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NYCT-Funded Unaccompanied Minor Initiative Lauded for Helping NYC Address Immigrant Issues

Release Date:

02/11/2015

... Address Immigrant Issues In her first year leading the New York City Council, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito took ... district, Mark-Viverito has defined her early tenure as speaker with a focus on supporting...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

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The New York Community Trust

National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

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03/13/2015

... groups that typically march in lockstep have split over new net-neutrality rules, and their discord has escalated ... even personal, feud. Beyond a split over the merits of the new policy, civil rights groups...

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Technology

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Ford Foundation

Open Society Foundations

NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

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03/24/2015

... Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids New York City’s effort to supply lawyers for every ... minor has kept 13 children from being deported as of February, new data provided to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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National LGBT Museum Board of Directors Votes to Establish Museum in NYC

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04/30/2015

... the National LGBT Museum has voted to base the museum in New York City and has elected longtime LGBT activist Kevin Jennings as its co-chair. Founded in 2008 by Board Co-Chair Tim ... with elected officials...

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Arts

LGBTQ

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Arcus Foundation

UJA-Federation Launches Campaign for Passage of Education Tax Credit

Release Date:

05/27/2015

... of the Orthodox Union, together with the UJA-Federation of New York, is launching a 30-day campaign to push – over the next six weeks – for New York State legislators to pass the Education Tax Credit .....

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Education

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Jersey City Receives $1 million Investment for Job Training from JPMorgan Chase

Release Date:

07/09/2015

... two years. The investment is part of JPMorgan Chase's " New Skills at Work" initiative, which has been implemented in about a dozen cities, including New York City, Chicago and Detroit. "...

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Community Development

Technology

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds $1M Public Art Project

Release Date:

04/15/2016

... The project, called Seeing Spartanburg in a New Light , will include nine sites across 10 neighborhoods ... Erwin Redl, whose art has been on display in Austria, New York and Charlotte... Bloomberg...

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

Release Date:

05/15/2017

... federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’s still possible to take meaningful steps ... locally. Several weeks ago, the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

Tesla, Farmingdale State Announce Student Job Training Plan

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... system and the California-based automaker hoping to open new sites in New York, company executives said. “This is a ... about this tech and be ramped and ready to start working as soon...

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Workforce Development

City Council Approves Zoning Plan to Revamp Far Rockaway with More Housing, Commercial Repairs

Release Date:

09/08/2017

... Rockaway plan is only the second one to pass. Some 3,000 new apartments are expected to be built under the deal — ... mall, which will be redeveloped for housing and new stores. The city is set to spend $288...

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Poverty Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit?

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09/20/2017

... Falls, Income Rises. Should De Blasio Get the Credit? The New Yorkers who live in that other city Mayor Bill de Blasio ... is how much credit he deserves for it. The percentage of New Yorkers living in poverty...

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Economic Security

De Blasio Wants To Install 1,000 Electric-Car Charging Stations By 2020

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... on Wednesday rolled out a $10 million plan to install as many as 1,000 new electric-car charging stations throughout the city by ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

Release Date:

03/24/2016

... in growing, middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report ( PDF ) by the Institute for Women’s Policy ... a halt in the last decade,”...

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Gender Justice

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Deepens Commitment to Moving the World Beyond Coal with Plan to Turbocharge Clean Energy Finance in Global South

Release Date:

11/07/2022

... Envoy for Climate Action and Finance Mark Carney to serve as special advisor Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt – Today at ... expertise to expand support to other developing countries as well,” said Damilola Ogunbiyi,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

NGOsource

Publication date:

03/2013

... Global, NGOsource employs a streamlined process (known as equivalency determination or ED) to determine if a ...

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Website

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Evaluation

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

How Should Philanthropy Respond to Obama’s Speech on Black Men and Boys?

Release Date:

08/15/2013

We’re pleased to have Shawn Dove, Manager of the Open Society Foundations’ Campaign for Black Male Achievement, discuss the effect of President Obama’s comments after the Trayvon Martin verdict and the steps philanthropy can take to address the...

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Insights

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Public Policy

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Community Development

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Open Society Foundations

Which Nonprofits Are Most Ready for Capacity Building?

Release Date:

07/20/2012

TCC Group Senior Consultant Alice Hill shares her experience managing the Challenge Fund for Journalism (a funder collaborative of the Ford, Knight, McCormick and Ethics and Excellence in Journalism foundations) and learning some of the most...

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Insights

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building