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Can Flexible Funding Become Our New Normal?

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07/15/2020

... in monitoring, evaluation, and learning. Social outcomes are difficult and expensive to measure, yet nonprofits ... Institutions that play the role of both grantee and donor are uniquely well-positioned to...

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Citi Foundation

14 Jun 2022

A Moment for International Grantmaking: Applying Ethics to Practice

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3:30pm to 5:00pm

By their very nature and purpose, foundations are highly privileged institutions and powerful societal ... partnerships, and practices of ethical grantmaking. What will you learn? How principles should frame our...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces the Addition of Four New Staff and Six New Board Members

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01/28/2015

... own leadership is critical to our long-term success. We are thrilled to have such accomplished and passionate ...

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Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

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04/29/2010

... at a special October meting and adopted a contingency plan based on three scenarios (bad, worse, extreme). For our ... Opportunity Fund is very much a work-in-progress. We are eager to hear and learn from...

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Children, Youth and Families

14 Sep 2017

Time of Opportunity: Best Practices in Summer Learning (Part 2)

Thursday, September 14, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... learning can be best structured to meet student needs What sorts of publicly and privately funded programs are currently available in NYC through CBOs, libraries, and schools What...

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25 May 2021

Why the Time is Right for a Guaranteed Income with an Equity Lens - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, May 25, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... Income; how philanthropy can play a catalytic role and what this moment tells us about the future of guaranteed ... Income How philanthropy can play a catalytic role and what this moment tells us about the...

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Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

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02/23/2016

... about different jobs in the arts, and target groups that are not in arts organizations’ traditional hiring spheres. ... that don’t necessarily identify as artists and are left out of existing data-gathering...

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The New York Community Trust

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Recording: Deciding NYC's Future: The Latest Charter Revision Commission and November Referendum

... Revision process, starting with the fundamentals – what it is, its history, and how it can impact the city. ...

PNY Core: Philanthropy 101

... five modules will build on each other, and participants are expected to commit to attending all five . Who should ... New York; Donita Volkwijn, Philanthropy New York Are you stepping into a new role and want...

NCF Welcomes Elizabeth Mendez Berry and Isaac Luria as Directors of Voice, Creativity and Culture

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12/16/2016

... President and CEO Sharon Alpert. “Elizabeth and Isaac are highly regarded in the field for being innovative, ... of storytelling. Each of their perspectives and networks are deep, cross-cutting and...

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Apollo Theater Launches Initiative Dedicated to the Creation of a Diverse 21st Century Performing Arts Canon with Support from the Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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02/27/2020

... times and, by providing these unique perspectives, rewrite what is possible and allow us all to see the world in a ... Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander. “We are excited by the potential of these...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Releases New Report: Mission Aligned Investing: How We Assess Our Progress

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04/07/2022

... shares the Fund's mission-aligned investing and how they are assessing progress in this announcement. In a new report ... investments at the RBF is meant to support the idea that what is good for people...

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Insights from “Responding to the Moment: Participatory Approaches in Philanthropy”

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09/19/2024

... Shared Insight Participatory approaches in philanthropy are on the rise! Inspired by the disability rights slogan ... more rooted in lived experience and embraced by community are more likely to be effective...

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Ford Foundation Provides $1.5 Million in Emergency Funding to Puerto Rico

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09/27/2022

... impact hit areas in the southwest where 3,600 homes are still covered by blue tarps from Hurricane Maria in 2017 ... and reimagine how to support survivors. While basic needs are by definition crucial, we also...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington and Martín Abregú as Program Vice Presidents

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09/05/2013

The Ford Foundation has announced the appointments of Hilary Pennington as Vice President for the foundation’s program on Education, Creativity and Free Expression, and Martín Abregú as Vice President for its Democracy, Rights and Justice program,...

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ASPCA & Lil BUB’s Philanthropy Isn’t Just Fluff

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10/29/2014

... helped the neediest animals through 38 programs in 24 states (and growing). It has also helped give fans, who ...

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Animal Welfare

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Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

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12/16/2014

... a majority of front-line social service sector employees are underpaid and without real opportunities for career ... 52 percent of these employees, the great majority of whom are women of color, earn less than...

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A New Funder Embrace for Workforce Development

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04/18/2012

... levels of unemployment. In New York City, funders are focused on developing new approaches to prepare ... economic development or anti-poverty efforts, more funders are joining in. We welcome all donors who...

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Reflections from Foundations on the Hill

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03/24/2011

... is very high. Many of those working on Capitol Hill are simply unaware of the many facets of the philanthropic ... between foundations and charities; the populations that are served by the sector; and its...

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