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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Ford, ConEd: Bronx Children’s Museum Construction Begins

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07/24/2017

... The Bronx is finally getting its own children’s museum! NYC Parks and NYC Department of Design and Construction joined elected ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Con Edison

The Spend-Out/Perpetuity Distraction…and the Merger Option

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02/08/2010

By Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York There is renewed interest in the issue of lifespan for foundations (spend-out versus perpetuity). Nonetheless, these discussions seem like a distraction to me, for two...

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Philanthropy As “Invisible Aid”

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08/31/2009

Philanthropy was once described as “invisible aid.”

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HLH Family Foundation Inc

10/30/2014 - A New Food Economy - Live stream Recording & Materials

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10/2014

View the materials and livestream recording of the program, "A New Food Economy: What Do We Mean?"

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North Star Fund

Is Nonprofit Board Service Worth It? Reflections from a One-Time Skeptic

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01/16/2014

... courses I might have taken to learn more about these topics , but serving on the RAF board and being willing to ...

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Governance

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Surdna Foundation

Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know

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09/10/2014

The Ford Foundation's Amy Brown outlines the disproportionate nature of student debt in the United States.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Ford Foundation

What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

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01/30/2017

Prachi Patankar, senior program officer at Brooklyn Community Foundation, writes that many immigrant rights groups are now sharing stories similar to what communities felt almost two decades ago.

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

11 Apr 2018

Moving Beyond Financial Education: A Grantmaker's Guide to Investing in Impactful Financial Capability Programs - Webinar

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... "knowledge is power" when it comes to increasing financial health . Now we have ample evidence that financial education .....

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27 Apr 2021

Strategies for Housing Equity in Greater New York - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... , Assistant Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Public Policy Rebecca Allen (Moderator), Senior ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Economic Security

Heads Up: These Tax Reform Proposals Could Help or Hurt Nonprofits

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08/16/2017

After the failure to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, leaders of the U.S. House and Senate are even more determined to “win” with tax reform. If you thought the pressure was intense on House and Senate leaders to pass legislation that...

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The Case for Using a Social Justice Lens in Grantmaking

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09/18/2012

By Michael Seltzer, Trustee, EMpower-The Emerging Markets Foundation , and past President, Philanthropy New York Social Justice—A New Phenomenon? No. As early as 1972, in an internal memo to John H. Knowles, the...

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Working with Vendors

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03/2012

Foundation administrators work with all types of vendors from facilities to IT to benefits to legal counsel to staffing. At this FAN meeting, we shared peer-to-peer advice on the three phases of a vendor relationship.

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16 Feb 2017

Perspectives on Sanctuary Policies – A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, February 16, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Sanctuary policies have garnered heightened media attention since the president signed an executive order on January 25 to withhold federal funding from cities that adopt such policies.

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Keeping in Touch, Building Trust

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03/10/2021

... the grantee side of the table, I always looked forward to site visits from The Pinkerton Foundation. I felt I had a ... no longer see them face-to-face. What would a virtual “ site visit” look like? How could...

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New Gifts Offer Clues on Bloomberg’s Philanthropic Direction

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02/27/2014

... global donor, writes The Wall Street Journal. In a two- page missive to be released Thursday, the billionaire media ...

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy

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Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

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09/24/2014

... network Open Society Foundations published a 360- page report that evaluated the forces affecting digital media ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Among Those Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure

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04/24/2015

... Pushing for Stronger Climate Risk Disclosure In a seven- page letter to the SEC, organized by the nonprofit ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to Participate in Facebook QA

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10/26/2015

... in advance by posting them on the Chronicle’s Facebook page . Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, to ...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Publishes Report Calling for Improved Oversight of Colleges

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04/13/2016

The report -- titled “Looking in All the Wrong Places” -- is based on an analysis of more than 6,000 pages of audit documents that were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.

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