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Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis To Step Down In March

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... the Asa Griggs Candler Professor of History and African American Studies at Emory University. A noted social ... the University of Michigan (1989–2004). A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...

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New York Community Trust Announces Winners of 2019 Helen Merriill Award for Playwriting

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06/19/2019

... (June 19, 2019) NEW YORK, NY – Five exceptional American playwrights have won a total of $150,000 as the 2019 ... life, Helen represented, and would often use her personal resources to help, up-and-coming...

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PNY Supports Inclusion of Nonprofits in COVID-19 Legislation

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03/16/2020

... stimulus package. Nonprofits play a vital role in the American economy employing 12.3 million people and provide ... are deployed above and beyond normal capacity while their resources remain flat or even...

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Coalition of Arts Funders Launches Emergency Artist Relief Fund With Seed Funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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04/08/2020

... of national arts grantmakers, consisting of Academy of American Poets, Artadia, Creative Capital, Foundation for ...

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Mellon Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

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06/30/2020

... with overincarceration a cruel and unjust reality of the American penal system. Disproportionately, people of color ... a rhetorical and functional response to this specifically American fact, and offers the...

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Every Person Counts: Why the Census Must Be Rescued

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08/08/2018

... inclusive, connecting impoverished communities with the resources they need, and so much more. But none of that ... Every decade since 1790, the government has counted the American population, as required by...

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Freedom Together Foundation

JPMorgan Chase and Target Join Initiative to Create Job Opportunities for Young People

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07/13/2015

The 100,000 Opportunities Initiative will provide jobs, internships and apprenticeships to 100,000 young people over the next three years.

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Carnegie Corp. Reviews Callahan’s The Givers

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12/04/2017

... and Philanthropy in a New Gilded Age, sees the uniquely American tradition of philanthropy as a problem of our own ... and vastly rich individuals, declining government resources , and growing income inequality...

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The Markle Foundation, Colorado Governor and 20 States Launch the Skillful State Network

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02/14/2018

... a skills-based labor market. The Playbook offers tools and resources jointly developed by Skillful, the state of ... improve tools in the Playbook and add their own tools and resources to the Network’s...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches $70 Million Climate Challenge

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06/05/2018

... withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, the American Cities Climate Challenge is aimed at accelerating ... of high-impact policies; data, design, and innovation resources to help city officials...

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Camilo Mendez Announced as Chief Financial Officer of The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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01/28/2020

... and sustainability of the Foundation’s financial resources to ensure future impact. Mendez previously was ... Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor’s in Latin American studies and history from Oberlin...

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Awards $1 Million in Grants to Six Recipients

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04/04/2022

... Program seeks to expand access to knowledge and support resources capable of sustaining an informed citizenry. This ... support the Digital Archive of Arab Culture and Heritage. American Jewish Joint...

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26 Feb 2013

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 -

7:00am to 11:00am

... the Better Business Bureau of Metropolitan New York, Asian American Federation, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, ... Matters and Women in Development. Sponsored by American Express, EmblemHealth, The...

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Philanthropy New York Members Among 15 Major Funders Committing More Than $100M to the Tribal Nations Conservation Pledge

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03/21/2023

... Fund , The David and Lucile Packard Foundation , The Resources Legacy Fund , Re:wild , The Walton Family ...

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Sixteen Major Donors and Foundations, Including the Ford Foundation, Commit Unprecendented $156 Million to Support Black, Latinx, Asian and Indigenous Arts Organizations

Release Date:

09/24/2020

... that have been impactful, despite historically limited resources and funding streams. They, along with others, ... underfunded and under-represented in the narrative of American culture. Led by an initial...

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Ford Foundation

Annual Meeting Program Booklet - "Global Perspectives, Universal Connections"

Publication date:

06/2015

Our Annual Meeting Program Booklet has the full program of events and speaker bios.

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International/Foreign Affairs

11/5/2014 - Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages? - Live stream Recording and Presentations

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11/2014

View the materials and live stream recording of the program, "Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy’s Role?"

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16 Jun 2021

Bracing Ourselves for the Mental Health Wave of the Pandemic - Are We Prepared?

Wednesday, June 16, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

While the blaring sirens, overcrowded ICUs, and spiraling COVID-19 cases have abated in the city, the mental health implications of our new realities, and the continuing death toll, the loss of jobs and income, the social isolation, and increases in...

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Out of Print The Case for Philanthropic Support for Local Journalism in a Time of Market Upheaval

In a new report, Tony Proscio, of the Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, explores the current landscape of local journalism, with a particular focus on the role that philanthropy could play in revitalizing the field.