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14 Nov 2018

Postponed Getting Through the Front Door: A Campaign to Make Public Schools Accessible

Wednesday, November 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In 2016, an investigation by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York found that over 80% of the City’s elementary schools were not fully accessible.

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Disabilities

07 Nov 2018

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: A Conversation about Education with the Gates Foundation’s Bob Hughes

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

Robert Hughes has served for many years as an advocate and champion of public education in New York City. In 2016 Bob transitioned from being President of New Visions Public school to becoming the K-12 Strategy Director of the Bill and Melinda Gates...

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31 Oct 2018

Funding Our Future – the ABCs of Early Care and Education Financing in New York

Wednesday, October 31, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Today, 82% of children in the U.S. live in households with working parents, and more than 5 million (or approximately 1 in 5) under the age of 6 live in poverty. According to the Children’s Defense Fund, expanding access to high-quality early care...

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17 Oct 2018

Comprehensive, Long-Term Supports for NYC Foster Youth: Part III of “Helping Foster Youth Succeed” Series

Wednesday, October 17, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

This is a follow-on session to last year's “ Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed: Skills and strategies that support the transition to adulthood " and " Helping Foster Care Youth Succeed, Part II ".

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Housing and Homelessness

26 Sep 2018

How International Education Funders Facilitate Learning Among Grantees - and Translation of Practice into Policy - A Brown Bag Lunch

Wednesday, September 26, 2018 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

International education funders have been working with a wide spectrum of primary and secondary schools, community-based organizations, NGOs and governments to improve access, quality, and relevance of primary and secondary education. We have made...

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International/Foreign Affairs

13 Sep 2018

TRANSformational Grantmaking: Understanding Gender Identity to Increase Impact

Thursday, September 13, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

As funders have committed themselves to reduce inequity, there is a growing recognition that transgender and gender nonconforming people – who often use the acronym TGNC – face a constellation of barriers in education, justice, health services,...

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Workforce Development

10 Jul 2018

The Power of Pooled Funding to Increase College Graduation Rates

Tuesday, July 10, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Join the NYC youth funders for a session that will feature the development of and lessons learned from the College Completion Innovation Fund (CCIF), a unique collaborative model for college persistence and completion grantmaking managed by Graduate...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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