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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $9.1 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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03/12/2024

Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $9.1 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program As of March 1, ... and colleges, a 13% increase from last year’ s grantmaking. $8.5 million will expand support to existing...

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Education

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Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... This piece was originally published as a commentary for The Chronicle of Higher Education . It ' s required." Too many engineering undergraduates utter this ... culture, marked by...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Education

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Diversity Is a Core Commitment for Philanthropy New York

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07/08/2014

... Monthly July 2014 edition. When Philanthropy New York’ s Board approved our 2014-2016 Strategic Plan last year, we ... continuous themes of our conversation was the imperative for PNY to be diligent in shining...

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Changing the Debate on Education Policy

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06/07/2012

... to a topic debated on the front pages of every city’ s major newspaper. Where once we had presidential candidates ... of the U. S . Department of Education, today anyone vying for public...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Impact Investing Is a Policy Issue

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10/20/2016

... legalities of advocacy, through engaging in our process for taking official stands on issues of concern to the sector ... with my time commitments. So some might ask, “Why do we see you at every program on...

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Alliance Building in a Hyper-partisan Environment

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02/25/2022

... more than ever, we are a deeply polarized country. It ’ s difficult to imagine our elected officials agreeing on ... follow. By doing so, we create the appropriate atmosphere for members of...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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07 Apr 2022

Legal Series - Making Grants to Individuals

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10:00am to 11:30am

... to individuals can be a critical component of a funder’ s toolkit, as private foundations and public charities ... time, individual grantmaking is often misunderstood as it is governed by a number of legal...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Rivian Hires Anisa Kamadoli Costa as First Chief Sustainability Officer

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04/14/2022

... the hiring of Anisa Kamadoli Costa as the company’ s Chief Sustainability Officer, effective April 18, 2022. ... & Co. Foundation. At Rivian, she will be responsible for the company’ s...

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Philanthropy New York Seeks Nominations for our Board of Directors

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12/05/2023

Call for Board Nominations.png Philanthropy New York Seeks ... of Directors Dear Members: At Philanthropy New York’ s Annual Meeting each spring, the membership votes on the ... serve on our Board of Directors who...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Emergency Grants to Prison Education Programs as COVID Crisis Continues

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08/06/2020

... the award of 15 emergency grants totaling $1.5 million for providers of higher education in prison. The grants will ... Mellon Foundation believes in each and every student’ s humanity,” said Foundation...

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Bipartisan Report Warns of Extreme Threat to Economy From Global Warming

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06/24/2014

... than a million homes and businesses along the nation’ s coasts could flood repeatedly before ultimately being ... his wife, Wendy, has helped finance conservation efforts for decades; Thomas F. Steyer, a...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation's Pursuit of Conquering Inequality

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01/05/2016

What Money Can Buy - Ford Foundation' s Pursuit of Conquering Inequality The urge to change the ... change, the resistance of people who would benefit from it , the seduction of activities other than world-...

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Social Justice

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Peterson Center on Healthcare and Three Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients

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02/24/2016

... Other Funders Unite to Support Access to Clinical Notes for 50 Million Patients Experts say that ensuring access ... the system. OpenNotes is a national initiative that urges doctors and other clinicians to...

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Peterson Center on Healthcare

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Health

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on Nonprofits

Release Date:

11/28/2016

HSC Calls for Comments on Fair Labor Standards Act Effects on ... to sign onto this letter, please send your organization' s logo to Tracie Robinson by 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 30... HSC Calls...

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Senators Fight To Save Tax Break For Newman's Own Foundation

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01/19/2018

Senators Fight To Save Tax Break For Newman' s Own Foundation Over the past 25 years, Newman' s ... Own, was turned over to the nonprofit foundation. It donates 100...

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New York Health Foundation

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NYS Health Foundation Comments on Proposed Changes to Limit SNAP Eligibility

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03/29/2019

... part by expanding access to affordable nutritious foods. For example, we invest in nutrition incentive programs such ... Up Food Bucks program, which provides matching funds for SNAP recipients to stretch...

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Pfizer Foundation Awards Grant to the Maryland Department of Health to Address Decreases in Childhood Vaccinations During COVID-19 Pandemic

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07/21/2020

... due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant will be used for communications, outreach and vaccination clinics in areas ... decrease was reduced to 14% when compared with June 2019. For childhood vaccines, the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Communications/Media

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Pfizer

Design Is Key to Expanding the 21st Century Neighborhood Library

Release Date:

12/13/2016

... sixty-seven neighborhood libraries in New York. Carnegie’ s prolific philanthropic activity left an everlasting ... constitute the city’ s single most important resource for life-long...

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