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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

Arts Funders Create Fund in The New York Community Trust to Advance Cultural Policy and Equity in New York City Five foundations are pooling close to a ... agenda for cultural policy, and promote equity within the...

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Arts

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Young Men of Color Initiative Details Its Investments

Release Date:

03/03/2015

... Men of Color have collectively awarded millions of dollars in the past year to improve education outcomes, reduce ... These policy and programmatic efforts are chronicled in a new report titled Investments for...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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26 May 2015

Next Steps: Supporting the Community Schools Initiative

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... sectors and issues convened to explore the next steps in the expansion of Community Schools in New York City. At this meeting, we discussed the role of philanthropy in working with community...

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Children, Youth and Families

Gap CEO: Giving Young People Their First Jobs is A Double Bottom Line Investment For Companies

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03/28/2016

... our first jobs. Art gained his first work experience in high school, painting houses and as a grocery store clerk. One of John’s first jobs was in a summer camp in a high-needs community...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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Workforce Development

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JPB Foundation Promotes Betsy Krebs to Vice President, Poverty Program

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04/22/2016

... with the goal of increasing opportunities for people in poverty in the US. Most recently Betsy has served as Program Director in the Poverty Program, overseeing the Foundation’s grants ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Forbes Article Highlights Edna McConnell Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist

Release Date:

08/24/2016

... Clark as Example of Thinking Like a Venture Capitalist In the private sector , no one thinks that great investments are easy to ... find one truly great deal per year are considered stars in...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Impact Investing

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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An Introduction to PhilTV

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01/20/2017

... our goal of telling the stories of the philanthropic sector through the powerful medium of moving images. PhilTV ... viral and have the potential to make real positive change in communities. PHIL Talks -...

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Arabella Advisors Study Finds Global Funds For Fossil Fuels Are On The Decline

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02/02/2017

... projects and redirecting investment towards renewables in an effort to make good on climate pledges. Deutsche Bank , ... announced that it will cease to finance coal projects in an effort to meet its...

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Environment and Climate Change

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NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to Support Strategies for Transformation

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07/31/2017

... with efforts that will springboard communities forward in this moment of both crisis and opportunity. This means that people must engage in strategies that are adaptive and that aim for transformation rather...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Burke Foundation’s Catalyst Program Seeking Applications

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08/23/2017

... Catalyst Program Seeking Applications For those working in the early childhood development sector , the Burke Foundation is seeking applications for its Catalyst Program. In collaboration with...

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Big Names, Big Funding: Why Are MIT and IBM Joining Forces on AI Research?

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09/14/2017

... but we’re seeing a lot of them crop up these days due in part to struggles for funding, with AI in particular driving some serious dollars to universities. ... to use its proximity to Cambridge’s booming...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

Release Date:

10/20/2017

... available to us now remain underutilized—especially in the land sector , which currently accounts for nearly a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, new research shows that stewardship...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... innovative partnerships between the city and the private sector . She's also part of the broader story of New Orleans' recovery: as smart investments in public infrastructure and housing have...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to Electricity in India

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11/15/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation Expands Access to Electricity in India In rural India, only 55 percent of households have access to ... energy service providers, government officials and private sector...

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Dana K. Bezerra Named President of Heron Foundation

Release Date:

11/20/2017

... the philanthropic and for-profit sectors. She joined Heron in 2006 and has been responsible for deal-sourcing, ... Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith. Bezerra has been active in the leadership of several national...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Announces Move to 100 Percent Mission-Aligned Investing

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03/13/2018

... join and leverage a chorus of philanthropic and private sector investors changing the landscape for investing and the ... a growing number of foundations aligning their investments in companies and strategies...

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MasterCard Foundation Commits 100 million to Projects Within Its Young Africa Works Strategy

Release Date:

04/16/2018

... bulge—or time bomb, some warn—of people coming of age in places without enough economic opportunity, a trend that ... But nowhere are things playing out more dramatically than in Africa, where the population...

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