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Partnerships Are Key to Our Programming

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03/04/2015

... trafficking, Common Core, arts in grantmaking, services for vulnerable youth and immigrants’ rights, among others. ... programs with such a small staff, and I can honestly say it would be impossible without...

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President's Message

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A Call to Men and NY Women’s Foundation Host Training Institute to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls

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10/21/2015

... Family Services Department, New York Housing Authority. “ For real change to happen, we must first start within ... to end all forms of violence against women. I am grateful for the opportunity to come...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Women & Girls

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An Open Exchange of Insights, Ideas: What Philanthropy New York Embraces

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11/04/2015

... 19 program “ Education Reform in Newark: Lessons for Philanthropy ” and how impressive the list of speakers ... panelists to participate in the discussion. As we so often do , we are striving to convene...

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PNY Board Chair Phil Li Named President of Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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01/13/2016

... months and identified leadership as the area in which to do its work. The Foundation, remaining committed to its work ... serves as a catalyst to equip and energize these leaders for the work ahead." said...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Principal Evaluation

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01/27/2016

... the skills they need to improve student achievement. For example, a 2007 Vanderbilt study found that one-third of ... , documents efforts by six large school districts to do just that. The report, by Policy...

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Education

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Divestment from Industries that Harm People of Color

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11/03/2016

... of Color Brooklyn Community Foundation announced that it will formally divest from private prisons, gun ... it will hopefully serve as a call to other institutions to do the same.” Founded in...

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A Recipe for Capacity Building

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02/16/2017

A Recipe for Capacity Building By Heather Peeler, Vice President of ... trying a new recipe and sharing the results with friends. It wasn’t always that way. In fact, for many years, I was a .....

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO)

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Third Wave Fund, New York Women's Foundation and Ms. Foundation Pen Open Letter to Foundations and Donors Calling for Increased Funding to People of Color

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03/09/2017

... Pen Open Letter to Foundations and Donors Calling for Increased Funding to People of Color Prominent ... “intensifying xenophobia and white supremacy.” “ It ’s going to take all of us, working together in a...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Women & Girls

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Up to $15 Million to Fill the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty

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06/02/2017

... the Budget Gap Left by Trump’s Revoking U.S. Support For U.N. Climate Treaty Michael R. Bloomberg, the United ... bottom up – and there isn’t anything Washington can do to stop us.” Patricia Espinosa, the...

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Environment & Sustainability

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Carnegie Names Nine Philanthropists as Recipients of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy

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06/26/2017

... D. Wolfensohn U.S.A. and Australia; Wolfensohn Center for Development "The recipients of the 2017 Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy were selected for their distinguished and longstanding contributions to the...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Dianne S. Harris Appointed Senior Program Officer at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/16/2017

... yet to plan." Mariët Westermann, executive vice president for programs and research, noted, "Dianne brings to the ... in and outside universities." Harris has been dean for the College of...

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What Benefits One Might Benefit Us All

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11/01/2017

... about how their concerns figure into other program areas. For example, Funders for Gender Equity has been producing programs for the four years that explore the intersections of gender ...

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Brian Byrd, Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation Joins The 2020 Justice Launch Committee

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01/31/2018

... justice system by ensuring fairness and equal justice for all . Justice 2020 will rely initially on a Launch ... creating a set of guidelines that will focus on those who do the most harm, while reducing...

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New York Health Foundation

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Social Justice

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How to Win the Lottery

Release Date:

02/27/2018

... Susan Olivo, Executive Director, Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation That’s what my colleague suggested ... that I title this short piece – because if I gave it a title more descriptive of its...

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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Disabilities

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Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy

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03/15/2018

... On the dark side of global philanthropy, bad things do happen. The accumulation of wealth and advanced ... Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation calls it a “knowledge hierarchy” where community...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Reveals 45 Atlanta Cultural Orgs Selected as part of $43M Training Program

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08/13/2018

... investing in the arts also makes good business sense. It unleashes the creative synergies that bring people ... communities and blend them all into a tapestry of success for everyone. We thank Bloomberg...

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Arts, Culture, & Media

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What Is Effective Philanthropy?

Release Date:

06/05/2019

... a fundamental level, our grants have to enable grantees to do their work. In a larger sense, our grants need to ... own organizational capacity.¹ This means that support for critical infrastructure in areas...

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Technology & Innovation

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International Grantmakers Unite: Grappling with the State of the World

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11/06/2019

... Officer, International Program, Carnegie Corporation It is easy today to be distressed, or even overwhelmed, by ... part of community building we often don’t make the time for , but is as essential as our work...

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