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22 Feb 2021

Bottom-up Climate Policy: How One State Coalition is Influencing Federal Climate Policy

Monday, February 22, 2021 -

7:30pm to 8:30pm

Passed in 2019, New York's Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA) has had huge impacts on ... and successfully campaigned to pass this landmark climate justice legislation, one of the nation...

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Producers and Speakers: Money and Power in Post-Election America

... and other health programs. She was later Deputy Staff Director of the Finance Committee, and then served as Chief ... co-founded the Daphne Foundation, which makes grants to community -based organizations...

Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

By Marilyn Gelber, President, Brooklyn Community Foundation When I was in city government (a ... office was located in a storefront on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn , along a shopping street...

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Insights from “Responding to the Moment: Participatory Approaches in Philanthropy”

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09/19/2024

... seek to serve. They shift power from traditional power centers , like foundation boards and donors, to the people and ... decisions more rooted in lived experience and embraced by community are more likely to...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Announces Appointment of Chief Executive Officer

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01/09/2015

... returns to the Foundation after serving as its Deputy Director , bringing with her many years of leadership and arts ... her artwork throughout New England. Christa resides in Brooklyn , NY with her husband and...

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Arts

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31 Jan 2011

Promise Neighborhoods: What Is the Promise and How Can Foundations Help It Shine Through?

Monday, January 31, 2011 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... New York, together with The Blue Ridge Foundation , The Brooklyn Community Foundation , and The New York Community Trust . WHO ... for local funders? PRESENTERS Larkin Tackett , Deputy...

Sharing What Matters: Foundation Transparency

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03/2016

... from analyses of surveys of 145 independent and community foundation CEOs, a review of more than 70 ...

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Center for Effective Philanthropy

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Trinity Awards Grants Addressing Housing Insecurity and Mental Health Needs

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06/15/2023

... concurrent crises of housing affordability, mental health, community safety, and asylum seekers—in line with ... legal services to low-income households. For example, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation ,...

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Dr. Renée Boynton-Jarrett Joins the Burke Foundation Board

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05/20/2021

... Medical Center, a social epidemiologist, and founding director of the Vital Village Community Engagement Network, an organization developing ... is an incredibly valuable addition to our Board,” said ...

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Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

We’re pleased to have Brooklyn Community Foundation President Marilyn Gelber share the ... response to disaster — lessons that enabled her to serve Brooklyn and its communities well following...

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Disaster Relief

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Two New Board Members, Names New Chair

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06/14/2023

... as Board Chair. Maja D. Hazell is Managing Director and Head of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the ... new Chair of the Foundation. It’s a tall order to follow James Allen Smith who has done an amazing...

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Arts Are A Strategy To Build Racial Equity

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11/15/2016

... Are A Strategy To Build Racial Equity by Randy Engstrom, director Seattle Office of Arts & Culture at NY Community Trust, which will present "Cultural and Racial ... At a time when racial equity and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Open Society Shapes Leadership Team to Steer Global Priorities

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11/18/2021

... their impact around the world in promoting and defending Justice , Equity, and Expression. The new Global Programs team ... direct our priorities at a global level.” Brian Kagoro, Director , Justice...

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Farhad Asghar Joins Carnegie Corporation of New York as Program Officer for Pathways to Postsecondary Success

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11/29/2018

... institutions of higher education, large non-profits, and community -based organizations. Farhad most recently served as the Executive Director of Community Partnerships for The College Board...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families

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01/20/2021

... organizations soon organized to find parents and seek justice . This has entailed complex work across international ... York-based organizations (and Tinker Foundation grantees) Justice in Motion and the Cyrus...

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Immigration

Public Policy

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Lisa Benenson Joins Trinity Church Wall Street as Chief Communications Officer

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05/16/2023

... Benenson joins Trinity Church from the Brennan Center for Justice , where she served as vice president for ... She was previously at the United Nations, as the deputy director of global communications for...

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