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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

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04/27/2018

New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless experience high levels of trauma, assault, early death.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

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Arcus Foundation's Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry

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03/29/2018

In 2017, Arcus allocated $350,000 to support Mighty Earth’s work to stop deforestation connected to commercial agriculture, including cacao. This grant, while not huge, has already had outsized impact.

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Action Plan Released to Conserve One of Africa’s Richest Sites for Biodiversity with Support from the Arcus Foundation

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02/14/2018

A team of scientists led by WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) has developed a conservation blueprint to protect one of the most biodiverse regions in Africa: the Albertine Rift, home to mountain and Grauer’s gorillas, golden monkeys, chimpanzees,...

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Arcus Foundation's Andrea Marra Announces Challenge to State Senator Jose Peralta

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02/08/2018

Andrea Marra, a Jackson Heights resident and LGBTQ activist, officially announced her run against incumbent state Senator Jose Peralta on Feb. 6.

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Arcus Winter Grantees Work for LGBTQ Equality Across the Globe

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01/05/2018

Advocating for the rights of LGBTQ persons across the globe and through a variety of channels is the goal of the grants in the winter Arcus Foundation portfolio. From working with transgender and intersex groups to faith leaders and regional...

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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished attorney and...

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Arcus Funds LGBTQ Capacity Building Grants In An Under-Resourced Region

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11/02/2017

When Funders for LGBTQ Issues released its first Out in the South report in 2014, it found that per capita, LGBTQ people in the southeastern United States were getting about a tenth of foundation funding of their counterparts in the Northeast.

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Arcus and Novo Foundations' Global Trans Initiative Share U.S. Narratives

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07/25/2017

Activists in the U.S. reflect on the disparities found in trans and non-binary communities and how philanthropy can transform disparity into possibility for those who live on the margins.

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Twelve Emerging LGBT Leaders Selected for Arcus Leadership Fellowship

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06/28/2017

The Arcus Foundation announced the selection of 12 executive directors to participate in the Arcus Leadership Fellowship. Among this year’s fellows are a longtime grassroots activist organizing around issues of social, economic, and environmental...

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Former Arcus Foundation E.D. Named Tenement Museum President

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06/15/2017

Kevin Jennings, a history teacher turned nonprofit leader who is also a former Obama official, has been named the next president of the Tenement Museum in Manhattan.

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Arts

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Nonhuman Rights Project, Supported by Novo and Arcus Foundations, Is Featured in Documentary

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06/06/2017

A rumpled 60-something legal scholar who has taught animal-rights law at Harvard and Stanford, Steven Wise founded of the Nonhuman Rights Project, which calls itself “the only civil rights organization in the United States working through litigation...

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Animal Welfare

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With Support from the Arcus Foundation, Study of Transgender Preschoolers Assesses Preferences and Identity

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04/25/2017

In one of the first examinations of early gender development among transgender preschoolers, a new study has found that these children were just as likely as nontransgender children to have preferences associated with their gender, and to have as...

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Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and Author of 'Redefining Realness,' Talks About Gender Identity

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05/07/2014

In this PhilTalk at Philanthropy New York's 35th annual meeting, Janet Mock, Trustee at Arcus Foundation and author of "Redefining Realness," tells the story of her upbringing in Hawaii, where she and her family struggled with homelessness and...

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Arcus Foundation Names Annette Lanjouw and Jason McGill Co-Executive Directors

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01/24/2017

The Arcus Foundation announced today the appointment of Annette Lanjouw , previously Vice President, Great Apes Program and Strategic Initiatives, and Jason McGill , previously Vice President of Social Justice...

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Family Values: Behind Arcus Foundation's Gift for Racial Justice

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01/24/2017

The longer you hang around philanthropy, the more you'll realize how deeply family background influences people's giving.

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Debate Your Philanthropic Philosophies

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01/18/2017

Bianca D. Alston, Finance and Operations Assistant at Arcus Foundation, writes, "I strongly believe in general operating support. The flexible nature of core support grants enables grantees to pursue unforeseen opportunities, adapt to the times and...

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Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures

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01/11/2017

Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Arcus Foundation, writes, "Unlike our colleagues in government, business, and civil society, foundation executives face relatively little outside pressure to achieve impact. We are free to fail, with no...

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02 Feb 2017

Invisible No More: Native Realities in a Post-Election Era

Thursday, February 2, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock has attracted broad public attention with wider implications for the country as a whole. Reaching the eyes and ears of New Yorkers, this effort is rooted in historical and contentious struggles not only...

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18 Oct 2016

Funder Briefing on Poverty in the LGBTQ Community

Tuesday, October 18, 2016 -

2:30pm to 4:30pm

Did you know that lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans face higher rates of poverty than their straight counterparts? Have you heard that one in five transgender adults have experienced homelessness? Did you know that one quarter...

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Housing and Homelessness