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Mellon Foundation

Mellon's “Humanities for All Times” Awards More Than $16 Million to Liberal Arts Colleges for Social Justice-Oriented Humanities Curricular Development

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01/26/2022

... million have been awarded to 12 liberal arts colleges as part of its Humanities for All Times Initiative. ... Brian Harper, Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Program Director . “We are thrilled to support this...

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Mellon Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence

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07/26/2021

... Foundation Appoints Farah Jasmine Griffin and Clint Smith as 2021 Fellows in Residence NEW YORK, NY, July 15, 2021 ... August 2022 and pursue their own research and writing as well as advise...

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Sloan Public Service Awards Honor Seven NYC Employees

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06/03/2016

... Seven NYC Employees ( June 1, 2016, New York, NY ) The Fund for the City of New York (FCNY) today announced the ... all.” The 2016 recipients are: Althea Buckner, Pharm.D. Director of Pharmacy, Gouverneur...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

13 Dec 2016

School Discipline, Pushout and Gender Norms

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

As we look at how to improve high school graduation rates and ... Brooklyn Community Foundation Joanne Smith , Executive Director , Girls for Gender Equity Rye Young , Director , Third Wave...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes Two New Philanthropy Fellows, Ariane Cruz and Javon Robinson

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07/13/2021

... BPI, she evolved professionally alongside the organization as it experienced transformational growth through the launch ... was assigned to New York Cares as the Financial Literacy Associate...

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Why Helping Pets Helps People

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12/05/2013

... found or rescued, the owner typically benefits just as much as the animal. That’s easy to picture. But what’s less ... gave a $100,000 safety net grant to the Louisiana SPCA to fund pet food...

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ASPCA

19 Sep 2017

Documentary Film Screening - "Unrest": Women, Resilience and the Disease Medicine Forgot

Tuesday, September 19, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Brea, a young African American woman with a bright future as a Harvard Ph.D. student, provides an intimate story of her ... in the face of loss. What do we owe to each other as humans? How do we treat those...

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JPB Foundation Looks to Historically Black Colleges as Clean Energy Leaders

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03/29/2018

JPB Foundation Looks to Historically Black Colleges as Clean Energy Leaders The JPB Foundation is still a ... GRID Alternatives for work to expand solar power in multi- family affordable housing. And the...

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Freedom Together Foundation

Bloomberg Philanthropies Accelerates Fight Against Global Coronavirus Pandemi

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03/17/2020

... public health crisis. Bloomberg is building on his years as a philanthropist who has invested more than $2.5 billion ... and on his experience leading public health crises as mayor of New York City, including...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

22 Sep 2021

The Importance of Access to Affordable Health Care Has Never Been Greater – How New Developments in Federal Health Policy May Impact New York

Wednesday, September 22, 2021 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... its impact on health care affordability The “ family glitch” and the potential for action by the Treasury ... changes adopted under the "public health emergency," such as the reimbursability of...

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The Future is Now: The Need for Health Information Exchange

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04/30/2012

Health information technology has emerged as a key building block of the nation's health reform agenda, ... the presenters, the Primary Care Information Project’s Sarah C. Shih, share more details with us...

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19 Mar 2025

Building People Power & People's Budgets in NYC: A Briefing With The People’s Plan

Wednesday, March 19, 2025 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

In collaboration with the North Star Fund , New York Foundation, Scherman Foundation, and the New ... Discuss key insights on building alignment and power as a coalition. Explore Opportunities: Identify ways to...

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Centering Disability Justice

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02/06/2019

... Townsend, Disability Inclusion Advisor & Noorain Khan, Director , President's Office, Ford Foundation Two years ago, ... alone—that to make true progress, we need to transform as an institution and...

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Come Help Me Be Less Racist

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10/21/2015

... & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article of the October 2015 issue of the New ... Policy Edition. Come Help Me Be Less Racist As the song says, “We’re All a Little Bit...

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One Difference between Katrina and Harvey: Availability of Information Resources

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09/06/2017

... of desperate families and stories of systematic failure as Hurricane Harvey swept across the Houston area brought ... last few days, Hurricane Irma is making headlines – even as it was still developing in the...

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United Philanthropy Forum

17 May 2017

The Price of Justice: America’s Unfair Bail and Prosecution System

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... fees, and a 2016 White House condemnation of money bail as “a crude way to screen pretrial defendants for their ... municipalities rely on money collected from defendants to fund their operating budgets, and a...

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Blue Meridian’s Response to the COVID-19 Crisis

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04/10/2020

... own limitations in the face of such monumental challenges. As long-term investors concentrating on multi-year strategies ... and families. Our first investments include the Family Independence Initiative ,...

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The Issues We’re Taking to the Hill

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02/21/2018

... tax bill – an estimated $13-20 billion per year. Lastly, as the nonprofit sector faces the fallout of reduced federal ...

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