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18 May 2018

How Racially Equitable is Your Foundation? Assessing Your Practice

Friday, May 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

Are you a foundation executive interested in holding a mirror up to your policies and practices internally to ensure they’re not racially bias or inequitable? Are you unsure of where to start and how to get a process like this going?

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08 Jul 2021

Disaster Philanthropy and Native Americans: Practical Tips for Funding On and Off Reservations - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, July 8, 2021 - 2:00pm

In this webinar, learn more about how funders can increase their funding to Native causes and groups after a disaster. The speakers will discuss different ways of being in relationship with Indigenous communities to build the trust needed for a...

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Disaster Relief

Social Justice

12 Aug 2021

Hidden Gems: Funding Long-Term Recovery Groups - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, August 12, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

In this webinar, learn how philanthropy can build connections between potential partners and boost the capacity of Long-Term Recovery Group (LTRG) after a disaster. The Disaster Leadership Team, a past CDP grantee partner will focus on helping...

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Community Revitalization Works Better When A "Quarterback" Is In Charge

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07/22/2014

The "community quarterback" model can be an effective approach to revitalizing troubled neighborhoods, write Nancy O. Andrews, president and CEO of the Low Income Investment Fund, and Brandee McHale, COO at the Citi Foundation, in a post on the SSIR...

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Workforce Development

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Six International Parks Selected as Finalists in 2015 Urban Land Institute Urban Open Space Award Competition

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06/08/2015

... Park in Chicago, Illinois; Myriad Gardens in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma; Thousand Lantern Lake Park System in Foshan, ...

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The Kresge Foundation

Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers The labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home-care workers. ...

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Workforce Development

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Views the Arts as a "Community Anchor"

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12/12/2016

“High-impact” and “visionary” are two terms the Bank of America Charitable Foundation uses to describe the organizations that earn its support. In the realm of arts and culture, that boils down to high-impact and visionary programs that contribute...

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Arts

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Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

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06/01/2017

Americans think of suburbs as prosperous areas that are relatively free from poverty and unemployment. Yet, today more poor people live in the suburbs than in cities themselves.

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Economic Security

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Mixed Feelings as Board Takes up Mayor’s Jerome Avenue Rezoning Bid

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09/13/2017

... Procedure through which a zoning change becomes law. As City Limits reported, the rezoning proposal is opposed in its ...

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Aetna Foundation’s Healthiest Communities Initiative Provides Insight into Social Determinants of Health

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03/26/2018

The purpose of the Healthiest Communities project is to provide residents, policymakers and health leaders with insight into factors called the social determinants of health that affect everyone's quality of life and longevity.

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Terry Fulmer Takes the Helm as President of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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06/11/2015

... John A. Hartford Foundation and taken up her role as its new president, the Foundation announced today. Dr. Fulmer ... researcher, teacher, administrator, and innovator to her new position, and is deeply...

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Aging

The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Cecilia Stancell Promoted to Director of Programs at Dyson Foundation

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08/17/2015

... of Wassaic to serve as the philanthropic foundation’s new Director of Programs. “Cecilia has worked for the ... said Foundation President Andrea Reynolds. In her new role, Ms. Stancell will work with the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... Stack, a graduate of Ohio Wesleyan University, has led the New Jersey Council of Grant Makers as its president for the ... remarks: “We are thrilled to have Nina joining us as our new executive director. … Her...

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Salesforce Buys Its Own Philanthropic Unit Salesforce.Org For $300m

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04/16/2019

... Chief Executive Officer Rob Acker will head up a new nonprofit and educational business vertical at Salesforce ... company’s Customer Success Platform. In addition, the new business unit will also develop...

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Technology

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29 Jan 2016

School Funding: The Road to Equity for NYC

Friday, January 29, 2016 -

9:45am to 12:00pm

Nearly every conversation about improving New York City ’s public schools includes a call for more funding. Yet, we rarely discuss where the funding comes ...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Basketball Legend Join Forces for Youth Empowerment and Establish Field of Life

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12/18/2019

... legend Panagiotis Giannakis introduced Field of Life, a new nonprofit organization and initiative anchored in ... potential, and enhancing their lives in an innovative new recreational, educational, and...

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Salk Institute Receives $42 Million From Helmsley Charitable Trust to Create Research Center for Genomic Medicine

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01/24/2013

... as lynchpins for chronic diseases, which could lead to new therapy targets. The Salk Institute for Biological ... support interdisciplinary research that paves the way to new therapies for chronic illnesses...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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AARP, Weinberg Foundations Commit $10.5 Million for Skilled Nursing Care Model

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07/17/2013

... and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced new investments in The Green House Project. The new commitments bolster the national loan fund for Green ...

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