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Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List

Release Date:

03/29/2017

... & Beyond 2017 List The day after Donald Trump was sworn in as president , millions of women marched in Washington, D.C., New York City and other ...

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Member News

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Gender Justice

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The Commonwealth Fund

Transgender Ban Frozen as Mattis Moves Forward With New Review Of Options

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... Ban Frozen as Mattis Moves Forward With New Review Of Options Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Tuesday that he is freezing the implementation of President Trump’s ban on transgender...

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Gender Justice

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Suspensions, Evaluations And The Absent Teacher Reserve: What A New Union Boss Has On His Mind

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... them get it done. This September, Cannizzaro will become president of the Council of School Supervisors and Administrators, the ... is more challenging than leading a school or being ...

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Education

Cuomo, Schneiderman Say They'll Sue to Protect "Dreamers"

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, policy if President Donald Trump succeeds in ending the program. The Trump administration hinted this past weekend that in six months it is...

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Immigration

Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program I have a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. As ... as children without documentation to fully participate in the American Dream...

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‘Brooklyn Prime’ Campaign Aims To Bring Amazon Headquarters To NYC

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... giant. Now you can officially count Brooklyn as one of the contenders trying to woo the Seattle-based company. In an open letter to Amazon, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams and Brooklyn...

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Workforce Development

Health Bill Appears Dead as Pivotal G.O.P. Senator Declares Opposition

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... G.O.P. Senator Declares Opposition A last-ditch attempt by President Trump and Senate Republicans to dismantle the ... passage. The announcement by the senator, Susan Collins of Maine, effectively dooms what...

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Health

Insights from “A Fireside Chat on the ‘True Costs’ of Nonprofits”

Release Date:

08/03/2022

Insights from “A Fireside Chat on the ‘True Costs’ of Nonprofits” true cost.png Have you heard of the “ ... strict limits on paying for overhead or indirect costs.” In order to end the cycle,...

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For Board Orientation Book Communications 2023

Publication date:

06/2023

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02 Oct 2014

How Philanthropy Can Act to Stop the Ebola Crisis

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 1:00pm

View the recording of this webinar. The CDC estimates the number of Ebola ... cases could reach 1.4 million within just four months, in a worst case scenario. It is a potential catastrophe...

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Why Helping Pets Helps People

Release Date:

12/05/2013

by Michael Barrett, Vice President of Grants Management, American Society for the Prevention of ... of the human-animal bond are commonplace — perhaps even in...

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Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

The New Nonprofit: A Model for Innovation Across Sectors

Release Date:

03/14/2013

... Executive Officer and Co-Founder, The New York Stem Cell Foundation Nonprofits play a critical part in the national economy. The nonprofit sector employs 10 percent of workers nationwide and...

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Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project

Release Date:

04/20/2010

... designed to strengthen the City’s nonprofit sector. One of these projects would incorporate a data vault that would hold common organizational documents required in City contracts and many private grant...

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Rethinking Scholarships As a Force for Social Justice

Release Date:

05/04/2016

... Education, Creativity, and Free Expression, Ford Foundation This post originally appeared on the Ford ... complex world challenges, such as widening gaps in opportunity and income, and environmental...

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Education

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Ford Foundation

13 Jul 2016

Brownsville as Case Study: Can Community Investments Improve Health?

Wednesday, July 13, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

In April 2015, a New York Times article highlighted ... lowest life expectancy in New York City. Media accounts of Brownsville are overwhelmingly negative—emphasizing ... Neighborhoods Fund is a...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

Health

Housing and Homelessness

Justice Reform

The Director, Evaluation and Learning, Education (United Way of New York City)

Release Date:

08/16/2016

Organization: United Way of New York City Name of Position: The Director, Evaluation ... charitable brands, we envision caring communities in which all individuals and families have access to...

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United Way of New York City

What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... Patankar, senior program officer at Brooklyn Community Foundation Re-posted with permission from the Brooklyn Community Foundation In 2002, I moved to Brooklyn's Flatbush/Midwood...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle?

Release Date:

03/02/2017

Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle? By Patricia Eng, Vice President of Strategic Partnership at the New York Women’s Foundation The views and opinions expressed...

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Two Emblematic Markers of Policy Progress

Release Date:

10/24/2018

Two Emblematic Markers of Policy Progress By Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice ... positions on issues, developing policy-focused programs in which members interact with policy leaders, and ... need for a...

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PNY News

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Public Policy

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Philanthropy New York

Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now

Release Date:

09/09/2021

... Now By: Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, CEO, The Edwin Gould Foundation Accelerator The pandemic has shown us many ... need advice from those who know more. We need the advice of others who think differently; we...