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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellowship Shows Successes

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10/16/2015

... to grow economic opportunities in communities of color, address implicit bias through mindfulness, and fight for ... and CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation. This year’ s fellows include Anurag Gupta , who...

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14 Apr 2016

Coming to a Close: Lessons From Two Spend Down Family Foundations - Webinar

Thursday, April 14, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... period of time, what might the process look like? It’ s a question more family foundation boards are facing, as ... experiences of how sunsetting altered the foundation’ s culture and brought new focus to...

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22 Jun 2017

Writing Workshop: Insights that Inspire Action

Thursday, June 22, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... self-publishing – as well as traditional media’ s increasingly voracious consumption and dissemination of ... name, title, organizational affiliation, business mailing address , and phone number. Please...

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18 Jan 2018

Bringing a Racial Equity Lens to Capacity Building

Thursday, January 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and make progress in their communities, we must work to address the ways in which structural racism and our implicit ...

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Appointments & Transitions

Oxiris Barbot, MD, Former NYC Health Commissioner, Named President and CEO of United Hospital Fund

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08/11/2022

... New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’ s Office of School Health from 2003 until 2010. Dr. Barbot is ... her pediatric residency at George Washington University’ s Children’ s...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Lori Bezahler Writes Op-Ed on Activism Led by Young People of Color for The Nation

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03/28/2018

... have catalyzed a social movement demanding an end to gun violence . While their leadership and moral authority have ... movement to another level, youth-led activism against gun violence is not, in fact, new...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Chair Peter O. Lawson-Johnston Passes Gavel to Longtime Board Member Peter Lawson-Johnston II

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06/21/2023

... of the Foundation, which was initially focused on “man’ s relation to man.” During his long and successful ... organization advancing multidisciplinary research on violence that has funded nearly 1,700...

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Sustaining Impact: Supporting Nonprofits to Thrive During Leadership Transitions

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05/02/2025

... Forward. Perspectives+cover+Apr+2025.png “It' s time to lift the veil and dissolve the stigma and secrecy ... community change, and executive leadership transitions are critical periods for them –...

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Open Society Foundations Names Kenneth H. Zimmerman as New Director of U.S. Programs

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06/04/2012

... named Kenneth H. Zimmerman as the new Director of its U. S . Programs. A lawyer with more than two decades of ... offers a remarkable vehicle to combine vision and resources to further our country’ s...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Speaks with Kaywin Feldman on Leading the Nation's Museum in Uncertain Times

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05/19/2020

... Speaks with Kaywin Feldman on Leading the Nation' s Museum in Uncertain Times Two years ago, when she was first ... she is credited with raising attendance and the museum’ s profile through audience-...

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15 Sep 2025

Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series Part II: Global Lessons in the Resistance Against Authoritarianism - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Monday, September 15, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... have taken root, with leaders cynically exploiting people' s fear and material suffering in order to aggregate dangerous ... democratic backsliding; and hone in on how philanthropic resources can support...

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For CEIP, Don’t Call It a Comeback

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12/17/2015

... obsessively follow every change on Philanthropy New York’ s website, you may not have noticed that this month the ... and in practice. To achieve this, the board dedicated new resources and appointed new co-...

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New STARS Community, Funded by Josiah Macy Foundation, Will Focus Wise Choices And Value in Health Care

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09/21/2017

... country with the goal of changing the way medical schools address this issue. Later this year, the Dell Medical ... outcomes for patients at lower costs by focusing on people' s health and lives. Through...

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Health

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Beyond Rigor - Building Philanthropy's Equitable Evaluation Infrastructure

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07/17/2019

Beyond Rigor – Building Philanthropy’ s Equitable Evaluation Infrastructure By Jo Christine Miles, ... projects. In response to member demand for additional resources and tools to support their equity-focused...

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New Report from The Century Foundation: 11.4 Million Workers Facing Jobless Benefit Cliff Starting March 14

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02/10/2021

... in their end-of-the-year stimulus package, maintaining critical CARES Act programs—Pandemic Emergency Unemployment ... in lockstep toward relief based on President Biden’ s American Rescue plan, as the Senate...

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15 Nov 2018

Immigration Policy after the Midterms: What Can Funders Expect? - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, November 15, 2018 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... caravan, and protections for asylum seekers. Join GCIR’ s November policy call, moderated by Marshall Fitz, Managing ... strategies Presenter Kica Matos , Director of Immigrant Rights and Racial Justice,...

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Diversity & Inclusion Action Kit

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04/2011

The 2011 Action Kit, designed around the Diversity Framework, Minnesota Council on Foundations' groundbreaking guidelines that frame the discussion of grantmakers' diversity practices around the four roles they play in a civil society, is intended to help foundations identify what steps they can take to advance diversity and inclusion.

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Ford Foundation’s President to Depart in September

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03/06/2013

... to many in philanthropy, announced yesterday that he will step down from the post in September... Ford Foundation’ s President to Depart in September ...

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