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PNY Offers Unique Benefits to Family Foundations

Release Date:

06/15/2015

... (NCFP) to offer increased access to knowledge and resources specific to your style of philanthropy. As a PNY ... member, your staff and trustees can also tap into NCFP’ s online knowledge center and monthly...

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Eternal Recurrence: Philanthropy's Infrastructure Organizations

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07/16/2015

... There are upwards of 100,000 foundations in the U. S . The vast majority of these are small and unstaffed. One of ... by which to learn how to be good at it. There are resources like Essential Skills &...

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Heron Foundation's Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing

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08/17/2015

Heron Foundation' s Clara Miller Remarks on the Effects of Impact Investing Let' s say that you budget a certain amount of money to give to ... charitable goals with their decisions about how those...

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F.B. Heron Foundation

29 Oct 2015

Exploring Grantmaking Strategy: Options and Approaches

Thursday, October 29, 2015 -

8:15am to 10:30am

... your own foundation, how would you strategically use your resources to accomplish your mission? Would you: Weigh the ... October 28th. Presented by Young Leaders Breakfast Club' s Issue-based Event...

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William T. Grant-Funded Study Explores Effect of Financial Distress on Academically Prepared Minority Students

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09/10/2015

... after enrolling in college without adequate financial resources . “Students were surveyed in the fall, winter ...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Education

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation Taps Sharon Alpert as Next President and CEO

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09/25/2015

... States. In this role, Sharon works alongside Surdna’ s president and vice president of finance to oversee all ... organization. She was the lead architect of Surdna’ s first strategic plan, which created a...

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Arts

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Jewish Interests

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Surdna Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation, Moore Foundation Join Fund for Shared Insight

Release Date:

11/10/2015

... effort among funders that pools financial and other resources to make grants to improve philanthropy. Shared ... Fund, which provided targeted support for Shared Insight’ s work in its first year. The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative Supports NeuroBioBank for Autism Research

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11/18/2015

... around the collection and distribution of these precious resources . The ABN initiative is directed by David Amaral, ...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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The Simons Foundation

A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy

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12/2015

... with funding partners and thought leaders, Piper’ s report "A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the ... and infrastructure needs? The report also includes resources and links to readings to help funders think further .....

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Economic Security

Social Justice

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Arabella Launches Special Consulting Practice on Food Philanthropy

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12/04/2015

... nutritional needs Smarter, more sustainable use of our resources through a system that produces the food we need ...

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Food Systems

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Arabella Advisors

Opinion from Ford Foundation's Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough

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12/17/2015

Opinion from Ford Foundation' s Walker: Why Giving Back Isn’t Enough During this ... emerged and flourished in the pattern of Carnegie’ s mold. Iconic American families — Gates, Knight, ... of people around...

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Social Justice

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On Philanthropy: All Investing is Impact Investing (Rockefeller Brothers Fund, F.B. Heron Foundation)

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01/04/2016

... donations for the public good. The great majority of those resources are invested for a financial return without regard ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

... children, navigating the complications of getting state resources they desperately need, and sacrificing their own ... subsidized housing, such as keeping children’ s names off leases to avoid being...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Aging

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UHF: A New Arena For Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care

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03/25/2016

... has highlighted this need with an array of online resources for providers and consumers, and in March 2015 the Obama administration’ s National Action Plan challenged providers to halve ... antibiotic use in...

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Open Society Foundations' 6-Month Paid Paternity Leave Leads Generous-Parental-Leave Club

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03/30/2016

... Club Sandra Schwarzer, global director of human resources at Open Society Foundations, one of the largest ... large and small. Starting in January, 2014, George Soros’ s global organization announced that all...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Karen Persichilli Keogh to Lead Global Philanthropy at JPMorgan Chase

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04/06/2016

... where she will direct overall strategy for the bank’ s global philanthropic investments. Karen will continue the firm’ s commitment to expanding economic inclusion around the globe ... programs, research, and...

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Teagle Foundation's Connor on Asserting the Value of the Humanities

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04/22/2016

... Then the president asked, “How can we justify putting resources into Ancient Greek 101 where the enrollment is ... education in general. Wait a minute, I thought. That’ s his job, or ought to be. Her job is to...

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Education

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NYS Health Announces Funding Opportunity in Its Newest Priority Area, Empowering Health Care Consumers in New York State

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... or studies that may, as examples: create new tools and resources for consumers; make the health care system easier ...

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New York Health Foundation

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12 Jul 2016

Foundation Administrators Network Brown Bag Lunch - Meet Our New FAN Members!

Tuesday, July 12, 2016 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... – and FAN veterans can share more about the network’ s innumerable benefits. This brown bag lunch is for new ... for foundation administration, including human resources and operations. Registration 12:30 - 1:...

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