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Evan Michelson Joins Alfred P. Sloan Foundation as Program Officer

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02/12/2014

... said Michelson. “Energy and basic research are among the most critical societal issues of the 21st ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Using Documentary Films to Promote Change

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09/30/2014

... for our upcoming screenings: Thursday, October 9 – We Are Many We are Many documents the day of February 15, 2003, when ...

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Arts

F.B. Heron Foundation Earmarks Entire Endowment for Social Impact Investments

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10/21/2014

... returns to fund grants to nonprofits. Heron is making the shift at a time when other foundations, as well as governments and corporations, are trying to find investments those benefits extend ...

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Nancy Mahon Named Estee Lauder Senior Vice President, Global Philanthropy and Corporate Citizenship

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10/07/2014

... past eight years, she has implemented best-in-class grant- making strategies while overseeing a four-fold increase in ...

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Community Development

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The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

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11/17/2014

... 35,000 in New York City, many of them part-time – are paid less than $15.00 an hour. In contrast, the average ... the event of a fiscal squeeze or change of administration. Are philanthropists willing to...

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Citizens Budget Commission

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Workforce Development

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See the Storify: Sandy, Philanthropy & A Year of Hard Lessons

Release Date:

10/29/2013

... the opportunities for learning and collaboration that are still necessary as our region rebuilds. We hope you will ...

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11 Feb 2015

Citizenfour - Documentary Film Series

Wednesday, February 11, 2015 -

4:00pm to 9:00pm

"CITIZENFOUR" is a real life thriller, unfolding by the minute, giving audiences unprecedented access to filmmaker Laura Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald’s encounters with Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, as he hands over classified documents...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Social Justice

To Frack or Not To Frack in New York: Observations from a Donor Briefing

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08/16/2012

... amounts of water, along with sand and toxic chemicals, are injected into rock. Underground water supplies are at risk of contamination; leftover wastewater, known as ... landscapes and put stress on...

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Ask Your Question to Duncan, King and Walcott!

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05/14/2012

... we ask must be focused and insightfully constructed. Are there topics other than those above that you think are crucial to ask these leaders? How exactly should we frame ...

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Send Grad Students Our Way

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02/18/2015

... CUNY, NYU, Columbia, The New School and Fordham. While we are disseminating the application through local universities, ... achievable solutions is immensely labor intensive. We are producing dozens of policy-...

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Effective Journalism Is Now Part of Our College Completion Mission

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03/17/2015

... field of all children. To that end, we’ve been making strategic investments that help promote vigorous ... our conference on CUNY’s website . In addition, we are also supporting a portion of the Education...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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FEGS: Canary in the Coal Mine?

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04/10/2015

... costs and far too many government-dependent organizations are encouraged to and do both under-report and under-invest ... else was shortsighted and simplistic. Now foundations are seeing the light. And...

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Human Services Council of NYC

Workforce Development

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The New York Community Trust

Animal Groups Unite to Improve Post-Disaster Philanthropy

Release Date:

04/17/2015

... to Animals (ASPCA) Grantmakers—including the ASPCA — are constantly striving to increase the reach and impact of ... groups will collectively consider grant requests that are submitted via a centralized portal...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Animal Welfare

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12 Nov 2015

I Didn’t Know You Could Do That With a Family Foundation

Thursday, November 12, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... can’t do. Yet tens of thousands of foundations are doing incredible and creative work in pursuit of their ...

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Professional Development

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Roundtable Discussion

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Governance

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New York City

The State of Philanthropic Infrastructure

Release Date:

08/05/2015

... that the philanthropic infrastructure organizations are deeply engaged in networking to build stronger ... new relationships and build upon existing ones. We are excited to bring back what we learned in...

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