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Helen Chin Named New Director of Sustainable Environments Program at Surdna

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12/22/2014

... Sustainable Environments Program at Surdna The Surdna Foundation announced that it has appointed Helen Chin as ... Miller. She succeeds Michelle Knapik who left the foundation in May to become President of the...

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The Art of Dentistry, Or: How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.

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08/23/2010

By Lisa Turngren, President, Frank and Ruth E. Caruso Foundation As philanthropists, we are many times faced with ... majority of victims, about 3 percent of American men—or 1 in 33—have experienced an attempted...

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Better Prepared for Tomorrow: Youth, Media, Technology and the Future of Education and the Workforce

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08/01/2013

... Headrick, Program Consultant, Hive Digital Media Learning Fund , The New York Community Trust The new media ecology ... including results from the 2010 Kaiser Family Foundation study that showed that Black and...

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Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

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12/16/2014

Jennifer Jones-Austin and James Parrott explore how the City of New York can address low social service sector wages.

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RPA, Ford and MasterCard Support Bogata Convening on World Philanthropy

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03/12/2015

RPA, Ford and MasterCard Foundation Lead Committee for Post-2015 Partnership Platform ... by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Foundation Center, and a committee of leading foundations ... decisions...

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What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

... Fujiko Willgerodt Executive Director, Prospect Hill Foundation (This post originally appeared in OnEarth ... and is reprinted with permission.) We at the Gulf Coast Fund have noticed people asking why they...

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JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

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03/24/2016

... report, supported by JPMorgan Chase as part of its $250 million , five-year New Skills at Work initiative , analyzes ... transportation, distribution, and logistics, there will be 1 .3 million...

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... ways to remake high schools—and have invested over $200 million in that cause. Three years ago, we released our ... out 10 principles to guide this work and committed $40 million to the effort. We are...

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NYSHealth Publishes New Report for Improving Access to Primary Care for Adults with Physical Disabilities

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12/21/2016

... one in five adults in the United States—or more than 53 million people—were living with a disability... NYSHealth ...

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75,000 Apply for State College Scholarships, but Many Won’t Qualify

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08/28/2017

... anticipated that 23,000 people would benefit, sharing $87 million in funding. Instead, 75,000 people applied. And that ...

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Watchdog Group Claims MTA Mistakenly Signed off on $42M Towers with No Use

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09/15/2017

... it unwittingly funded “decorative” towers worth $42 million at bridges and tunnels, as part of Gov. Cuomo’s ...

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14 Dec 2023

Strangers in a Strange Land: Migrants and Disasters in the US - A Webinar Hosted by CDP

Thursday, December 14, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... has extended an invitation to PNY members. More than 45 million people living in the United States were born outside ... many of them unaccompanied minors or families. In our $ 1 trillion food and agricultural...

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A Year of Service

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07/23/2014

... at American Express and president of the American Express Foundation This post originally appeared on CSR Now! here. ... Their goal is to create a system that includes one million service year positions (...

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Carnegie Supports New American Academy Of Arts & Sciences Report On The Public Good Of Public Research Universities

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03/22/2016

... the creative economy. Not only do they educate nearly four million Americans each year, including about 900,000 graduate ... Robert and Colleen Haas, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation , The Spencer...

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05 Mar 2014

Economies of Inclusion: Building Strong Local Businesses and Communities

Wednesday, March 5, 2014 -

2:15pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York

... for a Just Transition , in collaboration with: Sister Fund EDGE Funders Alliance Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project Co-Presented with Rockefeller Foundation Surdna Foundation...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Board Chair and Members

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05/08/2023

... Rini Banerjee President, The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation Rini Banerjee has two decades of experience in ... Advancing Women’s Human Rights, the Groundswell Fund , and the Funders’ Collaborative on Youth...

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10 Nov 2011

The Common Core: NYC’s Department of Education and the New York State Education Department Bringing It Back to the Classroom

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -

1:30pm to 5:00pm

... successful Race to the Top application, which brought $700 million federal dollars to support school reform in New York. ... Education and Scholarship Program Officer for the Ford Foundation ’s Educational...

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Ivy Suriyopas Announced as New Vice President of Programs for Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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04/14/2021

... at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund , working at the intersection of migrants’, workers’, ... organization works with its 130 member institutions, the 1 ,200 individual grantmakers in its...