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Reflections from Foundations on the Hill

Release Date:

03/24/2011

By Nur Ibrahim Executive Coordinator, Philanthropy New York Philanthropy New ... more than just once a year. Nur Ibrahim serves as the Executive Coordinator at Philanthropy New York. She supports ... and provides...

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Playwright, Novelist and Songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank

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10/15/2015

... Neale Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were Watching God for executive producer Oprah Winfrey. In 2007, after writing one ... for The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; Russell Granet, Executive Director of Lincoln Center...

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Arts

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Deploys $100,000 for ‘Immediate Response’ Grants to Immigrant Nonprofits

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02/07/2017

... challenges triggered by the Trump Administration’s Executive Order banning travelers from 7 Muslim-majority ... we are prouder than ever to call Brooklyn home. This Executive Order on immigration has been met...

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Immigration

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“The City Where America Is Going to Find Herself Again”: A Funders Conversation with Mayor Mitch Landrieu

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01/12/2011

By James O’Sullivan Director, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors On November 16th, 55 Philanthropy New York members participated in a members briefing featuring a keynote address by the Honorable Mitch Landrieu, Mayor of New...

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Responding to Crisis/Opportunity: The F.B. Heron Foundation’s Opportunity Fund

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04/29/2010

By John Weiler Senior Program Officer, F.B. Heron Foundation Like many of its colleague funders, the F.B. Heron Foundation experienced a sharp decline in its charitable assets in 2008 and early 2009. At the same time, Heron...

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Bezos Family Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Spencer Foundation, and William T. Grant Foundation Award Grants to Four Partnerships Addressing Social Issues

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06/05/2023

The newest grants, amounting to nearly $2.6 million, have been awarded to the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Illinois Chicago, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Virginia.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Justice

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Doris Duke Foundation

The Spend-Out Presumption And The Value Of Enduring Institutions

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02/26/2010

... perpetuity as well. It is, for instance, the unthinking, default position for far too many foundations and donors. ... with a longer-term perspective. Assuming perpetuity as the default or presuming spending...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Ten Grants at COP27 to Scale Indigenous and Regenerative Agriculture Practices Globally

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11/09/2022

$11 million in grants will support strategies to end compounding crises of climate, hunger, and malnutrition through community-led changes to global food systems

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

International/Foreign Affairs

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School Choice and Privilege Are Inextricably Linked

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11/09/2015

Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Lori Bezahler says that unless we examine the relationship between privilege and access to markets, we will ignore the constraints that many families face in a market driven education system.

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