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Partnership with MasterCard Foundation Working to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa

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11/13/2014

... Foundation Working to Strengthen Board Governance in Africa The Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion ... at financial institutions that serve low-income clients in sub-Saharan Africa. Strong governance is...

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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

... Rachel D. Pardoe joined The New York Community Trust in February 2015 as Program Officer for the Health and People ... Special Needs. Rachel covers The Trust’s grantmaking in the areas of health, children and...

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Disabilities

Health

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The New York Community Trust

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America

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05/05/2015

HuffPost OpEd Laments the Lack of Upward Mobility in America For all the frantic, often chaotic political ... whatever our political stripe -- know the state of affairs in the United States requires immediate...

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Terry Fulmer Takes the Helm as President of the John A. Hartford Foundation

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06/11/2015

... EdD, who led the Foundation from 1997 until her retirement in 2015. Dr. Fulmer served most recently as a University ... Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in the College of ...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Aging

Health

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New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'

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07/08/2015

... Women as the 'Invisible Population' For many women in their 60s and older, Social Security checks are the all-important means of ... taking care of their families or working off-the-books in...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Aging

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Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana

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07/09/2015

Ford and RPA Work to Foster Sustainable Development in Ghana Today, more than 80 leaders will meet in Accra to discuss how to join forces to collectively ... (SDGs) in Ghana. Participants from...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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OSF and Ford Help Address the 'Accountability Gap'

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08/13/2015

... materials, such as textbooks, were delivered to schools in a timely manner. Monitoring teacher absenteeism – ... information about these service delivery problems in real time. This is one example of the...

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Community Development

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Rockefeller Helps Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Family Philanthropy

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09/16/2015

... and the spirit of family philanthropy still results in the creation of powerful foundations and other socially ...

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Bank of America and Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Global Build

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10/06/2015

... and Habitat for Humanity Launch Second Global Build In recognition of the United Nations’ World Habitat Day, Bank of America, in partnership with Habitat for Humanity International, is ... said Andrew Plepler...

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Housing and Homelessness

Bank of America [Corporate]

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NYS Health Foundation Supporting Model Justice Reform Program

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04/04/2016

... first jurisdiction on the East Coast, and only the third in the nation, to launch LEAD. Albany’s reform approach highlights the growing role cities are playing in the growing national movement to end mass...

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New York Health Foundation

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Justice Reform

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... According to the report, "School Integration in Practice: Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF), ... economic and racial diversity as a way of fostering social mobility and cohesion has more...

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Education

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City Outside Monrovia Admitted to 100 Resilient Cities Pioneered by the Rockefeller Foundation

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12/01/2016

... cities around the world become more resilient to physical, social , and economic challenges of the 21st Century. At a ...

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Community Development

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Russell Sage Teams Up With Robin Hood to Host First Poverty Solutions Conference

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01/18/2017

... Foundation , the nation's premier foundation devoted to social science research, will host their first annual Poverty ... participants. Four of the most highly regarded researchers in the country will...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... its third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a ... program that has developed nearly 3,000 nonprofit and social purpose leaders. Fifty-one...

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Ford Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs

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05/01/2017

... Foundation Study Cites 'Unfairness' as the Leading Factor in Flight from Tech Jobs A new study, billed as the first of ... its kind, by the Ford Foundation and the Kapor Center for Social Impact set...

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Social Justice

Workforce Development

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement

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05/19/2017

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-Backed Poll Finds Racial Divide in Financial Readiness for Retirement Older white Americans ... older white Americans are also more likely to collect Social Security benefits, inherit...

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