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Philanthropy New York

Working with Grantees: The Keys to Success and Five Program Officers Who Exemplify Them

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05/2010

Successful foundation -grantee relationships hinge on the prowess of ... officers, whose abilities may vary widely within a single foundation . This research explores what grantees value in ...

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Toya Williford Joins the Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City as Director of Programs and Policy

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05/29/2014

... as Director of Porgrams and Policy The Brooklyn Community Foundation announced that the Foundation ’s Program Director Toya Williford will be ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Brooklyn Org

Mayor's Fund to Advance New York City

Catholic Publication Calls Funders ‘Clever’ for Funding Faith-Based Groups Supporting LGBT Rights

Release Date:

09/17/2014

... and Queer Grantmaking by U.S. Foundations," The Ford Foundation is the top funder of LGBT causes, followed by the Arcus foundation , with Open Society Foundations coming in fourth. From 2008 to 2013, the...

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LGBTQ

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PhilTV This Week Jan 20

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01/20/2017

Featuring: Milbank Memorial Fund, Open Society Foundations, Mastercard, Ford, Blaustein, Levy and Overbrook Foundations

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37th Annual Meeting Re-Cap: Rethinking American Justice

... new board members Charles Buice , president of the Tiger Foundation , Pamela Foster , managing director, program ... and associate general counsel of the Rockefeller Foundation and Yancy Ruben Garrido , senior...

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... John R. Coleman, President, The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation 1981–1982 Jane Lee Eddy, Executive Director, Taconic Foundation 1983–1984 Arnold Shore, Senior Program Officer, Exxon Education ...

Ford’s Next Leader Needs Grass-Roots Experience and Entrepreneurial Spirit, Say Nonprofits

Release Date:

04/21/2013

... qualities and experiences the successor to current Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas should possess. Ford’s ...

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Open Society Announces Fund to Support New Nonprofit Leaders

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06/14/2013

Open Society Foundations has established a $2-million fund to help new nonprofit chief executives put their ideas to work quickly.

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Open Society Foundations

Continued discussion about the NSA Leaks

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06/11/2013

In this video Century Foundation Senior Fellow Barton Gellman is part of this panel ...

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Public Policy

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The Century Foundation

Nonprofits Join Forces to Give Black Men a Brighter Future

Release Date:

12/08/2013

... or so, Shawn Dove has all too regularly become dismayed as foundation -led efforts aimed at young black and Hispanic ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Open Society Foundations

Representing the Old And New in Brooklyn

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03/10/2014

Brooklyn Community Foundation Chairman Alan Fishman, who has donated $1 million to the foundation , was also the Wall Street Journal's Donor of the Day. With a $1 million gift to the Brooklyn Community...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

The Wall Street Journal

Mertz Gilmore, NY Community Trust and Howard Gilman Support Dancer's Residency at CUNY

Release Date:

10/06/2016

... Dance Initiative, which is supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation , New York Community Trust, Howard Gilman Foundation , Jerome Robbins Foundation , and Harkness Foundation...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Howard Gilman Foundation

Why the New Teachers’ Contract Is Great News for NYC’s Students

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06/03/2014

... vice president of policy and programs at The Century Foundation This post was originally published on The Century Foundation website here . The vote of the United ... The overall goal of this new reform agenda...

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Three Education Ideas for NYC’s New Mayor

Release Date:

10/15/2013

by Halley Potter , Policy Associate, The Century Foundation Listen up, De Blasio and Lhota. As New York ... beyond. This post originally appeared on The Century Foundation ’s Blog of the Century on October 9, 2013...

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18 May 2023

Setting a New Standard: The Role of Philanthropy in Grantee Working Conditions

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

... conversations with grantees about the organizational culture they’re trying to create and how that may or may ... Respect Rickke Mananzala , Executive Director, New York Foundation Kevin Simowitz , Co-Director...

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Grow the Craft: "What's the right relationship between philanthropy and government?"

Publication date:

05/2010

... a recent survey, GrantGraft shared reflections from eight foundation leaders on this question (including Karen Davis of ... The Commonwealth Fund ; M. Christine DeVita of the Wallace Foundation ; Vartan Gregorian of the Carnegie Corporation of ... M. Tisch Illumination Fund ; and Luis Ubiñas of the Ford Foundation ) and then asked their users to weigh in. This ...

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Report

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Public Policy

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Wallace Foundation

A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu

Release Date:

01/10/2011

... New York held a members briefing (sponsored by the Ford Foundation , Open Society Institute, the Surdna Foundation , and the Twenty-First Century Foundation ) featuring a keynote address by the...

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Surdna Foundation

Responding to 3/11: Helping with the Japan Disaster

Release Date:

05/12/2011

... a well-received teleconference—sponsored by the Japan Foundation New York, the Mizuho USA Foundation , and the Toshiba America Foundation —which focused on the extraordinary disaster ...

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Disaster Relief

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Philanthropy New York

Toshiba America

In New Brand of Philanthropy, Nonprofits Invest in For-Profits

Release Date:

12/11/2012

This article on the rise of impact investing in the foundation world mentions two recent projects funded by ... Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. When the W. K. Kellogg Foundation set aside $100 million in 2007 to...

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