Raised Healthy, Wealthy & Wise
August 06, 2014

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Raised Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Lessons from Successful Inheritors on How They Got That Way Coventry Edwards-Pitt (BP Books, 2014); Reviewed by Sara Finkelstein Order from 21/64Read more »

Latest News
July 28, 2014

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Click here to view the full e-newsletter online. Dear friends: Summer is flying by at the Community Foundation! Here are just a few things keeping FoundationRead more »

Latest News
June 03, 2014

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ALBANY, NY (June 3, 2014)— The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region honored John J. Nigro, the Nigro Family and Barbara Linell Glaser at today’sRead more »

altruism, giving, caring
April 22, 2014

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From the Times Union: That old baseball axiom is wrong, Stefan Klein argues: Nice guys don’t finish last. Klein makes his case in “Survival of theRead more »

April 09, 2014

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From Northeastern University:  Rebecca Riccio, director of the Social Impact Lab at North­eastern Uni­ver­sity, was recently asked to jus­tify the prac­tice of local phil­an­thropy in the United StatesRead more »

Miss Siggy
March 31, 2014

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During the 2004-2005 school year, the Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region gave a grant to the Guilderland School District to purchase Miss Lily Sigmund,Read more »

Philanthropy Week 2014
March 06, 2014

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Right now, over 200 leaders from across the philanthropic sector are uniting in Washington, D.C. to tell their lawmakers that thriving philanthropy builds thriving communities. AsRead more »

February 10, 2014

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From the New York Times: According to the most recent statistics, the number of family foundations like the Cordes Foundation has exploded since 2001. There areRead more »

Latest News
January 01, 2014

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The Community Foundation for the Greater Capital Region ended 2013 by hitting a new high point in generosity. The Foundation awarded more than $4.87 million inRead more »

Compassion
December 31, 2013

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