A New Paradigm for Justice: Centering Women and Families

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

While there has been much activity throughout the U. S . and in New York City on criminal justice reform in recent ... government, private sector, and academia – to leverage resources towards common goals and at...

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Gender Justice

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Widespread Empathy: 5 Steps to Achieving Greater Impact in Philanthropy

Publication date:

09/2010

This guide builds on GEO’ s stakeholder engagement work to look ...

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Report

Chapter 2: Foundation Governance and Legal Issues

Take a dive into what is a 501(c)3. Identify to whom philanthropy is accountable, understand foundation board responsibilities, and review key legal and ethical issues in grantmaking through scenarios and guiding principles.

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Citi Backs Program to Create 5,000 Women Entrepreneurs from Low-Income Neighborhoods

Release Date:

03/16/2015

... pro-bono legal assistance, and navigating government resources —for aspiring entrepreneurs. The program is a collaboration between the city’ s Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and Citi, which .....