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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

... their pay will improve their communities. There’ s no doubt that City funding for social services and the ... problems in a strategic and targeted manner. But it’ s not likely to just increase social services...

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Compensating for Your Philanthropic Blind Spots

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01/09/2014

... how important it is to identify “blind spots” in one’ s grantmaking practice and find others to complement your ... bell of the New York Stock Exchange to commemorate Twitter' s initial public offering on...

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Bessemer Trust

Your Foundation in Crisis: Will You Be Ready?

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06/18/2013

... press. As the drama and seriousness of the foundation’ s “crisis” intensified, it was fascinating to witness how ...

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How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

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09/28/2011

... which affects 44 of the 50 states. The Foundation Center’ s new survey suggests that the foundation community ...

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Standby Letters of Credit: The Underdog of Charitable Financing

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06/25/2009

... letter of credit is a document that states that a bank’ s client (in this case a Donor) will guarantee payment should ... the payer of last resort, and assets held in the Donor’ s name become collateral. While...

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Philanthropy Must Lead With Its Heart

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02/19/2015

... tendencies may be getting the best of us. It’ s imperative that we see ourselves in a loving relationship ... we see is symptom after symptom of a poisoned root. It’ s systemic: education, agriculture,...

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Ford’s Walker Says ‘Unusual Coalition’ Won’t Be Last of its Kind

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02/20/2015

... Public Safety. As our colleagues and I survey America’ s landscape of intractable, intolerable affronts to social ... even as crime rates steadily fall. Our government’ s steady construction of more prisons is...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Nobody Needs a ‘Shark Tank’ in Philanthropy

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03/27/2015

... those that need help. And we applaud Mr. Dagres’ s observation that "category-killer" charities — large, ... at worst. This trend didn’t pop up overnight. It’ s the outgrowth of a slow movement to...

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Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... a commentary for The Chronicle of Higher Education . It' s required." Too many engineering undergraduates utter this ... challenges them to decide how to best clean up Worcester’ s heavily polluted...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

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10/15/2015

... Pilot Initiative in Collaboration with NYC DOE and Mayor’ s Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline ... Department of Education (NYC DOE) and Mayor de Blasio’ s Leadership Team on School Climate and...

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Win 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards (New York Community Trust)

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11/11/2015

... these three outstanding organizations with this year’ s Awards,” said Sharon Stapel, President of NPCC. ... Trust, the sponsor of the award and one of the region’ s leading funders of nonprofits. “We celebrate...

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Co-Chief Investment Officer of Carnegie Corporation of NY Meredith Jenkins Goes to Trinity Wall Street

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01/19/2016

... helped grow the investment portfolio of the foundation’ s $3.3 billion endowment into a top-tier performer for the ... Trinity Wall Street. She will create and lead the church’ s first in-house investment team...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Schott Foundation Welcomes Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks and Miren Uriarte to the Board of Directors

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02/26/2016

... 2014, President Barack Obama named her to the President’ s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African ... identity or sexual orientation. In concert with NBJC’ s mission to eradicate racism and...

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This Is How to Put Neighborhoods at the Center of Grantmaking

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03/04/2016

... to ask the question, “How can we as the borough’ s community foundation make a deeply positive impact on the ... of residents and advocates represent the neighborhood’ s historic and racially diverse...

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Build Trust With A Purpose Statement

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12/05/2016

... there is a gap of more than 20 points between the elite’ s trust in the sector and the general population’ s .” How have companies been responding to this pressure? ... impact initiatives, the communication of...

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We Made a Comprehensive Investment in Board Service, and This Is What Happened

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04/20/2017

... respect to joining and serving on nonprofit boards. It’ s been a wonderful journey that has helped spur new ideas, ... Robin Hood Foundation, Quantum Governance and United Way’ s BoardServe NYC Program to...

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Credit Suisse Americas Foundation

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Three Ways Funders Delude Themselves About Equity

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04/26/2017

... and wanting to learn how to embrace and promote it. That’ s a good thing. Inequity is a big problem in our society and ... general, it carries with it the notion of fairness. It’ s different than equality, in...

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Passing Raise the Age Legislation: A Big Step on the Long Road to Implementation

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06/30/2017

... Children and Naomi Post, Executive Director, Children’ s Defense Fund-NY On April 10, 2017, Governor Cuomo signed ... of life get to Albany to make their voices heard. Here’ s what else moved the needle:...

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The Wallace Foundation Announces Promotions of Five Staff Members to Senior Program Officer

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12/18/2017

... provider at the national level. At Wallace, Claudia’ s grants management responsibilities have included working ... been instrumental in contributing to the design of Wallace' s new cross sector social...

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Arts