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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Announces $10.9 Million in Grants to Greek Organizations

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02/05/2013

... Greece. In particular, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation’ s Board of Directors continues to support efforts to provide ... society, which is affected by the crisis, by approving 21 new grants, totaling €8,214,...

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Ford’s President Highlights Government’s Role in Reducing Inequality

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10/30/2015

Ford’ s President Highlights Government’ s Role in Reducing Inequality On Wednesday Darren Walker, ... readers on Facebook to answer questions about what its new focus on reducing inequality...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Helps 104 Graduate from NJ SEEDS Scholars and Young Scholars Program

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08/12/2016

... Graduate from NJ SEEDS Scholars and Young Scholars Program New Jersey SEEDS, a nonprofit providing education access to ... Young Scholars Programs. Ninety-nine percent of this year' s Scholars and Young...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Rockefeller, Arabella Advisors Collaborate on 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit'

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03/20/2017

... 'Risk Management for Philanthropy-a Toolkit' An important new report has developed a framework for understanding and .....

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Rockefeller Foundation Survey Reveals Insight into the College Skills Gap

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05/01/2017

... learned in college at work, and 86 percent are learning new skills outside of college. It’ s too early to know if skipping college and earning ...

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Obituary: Rachel Cowan, Former Nathan Cummings Foundation Official

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09/07/2018

... Cummings Foundation, which provided grants to encourage new approaches in spirituality, social justice, aging and ...

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JPB Foundation Partners with Others in Support of Energy Efficiency for All

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02/12/2016

... energy bills through energy efficiency. "One of EEFA’ s missions is to point out where the challenges are and try ... said Cai Steger, project director of EEFA at Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It' s So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors One of the ... the assumption is that governments could devote more resources to efforts that target...

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Overcoming Setbacks

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09/11/2018

... As president, Obama offered hope that he would usher in a new period of political progress, increase the role of ... many Americans feeling dispirited and helpless about the state of our country. The...

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Max Marmor Announces Retirement from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

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03/06/2023

... Announces Retirement from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation ( New York , March 6, 2023) — Max C. Marmor, President of The ... humanities, while passionately sustaining the Foundation’ s abiding...

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14 Mar 2025

Seeding Power: Food Justice Leadership & Movement Building - An Event Hosted by Community Food Funders

Friday, March 14, 2025 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... a comprehensive redesign and successful pilot of the new program last year, we are building on lessons learned to ... a more equitable food system for all. Applications for the new cohort go live the day after...

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Sheila Burke and Simon Stevens to Join Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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08/22/2013

... member and former executive dean at Harvard University’ s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Simon Stevens, ... Jr., who is also President of the United Hospital Fund of New York . “...

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Why a 'Gender Transformative' Approach?

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04/06/2015

... norms and inequities central to their work. Yet U. S . funding still tends to overlook or ignore gender norms. ... start a long-delayed dialog on these issues, Philanthropy New York members...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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23 Mar 2016

Family Engagement: Partnering for Student Success

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... partnerships of shared responsibility for children’ s outcomes between home, school (and community), but that ... Vice President, CAMBA Steven Choi, Executive Director, New York Immigration...

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28 Feb 2017

Prison Is The Most Unaffordable Housing

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... is far too common. It may seem like the housing crisis in New York is just too big a problem for private donations to ... & Poverty Elizabeth Glazer, Director, Mayor’ s Office of Criminal...

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Actions Civics: Activating Young Citizens to Go Beyond the Ballot

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07/03/2018

... Young Citizens to Go Beyond the Ballot By DeNora Getachew, New York City Executive Director of Generation Citizen In this ... at abysmal levels regardless of whether it’ s a federal, ...

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Lessons Learned from a Journey to Impact Investing

Release Date:

03/13/2017

... a board-staff working group to learn more about the state of the impact investing marketplace and what ... activities. The Center for Effective Philanthropy’ s May 2015 Investing and Social Impact report found...

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Compensating for Your Philanthropic Blind Spots

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01/09/2014

... have missed one of her viral tweets, Vivienne Harr is the new face of the movement to end child slavery. Vivienne has ... how important it is to identify “blind spots” in one’ s grantmaking practice and find...

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

Release Date:

05/17/2017

... at: http://som.yale.edu/ypfs-advisory-board . The new members are: Ben S . Bernanke, Distinguished Fellow in Residence, Economic ... Bloomberg LP, philanthropist and three-term Mayor of New...

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