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Three Prominent Foundation Leaders Join Foundation Center Board of Trustees

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04/20/2015

... health, and digital technology," said Foundation Center' s president, Bradford K. Smith. "Their combined wisdom will ... the academy, exploring the role of digital tools for learning , and...

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PhilTV: "Giving Grants is Not Enough; The Question is 'Did You Make Things Better?'"

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09/30/2016

... ” to explore many of the great challenges in today’ s healthcare system, including a rapidly aging population, ... the role that philanthropy can play in ensuring America’ s healthcare workforce is prepared...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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12 Mar 2012

Conversations for Grantmakers: Hydrofracking Plus and Minus

Monday, March 12, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... gas drilling has on community infrastructure. Amy Panek from the Park Foundation and Marilyn Bok from the Community Foundation for the Twin Tiers will also ...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’ s Blindness The project will, among other things, help ... at New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’ s Hospital . “It’ s very tough losing...

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

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01/29/2019

... Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department ... and Visual Sciences , along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund Names New Executive Director

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01/15/2014

... Fund have selected R. David Addams to be the foundation’ s next Executive Director. Addams will take on the role on ... Side in Chicago, Mr. Addams continued, “I benefited from the ‘accident’ of the schools I...

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William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund

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Philanthropy Can Play a Role In Managing Student Debt Crisis

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06/27/2016

... entitled Know What They Owe--Ensuring that New York’ s Students Graduate College with Manageable Debt could recall ... are eager to understand the way college debt has gone from being a reasonable risk – a...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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Fitting The Image To The Spirit

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06/26/2018

... Philanthropy. So when I learned of Alliance Magazine' s March issue fully committed to Diaspora Philanthropy, I was ... As a philanthropist and philanthropic practitioner from the African American...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, and The Whitman Institute Launch the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

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01/22/2020

... organizations that will help seed and build regional learning communities around trust-based philanthropy. Thus ... others in adopting trust-based practices. The Project’ s Steering Committee—helmed by leaders...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... Equity. Structural racism is pervasive within the nation’ s health and health care systems, and despite progress, still ... people with low-income, those with disabilities, those from LGBTQ communities, and...

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Navigating Backlash: Lessons for a Thriving Multiracial and Multicultural Workplace

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02/10/2025

... improved performance outcomes—and we have evidence from periodic independent assessments of grantmaking impact, ... events, the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, which the U. S . Department of Justice recently...

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Transparency

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Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) RFP for Round 13 of the Partners for Places Grant Program

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07/19/2018

... is a successful matching grant program that improves U. S . and Canadian communities by building partnerships between ...

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04 May 2017

New Models for Senior Transportation: The Rise of the Sharing Economy - A Webinar Hosted by Grantmakers in Aging

Thursday, May 4, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Transportation remains a top issue for older people in all settings, urban, suburban, or rural.

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Technology

Helmsley Charitable Trust Announces New CEO

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11/06/2015

... the appointment of Stephanie Cuskley as the Trust’ s new Chief Executive Officer. Ms. Cuskley will assume the ... John R. Ettinger who has served as the Trust’ s CEO since 2012 . Ms. Cuskley...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Salesforce Commits to Adding 1,000 New Local Jobs

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11/30/2018

... Tower Chicago, significantly expanding the company' s regional headquarters in Chicago. As part of the expansion, ... Salesforce.org are committed to investing in young people from the classroom to the...

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Economic Security

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The Long Island Community Foundation Awards $610,000 in Grants to 30 Nonprofits

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10/14/2021

... to its work to assist our region as it recovers from the pandemic. One-page descriptions of each grant are ... Extension of the Empire State Trail). EDUCATION CHILDREN’ S MUSEUM OF THE EAST END – $17,000 to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arts

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Long Island Community Foundation

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Philip Li, President & CEO of the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Joins the Board of Directors at GEO

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02/21/2018

... Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Dr. Hanh Cao Yu, chief learning officer at the California Endowment The board of ...

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

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Morgan Stanley Increases COVID-19 Charitable Commitment to $25 Million

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04/28/2020

... to the global COVID-19 crisis. Building upon the Firm’ s previously announced COVID-19 relief commitment of $10 ... For more information about Morgan Stanley, please visit www .morganstanley. com...

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2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prizes Awarded to 10 Initiatives With Standout Potential, Shared Community Focus

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11/16/2021

... applications—more than double the total submissions from the 2019 cycle—the Fund awarded its biennial J.M.K. ... to make a significant, lasting impact on America’ s most pressing challenges. The 2021 awardees...

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