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10 Mar 2022

Building Capacity of CDFIs to Support Entrepreneurs of Color - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Thursday, March 10, 2022 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... recognition, however, CDFIs will need to continue to build their capacity to increase ability and agility to address the ... communities. Asset Funders Network, hosted by Greater New York Asset Funders Network...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Finance & Asset Management

Funding Area

Economic Security

Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Announces Inaugural Creative Director For Its Captiva Artists Residency

Release Date:

05/01/2012

... from around the world to live, work and develop new work in residence on the property. The RRF/Captiva ... from and working with others to break new ground. The site consists of nine buildings, which .....

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Arts

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

18 Mar 2013

Measuring What Matters: Indicators of College and Career Readiness

Monday, March 18, 2013 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... promising work in this area is being done right here in New York, where both the City and the State are recalculating their metrics for college and career readiness. So far, ... or career propitiously...

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Issue-Based

28 Feb 2012

Thinking Out of the Box: Meeting Challenges with Creative Leadership

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 -

7:00am to 12:00pm

... Foundation of the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York. Explore Creative leadership and performance ... issues affecting nonprofits Join Philanthropy New York in a Collaborative Program presented by...

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Issue-Based

JPMorgan Chase Report: Tech Jobs for All? Exploring the Promise & Pitfalls of U.S. Tech Training

Release Date:

03/09/2016

... of U.S. Tech Training JPMorgan Chase released a new report, "Tech Jobs for All?: Exploring the Promise & ... of training programs across the tech sector, to describe their strengths and limitations,...

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Member News

Funding Area

Corporate Social Responsibility

Technology

Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Simons Foundation Sponsors "The Eternal Sky," A Short Film about Building the Simons Observatory

Release Date:

03/09/2017

... Kellner documents the development and construction of the new Simons Observatory, located next to several other ... scientists and engineers are designing and building new telescopes with new...

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Member News

Funding Area

Science

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The Simons Foundation

I’m Having a CEO Moment. And You Can, Too

Release Date:

04/05/2017

... PNY President Ronna Brown, published originally in the New York PhilanthroPost April 2017 president's edition. This ... thinking that happens with our members at Philanthropy New York on our new...

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President's Message

After the Q&A

PNY News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Mayor de Blasio Signs Sweeping Legislation to Curb Smoking, Tobacco Usage

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... a series of bills to help reduce the number of smokers in New York City by 160,000 by 2020. While smoking rates in New York City have declined from 21.5 percent in 2002 to 14.3 ... 2015, the city still has...

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Sector News

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Health

Next Antibiotic May Come From Dirt Bacteria, Work Funded by Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Finds

Release Date:

08/02/2019

... scaffolds construct in nature can help prospect for new classes of antibiotics through DNA sequencing and genome ... in St. Louis. “In the long term, we really need new structural classes of antibiotics that...

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Member News

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Health

Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announce 2019 Soros Equality Fellows

Release Date:

09/20/2019

... Society Foundations Announce 2019 Soros Equality Fellows NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations is pleased to ... innovators and risk-takers striving to create and develop new ways of tackling the systemic...

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Member News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Lorelei Williams Joins The Sister Fund as Interim Executive Director

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... interned in the city’s major institutions, launched their own nonprofits and secured full-time positions in the ...

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Appointments & Transitions

Funding Area

Gender Justice

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Ford Foundation

HLH Family Foundation Inc

Team Working on Suicide Prevention Wins Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge

Release Date:

06/12/2014

... instead of having the organization market the tool on their own. “Strategy Challenge is really about taking ... have to offer – our talented people – and leveraging their intellectual capacity and ingenuity to...

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

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Morgan Stanley

Bloomberg Takes Public Innovation Initiative to Europe

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... of the two-day workshop in Berlin hope to hone their proposals for the final round of a competition designed ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Economic Security

Education

Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Open Society Foundations Award $5 Million Challenge Grant To Strengthen Innocence Project

Release Date:

07/09/2014

... works with people who have used all legal avenues to prove their wrongful conviction. Most often they are poor and ... of justice. We are confident that they will expand on their record of excellent work.”.....

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Open Society Foundations

Rockefeller Foundation Addresses Youth Unemployment by Connecting Employers with Untapped Talent Pool

Release Date:

10/24/2014

"Grads for Life" program specifically targets youths ages 16 to 24.

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Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

25 Aug 2015

Peace, Conflict, and the Scale of the Climate Risk Landscape - Webinar

Tuesday, August 25, 2015 -

1:15pm to 2:45pm

The opening webinar to the Global Climate Security series will examine the security implications of climate risk to provide a context for the subsequent place-based and sector-based webinars to follow. This webinar will address climate risk and...

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Funding Area

Economic Security

Environment and Climate Change

Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

Release Date:

11/12/2015

... many investors willing to take on the hard, unsexy work of improving implementation at a significant scale. . . ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Education

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

The Wallace Foundation

Robertson Foundation

AT&T Foundation

Open Society Foundations and Bloomberg Philanthropies Noted In Report Released By Foundation Center: Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys

Release Date:

11/01/2017

According to the 2017 edition of Quantifying Hope: Philanthropic Support for Black Men and Boys (36 pages, PDF), the fluctuations in funding explicitly designated to benefit African-American men and boys might be due, in part, to large grants...

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Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Open Society Foundations

Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) RFP for Round 13 of the Partners for Places Grant Program

Release Date:

07/19/2018

The grant program provides partnership investments between $25,000 and $75,000 for one year projects, or $50,000 and $150,000 for two year projects, with a 1:1 match required by one or more local foundations.