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09 Dec 2020

2020 Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Winter Meeting

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... an administrative support function to senior leadership in their organization. The network meets quarterly and seeks to ... for the purpose of sharing questions, experience and resources among peers in a...

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Network Building

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Webinar/Teleconference

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Executive Support Staff

Give Generously—You Can’t Help It!

Release Date:

12/18/2009

... pet—especially dogs, fish, and reptiles (cats seem to do their own things in their own ways and full disclosure: I have all of the above ... of a few animals who, without training, selflessly put their...

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Insights

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All Funders

09 Oct 2012

Engaging Stakeholders for Impact: Involving Grantees and Others in Your Grantmaking

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

All New York State funders are invited to participate in this special event at the Grantmakers Forum of New York's annual meeting. To solve complex community ... problems, grantmakers must work more closely...

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Network Building

Ten NYC Nonprofits Selected As 2014 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Semifinalists

Release Date:

08/04/2014

... NYC area have been selected as semifinalists for the 2014 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards, a ... the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee and its partners, The New York Community Trust and...

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Member News

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

The Clark Foundation

Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018

Release Date:

07/11/2018

... active member of the philanthropic and nonprofit worlds of New York for more than twenty years. In addition to keeping ... Fund, helping her colleagues at other institutions recruit their staff, helping people...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Commonwealth Fund

Workforce Funders Collaborative

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative meets ... of the more than 140 nonprofit organizations that prepare New Yorkers for employment. History In 2001, a group of ... in workforce issues joined forces to...

Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

Release Date:

10/14/2014

... employers do with high employees? What would parents tell their children about whether to smoke pot? While “there was no ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

Public Policy

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Open Society Foundations

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

Tax Bill Glitch Endangers Future of Newman’s Own Foundation

Release Date:

01/03/2018

... date donated $512 million to charities helping veterans, children with cancer, low-income students and dozens of other ... 200 percent excise tax on foundations that don’t unload their businesses after five...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Newman's Own Foundation

Hilton Foundation's Quest to Bring Safe Water to All

Release Date:

04/05/2018

... of deaths from diarrhoeal disease each year, mostly of children . Those are grim numbers to dent without effective ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Environment and Climate Change

Health

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies

Release Date:

07/24/2014

Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...

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Member News

Funding Area

Education

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

MetLife Foundation Partners with Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors to Help Financial Service Providers Better Serve Low-Income Clients

Release Date:

06/05/2015

... of financial tools that can assist them to better serve their clients. The microfinance institutions and ... and strengthen a full suite of financial offerings for their low-income clients. Cross-selling a...

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Member News

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Community Development

Economic Security

International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

MetLife

Anisa Kamadoli Costa of Tiffany & Co. Praised in GreenBiz for Sustainability Initiatives

Release Date:

07/29/2015

The profile outlines the work Costa has done in increasing accountability for mining operations.

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Member News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

Environment and Climate Change

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

UU Veatch's Molly Schultz Hafid joins NCRP's Board of Directors

Release Date:

09/25/2015

Hafid is one of four newly-elected nonprofit leaders to NCRP's board of directors.

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Community Development

Workforce Development

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Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program at Shelter Rock

Nathan Cummings Foundation Touted for Broad and Innovative Support for Climate Change

Release Date:

12/09/2015

The Nathan Cummings Foundation lauded as embracing a broader, more pragmatic portfolio of approaches to climate change.

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Wallace Foundation to Invest $47 Million In Redesigning Principal Preparation

Release Date:

03/16/2016

Strong principals are critical components of successful schools, and Wallace Foundation will be investing millions of dollars in research into what makes a principal effective.

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Member News

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough

Release Date:

03/24/2016

Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough “We are improving security at our nuclear facilities,” President ...

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Member News

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Public Policy

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Mellon Foundation Supports African, Latin American and Native American Collections Research at Princeton

Release Date:

02/14/2017

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Princeton University a grant of $300,000 to support three years of specialist research in targeted areas of the collections as part of the Art Museum’s multiyear Collections Discovery Initiative.

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Member News

Funding Area

Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Ford, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations’ Impact Investing Highlighted

Release Date:

06/07/2017

Instead of just using the stock market, more and more foundations putting their endowments into projects that help the world–including hitting the Sustainable Development Goals