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Open Society Foundations Support Smallholder Farmers Facing Climate Risk

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05/13/2020

... to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Open Society’ s impact investing arm, the Soros Economic Development Fund ... was launched in 2017 as a $43 million fund with support from the German Development Bank...

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Economic Security

Food Systems

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Rockefeller Foundation Designates Atlanta As Newest City in Opportunity Zones Initiative

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07/31/2019

... second city to participate in The Rockefeller Foundation' s Opportunity Zone Community Capacity Building Initiative. ... The initiative, which launched in May 2019, aims to help U. S . cities attract...

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10 Mar 2021

New York City Workforce Funders’ 2021 Strategy Discussion

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:00am

... of short- and long-term strategies to help the city’ s workforce ecosystem more equitably connect low-income New ... have adapted grant-making approaches to meet the field’ s current needs, and where there may...

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Report Shows Link Between Children's Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment

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07/10/2014

Report Shows Link Between Children' s Outcomes and Mothers' Educational Attainment Children whose mothers have not graduated from high school lag on economic, education and health ... that leads directly...

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Rachel D. Pardoe Appointed NYCT Program Officer for Health and People with Special Needs

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02/10/2015

... and People with Special Needs. Rachel covers The Trust’ s grantmaking in the areas of health, children and youth with ... AIDS, and elder services. She came to The Trust from MDRC, a social policy evaluation...

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The New York Community Trust

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... have forced them to commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid in New York City, told The ... trafficking survivors, thanks in large part to Mogulescu’ s efforts to develop a unit within Legal Aid...

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Gender Justice

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... Columbia, South Carolina, pulled a Black, female student from her chair, slammed her to the ground, and dragged her from the room. Apparently, she failed to heed his order to ... Of course, it is critical -...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Social Justice

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

... Rodolfo Lanciani collected an enormous archive of Rome’ s history—meticulously documenting the excavations of the ... have scanned nearly 4,000 prints, paintings, and drawings from the collection—building a...

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Surdna Foundation Funds Exhibit Mapping 150 Years of Activism in New Orleans

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01/05/2018

... New Orleans. The display is part of the Small Center’ s current exhibit, Sites of Resistance, which chronicles ... social justice demonstrations and movements in New Orleans from 1863 to today. The maps...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces New Program Officer for Democracy, Hannah Furstenberg-Beckman

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08/31/2022

... democratic institutions. Hannah comes to the Trust from a consulting practice working with private foundation ... In 2020, she worked on the Biden for President campaign’ s voter protection program, partnering...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Releases New Book on the Value of Diversity

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10/25/2016

... tide; it will take concerted dialogue, thoughtful analysis from many directions, honest questions and questioning, to ...

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Leading By Example

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08/02/2017

Leading By Example A Message from th e President of Philanthropy New York, Ronna Brown, ... of Regional Associations of Grantmakers. In the Forum’ s own words: “The Forum is in the beginning stages of ... and...

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United Hospital Fund Releases Guide to NY’s Value-Based Medicaid Reimbursement Roadmap

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11/24/2015

United Hospital Fund Releases Guide to NY’ s Value-Based Medicaid Reimbursement Roadmap A new guide from the United Hospital Fund distills information about the ... transform the way it finances health care...

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Common Sense and Reaffirmation of 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Nonpartisanship

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07/26/2016

... National Council of Nonprofits Reprinted with permission from the National Council of Nonprofits The partisan ... on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for public office.” The National Council of...

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Teagle Foundation and Arthur Vining Davis Foundations Partner to Strengthen Transfer Pathways to the Liberal Arts

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11/12/2020

... five community college students hope to earn a bachelor’ s degree, but few are able to succeed by transferring to and graduating from a four-year institution. The Teagle Foundation and ... opportunities for...

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The Forum Welcomes Jay Hutchins as Associate Director of Policy and Communications

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04/24/2017

... effectively as possible to advance the work of the group' s members to engage in government relations and public policy work at the state and national level, and to ... a B.A. in Political Science and...

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

... care for her family. Years later, when her mom passed away from cancer, Danielle struggled to return to work. Her ... Opportunity -- Danielle improved her interview and public speaking skills, and regained her...

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JPMorgan Chase Gives $350M to Workforce Training, Community Colleges

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03/19/2019

... largely underfunded, according to a recent policy paper from The Aspen Institute' s Economic Strategy Group. Its authors recommend a ... funding gap between community colleges ($11,400) and public...

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Economic Security

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Jean Ross Has Joined the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust As Senior Program Officer

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04/22/2019

... and the social safety net. Jean comes to the Trust from a consulting practice working with private foundation ... at the Ford Foundation, managing the Initiative’ s U. S . and global...

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