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Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman

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11/05/2015

Success Metrics Questioned in School Program Funded by Goldman It was, in the vernacular of corporate America, a win-win: a bond that paid for preschool for underprivileged children in Utah while...

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Education

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Goldman Sachs

UJA-Federation of NY CEO Gives Tips on Teaching Youth about the Holocaust

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05/04/2016

... when pictures emerged last month of partying teens in New Jersey engaging in a shocking beer pong game called “Jews versus Nazis” ... ping-pong balls into cups of beer that had been arranged in...

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Ford's Walker Included in New Class of Disrupters Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse

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08/01/2016

Ford's Walker Included in New Class of Disrupters Making New York’s Cultural Boards More Diverse Board membership in New York has always been a rich person’s game. In exchange for the social...

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Ford Foundation

Commonwealth Fund President Writes About Keeping Perspective During Turbulent Times

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02/07/2017

... During Turbulent Times At times of dramatic change in a nation’s history, fear and anxiety can become ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Publishes “The History of the Giving While Living Ethic"

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05/31/2017

... Philanthropies, he said he was doing it out of a belief in Giving While Living – the idea that individuals of great ... use their money to help people during their lifetimes. In “The History of the Giving...

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Donors Offer Berkshire Museum $1 Million To Delay, Study Art Sale; Board President Turns It Down

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08/28/2017

... Turns It Down A group that emerged Friday has company in wanting the Berkshire Museum to hit the brakes on a ...

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Arts

Traces of Crime: How New York’s DNA Techniques Became Tainted

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09/05/2017

... Became Tainted Over the past decade, the DNA laboratory in the office of New York City’s chief medical examiner emerged as a pioneer in analyzing the most complicated evidence from crime scenes. ...

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Justice Reform

Experts Recommend Baseline Concussion Tests for Student Athletes

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09/19/2017

... West got a concussion playing football his freshman year in High School. "I went to go make a tackle and I had a head ... that much," West said. His mother then took him to the emergency room, where...

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Education

Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

... elimination of the provision has emerged as a flash point in the nascent debate over the plan, with Republicans in high-tax states worried about backlash from residents who ...

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Economic Security

De Blasio Says No Notice Needed from City when Entire Hotels Get Rented to Shelter the Homeless

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10/13/2017

... so when it uses hotels — qualifying that as temporary or emergency housing, even when the Department of Homeless Services rents every single room in a hotel, effectively turning it into a shelter... De ...

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Housing and Homelessness

25 Jun 2015

Nailing It: Building A National Movement of Nail Salon Workers

Thursday, June 25, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... recording here . On virtually every street corner in the city sits a nail salon, a burgeoning industry that ... section of the most important issues of our day. Join us in exploring the...

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Immigration

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07 Nov 2013

"MEDIACRACY" - A Dialogue with Experts on the Troubled Intersection of Media and Democracy

Thursday, November 7, 2013 -

12:45pm to 4:00pm

... number of corporate media giants. Media consolidation in radio, TV, newspapers, and online has enormous ... of fighting for diverse and free expression. Join us for a lively discussion with a terrific panel of...

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Civic Engagement Strategies that Turn Policy Wins into Real Change

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07/14/2015

... when Mayor Bill de Blasio signed the Earned Sick Time Act in March 2014, few of the nearly 200,000 workers who were ... benefit from recently passed policies and other family support policies on the horizon?...

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PNY News

Who Is Hilary Pennington? A Few Questions for Ford's New Executive Vice President

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01/25/2018

... the Future and worked really closely together while I was in that role for over 20 years. He remained a very ... me take on enormous responsibility and gave me credit and support in doing it...

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14 Mar 2018

Indigenous Women Funders Working Group - Launch

Wednesday, March 14, 2018 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... Women’s Funders Working Group will engage in peer learning, networking, and promote awareness of key ... world that aim to advance philanthropic practices grounded in Indigenous Peoples values and traditions,...

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19 Jul 2012

Fracking in New York: A Donor Briefing

Thursday, July 19, 2012 -

8:45am to 10:45am

... time. The entire nation is watching to see what happens in New York. Hundreds of organizations and thousands of ... sponsored by New York Community Trust , Sherman Foundation and North Star Fund , in...

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Nonprofit Staff/Grantseekers

21 Jun 2016

Diverse Boards: Moving Beyond Rhetoric

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and goals of inclusiveness, but have had mixed success in diversifying their boards. Some have had challenges ... identifying appropriate leaders from less familiar communities . Some have had challenges...

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