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Hurricane Season is Here, Sandy is Not Over

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10/31/2014

... again, and we recently marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting the New York region, bringing ... funder's briefing that North Star convened over the summer of forty individuals,...

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Disaster Relief

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North Star Fund

What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

... a commencement speech given to the Northeastern College of Professional Studies on May 15, 2015. Many years ago, one of those key people in my life, a professor named Dale Mann ... programs for children. We...

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Children, Youth and Families

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13 Nov 2015

Countering Violent Extremism: Programming and Evaluation - Webinar

Friday, November 13, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

In light of the continuing threat of violent extremist groups - such as ISIL, Al-Qaeda, and the ... role in supporting programming that mitigates risk factors of radicalization and reduces the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Doris Duke’s Andrew Bowman to Lead The Land Trust Alliance

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11/30/2015

... today announced that Andrew Bowman will assume the role of president starting Feb. 10, 2016. “The Alliance’s board of directors is thrilled that Mr. Bowman has agreed to take ... at Berkeley, a Master ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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United Way of New York City Board of Directors Elects Donald F. Donahue and Michael J. Schmidtberger as New Co-Chairs

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06/21/2016

United Way of New York City Board of Directors Elects Donald F. Donahue and Michael J. ... New Co-Chairs NEW YORK, NY— June 13, 2016— The Board of Directors of United Way...

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United Way of New York City

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New Momentum in Youth Justice Reform

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02/08/2017

... Youth Justice Reform By Lukas Haynes, executive director of the David Rockefeller Fund, and Liz Ryan, co-founder of Youth First Initiative As foundations continue to assess ... Through “Redirect New York”...

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Justice Reform

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Four Members to Board of Directors

Release Date:

05/24/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Four Members to Board of Directors Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce the election of four new members to its Board of Directors, effective...

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Names Daniel F. Wilhelm President

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06/05/2017

... Guggenheim Foundation today announced the appointment of Daniel F. Wilhelm as its eighth President. Mr. Wilhelm, ... Mr. Wilhelm was a Senior Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, a premier non-...

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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Culture in New York City

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08/14/2017

... By Michelle Coffey, Kerry McCarthy, and Michele Kumi Baer of the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York ... Post and is reposted with permission. With the unveiling of CreateNYC, New York City...

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Arts

Putting Capital to Work for Democracy

Release Date:

07/10/2018

... Work for Democracy By Sarah Williams, Co-Founder and CEO of Propel Capital The Saturday before July 4th, I was on an island 10 miles off the coast of mainland USA, population 1,100, standing with 260 people...

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Civic Engagement

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04 Dec 2018

Seeding Power: Leadership for Justice-Based Movements in Food and Farming

Tuesday, December 4, 2018 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

... decades, food has emerged as a central strategy and focus of nonprofits worldwide concerned with environmentalism and ... ‘food movement’ has yet to realize the true potential of the millions who care deeply...

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Food Systems

04 May 2021

Towards a NYC COVID-19 Food Response in 2021 - A Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -

9:30am to 11:00am

Virtual Meeting - Register by 5/3

... a first come, first served basis.* During the early stages of the pandemic in Spring 2020, CFF held weekly funder calls ... or mandate to collect data and analyze both the impact of COVID-19 on hunger and food...

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Community Development

Food Systems

Using an Ecosystem Approach to Define Nonprofit Strategy

Release Date:

10/05/2016

... Nonprofit Strategy by Bonnie Mazza, Associate Director of Nonprofit Strategy & Capacity Building, TCC Group We know ... We hear constantly, on area panels and elsewhere, stories of grantees submitting...

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Fake News as a Real Opportunity

Release Date:

01/23/2017

Fake News as a Real Opportunity By Celeste Ford, manager of media relations for Carnegie Corporation of New York According to a recent Stanford University study , ... the source and are unable “to judge the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Communications/Media

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3/10/2015 - Supporting Grantee Capacity - Live Stream Recording & PowerPoint

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03/2015

View materials and the live stream recording of the program, " Supporting Grantee Capacity ." 3/10/2015 .....

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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Foundation Center

Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures

Release Date:

01/11/2017

... This post from Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Arcus Foundation, was originally published by the Center for Effective Philanthropy and is the sixth in a series of eight essays from...

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Technical Assistance and Strong Relationships: Key to Quality Capacity Building

Release Date:

09/15/2014

... blog. The Robert Bowne Foundation has supported out- of -school time (OST) literacy programs since 1968 and will ... ) One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Foundation has been its...

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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Centering Disability Justice

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... Office, Ford Foundation Two years ago, the President of the Ford Foundation, Darren Walker, penned a blog ... alternative-text descriptions, and changes in our human resources practices. We detail these and...

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