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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize

Release Date:

01/10/2017

... only honor of its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’s thriving nonprofit sector . Each of the five Spark Prize recipients will get ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors. The fund, which ... individuals and family offices, pension funds, banks and nonprofit...

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Sector News

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Housing and Homelessness

Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector , The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus ... defending donor-advised funds. This letter was written in response to a proposal outlined in...

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Sector News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

Release Date:

12/12/2013

... an analysis of the return on philanthropic investments in time-limited, quantifiable chunks, and complex planning ... subject to market norms. Markets prioritize return for the resources invested and use...

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Insights

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters

Release Date:

10/29/2014

Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters This week ... and Canada. Many of the hardest hit communities were in New York and New Jersey – the storm’s destruction has ... along...

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President's Message

PNY News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Disaster Relief

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Philanthropy New York

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... influential watchdog group — the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for Food Safety, the ... STOP Foodborne Illness, Food Policy Action, and even the nonprofit that publishes Consumer...

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Food Systems

Rita Allen Foundation Supported Research Details Consequences of Kansas’ Lifetime Property Tax Exemptions on Local School Districts

Release Date:

03/02/2018

... found that such exemptions left roughly $630 million in Kansas wind farm equipment untaxed, depriving 24 rural counties of about $82 million in additional revenue each year. The Midwest Center for .....

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Civic Engagement

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Rita Allen Foundation

7/22/14 - The Rollback on Reproductive Justice - PPTs and materials

Publication date:

07/2014

View articles and the PowerPoint Presentations presented during the program The Rollback on Reproductive Rights and Justice.

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Children, Youth and Families

Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty"

Release Date:

06/01/2017

Russell Sage Foundation Publishes "Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty" America’s ... crisis, philanthropists need to start giving the suburban nonprofit sector the...

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Economic Security

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Russell Sage Foundation

Build Up Advisory Group Shares Podcast - Leveraging Systems for Sustainability and Opportunity with Jim Shelton

Release Date:

06/09/2021

... and Opportunity with Jim Shelton This week on the Nonprofit Build Up, we’re talking Jim Shelton . Jim is ... to the problems trapping youth and their families in poverty. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to...

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Build Up Companies

The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Ariel Zwang to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

11/17/2021

... since January 2021. As CEO, Ariel coordinates projects in both Jewish and non-Jewish communities in 70 countries. ... helped earn her the title of “2nd most powerful nonprofit leader ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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New York State Census Equity Fund Research Identifies New York's Hardest-to-Count Communities for 2020 Census

Release Date:

06/04/2019

... Communities for 2020 Census (June 5, 2019) NEW YORK – In the face of historic challenges ahead of the 2020 Census, ... foundations and nonprofits must step forward to invest in aggressive efforts to ensure...

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Census 2020

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The New York Community Trust

Bloomberg Philanthropies Backs Campbell Brown's Nonpartisan Education Website

Release Date:

07/15/2015

... Education Website Is it news, or is it advocacy? In the case of the Seventy Four, a new news site focused on ... CNN and NBC anchor Campbell Brown, bills itself as “a nonprofit , nonpartisan online newsroom...

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Education

Technology

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Backs Promising News Collaborative

Release Date:

08/25/2016

... back to the previous decade, are local and community news sites ready to get serious about collaboration to meet the ... the seven-year-old, still-healthy alliance between the nonprofit Charlottesville...

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Arts

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

The JPB Foundation Supports Creation of ParkServe Database

Release Date:

05/01/2018

... combined population of more than 260 million. The national nonprofit organization is leading a movement to put a park or ...

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

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Freedom Together Foundation

After-School All-Stars Receives $4 Million Grant From New York Life Foundation

Release Date:

03/08/2014

... from the New York Life Foundation to expand its services in six U.S. cities, reports Philanthropy News Digest. After-School All-Stars, a national nonprofit that provides comprehensive afterschool program, .....

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

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

Release Date:

03/25/2014

... is a non-profit microfinance organization established in 1971. Over the last 42 years OI has provided $6 billion in microfinance loans and has reached over 5 million clients in 22 countries...

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Economic Security

International/Foreign Affairs

Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia

Release Date:

06/19/2014

Using Outsourcing To Help Alleviate Poverty In Africa and South Asia A small number of companies, ... call centers can be deployed to help alleviate poverty in Africa and South Asia. “By responsibly and .....

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Member News

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Economic Security

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Foundations Should Push for Disclosure of Corporate ‘Welfare’ Deals

Release Date:

12/18/2014

... standards is proposing that state and local governments report how much revenue they lose to business tax breaks granted in the name of economic development. While many ... to them, this accounting change...