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01/20/2016

... & Communications This piece was originally published as the feature article of the January 2016 issue of the New ... Counsel, Morgan Stanley Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab by Betsy...

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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 ... hold the power to capture, nourish and move us. They serve as a vehicle for radical...

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The New York Community Trust

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Now Accepting Applications for Incubator Project

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01/19/2017

Free co-working space for emerging nonprofits and community leaders at foundation’s headquarters in Crown Heights.

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Brooklyn Org

Arcus Foundation's Support of Mighty Earth Has Major Impact on a Destructive Cacao Industry

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03/29/2018

... caramel and dusted with sea salt. But chocolate starts as cacao—a waxy, bitter bean encased in a ... for cacao, and helping farmers obtain certifications such as Fair Trade or UTZ that bring higher prices in...

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The Sozosei Foundation Announces New Grants to Decriminalize Mental Illness

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04/18/2022

... Hygiene Inc. The Path Forward The Stephen C. Rose Legacy Fund The University of Washington School of Medicine, Center ... illness is not a crime,” said Melissa M. Beck, Executive Director of the Sozosei...

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Sozosei Foundation

09 Feb 2023

Global Hunger Crisis: Risk of Famine in the Horn of Africa - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, February 9, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... into famine is manmade, driven by international inaction as well as local circumstance. Deaths from famine and untreated ... and scale of disaster funding. Speakers Rein Paulsen, Director ,...

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Doris Duke Foundation Announces New Doris Duke Artists at Awards’ 10th Anniversary Show; Ups Prize to $550K Each

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02/14/2023

... composer and trumpeter Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah, director Charlotte Brathwaite, choreographer and ... its tenth year, the awards program was originally launched as a five-year program in 2012 as...

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Four Frameworks for Living Liberation

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07/01/2021

... Frameworks for Living Liberation By: Trish Adobea Tchume, Director of Liberatory Leadership Practice & Sterling Network ... this an initial, loving offering. ----- “You have to act as if it were possible...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” Since then, we ... school graduation rates have reached an all-time high , as many as 60...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Making Lunch Free Was Just the Beginning

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12/10/2019

... and in every grade could eat for free, regardless of family income, and without shame or stigma. It meant that few ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Health Foundation

Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice 2024-2025

... inequity and building more equitable models of practice? As philanthropic organizations have begun the journey towards ... and grantmaking sides of the foundation to apply as cross-departmental teams. Greater...

Leaving Rikers: What the New York Women's Foundation Is Doing for Women in New York City's Worst Jail

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04/09/2019

... The New York Women’s Foundation (NYWF) created a Justice Fund in 2018 to address mass incarceration and its effects on ... nonconforming communities in New York City. The Justice Fund ’s first round of grants...

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The New York Women's Foundation

Building Bridges: Philanthropy's Journey Towards Active Advocacy

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04/12/2024

... current existence and the way we say we want to operate as a member organization. Three years later, PNY’s policy ... of changes in public policy is rarely neutral. And – as leaders of our organizations – that...

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

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05/17/2017

... University; Former Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Deputy Prime Minister and ... the Peter G. Peterson Foundation. Andrew Metrick, Program Director of the Yale Program on...

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Apollo Theater Launches Initiative Dedicated to the Creation of a Diverse 21st Century Performing Arts Canon with Support from the Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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02/27/2020

... the Apollo to create a new work. Choreographed by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro, the work will celebrate Latin music ... and choreographers Lil Buck and Jon Boogz , together known as Movement Art Is, will...

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State of Safety for Asian American and Pacific Islander Women in the US: New Report by The National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum, in Partnership With The Korean American Community Foundation &Asian American Foundation Forum

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03/03/2022

... but Asian American women,” said NAPAWF’s executive director Sung Yeon Choimorrow. “This past year, our ... (53%) reporting a stranger or someone they don’t know as the perpetrator. Almost half (47%) report...

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Korean American Community Foundation

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A Right to Know: School Environmental Health Hazards

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07/20/2015

by Dana Laventure, Communications Associate and Brian Byrd, Program Officer, New York State ... the school sites could be contaminated with toxins such as lead, arsenic, and a range of carcinogenic compounds. .....

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New York Health Foundation

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NY Community Trust Is Raising $1M to Combat President Trump’s Policies Of ‘Fear’

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03/06/2017

... A Manhattan philanthropy is raising $1 million to fund programs for New Yorkers under siege from President ... justice training, the benefactors behind the new Liberty Fund are taking a front-line position in...

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The New York Community Trust

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Aetna Foundation Leverages Philanthropic Investment to Build Healthier Communities

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04/20/2017

Changing Americans’ access to healthy nutrition and replacing those food deserts with well-stocked stores starts at the local level, says Dr. Garth Graham, president of the nonprofit Aetna Foundation, which each year provides funding to local...

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