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Brooklyn’s Crown Heights Residents Direct $100,000 for Inclusive Public Spaces via Brooklyn Community Foundation

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07/13/2017

... announces $100,000 in grants to five nonprofits that are expanding or advocating for inclusive public spaces for ... and possible solutions, starting with the question: “ What is your vision for Crown Heights...

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Brooklyn Org

Brooklyn Community Foundation Partners on $2.2M "Welcome NYC" Initiative for Nonprofits Serving Asylum Seekers

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03/03/2023

... assistance across the City. “Our immigrant communities are an essential part of the fabric of our city, and critical ... more than 47,000 people seeking asylum in the United States . More than 29,000 people...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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Opinion: Nonprofits Have a Big Stake in Overtime-Rules Debate

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09/05/2017

... groups do all they can to show how their interests are in line with those of mission-focused organizations. They ... presume that charities are on their side when it comes to doing the right...

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JP Morgan Chase Investing $40M in Chicago's Underserved Neighborhoods

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09/15/2017

... Chase wants to do for Chicago's South and West sides what it has begun to do for Detroit. The nation's biggest .....

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J.P. Morgan Private Bank, Private Foundation Services

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New Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Report Examines Impact from Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Five-Year, $15M Healthy Food & Community Change Initiative

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01/17/2019

... improved people’s access to healthy food, addressed health and access disparities, provided nutrition education, ... to provide job opportunities and food insecurity as a health issue. “The Healthy Food &...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

Health

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Young Professionals, Get On Board

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10/07/2014

... envision yourself sitting on the sidelines, because you are not yet a partner at a law firm or CEO of a Fortune 500 ... that young professionals in New York City have the skills, resources and drive to affect...

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United Way of New York City

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Morgan Stanley

27 Apr 2018

2020 Census Funders: Who and Where Are New York’s “Hard-to-Count”?

Friday, April 27, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... New York Funders Alliance and its members. There are about two dozen foundations already associated with this ... funder collaboration on Census 2020 Latest updates on what is known about New York State and...

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Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

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10/04/2017

Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’ Success ... . . Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’ ...

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Actions Civics: Activating Young Citizens to Go Beyond the Ballot

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07/03/2018

... Citizen In this politically divisive moment, many of us are grappling with how to have an impact and reaffirm the ... a civic reckoning . Society is finally realizing what many academics and advocates have...

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The Three Roads to Building Volunteer Value

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07/16/2013

... add value to their jobs. At Gap Inc., these individuals are called Community Leaders. These employees take the lead ... a deeper impact in the community by connecting these two resources through the use of...

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

... print media and newspaper companies throughout the United States . (Vincent Stehle has also contributed a post on ... for a group of Web people, newspapers must go; and there are a lot of compass points in...

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All Funders

02 May 2013

Philanthropy in Emerging Markets: Russia as a Case Study

Thursday, May 2, 2013 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Whether you are an experienced funder in Russia or another “BRICS” ... environments where accountability and transparency are difficult or even dangerous to achieve How growing wealth ...

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23 Feb 2016

BBB Charity Effectiveness Symposium X: Transitions

Tuesday, February 23, 2016 -

8:00am to 12:00pm

... Hear key insights about how nonprofit business models are developing in the context of an ever-changing ...

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Five Nonprofits Win Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize for Outstanding Commitment to Racial Justice

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01/12/2022

... Prize for Outstanding Commitment to Racial Justice We are pleased to announce the recipients of our 2022 Spark ... support that gives nonprofits the flexibility and resources they need to serve their...

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Social Justice

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Bloomberg Report: 'Data Gap' at City Halls Across the Nation

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03/10/2016

... at City Halls Across the Nation Limited training and resources hamper city efforts to use data-based ... to a new report by the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities initiative. Those findings come from...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

23 Mar 2017

Financial Series - Using Financial Statements Together with IRS Form 990 to Understand Your Potential Grantees

Thursday, March 23, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Series: Intro to Financial Statements March 2 – What to Look for in a Nonprofit’s Financial Statement March ... an ability to analyze an organization’s financial health through the 990 and financial statements...

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UJA-Federation of New York Launches Centennial With Largest Volunteer Initiative in its History

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01/12/2017

... Time for Good. “Today, the challenges in the community are greater than ever. Our network partners and grantees are ... our community. The Buttenwieser family is excited to see what UJA can...

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Bloomberg and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population

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06/01/2015

... for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Lung Foundation today ... Noncommunicable Disease Unit in the Division of Global Health Protection, Center for Global...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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New Tech, Renewed Trust and a Less Lunatic Political Process

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10/12/2012

... Unfortunately, in this effort, government reformers are starting from a serious crater. Gallup polling found that ... percent approval, Congress is less popular than the United States going communist. Distrust...

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