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Frameworks for Private Foundations: A New Model for Impact

Publication date:

07/2017

... and action. Tweet about this paper using #TheoryofFdn. What 's in the paper? Introduction to the Theory of the ... exploring their own foundations’ frameworks. Charter. What is a foundation’s form of governance, how will it make ... foundation carries out its work and the core competencies, resources , skills, and processes that it cultivates in order .....

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

16 Dec 2025

Service for Impact - Winter Meeting

Tuesday, December 16, 2025 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... in benchmarking corporate social investments. Featuring data from many of the world’s top companies, the report ... We will then break into small group discussions. What will you learn? Key data...

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F.B. Heron's Clara Miller on Changing Operating Models to Expand Effectiveness and Impact

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06/10/2016

... opportunities of the 21st century. We asked ourselves, “ What kind of operating model might we build if we focus all of our resources on achieving our mission, assuming that we will ...

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Milbank Memorial Fund Partners with Yale to Study Why It's So Hard to Connect Health to Social Factors

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09/29/2016

... the assumption is that governments could devote more resources to efforts that target broader social determinants ... conducted a study with the Milbank Memorial Fund to learn what the challenges were in...

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Giving Away $100 Million: A Peek Behind the Curtain At Macarthur Foundation

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... we decided to issue a public, open call: “Tell us what problems $100 million can solve, and how.” We proposed ... solved if they receive this kind of focused attention and resources at scale with need...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

14 Dec 2023

Your Impact Strategy Doesn’t Stop at Your Grantmaking - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Thursday, December 14, 2023 -

12:00pm to 1:15pm

... other innovative ways to use your time, relationships, and resources to support your nonprofit partners and the ... support beyond grantmaking, and how to think through what can work for your philanthropy. Who...

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Tools & Strategies

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The William T. Grant, Spencer, and Doris Duke Charitable Foundations Announce Winners of the 2020 Institutional Challenge Grant Competition

Release Date:

04/16/2020

... absenteeism as they revise attendance policies and provide resources to district staff. The grant will also allow the ... build on its history of collaborative work by directing resources toward solidifying...

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William T. Grant Foundation

Former Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation VP to Lead LISC NYC

Release Date:

09/18/2014

... more than $2 billion to help revitalize some of New York City 's most distressed neighborhoods. Marks comes to LISC ... Marks has long worked at organizations that bridge the city 's social and...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Suzanne C. Sousa Named Program Officer at Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

Release Date:

04/21/2015

... Director of Development and Special Projects at New York City ’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) where ... Education and The Peter F. Drucker Foundation in New York City . She also worked as a...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation

Ai Weiwei's Citywide Public Art Project Elicits Protest From Village Neighborhood Group

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... But because nothing of this scale can happen in New York City without someone finding something wrong with it, the ... in 1906 as “the first neighborhood association” in the city —has released a statement...

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Macquarie Group and Its Employees Donate $100,000 To Hurricane Harvey Relief Efforts

Release Date:

09/19/2017

... life-threatening flooding for both coastal and inland cities in Texas, which is now a federal state of disaster. ... "Hurricane Harvey was a devastating storm that forced the city of Houston and our...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Macquarie Group Foundation

Even as political battles persist, more district and charter schools join partnership program

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... DeCosta was introduced to Bronx Lighthouse through the city ’s District-Charter Partnership program, a city initiative kicked off in 2015 that brings together ...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

Release Date:

10/20/2017

... beneficiaries of the innovative partnerships between the city and the private sector. She's also part of the broader ... in public infrastructure and housing have strengthened the city , new small...

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Community Development

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Ford Foundation

Nina C. Robbins Chosen to Lead F.Y. Eye, Inc.

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01/19/2018

... digital network of over one hundred screens throughout the City ’s five boroughs, offering nonprofits and government ... Nina’s experience as a skilled project manager in city government, the nonprofit and...

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Abigail E. Disney, Cyndi Lauper Among Those Honored at the New York Women’s Foundation’s 2019 Celebrating Women® Breakfast

Release Date:

05/14/2019

... had a transformative effect on communities in New York City and beyond. The Breakfast also honored The Foundation's ... of the United Women Firefighters Association of New York City . Grammy, Emmy and Tony...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Women's Foundation

30 Jul 2019

New York Environmental Funders Network – Summer Meeting

Tuesday, July 30, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... sustainability, climate and conservation in New York City and/or State. Philanthropy New York members funding or ... sustainability, climate and conservation in New York City and/or State are invited to join...

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Issue-Based

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

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Environment and Climate Change

Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Brings Art to the Public Hospital System

Release Date:

07/19/2019

... residents care more about their local health centers, the city ’s public hospital network is starting by making the ... hospitals. The project is part of a larger effort by the city ’s public health care system...

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Arts

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The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Supports the Building of Three New Hospitals in Greece

Release Date:

08/11/2022

... will fund three new state-of-the-art hospitals in the cities of Komotini, Thessaloniki and Sparta, at a cost of ... facility in Thessaloniki, the country’s second-largest city , be dedicated to pediatrics and...