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30 May 2018

Equity and Asset Management – Why It’s About Dollars and Sense

Wednesday, May 30, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

... there are a number of high performing women and minority- owned asset management firms in the U.S., these firms are ... shut out of the asset management market. Diverse- owned firms manage just 1.1 percent of...

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Tools & Strategies

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Workshop

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Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Finance & Asset Management

Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... a Gender Lens By Ana Oliveira, President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation In Fall 2012, The New York Women’s Foundation launched our Hurricane Sandy ...

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Insights

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Disaster Relief

Women & Girls

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The New York Women's Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies is Down to its Last Billion Dollars

Release Date:

11/03/2014

... fortune as a founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group, is making good on its promise to give away all of its money in ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Russell Sage Foundation to Publish Book on Home Health Care Work: Shouldn’t It Be Work Worth Doing?

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... maybe a high school education and little if any training, making $20,000 a year. And that’s if you are lucky. If you ...

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Member News

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Health & Human Services

Workforce Development

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Russell Sage Foundation

Foundations Commit More Than $2-Billion to End Polio

Release Date:

04/25/2013

... among the foundations joining Bill and Melinda Gates in a new push to eradicate polio. Michael Bloomberg, Ray Dalio, ... philanthropists joining Bill and Melinda Gates in a new push to eradicate polio.....

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Health & Human Services

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

18 Apr 2019

Through the Eyes of Children - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... harmful ways by CBP and ICE; and struggling to settle into new lives in America. This Monthly Immigration Policy Call will delve deeper into how children are experiencing new policies and how those working...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Funding Area

Education & Youth

Immigration & Immigrant Communities

22 May 2018

Education and Homelessness - Working Together for Students Experiencing Homelessness (Part 1 of 2) - A Webinar

Tuesday, May 22, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... liaisons and state coordinators who support them – report that student homelessness remains an invisible and ...

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Issue-Based

Format

Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

All Funders

Funding Area

Education

Housing and Homelessness

Education & Youth

11 Jun 2018

Education and Homelessness - Working Together for Students Experiencing Homelessness (Part 2) - A Webinar

Monday, June 11, 2018 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... liaisons and state coordinators who support them – report that student homelessness remains an invisible and ...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

All Funders

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Education & Youth

Education

Housing and Homelessness

Scanning the Landscape 2.0: Finding Out What's Going on in Your Field

Publication date:

04/2012

... when, why and how it’s useful to scan the landscape for new ideas and new directions. An update of their 2004 publication, with 15 new interviews, Scan 2.0 is filled with examples of scans ...

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Report

Gates Foundation Pledges $220 Million for Women, Children, Adolescents

Release Date:

09/22/2017

... in the GFF Trust Fund leverages domestic government resources , financing from the World Bank's International ... aligned external financing, and private-sector resources . To date, eleven projects...

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Sector News

Funding Area

Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Russel Sage Foundation Study Reveals Increased SNAP Benefits Can Move Families to Food Security

Release Date:

03/09/2018

... then measured the resource gap--the difference between the resources a household has and what they would need to be food ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Food Systems

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Russell Sage Foundation

Reimagining Service: Helping Grantees Increase Volunteer Capacity to Maximize Program Impact

Release Date:

02/14/2012

Our collaborative program on January 10th examined the Reimagining Service and Cities of Service initiatives and how supporting volunteer capacity can strengthen grantees and increase the impact of grantmaking, even in an era of reduced funding. We’...

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Volunteerism

Goldman Sachs, Pritzker Group to Invest $7 Million in Utah School District

Release Date:

08/14/2013

... the expansion of an early-childhood program in Salt Lake City 's Granite School District through a social impact bond. .....

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Education

Prudential, Goldman Sachs and Brooklyn Community Foundation Among Funders Spurring Urban Revival in Brooklyn

Release Date:

03/10/2015

... American Manufacturer Co. of Greenpoint, Brooklyn was a city with thriving middle and lower classes. The battle today ...

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Member News

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Prudential Foundation

Goldman Sachs

Brooklyn Org

JPB and Rockefeller Foundations Contribute to Transformation of Detroit’s Fitzgerald Neighborhood

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... Detroit neighborhoods. To raise the needed funds, the city partnered with the Kresge Foundation, the Knight ...

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Member News

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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Freedom Together Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation

Columbus Statue May Get An ‘Explanation’ Plaque

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... mounting criticism of his plan to remove some of the city ’s monuments — possibly including the Christopher ...

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Sector News

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

Learn Foundation Law

Publication date:

04/2012

The legal staff at the David and Lucile Packard, Bill & Melinda Gates, William and Flora Hewlett, and Gordon and Betty Moore foundations have developed this free, first-of-its-kind online resource, which covers the basic legal rules around what staff are allowed to fund and engage in at a private foundation, including how lobbying laws apply to private foundations, who and what they can legally fund, the types of grants private foundations are allowed to provide and how to fund projects when advocacy and lobbying are involved.

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Target Hits $25 Million Goal For School Supply Donations

Release Date:

08/04/2014

Target Corp. announced that it hit its campaign goal to donate $25 million in school supplies to children in need based on purchases made in its stores nationwide from July 13 through Aug. 2.