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Philanthropy Must Lead With Its Heart

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02/19/2015

by Jennifer and Peter Buffett, Co-Presidents, The NoVo Foundation This post originally appeared in the Chronicle ... and at nearly the same time, to become stewards of a large foundation we’ve called the NoVo...

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07 May 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 7, 2015 -

5:00pm to 8:30pm

In the 1960' s , ready or not, change was coming to America. A new ... In Collaboration with Part of Philanthropy New York' s Documentary Film Series . The Black Panthers: Vanguard .....

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Social Justice

03 Jun 2015

NYC Early Childhood Mapping Convening

Wednesday, June 3, 2015 -

9:00am to 4:00pm

... the systems that support them. Join us for a convening of foundation representatives and City officials to identify ... interventions. To ensure that your organization’ s current investments, priorities, and...

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Human Services

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New York City

10 Dec 2015

Crisis Communications: How to Think, Advise and Respond During Tough Situations

Thursday, December 10, 2015 -

8:45am to 10:30am

Is your foundation ready for the next big media crisis? The one issue ... that might cause the most damage to your organization’ s reputation. How can we prepare and anticipate the next ...

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Critics of Health Insurer Mergers Urge States to Act; Commonwealth Fund Quoted

Release Date:

12/03/2015

... in Pennsylvania that was blocked in 2009 by that state' s former insurance commissioner, Joel Ario. Eric ... withdrawal of Boston hospital company Partners HealthCare' s plan to acquire South Shore...

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Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... Washington wonk career path. After earning a master’ s in public policy from Georgetown and a Ph.D. in political ... full-time and got a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation . In 2010 he launched...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

... Living, and Rehabilitation Research, the Verizon Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. . . Verizon ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Appointments & Transitions

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Verizon

Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

Release Date:

12/14/2015

... Officer and he joins Andrus from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ’ s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. ... social issues including for young men of color. Erik' s...

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

Release Date:

02/03/2016

... of researchers who generated stem cells from a patient' s skin cells and then repaired the damaged gene, RPGR, using ... the corrected tissue had been derived from the patient’ s own cells, it could...

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Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes

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03/16/2016

Carnegie Prize Honoring Genocide’ s Unsung Heroes Profiled in NYTimes They are four ... the only doctor for half a million people in Sudan’ s Nuba Mountains; a Pakistani advocate for indentured ... of the Carnegie...

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29 Sep 2016

501(c)4s - Increasing Your Impact with Creative Grantmaking

Thursday, September 29, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Strategic philanthropy is increasingly requiring advocacy and creative collaboration to achieve its goals. Funders, investors, and social entrepreneurs are eager to go beyond traditional grantmaking to employ innovative approaches to achieving...

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Surdna’s Garcia Interviewed in Philanthropy News Digest

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05/12/2016

Surdna’ s Garcia Interviewed in Philanthropy News Digest You don't ... scientist to tell you something is amiss in America. It' s there, lurking, in the presidential primary campaigns of ... Local...

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New York Life Donates $100,000 to Flood Relief Efforts in Louisiana

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08/25/2016

... American Red Cross, a $25,000 donation to Baton Rouge Area Foundation Flood Relief Fund and $25,000 to the Greater Baton ...

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Disaster Relief

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Ford's Darren Walker Writes, "Let America Be America Again"

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01/06/2017

... Be America Again by Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation . Let America be America again. Let it be the ... recent weeks, I’ve found myself ruminating on Hughes’ s Let America Be America Again,...

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Bloomberg Fact Checks NYTimes on Climate Change

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03/20/2017

... “ Trump Using Detroit as Stage for Loosening Obama’ s Fuel Economy Standards ” ( nytimes.com , March 15) ... it impossible for the United States to meet Mr. Obama’ s commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement...

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Two Weeks Left to Apply to The J.M.K. Innovation Prize

Release Date:

04/14/2017

... of The J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation . In 2017, up to ten Prizes will be awarded to those tackling our country' s most pressing needs through social innovation. The Prize .....

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Goldman Givers: Seven Things To Know About Donors from Goldman Sachs

Release Date:

08/14/2017

... boom times on Wall Street (and a few notable busts!), it' s not surprising that so much surplus wealth has accumulated in the hands of finance winners. And it' s good to see a corresponding rise in...

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Down to the Wire: Indecision on ACA Cost-Sharing Reduction Payments Creates Confusion for States

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... Confusion for States Among the Trump administration’ s first promises was to give states more flexibility and ... consistent with similar estimates from the Kaiser Family Foundation and insurers’ own proposed...

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The Kids Are Alright: Millennial Generalizations Are Getting Old

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... between 1946 and 1964, was, until very recently America’ s largest demographic cohort. Generation X, born between 1965 ... they represent 75.4 million people. Since 2009, the Case Foundation , in partnership...

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