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A Glass Half Full: Japan’s Disaster Response at One Year

Release Date:

03/27/2012

... International Exchange (JCIE/USA) One year after Japan’ s massive 3/11 disaster, talking about the recovery of the ... had been completely decimated. One reason is that Japan’ s philanthropic response has been...

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Impact Investing in Education: An Overview of the Current Landscape

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01/2014

... , is part of the Open Society Education Support Program’ s efforts to identify innovative financing mechanisms and ...

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Education

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Three PNY Members Join GCIR Board

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01/30/2017

Luna Yasui of the Ford Foundation, Shawn Morehead of The New York Community Trust and Evan Bacalao of Open Society Foundations have joined the board of Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees.

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The New York Community Trust

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Newsmakers: Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

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12/23/2013

... to Ford, where he was vice president of the foundation’ s Education, Creativity and Freedom of Expression program, ... Corporation , where he guided the organization’ s efforts to develop housing for low- and...

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05 Mar 2018

Rethinking Democracy Through Electoral Reform - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, March 5, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

Our current elections require systemic reforms to increase voter participation, counter racial and partisan gerrymandering, overcome zero-sum polarization, and advance a reflective and representative democracy.

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Public Policy

New Member Spotlight: The Andrea & Charles Bronfman Philanthropies

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05/08/2009

... We are delighted to feature one of Philanthropy New York’ s newest members, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman ... Member Spotlight. We asked Jeffrey R. Solomon , ACBP’ s President, about the foundation and its...

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Open Society’s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List

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09/16/2014

Open Society’ s Soros among Brookings Top Politically Influential Global Billionaires List Darrell West' s Global Billionaires Political Power Index is a ranking of the top global...

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Rauch Foundation and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’s Housing Needs

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02/05/2016

... and Others Publish Report that Quantifies Long Island’ s Housing Needs Regional Plan Association, HR&A Advisors ... funded by the Rauch Foundation as part of the Long Island Index , uses RPA’ s...

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Rauch Foundation

Citi Foundation’s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment to 500,000 Young People

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02/23/2017

Citi Foundation’ s Pathways to Progress Expands Globally With $100M Commitment ... largest philanthropic commitment in the Citi Foundation’ s history. Pathways launched in 2014 with a $50 million ... that helped...

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Workforce Development

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Philanthropist David Rockefeller Dies at 101

Release Date:

03/20/2017

David Rockefeller, the banker and philanthropist with the fabled family name who controlled Chase Manhattan bank for more than a decade and wielded vast influence around the world even longer as he spread the gospel of American capitalism, died on...

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Giving Like a Rockefeller, Even if You’re Not Super-Rich

Release Date:

03/31/2017

Few families, of course, are as wealthy as the Rockefellers. But their example offers lessons for families without famous last names, philanthropic resources and numerous plaques in their honor.

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BoardSource 2017 Finds a New Platform for Action in the Face of Declining Diversity

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... statistics shown in Leading with Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices tell a different story. ...

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Online Giving Up, But Overall Giving Declines

Release Date:

10/03/2017

... period of 2016, according to the latest Blackbaud Index . Online giving, conversely, went up by 9.8 percent when ...

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With Support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Plans Underway to Preserve Blue Mountain Wildlife Refuge

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11/26/2018

... next year. The land, which runs along the Blue Mountain' s Kittatinny Ridge, is being acquired from Pennsylvania ... American Water and will eventually be turned over to the U. S . Fish and Wildlife...

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New Research Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds New Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Release Date:

01/29/2019

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have discovered a genetic biomarker that is associated with age-related macular...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Releases a Research and Policy In Brief, Mass Shootings: Causes and Prevention

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04/21/2021

... CNN reported that 45 mass shootings had occurred in the U. S . in the previous month . While not a new phenomenon, such ...

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Health

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Brooklyn Insights Launched by Brooklyn Community Foundation

Release Date:

03/13/2014

... entrepreneurs and leaders together to discuss Brooklyn' s future. Visit Brooklyn Insights. Brooklyn Insights .....

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Community Development

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Financial Know-How for Nonprofits Online

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02/18/2013

... Foundation is launching the website strongnonprofits. org , which covers all facets of financial management, from ... foundation will launch the website strongnonprofits. org , which ... Financial Know-How for...

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

Release Date:

09/27/2022

... those impacted by the storm. This contribution brings Ford' s total commitment to long-term recovery in Puerto Rico to over $22 million since 2017. Hurricane Fiona' s catastrophic flooding left 75...

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