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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Official Sees Opportunity Zone Program Role

Release Date:

11/02/2018

... Foundation says foundations could provide loans to make new funds attractive for investors. A top official of the ... may be able to play a role under the federal government’ s opportunity zone program in...

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Community Development

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group Announce Joint Project to Increase Economic Mobility in Local Communities

Release Date:

11/15/2018

... Gates Foundation, and Ballmer Group announced today a new $12 million project that will help communities analyze ... Harris, CEO of Bloomberg Philanthropies. "Through this new partnership, we will follow...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Johnson & Johnson Announces 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis

Release Date:

02/13/2019

... 10-year Initiative to Help End Tuberculosis, the World’ s #1 Infectious Killer Ahead of the first-ever United Nations ... an estimated 1.8 million lives and preventing 12 million new TB infections in the next...

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JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges

Release Date:

03/19/2019

... to a recent policy paper from The Aspen Institute' s Economic Strategy Group. Its authors recommend a ... public institutions at scale" rather than rolling out " new , untested public programs,...

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Economic Security

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Funding From the Leon Levy Foundation Finds That Artificial Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night

Release Date:

04/05/2019

... Light Makes Birds Fly Into Buildings at Night The new analysis of a 40-year record of more than 70,000 ... in light pollution in Chicago in recent years, the new findings show that more needs to be done,...

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Animal Welfare

Environment and Climate Change

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Leon Levy Foundation

Leona M. And Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Helps Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn's Disease

Release Date:

05/03/2019

... Fund Research to Find Personalized Treatment for Crohn' s Disease To model human health and disease, organ-on-a-chip ... upstream initiator of gut inflammation. Now, thanks to a new $1.8 million grant...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Funds Research of Human Impact on Indoor Climate

Release Date:

06/04/2019

... chemical processes that occur in the indoor climate. But new advanced equipment and new analysis methods enable us to map how emissions from ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Open Society University Network Launches to Transform Higher Education

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01/23/2020

... Soros announced today that he is creating a new university network to better prepare students for current ... excellent but politically endangered scholars into this new global network. Already, OSUN is...

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Education

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Open Society Foundations

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Increases Spending to Seize ‘Hinge Moment in History’

Release Date:

06/30/2020

... board, will work to advance racial justice, strengthen U. S . democracy, and generate new economic thinking to address global climate change and ... our spending.” The increased spending plan includes a...

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Disaster Relief

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

William T. Grant Foundation Welcomes Lauren Supplee as Senior Program Officer

Release Date:

09/08/2020

... Officer We are pleased to welcome Lauren Supplee as our new Senior Program Officer, effective September 8, 2020. In this role, Dr. Supplee will lead the Foundation’ s initiatives on improving the use of...

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12 Dec 2023

Service for Impact - Winter Meeting

Tuesday, December 12, 2023 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions, and explore new opportunities to make a difference in society while ... and companies and organizations are working to identify new strategies for success. This session...

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Surdna Foundation and Andrus Family Show Commitment to Next Generation of Progressive Philanthropists

Release Date:

02/20/2018

... Philanthropists Over a year into Donald Trump’ s presidency, it can be tempting to see recent progressive ... the social sector buzzword— has taken on new urgency as groups that have come under attack find...

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Andrus Family Fund

Ford Releases Investment Returns; More Grant Makers May Be On the Way

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Financial Research, a start-up company that has built a database of foundation endowments at FoundationMark. For the ... foundation averages. What that means is that as a group, U. S . foundations, which have a...

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The Samuel H. Kress Foundation Is Seeking Applications For Its Conservation Grants Program

Release Date:

11/01/2017

... are acceptable) Curriculum vitae of the project’ s primary participant( s ) A detailed budget IRS determination letter of 501(c)3 ...

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RFPs Etc

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Arts

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation

"Be the Change" an Interview with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler

Release Date:

11/21/2017

... with Arabella Advisors' Eric Kessler Eric Kessler’ s family built and operated one of the country’ s most ... but it still wasn’t easy for the family to balance all the competing points...

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Arabella Advisors

Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Support to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Service Automatic Defibrillator Devices

Release Date:

05/17/2021

... distribution of Automated External Defibrillators (AED) to all law enforcement organizations throughout the state. This ... Wi-Fi to send near real-time information about a patient’ s heart to emergency...

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Health

Human Services

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

10 Feb 2015

The Conference Board's Business - Community Impact Symposium

Tuesday, February 10, 2015 - 8:00am to Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - 5:00pm

... imperative. Join your peers at The Conference Board’ s Business-Community Impact Symposium to discover how leading ... that Help Feed the World Social Entrepreneurs: The New Frontier The Research – What is it...

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United States

When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/15/2012

... the confines of our own community. But it was Jaimie’ s response when asked what NCF saw as philanthropy’ s most ... We don’t have thousands of well-paid scouts meeting with new talent to...

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"Unveiling the Illusion: How DEI Roles Echo the 'Magical Negro’ trope in Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/01/2024

... Volkwijn, Senior Director, Member Engagement, Philanthropy New York How the backlash against Diversity, Equity, and ... and Oda Mae Brown (Whoopi Goldberg) in Ghost . There’ s never a full...

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26 Apr 2016

Learning from LA - Is Our Sister City Supporting Nonprofits Better?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 -

1:30pm to 3:30pm

... It will be replaced by the recording soon after. It’ s a tough time for nonprofits all across the United States. ... in LA and about the strategies that might be employed in New York...