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Assessing the How of Grantmaking

Publication date:

04/2014

This GMN guide helps funders measure the effectiveness of current ... Does our process strengthen and support grantees? The guide includes recommended measurement indicators and advice ...

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Report

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Grants Managers

Program Staff

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

07 Jun 2012

-- POSTPONED -- Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone: Unexpected Gains Through Creative Funding Practices

Thursday, June 7, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... responsible initiatives—which often seem tangentially related to their primary areas of focus—can generate ...

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Issue-Based

Ford Foundation Appoints Dr. Francisco Cigarroa to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

10/28/2014

Ford Foundation appoints outgoing chancellor of the University of Texas system, Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, to the Board of Trustees.

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

Education

Social Justice

Arabella Advisors Produces Issue Brief On How Donors Can Support Women’s Mental Health

Release Date:

10/11/2017

... to support women’s mental health that align with health- related interventions you’re already supporting, you can ...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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Arabella Advisors

Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

Release Date:

05/04/2016

... founder Phil Knight to support a new graduate scholarship program modeled after the elite Rhodes scholarships. This new program at Stanford aims to help scholarship recipients ... if chosen, attend a...

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Insights

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Education

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Ford Foundation

Pinkerton Foundation Adds $3.8 Million To John Jay Fellowship Initiative

Release Date:

01/25/2018

... and president of the Possibility Project, a youth-led program that uses the performing arts and community ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Justice Reform

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Make Room for Makerspaces

Release Date:

12/08/2015

Make Room for Makerspaces By Leigh Ross, Program Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in ... a maker. Here are some of key ideas that came out of the program : Makerspaces are putting a new twist on a...

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Insights

Funding Area

Education

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The New York Community Trust

Flexible Funding Is the New Kid on the Block

Release Date:

03/04/2020

... is not for core operations and is instead for a project or program . After all, these organizations could not carry out ... not established trust with the organization in which it is investing . This lack of...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Build Up Companies

United Hospital Fund Analyzes Medicaid Spending On and Service Utilization By Children In New York

Release Date:

07/08/2016

... on the 1.77 million who were continuously enrolled in the program for all of 2014. (Medicaid covers 2.19 million of the ... State Medicaid enrollees, but less than 20 percent of the program ’s expenditures...

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Member News

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

Hartford Foundation's Amy Berman Receives 2016 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy

Release Date:

03/11/2016

... Award in Health Philanthropy Amy Berman, Senior Program Officer at The John A. Hartford Foundation, today ...

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Member News

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Health

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

The New York Women’s Foundation Celebrates Six Outstanding Women Leaders of Queens

Release Date:

09/27/2016

... Ormeño received the Spirit of Entrepreneurship award. Program Director at the Women Business Center, she was ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Women's Foundation

Andy Warhol Foundation is Embracing Social Engagement

Release Date:

07/27/2018

The foundation recently announced the 42 recipients of its spring 2018 grants, totaling $3.6 million. The selected organizations, which were chosen from a pool of 224 nonprofits, will receive grants ranging from $35,000 to $120,000. The funding...

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Member News

Funding Area

Arts

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

27 Nov 2018

Achieving Equity: Do We Know Who We’re Serving?

Tuesday, November 27, 2018 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... will have the opportunity to workshop some tools to help guide your organization's change management process. Presenters Melissa Sines , Effective Practices Program Manager, PEAK Grantmaking Designed for...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Transparency

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Ford Foundation Appoints Javier Valdés as U.S. Director of Civic Engagement and Government

Release Date:

05/04/2021

... U.S. director of its Civic Engagement and Government (CEG) program . Valdés will assume the New York-based role in ... guides the Foundation’s grantmaking approaches across program strategies. He was also one...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Ford Foundation

Anthony Shih, MD, Will Step Down as President of United Hospital Fund this Summer

Release Date:

03/02/2022

... quality of health care delivery, strengthen the Medicaid program , and expand insurance coverage and access to care ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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United Hospital Fund

Innovative Finance and the Search for the Next Big Idea

Release Date:

10/17/2014

by Rehana Nathoo, Program Associate, Rockefeller Foundation In early ... Since The Rockefeller Foundation launched its impact investing work in 2007, we’ve invested nearly $50 million ... more about what you’re...

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Insights

Funding Area

Communications/Media

Technology

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The Rockefeller Foundation

01 Dec 2011

Don’t Cut Kids: An Update on the Federal Budget and Children

Thursday, December 1, 2011 -

7:30am to 11:00am

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

It’s well known that investing in the health and well-being of children now will ...

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Issue-Based

19 Oct 2010

Leaders in a New Era: A Conversation on Leadership Development and Race

Tuesday, October 19, 2010 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... NON-MEMBERS: Please fill out this online form. $100 fee. A program in Philanthropy New York’s DECISION MAKERS series, ... increasing diverse leadership in the philanthropic sector. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Current...