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17 Foundations Join Forces to Divest Fossil-Fuel Stocks

Release Date:

01/30/2014

... in clean-energy companies, reported The Chronicle of Philanthropy . Seventeen foundations with nearly $2-billion in ... scheduled to announce the campaign, dubbed Divest-Invest Philanthropy , at a news...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

The Educational Foundation of America

10 Apr 2014

Leading Through Change: Advice from and for Seasoned CEOs and Their Boards

Thursday, April 10, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... Seasoned CEO: A Guide for Family Foundation Leaders.” A Philanthropy New York Collaborative Program with the National Center for Family Philanthropy . Presenters TBD Leading Through Change: Advice ...

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Family Foundation

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Turning Brooklyn Cachet Into Cash

Release Date:

03/10/2014

... in both affluence and cultural cachet, neighborhood-based philanthropy would rise, too. But that never really happened ... as a kind of catalyst for the borough—and for local philanthropy —the foundation is...

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Brooklyn Org

The Wall Street Journal

Science Studies Get a Big Boost

Release Date:

03/10/2014

The Chronicle of Philanthropy highlighted several foundation efforts to ...

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The North Star Fund is the First Community Foundation to Sign Pledge to Divest from Fossil Fuels

Release Date:

03/13/2014

... first community foundation to sign onto the Divest-Invest Philanthropy initiative's pledge to divest from fossil fuel ... and we're proud to be an early member of the Divest-Invest Philanthropy...

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Mertz Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal

Release Date:

06/13/2014

... Gilmore Fires Up Its War On Coal An article in Inside Philanthropy singles out the Mertz Gilmore Foundation for ... source of global warming pollution. According to Inside Philanthropy , as of May, Mertz...

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... for Women is to "diversify our grant making and what philanthropy looks like." She also tells the Chronicle Of Philanthropy that safeguarding reproductive rights will be .....

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Arcus and Ford Named as Top Funders who Champion Marriage Equality

Release Date:

10/07/2014

... Equality It's always hard to pinpoint the role of philanthropy in bringing about big changes in society and, to ... ever there was a great case study of focused and strategic philanthropy that got results...

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LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

The Source Codes of Foundation Culture

Publication date:

10/2015

... to and impedes efforts to lead productive change in philanthropy . One theme that has arisen time and again is the ... internal culture is an essential bedrock for effective philanthropy , but we have also, as a sector, habitually ...

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Report

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

Ford Foundation Head on ‘Time’ List of 100 Influence Leaders

Release Date:

04/25/2016

... Mr. Walker and his work with “changing the language of philanthropy , from ‘them’ and ‘they’ to ‘us’ and ... activists includes several specifically cited for their philanthropy , advocacy, and social...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

10 Jun 2016

Leadership Matters: A Breakfast Conversation with Philip Li

Friday, June 10, 2016 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... economic, and political shifts abound, how does philanthropy prepare and support the next generation of ... conversation with Philip Li, the current board chair of Philanthropy New York and newly appointed...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

Release Date:

02/13/2017

... the past few years, we've written quite a bit at Inside Philanthropy about philanthropic efforts to give cities a .....

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

The Rockefeller Foundation

Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector, The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus Foundation (on ... two law professors, Ray Madoff, director of the Forum on Philanthropy and the Public Good at...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

New MIF/Hewlett Foundation Webinars Explore How Funders Can Fight Misinformation

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... like wildfire across the western world, and American philanthropy is at the forefront of the battle to address it. ... in Poynter’s fact-checking initiative, many in philanthropy are seeking to help mitigate...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

01 Nov 2017

Navigating Uncertain Terrain and International Barriers to Giving

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... laws and regulations in many areas that are unwelcoming to philanthropy and civil society. At the same time, however, funding needs in these areas have grown. Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers...

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Panel

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International/Foreign Affairs

Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Council on Foundations Distinguished Service Award

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... in 1984, the Distinguished Service Award is known as philanthropy 's highest honor, according to the Council on ... not only have accomplished a great deal in the field of philanthropy , but have done so...

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Humanizing Immigration: A Three Part Conversation Recap

... Over the course of three weeks in May 2020, Philanthropy New York held Humanizing Immigration: A ... system. Rini Chakraborty (Senior Program Officer, NEO Philanthropy 's Four Freedoms Fund ) highlighted a...

Beyond the 990: Effective Nonprofit Financial Data Analysis - WEBINAR

Publication date:

04/2012

In this webinar, financial experts from the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) provided instruction on what to look for when reviewing nonprofit financials—imparting five steps for assessing financial health.

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Executive Leadership

Grants Managers

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Finance & Asset Management

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

18 Feb 2015

Individualized Career Planning

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 -

12:45pm to 5:00pm

... staff? This seems to be one of the hot topics in Human Resources right now. We will learn about a program that one ...

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Professional Development

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Workshop

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HR & Operations Staff

Salesforce.Org Empowers Nonprofits and Higher Education Institutions to Drive Social Impact at Scale With Einstein AI

Release Date:

03/21/2019

... and workflows, allowing them to fundraise and allocate resources more efficiently to drive more impact. For ... measure outcomes in real-time, engage and raise resources in a more personalized way, and...

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Community Development

Technology

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Salesforce

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