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Ford Foundation Appoints Hilary Pennington and Martín Abregú as Program Vice Presidents

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09/05/2013

... as Vice President for the foundation’s program on Education, Creativity and Free Expression, and Martín ... Darren Walker . Ms. Pennington will join the foundation on October 1, taking over an assignment...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

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10/15/2015

... Collaboration with NYC DOE and Mayor’s Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline (BROOKLYN, NY) – Today, ... (NYC DOE) and Mayor de Blasio’s Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline with the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Org

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

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11/08/2017

... Officer This post is the second 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. As...

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Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

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05/05/2020

... In 2016 the Rauch Foundation, a regional foundation on Long Island, NY, led a campaign to build an additional rail track on a critical segment of the Long Island Rail Road. The ... they do it? We brought in a...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now

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09/09/2021

Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now By: Cynthia ... advice of others who think differently; we need access to experts , especially during hard times. Who do you turn ... my...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

Burke Foundation and the New Jersey Health Care Quality Institute Launch the Maternal Infant Health Hub Advisory Board

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12/05/2022

... pregnancy-related complications than a white woman. Many experts believe greater access to midwifery care would help ... Hub and expand midwifery-assisted births in New Jersey.” On December 7, the New Jersey...

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Patrick Gaspard Named President of the Open Society Foundations

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12/14/2017

... He brings a strong vision of where we are going, drawing on a broad range of experience that convinced both me and the ... was previously the U.S. ambassador to South Africa from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that,...

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Caroline Kennedy Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York Board of Trustees

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03/09/2018

... and the Corporation’s board chair. “She has served on numerous high-impact boards, and her wide range of ... While serving as ambassador to Japan from November 2013 to January 2017, Kennedy played a critical...

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When LINsanity Comes to Philanthropy

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03/15/2012

... Nathan Cummings Foundation (This post originally appeared on the Nathan Cummings Foundation website.) What does Jeremy ... to philanthropy from The Nathan Cummings Foundation on Vimeo . I got some insight into...

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Learning What Worked to Support Women After the 2008 Recession

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06/23/2016

... women to gain stability. Resources intentionally focused on women who had been overlooked by other recovery funding ... women and also enabled organizations to be recognized as experts in cultivating new...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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25 Jun 2018

The Money in Politics Implications of a Johnson Amendment Repeal - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, June 25, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.** A repeal of the ... in political campaigns, could have a damaging impact on the integrity of the sector and further...

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20 May 2013

The Storm Surge and Impact of Hurricane Sandy on Communities: An Educational Site Visit Bus Tour for Funders In-State and Around the Region

Monday, May 20, 2013 -

9:15am to 4:00pm

Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, 3 Penn Plaza, Newark, NJ

... of Newark, Bergen and Hudson Counties as we learn from experts about the effects of Sandy's storm surge on Northern New Jersey and the damaging impact to community ... and the power grid. Speakers will...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Selects Top 35 Innovative Urban Ideas as Finalists in 2018 Mayors Challenge

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02/21/2018

... and feedback from the other cities in the competition on ways to strengthen their ideas. Next, all 35 cities will ... $100,000, as well as personalized support from innovation experts , to test and begin...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies to Help City Leaders Respond to Coronavirus in the United States

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03/10/2020

... communities around the world, with devastating impact on the wellbeing of residents and local economies, it has ... initiative — an unprecedented collaboration involving experts from Harvard and Johns Hopkins...

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A Nobel Prize For The Voluntary Sector

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11/15/2009

... Ostrom for her decades of real and important research on “economic governance.” It is good to note that many ... Her many grassroots empirical studies have focused on how people can organize themselves to...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Communications Assistant

Publication date:

10/2013

... assistant professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job Descriptions: Communications .....

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10/2013

... for receptionist professionals were previously posted on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job Descriptions: Receptionist .....

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Philanthropy As “Invisible Aid”

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08/31/2009

... (he was President of AT&T and Chair of the Organization on Unemployment Relief in the early 1930s), foundations and ... may have their way with the public. Nothing explicit on this issue came up in the...

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Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

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05/12/2014

... we provide in the book of foundations who are leading on impact investing. The uptake of impact investing among ... in impact investing. Program-related investments, or PRIs, offer a way to achieve social or...

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