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Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

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02/23/2016

Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’ t Knock it Till You Try It By Salem Tsegaye, Program ... New York Community Trust You’ve probably heard of design thinking by now. It’s an approach to creating ... the boards...

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29 Jan 2016

School Funding: The Road to Equity for NYC

Friday, January 29, 2016 -

9:45am to 12:00pm

... rarely discuss where the funding comes from, the history of advocacy for more funding for New York City schools, where ... Betty Rosa, Member, New York State Education Department Board of...

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Children, Youth and Families

Goldman Sachs: Women Are the Smartest Investment We Can Make

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06/16/2014

by Noa Meyer, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs Office of Corporate Engagement and global head of the 10,000 Women program It has been fifteen years since ... exclusively to women-owned SMEs. The Goldman Sachs...

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Gender Justice

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To Bolster Support for the Arts, Move Hearts and Minds

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11/10/2015

... which is why the New York City Cultural Agenda Fund made a grant to The Opportunity Agenda . The group trained arts and ... to develop unified narratives and messages among a group of 49? Truthfully, it’s not—...

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The Opportunity Agenda

18 Nov 2025

Prefiguring the Future We Want: Practicing Liberation & Sovereignty

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... right now? What does it mean to be focused on a vision of racial equity, well-being, gender justice, economic health ... institutions, and the systems that have allowed most of us to at least limp along are...

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EdFunders Case Study Identifies Unusual Model for Philanthropic Collaboration

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08/11/2015

... – Philanthropy New York, “the regional association of grantmakers with global impact,” today announced the release of a case study produced by an external researcher ... documenting the formation, challenges...

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PNY News

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Education Funders Research Initiative

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Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All

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12/14/2015

... Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All By Paul Di Donato, Former Director of the Civil Marriage Collaborative, Current Interim ... President, Proteus Fund Last month, I joined a panel...

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Make Room for Makerspaces

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12/08/2015

... researcher, a corporate funder, and a maker. Here are some of key ideas that came out of the program: Makerspaces are putting a new twist on a classic pastime The proliferation of makerspaces...

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To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?”

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01/27/2016

To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?” By Brandee McHale, President, Citi Foundation The piece is excerpted from a chapter entitled ... seen their hourly wages stagnate or decline. But you...

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Is There an App for That? New Thinking on Kids and Digital Media

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03/10/2016

... Trust We know that kids today spend an enormous amount of time consuming digital media. What’s less clear is how ... and other “screens” are either a) growing causes of behavioral problems and attention...

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