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Passing Raise the Age Legislation: A Big Step on the Long Road to Implementation

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06/30/2017

Jennifer March, Executive Director, Citizens’ Committee for Children and Naomi Post, Executive Director, Children’s Defense Fund-NY, write how "enacting Raise the Age into law is a lesson in persistent, effective advocacy and this herculean effort...

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Justice Reform

Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems

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09/06/2017

... officials have been invited. "Most states do have back office processes and election practices that could detect or ... the dark Web offered one major advantage - cost. For just $ 1 ,002, an attacker could...

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Civic Engagement

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Ford Foundation

04 Jun 2018

Philanthropy New York’s 39th Annual Meeting - Democracy, Demographics & Destiny: All in the Details

Monday, June 4, 2018 -

1:00pm to 6:00pm

... days before the annual meeting. Preliminary Program 12:30- 1 :00pm Registration 1 :00- 1 :30pm [ Business Meeting] Annual Meeting of the ...

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What Philanthropy Can Do to Stabilize Homeless Families and Break the Cycle of Homelessness

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03/13/2018

Christine Quinn, President and Chief Executive Officer of Win (formerly Women in Need) writes "We must work to break the cycle of homelessness from an intergenerational perspective and make sure that people do not return to shelter, because a...

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Housing and Homelessness

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Women In Need

Listening for Bits of Truth in DC

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03/22/2018

... the hard terrazzo floors of the U.S. House and Senate office buildings talking with legislators and their staffs, ...

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PNY News

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Public Policy

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Philanthropy New York

Responding to Change: A Look at Strategies Helping Wildlife and People Adapt to Shifting Climates

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03/28/2018

Danielle Levoit, Program Officer for the Environment, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes about cultivating landscapes’ health and biodiversity through conservation practices that consider the changing climate.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Doris Duke Foundation

Taking a Stand for New York

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04/12/2018

Lisa Fasolo Frishman, Engage New York writes "Wherever you focus your grantmaking in New York State, one fact is true for all of us - Albany is where fiscal resources are divvied up, and policies are set. Yet, few of us spend time there advocating...

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Philanthropy and the Interfaith Imperative

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05/24/2018

... would question the suitability of Catholic candidates for office . Social science research provides ample evidence of ...

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Religion

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The Teagle Foundation

New York City Contract Delays: The Facts

Release Date:

09/06/2018

... get paid under city contracts. A recent report from the Office of New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer showed ... $500,000 because of the delays, 119 imposed burdens over $ 1 million, 57 over $2.0 million...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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New York Life Foundation and the Afterschool Alliance Open Competitive Grant Program to Help Middle School Youth in Out-of-School Time Programs

Release Date:

12/13/2018

... third cycle of Aim High grants, the Foundation will award $ 1 .35 million to out-of-school time (OST) programs serving ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

Infrastructure Design as Innovation

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04/02/2019

Here is a well-kept secret: the most innovative, transformative foundations have the most robust infrastructure. In other words, the foundations that are the bravest, the most visionary, and become trailblazers in the philanthropic sector, take...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Build Up Companies

18 Apr 2019

Through the Eyes of Children - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, April 18, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* The Office of the Inspector General announced in January 2019 ...

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Immigration

What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

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12/06/2019

... directions nationally, and right here in New York: 1 . Start with getting the 2020 Census count right ... to focus their attention on the fast-approaching February 1 , 2020 deadline for NY State’s legislative...

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The New York Community Trust

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Census 2020

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Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation

Release Date:

12/19/2019

... Americans comprise 13.4 percent of the U.S. population. 1 Over the span of several decades, namely since the Civil ... care premiums, and out-of-pocket costs for things such as office visit copays,...

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The Century Foundation

Moving to An Earned Knowledge Model of Philanthropy

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03/24/2020

... by Rosa Parks. “At the stop on this site on December 1 , 1955,” a plaque hoisted on a pole reads, “Mrs. Rosa ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces COVID-19 Response Grants to Support Immigrant and Refugee Workers in the U.S.

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05/11/2020

Earlier this month, WES Mariam Assefa Fund shared its initial responses to the needs exposed and created by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Immigrants are America’s workers, and 12 million are currently on the front lines of the...

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A Letter from Surdna President Don Chen on Solidarity and Support to Grantees

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05/13/2020

... support our grantee partners, communities, and fields to 1 ) respond in the short term, 2) recover in the ...

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Disaster Relief