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Commentary: Understanding Muslim America

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08/11/2011

By Michael Seltzer, Trustee, EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation , and past President, Philanthropy New York Editor’s note: All of us at Philanthropy New York are deeply indebted to Michael Seltzer not only for his in-depth...

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New Member Spotlight: Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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09/11/2009

... the level of public awareness of low vision services. Our grant program has provided substantial seed money to launch ... funders in order to increase the effectiveness of our grant efforts. We had recently...

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Simons Foundation Supported Research May Have Found Compound Essential to Formation of Life on Earth

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11/07/2017

... as peptides to do the main work of cells, and lipids to form encapsulating structures such as cell walls. However, no ...

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Science

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Spend Out vs. Perpetuity: Raising the Question

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08/05/2009

... annual grantmaking multifold and strategically focus grant investments. These are particularly compelling arguments at a time when the needs in the grant seeking community are great, many funders are cutting...

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars

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02/02/2022

... From Central America to the South China Sea, these are sites of ongoing violence or past conflict that threatens to ...

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Blended Finance "Plus”: Enhancing Support With Blended Knowledge

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09/04/2018

... long recognized that governments alone don’t have the resources to solve the most pressing challenges of our time. ... many believed was impossible – they provided financial resources and facilitated the flow...

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Health

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

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11/30/2016

... hospitals and cultural institutions is the norm. Less common are donations targeted at “social ... to which learning and improvement are built into the grant , and the strength of the relationship between the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Pamela Shifman of NoVo Foundation on the Responsibility of White People in Philanthropy to Dismantle Racism

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02/23/2018

... and how we measure the capacity to do great work. Grant makers must take conscious action to challenge our ... unconscious, assumptions — assumptions that pose as common sense — if we are ever going to make...

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Social Justice

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Three Practical Tips for Spreading and Scaling Youth Programs

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05/11/2017

New York Community Trust's Leigh Ross says that not every program will look the same, and that's ok.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Children, Youth and Families

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Monuments Project Supports Williamsburg Bray School project

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02/19/2022

... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a $5-million grant supporting the Williamsburg Bray School Project , an ... and vice president for museums, preservation and historic resources . “The restored...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Announces Five Projects for 2016 Green Neighborhoods Program

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10/12/2016

... selected for the 2016 Affordable Green Neighborhoods grant program. The AGN grant program provides funding and educational resources to developers of affordable housing who are ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Housing and Homelessness

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Eligibility & Policies

... and individual members. The prospective member’s grant distributions are made primarily on a discretionary ... and all other information requested on the application form and in this document. Philanthropy New...

Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards Support to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Service Automatic Defibrillator Devices

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05/17/2021

... of Health and Human Service (DHHS) a $6.4 million grant for the distribution of Automated External ... and refresh CPR and AED skills across 25 distribution sites . The sites have been...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Producers and Speakers: Money and Power in Post-Election America

... Nightline , and PBS’s Now , Angela co-authored Uncommon Common Ground: Race and America’s Future and contributed to ... 14 years on the staff of the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee, serving...

Paul Connolly Joins Bessemer Trust

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09/03/2013

Bessemer Trust has named Paul Connolly as its Director of Philanthropic Advisory Services. Connolly will be working to expand the Trust’s philanthropic advisory services department and assist clients nationally to develop and pursue their...

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

... Charitable Gift Fund (No. 120), for example, now produces grant -making forms that are filled in with key details, ...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation

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With Support from Rockefeller, '100K Opportunities Initiative' Achieves Hiring Goal Two Years Ahead of Schedule

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09/01/2016

... continue to capture and share new recruiting and human resources practices tailored to hiring, retaining and ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying

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12/07/2016

... we fund to focus on short-term projects, to spend valuable resources accounting for how they use our support, and to ...

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