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13 Jun 2012

2012 Conference on Scaling Impact

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 8:00am to Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 6:30pm

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Park Place, NYC

Join the Social Impact Exchange community of funders, social investors, philanthropists, and advisors to share knowledge, learn about innovative co-funding opportunities and develop a marketplace to help scale top-performing initiatives and build...

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09 Jul 2012

Conversation for Grantmakers: Update on the Cultural Data Project

Monday, July 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Teleconference

... data from the New York State CDP as one part of their grant application processes. What is the advantage they see ...

21 Mar 2013

What to Look for in a Nonprofit’s Financial Statement

Thursday, March 21, 2013 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... financials. Know what questions to raise with the grant applicant or grantee. Gain a better understanding of ...

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14 Nov 2013

A Quantum Leap Forward: How Funders Can Go from Building “Capacity” to Building “Resilience” in Their Grantees and the Nonprofit Sector

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

7:45am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York

Please join us for an important conversation that will explore how funders can help both their grantees and the broader nonprofit sector become more resilient. Philanthropy New York has convened a number of its member foundations during the last...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

JPMorgan Expands ‘The Fellowship Initiative’ To Help Disadvantaged High Schoolers Get Into Top Colleges

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06/21/2014

Launched four year's ago in NYC to help disadvantaged high school students get into top colleges, JPMorgan Chase's "The Fellowship Initiative" is expanding to Chicago and Los Angeles.

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Education

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Advocacy Group Supporting NYC Pre-K Expansion Raised $1.76 Million

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07/15/2014

... news article, Crain's New York Business reports that the grant from AFT, the parent union of the United Federation of .....

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Education

Public Policy

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Rockefeller Family Fund

"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

America needs to take steps to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, write David Blumenthal, M.D., president, and David Squires, senior researcher to the president, The...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Arts Funders Create Fund in The New York Community Trust to Advance Cultural Policy and Equity in New York City

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11/03/2014

The New York City Cultural Agenda Fund is supported by NYCT, Booth Ferris, Robert Rauschenberg and the David Rockefeller Fund, among other funders.

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation

The David Rockefeller Fund

United Way of New York City Partners With Bank of America for Volunteer Day of Action

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05/13/2015

One hundred volunteers assembled 2000 "Basics for Babies" kits.

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Bank of America [Corporate]

Helmsley Trust Awards $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation

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05/18/2015

... $17.5 Million to Crohn's & Colitis Foundation The grant will be used to establish an integrated knowledge .....

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Lawmakers Respond to Century Foundation's "Covert For-Profit" Report, Ask for Immediate Action

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10/28/2015

Seven U.S. senators sent a letter to Department of Education secretary Arne Duncan and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen urging them to take swift action against possibly fraudulent for-profit education companies.

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Education

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The Century Foundation

Rockefeller Provides Capital for Start-Up Aiming to Increase Worker Savings

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12/09/2015

... in 2008 to work on his idea full-time and got a $1 million grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2010 he launched ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Economic Security

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NoVo Foundation Leaders Talk About Aversion to Measurement

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12/10/2015

As the non-profit funding sector focuses increasingly on numbers, Jennifer and Peter Buffett, co-directors of the NoVo Foundation, seek to counter that trend. The hyper-focus on measurement ignores what truly motivates people to give away large...

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Verizon Supported Study Finds Smartphone App Can Improve Self-management for Some with Spina Bifida

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12/10/2015

A smartphone app might help adolescents and young adults with spina bifida improve their daily self-management skills, which can help prevent skin wounds and other complications, according to a pilot study of the interactive Mobitle Health &...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Appointments & Transitions

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Verizon

Westchester Community Foundation Names Tara Seeley as New Program Officer

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02/02/2016

The Westchester Community Foundation has appointed Tara Seeley as program officer. She was previously a program officer at the Central Indiana Community Foundation.

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The Westchester Community Foundation

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Edited Stem Cells Offer Hope of Precision Therapy for Blindness (Doris Duke, Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/03/2016

New research findings may lead to the treatment of blinding eye diseases using a patient’s own corrected cells as replacement tissue.

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Research to Prevent Blindness

Science

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Doris Duke Foundation

Josiah Macy Foundation Supports Project in Integrated Care for Psychologists & Doctors

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02/03/2016

... so they don't get burned out by day's end. . . With a grant from the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the .....

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Realigned Program Areas: Youth, Neighborhoods and Nonprofits

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02/11/2016

Brooklyn Community Foundation has rolled out a new vision, mission and strategy over the past year. The organization launched a focus on three core areas -- youth, neighborhoods, and nonprofits.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia.

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