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North Star Fund’s Hugh Hogan to be Executive Director of van Ameringen Foundation

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... thinking to the van Ameringen Foundation as their new executive director on September 7, 2016. Since 1950, ... prevention, education, and direct care in the mental health field, with a particular focus on low-...

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North Star Fund

14 Dec 2018

Beyond Understanding: Listening for Emergence

Friday, December 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... techniques, we will hone our listening skills and learn new appreciation for listening as a vital tool for navigating ... workshop, and participants will leave with 2-3 new listening-related skills, a personal...

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Professional Development

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Leadership Development

U.S. Cities Will Be Able to Compete for Funding From JPMorgan

Release Date:

09/12/2018

... said Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility for the New York-based bank. Its request for proposals, going live ... private sector to fund long-term projects and programs. In New York, city-affiliated...

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Community Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

Release Date:

07/22/2019

... degrade the cells of phytoplankton and other organisms. A new paper, however, suggests that these molecules actually ... the National Academy of Sciences. "Our findings point to a new role for reactive...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation

Morgan Stanley Increases COVID-19 Charitable Commitment to $25 Million

Release Date:

04/28/2020

... announced COVID-19 relief commitment of $10 million, this new grant will support organizations that are fighting hunger ... globally to contribute to local feeding programs. This new initiative will facilitate...

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Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation

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03/31/2021

Margaret Hoover Joins the Board of The Markle Foundation New York, NY – The Markle Foundation is pleased to ... disproportionately affected by the current economic and health crisis. Hoover is a political...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Open Society Foundations Name Sandra Breka as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Release Date:

09/30/2022

... Sandra Breka as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer NEW YORK / BERLIN—The Open Society Foundations announced ... one of the largest European foundations active on health , education, and global issues...

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Open Society Foundations

14 Feb 2018

2020 Census Funders: Learning from National Initiatives

Wednesday, February 14, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... leaders – as well as our upstate sister organization New York Funders Alliance and its members. There are over a ... 2020 Census count. This will be the first meeting of the New York funders group for 2018 and...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Census 2020

24 Oct 2019

Beyond Bail: Justice Reform 2.0 - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, October 24, 2019 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... into concrete legislative reforms. Most recently, New York, New Jersey, Washington DC and California have enacted reforms ... to be aware of? How can we lead the next level of reforms? Resources...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

The Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Satellite Data & AI to Accelerate Economic Development and Climate Resilience in Africa

Release Date:

08/29/2022

... Economic Development and Climate Resilience in Africa NEW YORK and NAIROBI, Aug. 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to .....

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International/Foreign Affairs

Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Stavros Niarchos Foundation grant supports civic engagement at the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago

Release Date:

06/22/2023

... Center is thoughtfully doing this work, imagining a new paradigm for what a public forum for civic engagement and ... at the University of Pennsylvania seeks to imagine a new approach to educating students as...

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Civic Engagement

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Sozosei Foundation Awards Grants to Local Texas Communities Impacted by Winter Storm

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03/10/2021

... Three organizations received grants to bring critical resources to local Texas communities devastated by the recent ... funds to three organizations that are providing critical resources – and more importantly...

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Disaster Relief

Food Systems

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Sozosei Foundation

Peterson Foundation promotes benchmarks for assessing the candidates on budget issues

Release Date:

05/27/2015

... to which the federal budgetary challenge comes down to health care and Social Security. Under any of the plans, the federal government increasingly becomes a health care and pension provider that also spends a...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

Release Date:

12/06/2019

... Challenge By Patricia Swann, Sr. Program Officer, The New York Community Trust, on behalf of the New York State Census Equity Fund Steering Committee ... essential step in fortifying our nation’s democratic...

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Insights

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Census 2020

Civic Engagement

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The New York Community Trust

NYC Cultural Agenda Fund Places Marker on Racial Justice Initiative Ahead of City’s Cultural Plan Release

Release Date:

10/12/2016

... Initiative Ahead of City’s Cultural Plan Release As New York City prepares its first comprehensive cultural plan, the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community ... than $1...

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Aetna Joins Corporate Effort to Save Hartford Financial and Psychological Slump

Release Date:

03/15/2017

... Of course, Hartford is also famously the home of top U.S. insurance companies, which are based in towers downtown and ...

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Eligibility & Policies

(Revised November 2009) Philanthropy New York is a nonprofit membership organization created in 1979 by the New York City philanthropic sector to promote and support the ... : A tax-exempt organization that uses...

Community Philanthropy: Using Both Sides of the Brain

Release Date:

09/07/2012

... Foundations Fall Conference for Community Foundations in New Orleans, is this: What’s the role of “strategy” in ... of community dollars and trust, obligated to use those resources as wisely as possible...

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01 Dec 2016

Grantee-Centered Capacity Building Is What You Think It Is – And More

Thursday, December 1, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... us for this kick-off program in a series of Philanthropy New York programs on capacity building. We will explore the ...

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All Funders

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

08 Mar 2017

Achieving Equity…How Exactly?

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... – especially if an explicit focus on equity is something new and different? What are the biggest challenges in ... internally and training staff Specific changes in human resources , investment, governance and...