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Legacy Foundations and Risk-Taking: Different Approaches to Empowered Philanthropy

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... Yes, fear. For years, we’ve endured debates about thinking like a business and not thinking like a business. About general operating support and program support. About whether having a goal...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... that disgraceful history, it's hard not to be ambivalent about their current efforts to help these same communities. .....

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Housing and Homelessness

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

Commonwealth Fund and GWU Release New Findings on House GOP Healthcare Bill Resulting in Loss of 1M Jobs in 10 Years

Release Date:

06/19/2017

... lower, and business output would be $148 billion less. About three-quarters of jobs lost (725,000) would be in the ...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... Their Clout: Empower Community Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... Do With Their Money Foundations make up a big part— about a sixth—of all the charitable giving that happens in ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Study Sees Urban Change Via Google Street View

Release Date:

07/06/2017

... National Academy of Sciences. More detailed information about the study is available online... Alfred P. Sloan ...

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Community Development

Science

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Tillerson in Focus as Exxon Climate Change Investigation Intensifies

Release Date:

07/06/2017

... Tillerson's former employer, ExxonMobil, misled investors about the impact of climate change. Schneiderman's office .....

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Environment and Climate Change

Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

Release Date:

07/11/2017

... have children with autism. These families are interviewed about their children, and the great love they have for them ...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

Are You the Future of Philanthropy? Apply for a 2018 TFN PLACES Fellowship!

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... and communities both large and small. ▪ Are passionate about solving problems related to community, equity, and ...

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RFPs Etc

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

Release Date:

07/20/2017

... pack warnings and advertising bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population ...

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Health

Folger Receives $1.5M from Mellon Foundation for Collaborative Research Project on Early Modern Foodways & Cultures

Release Date:

07/27/2017

... this project, participants will investigate big questions about the way food participates in and actively shapes human ...

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Food Systems

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Mellon Foundation

Can Humanities Grants to Universities Be a Bridge to Something Bigger? Mellon Foundation Backs Humanities

Release Date:

07/31/2017

... and humanities to bring people together in conversation about the fundamental qualities—and questions—that make ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Mellon Foundation

05 Oct 2017

Pulling Back the Curtain: Philanthropy’s Role in Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice to Improve Early Childhood Education

Thursday, October 5, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... important. Achieving them requires both robust research about what interventions work, for whom, and under what ... in New York City. The program will begin with a framing about the importance of research and...