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Darren Walker: Using Privilege to Fight Privilege

Release Date:

08/31/2016

... big smiles or expressions of awe, if not both. Walker’ s reputation for hard work, bridge-building and empathy are ... his elevation three years ago to president of the Ford Foundation was greeted with...

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Russell Sage Survey Finds Fear of Other People Is Now Primary Motivation for American Gun Ownership

Release Date:

09/19/2016

... protect against attack by other people, a new survey of U. S . gun ownership by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern ... that there are an estimated 265 million firearms in U. S . homes — more than the number...

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Doris Duke Supports NY Dance and Performance Bessie Award Nominees

Release Date:

09/20/2016

... Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City' s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in ... possible by a generous gift from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF). The...

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Carnegie Corporation Seeks Ideas to Reduce Nuclear Risks

Release Date:

09/23/2016

... partnership with the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation , invites proposals for analytical work on reducing ...

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RFPs Etc

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Environment and Climate Change

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Tiffany & Co. Supports Ocean Conservation

Release Date:

09/26/2016

... conservation efforts. We unpack this luxury retailer’ s surprising support for oceans and coral reefs. Among ...

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01 Dec 2016

Grantee-Centered Capacity Building Is What You Think It Is – And More

Thursday, December 1, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... and similarly, how grantees experience investments. GEO' s Heather Peeler will frame the conversation and offer ... and technical assistance to field building. Whether your foundation is just beginning to...

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Where Do You See Yourself In the Next Five Years?

Release Date:

10/06/2016

... in the New York PhilanthroPost October 2016 president’ s edition. It’ s the question you get in job interviews, by work or life ... of Conducting Interviews for Potential Coworkers at Your Foundation...

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NY Community Trust's Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering Stereotypes and College Prep

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10/06/2016

NY Community Trust' s Shawn Morehead Featured in Podcast on Countering ... about this more recent initiative along with the Trust' s long-standing work with immigrant communities. We also ... Donna...

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

Release Date:

10/13/2016

... to Participate in $47M Initiative The Wallace Foundation has selected seven universities and their state ...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

Release Date:

10/19/2016

... to create a comprehensive plan to secure “women’ s economic development and political citizenship” in the ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Rockefeller Study Shows Female CEOs Get Blamed for Failure More Frequently Than Men

Release Date:

10/26/2016

... CEOs Get Blamed for Failure More Frequently Than Men It’ s not your imagination or a just a hunch: Female chief ... men and women ― released Wednesday by the Rockefeller Foundation . More striking than that?...

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Commonwealth Fund Report Finds Americans’ Salaries Can’t Keep Up With Rising Medical Costs

Release Date:

10/26/2016

... Wednesday by The Commonwealth Fund, a nonpartisan research foundation , found that premiums and deductibles grabbed 6.5 ...

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Q&A: Judith Rodin Makes An Impact On Investing And Giving

Release Date:

11/02/2016

... say she is life-changing. As president of the Rockefeller Foundation since 2005, Rodin has helped bring philanthropy ...

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New Study Examines How Creative Placemaking Projects Build Social Capital in Communities

Release Date:

11/04/2016

... approaches. Commissioned by the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt Foundation and led by Slover Linett Audience Research, the ...

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Arts

Edna McConnell Clark and Other Powerful Funders Stand Behind At-Risk Students

Release Date:

11/23/2016

... Behind At-Risk Students When you hear about philanthropy' s role in K-12 education these days, so often it' s the big reform funders who get all the .....

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Ford, Rockefeller, Atlantic, Pershing Square, Bloomberg and Open Society Named in Forbes' Big Bet Philanthropy

Release Date:

11/30/2016

... Big Bet Philanthropy For the superrich and the biggest U. S . charitable foundations, donating to universities, ...

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Rockefeller's Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating Waste to Feed The Hungry

Release Date:

12/05/2016

Rockefeller' s Judith Rodin Writes Time Magazine Editorial on Eliminating ... times a year, its hunger devours a third of all of Earth’ s food, and its breath emits greenhouse gases at a level ... name is...

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Food Systems

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Words Matter: Changing from Funders of Women and Girls to Funders for Gender Equity

Release Date:

01/04/2017

... Jennifer Agmi, Director of Programs at the New York Women' s Foundation The history of philanthropy is one where women and ... of masculinity. Over the years, the creation of women’ s...