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Make Room for Makerspaces

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... Program Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust Makerspaces are ... researcher, a corporate funder, and a maker. Here are some of key ideas that came out of...

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Education

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The New York Community Trust

JPB Foundation Vice President Donna Lawrence to Become President/CEO of I Have A Dream Foundation

Release Date:

06/18/2014

... Vice President Donna Lawrence to Become President/CEO of I Have A Dream Foundation Lawrence will take up her ... to help level the playing field for children living in poverty so that they could have the same...

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Freedom Together Foundation

This is What Ford Foundation Does with its Resources

Release Date:

08/13/2014

... week the Ford Foundation launched the final installment in our three-part video series, From Dollars to Change , which answers some of the most commonly asked questions about our financial ... able to keep our...

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Ford Foundation

42nd Annual Meeting Recap - Looking Back, Moving Forward

... gathered for our 42nd Annual Meeting. It was an afternoon of storytelling, learning, and community as we acknowledged the racialized inequity entrenched in philanthropy and examined the structures we want to...

18 Nov 2025

Prefiguring the Future We Want: Practicing Liberation & Sovereignty

Tuesday, November 18, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

Confounded by what to do and how to be in your role right now? What does it mean to be focused on a vision of racial equity, well-being, gender justice, economic health ... and whole communities---looks like and...

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Tools & Strategies

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Livestream

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Leadership Development

Student-Adult Ratio Is Crucial to Getting H.S. Kids Caught Up

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... years, both locally and nationally, more than a quarter of NYC students do not leave high school with a diploma, even ... students who enter high school with low academic skills in basic reading, writing, and...

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Education

17 Apr 2019

Funders Meeting with Ayirini Fonseca-Sabune, New York City’s Chief Democracy Officer

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... Democracy Officer. The discussion will focus on efforts in New York City to promote civic engagement and expand ... Fonseca-Sabune will discuss her plan to amplify the voice of every New Yorker by building...

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Network Building

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Roundtable Discussion

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All Funders

Funding Area

Civic Engagement

Take This Opportunity to Understand Disaster and Resilience through a Gender Lens

Release Date:

10/28/2015

... President and CEO, The New York Women’s Foundation In Fall 2012, The New York Women’s Foundation launched our ... Hurricane Sandy Response & Recovery Fund in an effort to support...

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Insights

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Disaster Relief

Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

Release Date:

02/23/2016

... New York Community Trust You’ve probably heard of design thinking by now. It’s an approach to creating innovative products and services, in commerce and technology, for example. (Surely, you’ve ... users to: 1...

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Arts

Civic Engagement

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The New York Community Trust

We Can’t Force Philanthropy to Talk About Power Dynamics, Can We?

Release Date:

11/05/2015

... Talk About Power Dynamics, Can We? By Jen Bokoff, Director of GrantCraft, Foundation Center As a sector, we embrace and ... itself can never be eliminated. With increased awareness of power, however,...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Foundation Center

To Combat Islamophobia, Start Where You Are

Release Date:

03/23/2016

... York Foundation I woke up yesterday morning to the news of what had happened in Brussels with a now-familiar sense of dread—not for ... Unity Rally, January 2016 Photo credit: Kyu Nakama More...

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Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All

Release Date:

12/14/2015

Some Winning Ingredients in Movement Building Are the Spiciest of All By Paul Di Donato, Former Director of the Civil ... a laser-like focus on targeted, strategic philanthropic support...

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Civic Engagement

LGBTQ

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

Is There an App for That? New Thinking on Kids and Digital Media

Release Date:

03/10/2016

... Trust We know that kids today spend an enormous amount of time consuming digital media. What’s less clear is how ... causes of behavioral problems and attention difficulties in children, or b...

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The New York Community Trust

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