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What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

by Frederick James Frelow, Senior Program Officer, Ford Foundation This piece is an excerpt from a commencement speech given to the Northeastern College of Professional Studies on May 15, 2015. Many years ago, one...

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PhilTV: Funders, “Blow People’s Minds” on Gender Norms to Reduce Teen Suicide

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01/15/2016

... has now surpassed maternal mortality as the leading cause of death in teenage girls globally, demonstrating how dire ... girls? The answer came from Stonewall Community Foundation Program Manager Carlie Steen...

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05 May 2016

School Integration in NYC (Part 1 of 2): New Research, Changing Perspectives

Thursday, May 5, 2016 -

9:30am to 11:30am

This program is the first part of a two-part session, the second of which focuses on promising practices and approaches to ... vital work Speakers Halley Potter, Fellow, The Century Foundation...

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Well-Told Stories Can Super-Power Social Change

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05/17/2016

... Can Super-Power Social Change By Betsy Richards, Director of Creative Strategies and Public Programs, Opportunity ... that we each exist as “an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.”...

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United Hospital Fund Report Says You Get What You Pay For in Children’s Health Care

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06/16/2016

... report focuses on the quality measures to consider as part of value-based payment arrangements for children’s health ... rooted in value-based payment requires close consideration of how value in children’s...

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Youth Leaders are Changing the Conversation on College Access

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06/30/2016

... College Access by Cassie Schwerner, Senior Vice President of National Partnerships, Schott Foundation Reprinted with permission from the Schott Foundation “If you have a friend of...

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Most Funders Don’t Think About Disaster Until It Strikes

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07/05/2016

... to identify long-term needs after the initial flurry of support. For both Orlando and West Virginia , funders ... recover from major disasters by including a compilation of philanthropic strategies, best...

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13 Dec 2016

School Discipline, Pushout and Gender Norms

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... rates and outcomes, we’ve come to realize that instead of addressing a “drop-out” crisis, we have to address our ... them further and further off track and eventually out of school. Over the past 15 to 20...

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On Cuomo’s Vital Brooklyn: Start With Existing Community Assets

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03/16/2017

... By Bronwyn Starr, program officer at New York State Health Foundation At a well-publicized event last Friday in ... the healthcare system by increasing access and quality of health care services and...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Data for Health Initiative is Closing Gaps in Health Data in 19 Countries

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04/12/2017

... . Launched in partnership with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade two years ago, Data for Health ... “Most people don’t realize how big a problem the lack of health data is – or that nearly...

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An Open Letter to the Hundreds of Millions of Americans Who Have Worked for, Volunteered for, Donated to, or Benefited from the Work of a Charitable Nonprofit: i.e., every living person in the USA.

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11/30/2017

An Open Letter to the Hundreds of Millions of Americans Who Have Worked for, Volunteered for, Donated to, or Benefited from the Work of a Charitable Nonprofit: i.e., every living person in the ...

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Recognized At The 2017 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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12/04/2017

... Excellence Awards he Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) held its 11th Annual New York Community ... 1 to recognize the exceptional management practices of three winning organizations. The...

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Federal Judge Sides With TCF Against DeVos's Education Department

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02/20/2018

... morning, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Paul A. Crotty issued a temporary restraining order against the U.S. Department of Education and Secretary Betsy DeVos, blocking the agency...

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18 Apr 2018

Immigrant Kids in School: Challenges, Progress and Potential

Wednesday, April 18, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

New York City has always prided itself on being a city of immigrants. As federal immigration policy and practice ... City’s immigrant students and their families. The panel of school, government, advocacy, and...

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25 Jun 2018

Unpacking Nutrition Education – Why It Matters for NYC Students

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... have access to great nutrition education. Yet nearly half of our schools lack programming from one of the 40+ organizations offering nutrition education to city ... Kelly Giordano , Managing Director, Newman’s...

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04 Mar 2020

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, March 4, 2020 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In this historic period of low unemployment, job seekers with multiple ... barriers—including those with disabilities—are at risk of being left behind. 65 percent of working-age people with...

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Robert Sterling Clark: Supporting Our Grantee Partners in the Era of COVID-19

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03/19/2020

... Sterling Clark: Supporting Our Grantee Partners in the Era of COVID-19 For the last two weeks, I have been picturing ... our professional conversations: ‘from an abundance of caution’; ‘social distancing’; ‘...

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Responding To Covid-19: Suggestions and Recommendations for Donors as of March 2020 from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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03/24/2020

... To Covid-19: Suggestions and Recommendations for Donors as of March 2020 from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors As of mid-March 2020, COVID-19 is now a world-wide pandemic. ... to consider that meet these...

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