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Cultivating Nonprofit Leadership: A (Missed?) Philanthropic Opportunity

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03/2015

... Social justice work cannot happen without the leadership of strong, skilled and connected individuals passionate about ... development is a vital aspect of any effort to address long -standing structural barriers to sustainable, positive change. If we look at recent victories in a number of different issues, it’s undeniable that ...

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Verizon Foundation Launches Diabetes Study

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05/29/2015

... to study whether mobile technology can improve the health of diabetes patients. The foundation is putting up $427,700 to help fund the year- long program. Participants include two groups of...

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Henry Luce Foundation Finances Archiving of Time, Inc. Trove

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11/09/2015

Henry Luce Foundation Finances Archiving of Time, Inc. Trove Time Inc., on the verge of leaving its Midtown Manhattan headquarters after 55 years, ... — though an array of file folders one and a...

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Inside the Proposed Changes to the Landmarked Ford Foundation

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04/19/2016

... York’s youngest interior landmark. Although many aspects of the building have long been outdated—interior designer Warren Platner thought ...

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Report: NY Has The Second Highest Foreclosure Rate

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04/19/2016

... Monday found New York has the highest foreclosure rate in the country — a major issue for municipal governments ... support local governments’ economic recovery.” One out of 21 home mortgages are in...

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Housing and Homelessness

Egyptian Court Rules for NGO, Allowing it to Receive ‘Foreign’ Funds from Rockefeller

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04/20/2016

... foreign funding, a verdict which could be important in other ongoing cases where activists are being prosecuted ... verdict stipulated that foreign funding is permitted as long as the Ministry of...

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Tow Foundation Supports Fellowships to Strengthen Reporting on Juvenile Justice

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05/25/2016

... 26 journalists as Reporting Fellows for its third year- long program aimed at strengthening reporting on juvenile ... June 14th 2016 with a symposium at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in...

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Rubin Foundation Announces Participants in 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Social Practice

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07/14/2016

Rubin Foundation Announces Participants in 2016 NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Social Practice Through the support of The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the New York ... Program: Social Practice...

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Supported by Sloan, Rita Allen, New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study

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08/05/2016

Supported by Sloan, Rita Allen, New Understanding of Thirst Emerges from Brain Study A new UC San Francisco study shows that specialized brain cells in mice “predict” the hydrating effects of...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to NJ Initiative to Address Opioid Epidemic

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10/26/2016

... an open call for original poetry about the impacts of drug addiction. The poetry initiative is part of the network’s year- long community engagement project addressing the Garden ...

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Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities (TFN) Announces Applications for 2017 Class

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10/27/2016

... that it is accepting applications for the 2017 class of its PLACES leadership development program designed for professionals in philanthropy. This year- long fellowship program will offer...

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Dyson Foundation Contributes to Longform Nonfiction Work

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11/10/2016

... to Longform Nonfiction Work I have good news for all of the journalism purists out there. Funders continue to see ... the value of deep and transformative investigative work in an age...

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State’s Delay on Final Sea-Level Rise Projections Chided

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11/11/2016

... state agencies and planners develop resilient structures in the future are delayed and will likely not be in place until the end of March, despite a January 2016 deadline. After superstorm...

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Environment and Climate Change

A Look at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment

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11/28/2016

... at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment The Open Society Foundations ... up to strongman leaders, as well as the darkest strains of human nature. Its earliest...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio

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04/25/2017

... its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio In 2016, the Fund commissioned an independent evaluation of six years of grantmaking work in our Democratic ... change...

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Civic Engagement

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Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"

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06/05/2017

... else. This is understandable, to an extent. But a lot of work—some of the most important and effective in the long term, in fact—doesn’t lend itself to...

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To Sell Themselves to Donors, Nonprofits Are Turning to the Pros

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09/13/2017

... to Donors, Nonprofits Are Turning to the Pros Not long ago, the website for the nonprofit Colon Cancer Alliance offered a treasure trove of information about colorectal screening, colon cancer ... What it did...

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2017 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards Semifinalists Announced

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08/02/2017

... Awards Program, making them eligible for $60,000 in cash prizes and scholarships to Columbia Business School ... be announced during the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC)’s Best Practices...

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Ford, Mellon, Doris Duke, Kellogg, and MacArthur Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy

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06/11/2020

... Philanthropy The week after the U.S. economy shut down in March, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation, fielded a stream of phone calls from ... that Ford supports. Many were...

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Peterson Foundation President Comments on State of the Union Address

Release Date:

01/13/2016

Peterson Foundation President Comments on State of the Union Address Michael A. Peterson, President and ... path. Even though current deficits have decreased, our long -term fiscal outlook is still dangerously...

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