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Bloomberg Gives Sept. 11 Museum a $15 Million Loan

Release Date:

05/02/2013

Michael Bloomberg has personally lent the museum $15 million to help cover expenses until it opens a year from now. He is charging the lowest possible interest rate — less than 0.3 percent — so that the transaction would qualify under federal rules...

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Arts

01 Nov 2012

NYC Workforce Funders: First Meeting for Grantmakers Relatively New to Workforce Development -- POSTPONED

Thursday, November 1, 2012 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Tiger Foundation, 125 Park Avenue, NYC

The New York City Workforce Funders will hold the first meeting for grantmakers who are relatively new to the workforce development field. The focus of the meeting will be to develop a set of activities for future meetings. A Philanthropy New York...

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Spending Down the Family Foundation

Release Date:

03/10/2014

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors CEO Melissa Berman and Arabella Advisors Managing Director Elliot Berger share their thoughts in a Wall Street Journal article on the growing spend-down trend at family foundations.

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Family Foundation

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arabella Advisors

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Peterson Foundation promotes benchmarks for assessing the candidates on budget issues

Release Date:

05/27/2015

Federal budgetary challenge comes down to health care and Social Security, according to Peter G. Peterson Foundation.

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Community Development

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

Grant Foundation Accepting Letters of Inquiry for Inequality Research Studies

Release Date:

05/27/2015

The William T. Grant Foundation is accepting Letters of Inquiry for projects designed to enhance understanding of the programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequalities in youth development.

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Public Policy

Social Justice

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William T. Grant Foundation

Sloan Foundation Funds New App and TV Series Focusing on Science

Release Date:

07/27/2016

Faith Salie (NPR and CBS Sunday Morning) and neuroscientist Dr. Heather Berlin are co-hosts for the first 26 episodes.

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Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education

Release Date:

09/13/2016

Readers of IP's higher education vertical know we've devoted a lot of ink to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's "big vision" for the humanities.

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

How Bloomberg Philanthropies' Big Investment in Mayors May Shape Education Reform, and More

Release Date:

09/16/2016

Mayoral control remains a controversial issue in education, but some see it as a major boon for reform efforts in cities.

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US Trust Study Finds Small Foundations Honing Strategies for Greater Impact

Release Date:

02/03/2017

Funded by U.S. Trust, the survey also found that small foundations and individual donors have been formalizing their governance structures and process over the past decade.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bank of America Private Bank

Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families

Release Date:

02/14/2017

... Play Store. The books are curated to match children's interests and developmental readiness from birth through age .....

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Education

Immigration

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Bloomberg Charity Scrutinized By India For Anti-Tobacco Funding, Lobbying

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... groups, saying they were acting against India’s national interests . Thousands of foreign-funded charities’ licenses ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Schneiderman Vows To Sue Over Clean Power Plan Repeal

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... denial continues, once again putting industry special interests ahead of New Yorkers’ and all Americans’ ...

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Environment and Climate Change

21 May 2024

Food Policy & Planning Roundtable - An Event Hosted by Community Food Funders

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

This conversation is for funders interested in, or already supporting, work such as food policy councils, food system mapping and planning, policy advocacy and organizing, and related topics.

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Food Systems

Wallace Foundation Study Shows Significant Progress In Building Stronger Principal Pipelines

Release Date:

10/31/2016

... reports offer new evidence about the feasibility and value of building pipelines, and the new law provides ...

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Member News

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Inaugural Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Tackle Problems with Creative Projects

Release Date:

05/01/2013

... Bhatti aims to find a structural solution that turns our municipal finance system into a well-regulated public ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Social Justice

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Exchanges, Exchanges Everywhere: Understanding the Role of Private Exchanges

Release Date:

02/06/2014

... before. That’s a lot of exchange stuff to get under our belts, without even considering private exchanges. So ...

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Insights

Topic(s)

Public Policy

Funding Area

Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

Marion Nestle Challenges Funders to Be More Strategic and Political

Release Date:

08/08/2013

... of the food movement. Get political : To change our corporatized, unsustainable and inequitable food systems, ...

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All Funders

23 Mar 2015

What’s On the Plate of NYC’s Food Workers?

Monday, March 23, 2015 -

11:45am to 2:00pm

In November, the Mayor’s Jobs for New Yorkers Task Force released a report that identified food-service as one of six priority sectors for workforce development - a surprise given the traditional perception of food service as being limited in career...