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Thomas Lax and Sanjit Sethi Elected to Jerome Foundation Board of Directors

Release Date:

06/08/2020

... History, Linda Earle (New York, NY) for a third and final term , and theater, music and live performance artist Daniel Alexander Jones (Bronx, NY) for a second term . Additional continuing Directors include...

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Jerome Foundation

Red Hook Autumn: Losing and Gaining Power During the Disaster

Release Date:

01/18/2013

... York Magazine Nonprofit Excellence Awards . It was a long meeting, and it was hard work for us to try to ... lived in the dark and cold, some of them forced to climb long , unlit stairwells to the 14th floor...

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A Nonprofit Lender Revives the Hopes of Subprime Borrowers

Release Date:

02/25/2014

The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America has received $10 billion in funding from Bank of America to make mortgage loans on its own terms over the next decade, reports The New York Times.

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Community Development

Michael Bloomberg to Return to Lead Bloomberg L.P.

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09/03/2014

... business empire only eight months after ending his final term as mayor of New York. For years, Mr. Bloomberg had ...

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Health

Immigration

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Bloomberg LP

TCC Group Exlpores a New Approach to Capacity Building

Release Date:

02/03/2015

... there are better and worse ways of seeing. Consider the term "capacity building." In the social sector, it has been .....

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TCC Group

North Star's Hogan Calls for de Blasio to Give Acitivists a Bigger Role in Policymaking

Release Date:

08/14/2015

... There’s a reason elected officials like the term “grass roots” – it’s reliable shorthand, a way ...

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Community Development

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North Star Fund

Commonwealth Fund Report Reveals that Americans Spend More on Health Care, But Fare Worse

Release Date:

10/09/2015

When compared to 12 other industrialized nations, Americans shelled out the most cash on health care services, but they fared worst in terms of life expectancy, according to the Commonwealth Fund findings.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Donates $50M to Museum of Science

Release Date:

10/18/2016

... built a multibillion-dollar company and served as a three- term mayor of New York. But what people might not know is ...

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Science

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Stonewall Elects Neill Coleman as President

Release Date:

11/07/2016

... of Housing and Urban Development during the first term of the Obama Administration. He has also served on the ...

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Gender Justice

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Ford-Backed Poll Finds that Young Americans Fear They Will Be Worse Off Post-Trump

Release Date:

01/17/2017

... they’ll be worse off at the end of Trump’s first term than better off. Such young Americans are also far more ...

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Civic Engagement

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Ford Foundation

Bloomberg Urges World Leaders Not to Follow President Donald Trump’s Lead On Climate Change

Release Date:

04/24/2017

New York billionaire Michael Bloomberg urged world leaders not to follow President Donald Trump’s lead on climate change and declared his intention to help save an international agreement to reduce carbon emissions.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... housing plan — but with months left in his first term , the Rockaway plan is only the second one to pass. Some ...

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Democrats Look To Trump On DREAM Act After He Puts Expiration Date On DACA Program

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... by Democrats to pair hurricane relief aid to a short- term hike in the debt ceiling along with a measure to keep ...

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Immigration

Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business

Release Date:

09/15/2017

Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business As addiction has grown, so have for-profit rehab centers, from those sponsored by massive corporations to little fly-by-night endeavors. Many of them, to judge by recent...

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Health

Laura Landy, CEO and President of The Rippel Foundation Joins Grantmakers In Health Board of Directors

Release Date:

12/01/2017

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce that Laura Landy has been elected to its board of directors. Her three-year terms begin in April 2018.

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Health

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

Law & Order Politicians Don’t Care About Your Programmatic Silos

Release Date:

02/06/2017

... mind. I witnessed teachers struggling to balance between providing the necessary academic curriculum but also the ...

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Justice Reform

29 Sep 2015

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Pros & Cons of Performance Evaluations

Tuesday, September 29, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... HR and operations professionals to share knowledge and resources , to test complex ideas with peers about ... Cell Foundation, Inc Oscar De La Cruz , Manager, Human Resources & Benefits, The Andrew W...

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Network Building

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All Funders

Executive Leadership

HR & Operations Staff

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HR & Operations

Community Organizing and Advocacy Funder Collaboratives

Publication date:

07/2013

This North Star Fund report illustrates how several national and local funders have worked together to support community organizing and advocacy groups working together in coalition.

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Public Policy

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North Star Fund

Coaching and Philanthropy, An Action Guide for Grantmakers

Publication date:

02/2010

Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and its partners on the Coaching and Philanthropy Project took a deep dive into learning about the nonprofit sector’s support for and use of coaching, and consolidates that knowledge here into action guides and an online toolkit.

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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New Programs Teach Collaboration, Not Finance and Fundraising

Release Date:

05/05/2013

This examination of the “new breed” of leadership programs includes those supported by the American Express Foundation, the Bank of America Charitable Foundation and the Nathan Cummings Foundation.