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08 Oct 2024

Reimagining Access: Philanthropic Leadership in the Post-Affirmative Action Era

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 320 East 43rd Street

... Foundation Shawn Dove (Moderator) , Managing Partner, New Profit Who should attend? All interested funders in ...

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2014 Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship Awards in the Neurosciences Announced

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06/10/2014

... Foundation and the Esther A. and Joseph Klingenstein Fund have announced the 12 recipients of the 2014 ... are the first from this joint project of the Klingenstein Fund and the Simons Foundation. The awards...

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Ford and MetLife Work to Measure Impact of Community Investing

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06/09/2015

The foundations will work with the Global Impact Investing Network.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Initiative to Increase Arts Integration in Research Cirricula

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08/06/2015

... from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund the SPARC Project: Supporting Practice in Arts, Research ...

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Ford Foundation Head in India Moves On, Hints at Discord with Government

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09/08/2015

The foundation has had its funding frozen after the government announced a probe into a $250,000 grant it had given to a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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Rita Allen Supported Prize Goes In Part To Vanderbilt Project Intended To Combat Fake News

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06/28/2017

... a share of a $1 million prize through the Knight Prototype Fund . After a call for entries in March, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, along with the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation,...

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Toward Liberation: A Staunch Social Justice Funder Puts Women of Color Up Front

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09/29/2017

... on its initial focus, reproductive justice, Groundswell Fund has expanded to support broader movement building by ... Groundswell was founded in 2003 as a $300,000 pooled fund at Tides, seeded by several...

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Could This Major Grant by Paul Allen Signal Deeper Climate Giving to Come?

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10/02/2017

The tech donor’s latest major grant is right in the sweet spot between the two fields, a $4 million commitment that will back the deep ocean probes monitoring how ocean temperatures are changing.

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grants Duke University $3M to Grow Liberal Arts Colleges and HBCU Visiting Faculty

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05/07/2018

... black colleges and universities. The grant will fund a five-year initiative called Humanities Unbounded, ...

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Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications

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12/04/2018

Arcus today publishes a Request for Concepts, the initial step in a streamlined process for organizations to apply for Arcus funding to support LGBTQ social justice work. The deadline for responses to this open call is January 22, 2019. Subsequent...

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Fidelity Charitable Reports Record Results in First Three Quarters in 2013

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10/26/2013

... Fidelity Charitable, the nation's largest donor-advised fund program, has announced record results through the first ... that donors continued to leverage appreciated assets to fund their giving accounts...

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Opportunity International and The MasterCard Foundation Plan To Help 7M Out of Poverty With $22.7M Partnership

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03/25/2014

Opportunity International andThe MasterCard Foundation plan to help 7 million out of poverty with $22.7 million partnership, reports Forbes.

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... an advisory trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and a past president of the Rockefeller Family Fund , was family physician in Falmouth, Me., and before that ...

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With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Iran and the U.S. and its allies than the Ploughshares Fund , which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund . In March, RBF gave Ploughshares a one-year...

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Weinberg Foundation To Make $700,000 in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits in Israel

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07/29/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced today it will donate $700,000 to support many of its active grantees that have provided crucial social services to those affected by rocket attacks on cities in Israel.

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PNY Members Among Top Ten Funders of LGBTQ Education and Safe Schools Work

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09/18/2014

Ford, Open Society and Arcus are among the top funders for LGBTQ education and safe school works.

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Mellon Foundation Partners with NFF to Build Financial Health of Arts Organizations

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03/12/2015

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is partnering with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... Clement McKinley, Vice President of Nonprofit Finance Fund . "Continued artistic excellence is best served by a .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help Poor Countries Fight Big Tobacco

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03/19/2015

... Bill Gates and Michael Bloomberg have set up a $4 million fund to help poor countries resist pressure from big tobacco ... sales in mature economies by expanding elsewhere. The fund , to be backed by Bloomberg...

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JPB Foundation Champions Bike Share Access for Underserved Communities

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06/02/2015

“These grants allow cities, systems, and non-profit partners to test interventions and help us develop best practices for encouraging more people to use bike share."

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