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A Creative Approach to Advocacy: How One Foundation Tackles a Complex Issue

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... Foundation This post is the first in a two-part series on funding creatively. It features the work of the Poses ... Family Foundation, a family foundation that advocates on behalf of people with disabilities...

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Poses Family Foundation

Brooklyn Community Foundation Supports Community Health Outreach and Vaccination Support

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02/25/2021

... scarcity of trustworthy information and resources on COVID-19, including transmission, treatments, and ... and understanding needed to support communities on the margins of power and access, historically and...

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Human Services

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Brooklyn Org

Ford Foundation Makes Widespread Commitments to Further Global Vaccine Access

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10/06/2021

... are proud to join other global funders to shine a light on the systems that are at the root of this crisis, and to ... make these critical investments in organizations working on the front lines of vaccine...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance Launches in the U.S., Latin America, and Canada with $60 Million Investment

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03/09/2022

... be announced in Spring 2022. The City Data Alliance builds on Bloomberg Philanthropies’ more than six years of work ... to 75%); the percentage of cities engaging with residents on a goal and communicating...

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Public Policy

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

CEP Study, Commissioned by Mid-Hudson Valley Nonprofits & the Dyson Foundation, Paints Stark Picture for Valley Nonprofits

Release Date:

04/27/2020

... for their services due to heightened need brought on by the pandemic. The CEP study was commissioned by several ... sadly heard about the devastating effect COVID-19 has on businesses and also want people to...

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Disaster Relief

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The Dyson Foundation

Native American Youth Can't Wait

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08/22/2016

... community has mobilized to coordinate and partner on efforts like the Obama administration's My Brother's ... Generation Indigenous (Gen-I) initiative, which is focused on improving the lives of...

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Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

The Perpetuity Debate

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04/29/2014

... appreciate. The one limited-life foundation represented on the panel is the only one with a living donor. The ... has decreased from 350,000 annually to less than 400 in 2013 . That equates to approximately...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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The Rockefeller Foundation

NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

Release Date:

06/22/2017

... the priorities of the super-wealthy—a group whose views on many issues differ from those of the general public. A future in which donors from the top . 01 percent increasingly decide which nonprofits and ideas...

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The New York Community Trust

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Albany, Glens Falls among Regions Adding Jobs in New York

Release Date:

09/15/2017

The Albany-Schenectady-Troy, New York, metro area added 400 private-sector jobs in August, up 0.1 percent from August 2016. In the Glens Falls metropolitan area, 200 jobs were created in the same period.

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Workforce Development

Four Ways to Incorporate a Gender Lens in Your Measurement and Evaluation Efforts

Release Date:

02/20/2018

... Consultant at FSG. This article was originally published on January 31, 2018 on the FSG website . Across the social sector, we have seen ... together extensive lists of useful guides, tools, and ...

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Reimagining Learning (From This Moment and With Each Other)

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10/21/2020

... and artist, there is no better lesson than deciding on what to let go of, what to hold onto, and what to create ... The racial justice uprisings, coupled with the pandemic, offer each of us, individually and...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness Launch Low Vision Research Initiative

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08/07/2015

... rather than those who are totally blind, with a focus on mobile and/or wearable innovations that can be implemented on multiple platforms, such as electronic tablets or phones. ... forms and grant contact...

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Aging

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Research to Prevent Blindness

MetLife, Deutsche Bank, Surdna, Moody’s, Pershing Square and Others Supporting Launch of Microlender Kiva NYC

Release Date:

12/11/2015

... business lenders: a borrower's credit-worthiness is based on one's ability to recruit friends and family to fund a ... U.S. microlenders. More than 90 percent of loan requests on Kiva are fully...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

Economic Security

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Surdna Foundation

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Pershing Square Foundation

Less Talking, More Doing: Operationalizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy

Release Date:

06/15/2016

... in philanthropy only skim the surface— often they focus on identifying the problems, but don’t outline specifically ... and how far we still have to go. In order to build on this work, PNY’s Committee for...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

The New York Women's Foundation Honors Saru Jayaraman, Dina Habib Powell and Laurie M. Tisch

Release Date:

10/19/2016

... Centers United, a national organization organizing on behalf of low-wage restaurant workers. Ted Bunch of A CALL ... award. Approximately 300 guests attended the celebration on October 13, 2016, which raised...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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ACHA Would Break Apart What Is Working in New York

Release Date:

05/25/2017

... Health Working Group This piece was originally published on the United Hospital Fund website and was reposted with ... decades of effort to reduce the numbers of uninsured. On May 4, the House of...

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13 Nov 2020

Philanthropy 101: Foundation Governance and Legal Issues

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10:00am to 12:00pm

... a cohort-based program. The five modules will build on each other, and participants are expected to commit to ...

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All Funders

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