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Perpetuity, continued

Release Date:

04/24/2014

... as The Case for Perpetuity on the rationale for perpetual foundations , one member of the audience taking careful notes ... practice on its head. These days, it’s the time-limited foundations that seem...

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NYPL Wins $500,000 in News Challenge for Internet Access Project

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06/23/2014

The New York Public Library has won $500,000 for an internet access project from the Knight News Challenge, co-sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Ford Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation.

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

Release Date:

07/24/2014

Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with several organizations to train future principals for the city's schools.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

Release Date:

10/16/2015

... both lead organizations with similar goals — to help foundations improve their grantmaking so they have more ... a surprise $1.1-million unsolicited grant from six foundations to spend on anything they wish...

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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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Arts

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

JPMorgan, Ford and MetLife Support Aspen Institute Initiative on Family Financial Security

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05/16/2016

The Aspen Institute today launched an ambitious, first-of-its-kind project to shine light on economic forces that severely impact the financial security of American families.

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

MetLife

Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

Release Date:

09/12/2016

Saying it made a major mistake by overlooking the needs of people with disabilities in revamping its programs to focus on inequality, the Ford Foundation pledge Monday to undertake a top-to-bottom review of its policies and practices on the issue.

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

Release Date:

03/10/2017

Queens Theatre is launching its Winter/Spring 2017 Season with a diverse array of presentations, including the acclaimed Dance Company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers and a new Queens Theatre production of the...

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Con Edison

Bank of America [Corporate]

Why NoVo is Funding Young Women’s Freedom in California

Release Date:

05/11/2017

One of the Novo Foundation's first big grants will go to help young women and girls of color involved in the juvenile justice system.

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Five Questions for Laurie Tisch, Founder/President, Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Release Date:

07/24/2017

Laurie Tisch, whose Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund is gearing up for its tenth anniversary and will have given $100 million to support access and opportunity for New Yorkers by year's end, describes philanthropy as something that's in her DNA.

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Measuring Staff Diversity at America's Art Museums

Release Date:

06/26/2018

In this short video, Westermann and Ford Foundation President Darren Walker discuss why the effort to survey art museums on the diversity of their employees was critical.

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Video

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Workforce Development

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Ford Foundation

Mellon Foundation

William T. Grant Invites Applications for Scholars Program

Release Date:

06/05/2019

The New York City-based William T. Grant Foundation supports research aimed at improving the lives of young people between the ages of 5 and 25 in the United States.

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Media Development Investment Fund Launches Blended-Value Media Loan Fund

Release Date:

11/16/2016

... where access to information is limited, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) are ... said Eva Lövgren, Head of the Sida Department for International Organisations and Policy...

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Communications/Media

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Media Development Investment Fund

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Names Joseph Pierson New Chair of the Board of Trustees

Release Date:

07/12/2022

... Short and Best of the Festival at the 2020 East Europe International Film Festival, Best Featurette at the 2021 Gold ... “Our ability to attract people with broad domestic and international interests and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Urban Institute and JP Morgan Release Issue Brief on Workforce Programs

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... such as better wages or working conditions. To generate resources : Employers can pay directly for education and training, but also can contribute in-kind resources like training space or industry-relevant...

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Workforce Development

PNY Core: Financial Series

... funding institutions, as well as to their grantees. Join us this March and April to explore how grantees assemble ...

Pfizer Invites Proposals for Psoriatic Arthritis Educational Projects

Release Date:

05/15/2019

... for Psoriatic Arthritis Educational Projects Through its Global Medical Grants program, Pfizer supports ...

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Health

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Pfizer

Changing Corporate Behavior through Shareholder Activism

Publication date:

09/2010

This new white paper outlines the theories underpinning the Nathan Cummings Foundation's shareholder activities work and reports on the numerous concrete changes in corporate behavior that NCF has helped to promote through its shareholder activism.

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Finance & Asset Management

Public Policy

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

5 Questions for...Melissa Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Tides

Release Date:

03/11/2013

In this PhilanTopic interview, Tides CEO Melissa Bradley discusses the Twenty-First Century Foundation Powered by Tides partnership, what her organization has learned about the field of impact investing and what philanthropy can do to strengthen its...

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The Century Foundation

After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers

Release Date:

07/10/2013

We’re pleased to have Michael Seltzer, Trustee at EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation and past President of Philanthropy New York, comment on the Supreme Court’s historic decision on marriage equality and examine the history of philanthropic...

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LGBTQ

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EMPower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

Philanthropy New York

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