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29 Nov 2011

Funding Advocacy in Increasingly Polarized Political Times

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 -

1:00pm to 5:00pm

... CEO, Nathan Cummings Foundation Panel One Tarso Ramos , Executive Director, Political Research Associates Cecile ... and Planned Parenthood Action Fund Madeline Janis , Executive Director, Los Angeles Alliance...

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Issue-Based

To Get to the Good, You Gotta Dance With the Wicked

Release Date:

09/19/2013

... nonprofit leaders — including Gail B. Nayowith, founding Executive Director of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

Release Date:

05/06/2014

... sector, and served in the philanthropy sector as chief executive of the Case Foundation since creating the ...

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Impact Investing

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The Rockefeller Foundation

De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

Release Date:

05/20/2014

De Blasio picks biz execs to overhaul jobs program.

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Workforce Development

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IBM Corporation

Goldman Sachs

The New York Community Trust

On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

Release Date:

07/10/2014

... goals Teresa Younger has set for herself as the new chief executive of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to "diversify .....

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Gender Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

Release Date:

07/22/2014

... author of Behind the Kitchen Door, and Christine Owens is executive director of the National Employment Law Project, a ...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Surdna Foundation

Ford Is Among Funders Exploring How To Respond To Issues Raised By Ferguson Shooting

Release Date:

08/28/2014

The Ford Foundation is among national and local funders exploring how to respond to social justice issues that have surfaced since the shooting death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., and the police response to the protests that...

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Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

Release Date:

11/20/2014

... Reform Debate President Obama could be announcing some executive orders involving immigration as early as this ...

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Immigration

President’s Changes on Immigration Mobilize Nonprofits, Foundations

Release Date:

12/17/2014

... for temporary legal status under the president’s executive action on immigration announced in November. All ...

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Immigration

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Tow Foundation President Emily Tow Jackson Supports Governor Cuomo's Recommendation to Raise the Age

Release Date:

01/20/2015

... said commission member Emily Tow Jackson, executive director and president of The Tow Foundation, based ...

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Justice Reform

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The Tow Foundation

NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

Release Date:

03/06/2015

... a glance at most university directories or pharmaceutical executive committees tells the more complex story. Women in ...

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Doris Duke Foundation

The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Goldman Sachs Contributes $2 Million to LaGuardia Community College

Release Date:

03/16/2015

... an unexpected call. It was Lloyd C. Blankfein, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs, who surprised her with the news ...

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Education

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Goldman Sachs

Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

Release Date:

04/15/2015

... America's first Gilded Age—as a financier and railroad executive . Lately, that fortune has bankrolled a remarkably .....

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Community Development

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Russell Sage Foundation

New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

Release Date:

05/21/2015

... release issued by Parsons quotes Bill Walsh, founder and executive director of Healthy Building Network: “This ...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Freedom Together Foundation

New York Foundation and Brooklyn Community Foundation Lauded for Nimbleness

Release Date:

05/27/2015

... While it is far from the biggest foundation, said its executive director, Maria Mottola, it does make a big ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

Release Date:

06/29/2015

... build-out of our national network,” said Dan Cohen, executive director of the Digital Public Library of America. ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

02 Nov 2015

Winning Ingredients: What Philanthropy Can Learn from the Marriage Equality Movement

Monday, November 2, 2015 -

12:45pm to 4:00pm

... Welcoming remarks: Steve Foster, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Overbrook Foundation Meg Gage, President and Executive Director, Proteus Fund Panelists: Paul Di Donato ... Frazzini, Co-Director,...