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Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking

Release Date:

08/10/2015

... for how foundations implement their grantmaking strategies . (For a complete discussion of the survey results, ... overly tentative at first but then over-commit to risky strategies even after progress seems...

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Insights

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

United Hospital Fund Names Two New Vice Presidents, New Controller, Other Staff Changes

Release Date:

04/06/2021

... R. Murria will be promoted to vice president of human resources from director of human resources , while retaining his title as chief diversity, ... been crucial to UHF’s success, ensuring that we have the...

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United Hospital Fund

Funder Collaboratives: Why and How Funders Work Together

Publication date:

05/2009

... well for grantees. In this guide, contributors share strategies for structuring a collaborative to fit its ...

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Report

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Next Gen Donors: Shaping the Future of Philanthropy

Publication date:

04/2013

... themes including philanthropic orientation, priorities, strategies , decision-making, and activities. Next Gen Donors: ...

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Report

Topic(s)

Evaluation

Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

New York Life Foundation Awards $1 Million to Comfort Zone Camp

Release Date:

07/13/2013

The two-year, $1 million grant is in support of organizational capacity building for Comfort Zone Camp, a bereavement camp for youth between the ages of 7 and 17, and a new program model designed to increase the number of campers it serves.

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

Boys & Girls Clubs of America Receives $1 Million for High School Success Campaign

Release Date:

08/06/2013

The New York Life Foundation’s four-year grant to the Boys & Girls Clubs of America will strengthen the organization's academic programming for high school students.

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Education

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New York Life Foundation

Building Bigger Bets with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2013

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation President Nancy Roob shares with the Stanford Social Innovation Review how the foundation is aggregating funds to scale what works.

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

MetLife Foundation and WSJ Team up for the Financial Inclusion Challenge

Release Date:

03/26/2015

The partnership seeks to create innovative and sustainable financial solutions.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Economic Security

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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MetLife

What the Brooklyn Community Foundation is Looking for in Grantees

Release Date:

04/23/2015

Director of Communications, Liane Stegmaier, details the qualities the foundation seeks in potential grantees.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

Ford’s President Highlights Government’s Role in Reducing Inequality

Release Date:

10/30/2015

Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, joined Chronicle of Philanthropy readers on Facebook to answer questions about what its new focus on reducing inequality means for the foundation and grantees.

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Economic Security

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

Ellen Rautenberg Elected Chair of the NY State Health Foundation Board

Release Date:

12/04/2015

Ellen Rautenberg, the retired President and CEO of Public Health Solutions, has been elected to a two-year term as the Chair of the New York State Health Foundation’s Board of Directors.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

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New York Health Foundation

Peace and Security Funding Index Tracks More Than $280M in Grantmaking

Release Date:

04/05/2016

... also highlights the diversity of the funders and strategies behind this often-overlooked, yet critical, work. ...

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Member News

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Economic Security

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Carnegie Corporation of New York

New York-Based Groups Benefit From $23 Million Grants By the Conrad Hilton Foundation

Release Date:

06/27/2016

Westat, Inc. was awarded $400,000 to serve as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning partner to the Foster Youth initiative strategy.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

Atlantic Philanthropies Advocating an End to the Death Penalty

Release Date:

07/20/2016

The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all.

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Member News

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Justice Reform

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

MetLife Foundation and Sesame Workshop Launch 'Dream, Save, Do' to Support Financial Empowerment

Release Date:

09/14/2016

... Street Muppets, language for discussion, and effective strategies for spending, saving, sharing, and donating. ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

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MetLife

Sixteen Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' What Works Cities Initiative

Release Date:

10/24/2016

... embrace data-driven decision making and citizen engagement strategies . In an announcement released Monday, a total of ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Patrick Gaspard Appointed VP of the Open Society Foundations

Release Date:

12/05/2016

... take on a public role to advance the network's mission, strategies , and activities. Gaspard will report directly to .....

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Appointments & Transitions

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Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Rita Allen Teams Up With Knight Foundation to Combat Misinformation

Release Date:

03/13/2017

... fiction, building bridges across ideological divides and strategies for ensuring journalism organizations are ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Communications/Media

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Rita Allen Foundation

Behind the Billion: The Ford Foundation and Mission-Related Investments

Release Date:

04/13/2017

Xavier de Souza Briggs , the foundation’s vice president for Economic Opportunity and Markets, discusses the foundation's work on mission-related investments with Lenora Suki , head of sustainable finance product...