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The Pocantico Center at The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Summer Performance Series to Support Artists and Honor Local Frontline Communities Impacted by the Pandemic

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06/07/2021

... to be held in-person at Pocantico in accordance with New York State health guidelines. The series marks the first ... mission to advance social change that contributes to a more just,...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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A Letter from Surdna President Don Chen on Solidarity and Support to Grantees

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05/13/2020

... 2) recover in the medium term, and 3) reimagine a more equitable, thriving America in the long term. As ... seeing that such inequities—such as those that harm low- wage and “essential workers”—also endanger...

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Surdna Foundation

23 Jan 2018

Designing Programs to Maximize Impact - How Behavioral Science Can Help

Tuesday, January 23, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... or no cost, to make a wide range of good existing programs more effective at fostering desired outcomes in areas ranging ... Matthew Klein , Executive Director, Mayor's Office for Economic Opportunity...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Lourdes Lopez to Board of Trustees

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03/12/2014

... Board of Trustees. Lopez is the artistic director of Miami City Ballet and Chairwoman of Miami City Ballet School, and a ... everyone.” Lopez is also the director of Morphoses, a New ...

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Thanu Yakupitiyage Appointed Program Officer, Sustainable Environments at the Surdna Foundation

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04/27/2023

... Bringing a deep commitment to movement- and power- building for racial justice, Thanu will guide grantmaking and ... within the climate justice movement, I am eager to shift resources to organizations and...

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Markle Foundation's Rework America Task Force Is Bridging The Tech Skill Gap

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10/23/2017

... of their jobs. A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that hundreds of thousands of ... in artificial intelligence, robotics, nanotech and more are changing the skills workers...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Launch Plant Humanities Initiative

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10/05/2018

... Oaks for the research and programming over three years. Building on the Global Plants Initiative, Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR propose a new model of integrating digital humanities with scholarly ... contextualize...

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Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

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12/15/2016

... recommend a range of options for improving—and making more widely available—a set of educational approaches, ... Foundation, a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, and resources from the Academy's...

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Education

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Rockefeller Foundation’s Claudia Juech, Associate Vice President & Managing Director, Answers “5 Questions” in PND

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05/10/2017

... has led the foundation's efforts to identify and assess new , large-scale opportunities for impact across the ... activities, an approach the foundation is using to bring more diverse voices into the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Member Input on Official Statement on Opposition to Eliminating the Estate Tax

Philanthropy New York ’s Public Policy Committee has voted to recommend ... the estate tax leads affluent individuals to donate far more than they otherwise would, because such donations .....

02 Nov 2018

Philanthropy 101: Fundamentals of Grantmaking

Friday, November 2, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... components that make up grantmaking in a foundation? What resources , approaches, and tools does a foundation employ to leverage for impact? This is an opportunity for those new to the sector to map out the...

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Youth Leaders are Changing the Conversation on College Access

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06/30/2016

... after an hour of tears and testimony at the Philanthropy New York (PNY) June 17 screening of "Stepping Up," a glimpse ... education for low income students of color?’” For more...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Note to Funders: If You Believe in the Importance of Leadership, Fund What Leaders Want to Do

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07/08/2014

... executive director, United Neighborhood Houses of New York This post originally appeared on the Alliance for Children and Families website here . Many academic journal articles and .....

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19 Sep 2023

State Voting Rights Acts: A Racial Equity Framework for Protecting Community Interests in Redistricting, Representation and Access to the Ballot

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2:00pm to 3:00pm

... funders, advocates and other practitioners interested in building a more inclusive democracy. Speakers Micheal Davis , Executive ... Promote the Vote Michigan Doris Dumas , President, Greater New...

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... Food Waste With Feast On Tuesday May 10, thousands of New Yorkers will feast on food that would have ordinarily ... Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation, City Harvest, NRDC, Sustainable America,...

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The Mertz Gilmore Foundation Funds Contemporary Dance

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08/11/2017

... its audience in ways that are delightful to audiences new to contemporary dance and those who follow it with a ... is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City...

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Arts

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Day Of The Girl: A Worldwide Reminder That Gender Parity Awaits

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10/25/2016

... girls are not in school ; and 1.1 billion girls and women around the world are excluded from the formal ... man. In developing countries, there are 200 million more male cell phone owners than women...

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Gender Justice

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PIMCO Foundation

The Business of Philanthropy: “Exit Interviews” with Former and Departing Foundation CEOs

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06/30/2011

... I had the privilege of moderating recently at Philanthropy New York . Entitled “Exit Interviews,” the panel included ... captured the imagination of some in philanthropy, and even more broadly...

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Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice Judges Panel to Be Chaired by Clark Foundation President Douglas Bauer

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10/22/2018

... a distinguished slate of judges including Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winner; Marcia ... former executive director of United Neighborhood Houses of New York...

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