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Making IT Decisions

Publication date:

12/2012

... routinely intersect with their organization’ s technology infrastructure. Whether you outsource or insource your foundation’ s technology needs, it is critical to understand how to approach projects so you make ...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

Information Technology

What Inequality Deniers Have In Common With Climate Change Skeptics

Release Date:

06/16/2014

... Walker says recent attempts to discredit Thomas Piketty' s research into income inequality remind him of earlier ... significant challenges to humanity in this century, it is critical we see the debates...

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Member News

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Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

Former Atlantic Philanthropies CEO LaMarche Questions the Power Philanthropy has over Policy

Release Date:

09/25/2014

Democracy Alliance president and former Atlantic Philanthropies CEO, Gara LaMarche, discusses the power foundations have to shape public policy.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Explores Open Access to Published Research

Release Date:

04/01/2015

... and the information that this project will develop is critical to help the research community continue to provide ...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Citi Foundation Reports on First Year of $50 Million Youth and Work Skills Training Program

Release Date:

04/08/2015

... The Citi Foundation is recognizing the first year of it’ s three-year, $50 million commitment to provide 100,000 ... youth in the United States with the opportunity to develop critical workplace and leadership...

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Workforce Development

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Citi Foundation

Ford Freezes $4 Million in India Funding Amid Clampdown

Release Date:

07/15/2015

... to organizations in India as Prime Minister Narendra Modi' s government scrutinizes foreign donors viewed as meddling in .....

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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International/Foreign Affairs

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Transgender Health Discrimination Study

Release Date:

07/29/2015

... The paper, "Legal Protections in Public Settings: A Critical Public Health Issue for Transgender and ... Massachusetts since the 2012 implementation of the state’ s gender identity nondiscrimination law...

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Health

Gender Justice

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Milbank Memorial Fund

With Funds From Helmsley Charitable Trust, Researchers Target Fat to Treat Cancer

Release Date:

09/20/2016

... fat molecules to build their plasma membranes and other critical structures. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute, ... way to obstruct this instrumental process to stifle cancer' s growth, detailed...

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Member News

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Health

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Liberal Arts to Fight Climate Change

Release Date:

10/14/2016

... think critically, and grasp the nuances of life' s ambiguities. Mellon' s grant will support Colby College scholars—both .....

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Education

Environment and Climate Change

Coalition Rallies against Cuomo’s Proposed Nuclear Plant Subsidies

Release Date:

10/28/2016

Coalition Rallies against Cuomo’ s Proposed Nuclear Plant Subsidies A coalition of more than ... the state Thursday to criticize Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’ s plan to subsidize three upstate nuclear plants with $7.7...

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Environment and Climate Change

Supported by Carnegie, ALA Announces Winners of 2016 'I Love My Librarian Award'

Release Date:

11/30/2016

... from across the country were honored with this year' s I Love My Librarian Award. The winning librarians were ... libraries connected them to information, opportunities and critical technology to help...

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Member News

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York Chastises EPA Chief Over River’s Superfund Cleanup

Release Date:

09/07/2017

New York Chastises EPA Chief Over River’ s Superfund Cleanup The $1.7 billion Superfund cleanup of the Hudson River is not protecting the public’ s health and the river as initially promised, New York’ s...

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Sector News

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Environment and Climate Change

J.M. Kaplan Fund Names Innovation Prize Finalists

Release Date:

09/29/2015

... with the submission of 1,138 applications from 45 of 50 U. S . states. The awardees of the Prize, constituting up to ... Washington, D.C. Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry , Land Art Generator Initiative,...

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Member News

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Community Development

Education

Technology

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

JPMogan Chase Announces New Initiatives to Create Affordable Housing in the South Bronx

Release Date:

10/07/2015

... Lucille McEwen to celebrate Bowery Residents Committee’ s new development at 233 Landing Road in the South Bronx. The ... Chase representatives at Settlement Housing Fund’ s groundbreaking celebration...

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Member News

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Housing and Homelessness

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

25 Jul 2019

Monthly Immigration Policy Calls: Policy Round-up - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, July 25, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... has sought from day 1 to dismantle America’ s historical role as a beacon of hope and a land of refuge. An unrelenting barrage of policy changes over ... is limited to organizations that share GCIR’ s...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Immigration

Alison White Joins Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program as Research, Learning and Evaluation Program Officer

Release Date:

07/23/2020

... from the field and broader society inform the foundation’ s strategic conservation grantmaking, and that knowledge ... of the 5th volume into 2021. Alison holds a bachelor’ s of science in environmental...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Arcus Foundation

The Doris Duke Philanthropies Announce Zeyba Rahman Promoted to Director of the Building Bridges Program

Release Date:

03/11/2022

... in grantmaking to support national efforts, working with U. S . Muslims, to increase mutual understanding and well-being ... of Muslims stories as part of StoryCorps , the country’ s largest archive of personal...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

“The City Where America Is Going to Find Herself Again”: A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Release Date:

01/12/2011

... participated in a members briefing featuring a keynote address by the Honorable Mitch Landrieu, Mayor of New ... citizens’ participation in his city to philanthropy’ s efforts and support. The mayor began by...

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Insights

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All Funders

Expectations High For Harlem Children Zone's New Head

Release Date:

07/07/2014

Expectations High For Harlem Children Zone' s New Head As Anne Williams-Isom begins her role as the new CE0 of the Harlem Children' s Zone, funders such as the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, ... zone...

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Member News

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Education

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

Release Date:

07/10/2014

Report Shows Link Between Children' s Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment Children ... from the Foundation for Child Development. Mother’ s Education and Children’ s Outcomes:...