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Ford Funds Analysis, Toolkit for Improving Legal Aid Websites

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08/08/2017

... for Improving Legal Aid Websites The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) released today a comprehensive report and ... Evaluation Project. The project assessed the quality of centralized legal information...

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Justice Reform

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Mastercard's Big Data For Good Initiative: Data Philanthropy On The Front Lines

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08/10/2017

... been written about big data initiatives and the efforts of market leaders to derive critical business insights ... faster. Less has been written about initiatives by some of these same firms to apply big data...

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Sloan Foundation Supported Survey: Work Can Be Stressful, Dangerous And Sometimes Great

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08/14/2017

... survey on working conditions the nonpartisan RAND Corporation published Monday. But having a good boss and good ... along with Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles, began...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Newman's Own Pops The Champagne - Salad Dressing - That Is

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08/30/2017

... that the philanthropic company shipped its first bottles of olive oil and vinegar salad dressing. Newman’s Own ... $837,000 to 30 charities in 10 states through the sale of that dressing in its first year...

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Raising Money from the Modern Family

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09/06/2017

... from the Modern Family Susan Sachs Fleishman is the type of supporter many a nonprofit would love to draw into their ... total more than $1 million. "It is a really important part of the life I have put...

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Open Society, Ford Foundation, Unbound Philanthropy Support Delivering on the Dream Initiative

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09/27/2017

... Administration's decision to end DACA has created a lot of anger and pushback, including from some prominent ... young people from deportation and save DACA, the fate of which is now in the hands ...

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Immigration

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Tax Plan Doubles Standard Deduction, Leaves Charitable Deduction In Place

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09/28/2017

... In Place Nonprofit leaders applauded the preservation of the charitable deduction but are wary of other changes that might hurt charitable giving, such as doubling the standard deduction and...

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Citi Foundation Partners with LISC, Commits $10 Million to Help Train American Workers for Growing Job Sectors

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07/16/2018

... is investing $10 million in the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to help connect unemployed and ... construction and other industries facing shortages of skilled workers. The Citi Foundation's...

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A Better Starting Point for Foundation Communications

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10/19/2015

... In September, I helped facilitate a session a Philanthropy New York organized by Exponent Philanthropy’s Local Engagement ... goals will lead to a focused plan that makes best use of your...

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After We Say Goodbye

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01/29/2010

... Executive Director, Paul Rapoport Foundation In August of 2009, Anita Nager, the former Executive Director of the ... three populations, and we urgently seek those Philanthropy New ...

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We Cannot Let COVID-19 Be a Death Sentence For Refugees

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08/12/2020

... Assistance Project (IRAP) For those working in the fields of protecting the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, the ... country. The coronavirus has given the administration a new pretext...

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Mellon Foundation Awards St. Lawrence University $800,000 to Support Sophomore-Year Experience

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10/21/2016

... awarded a large grant by a private foundation to support a new program aimed at enhancing the academic experience for ... to support the “Sophomore Journeys” program. This new program will offer a new...

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Let’s Close the Gap on Mental Health for Good in 2023

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02/16/2023

... growing in America, with 1 in 10 adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression. Today, that number is 3 in 10 ... for me since the earliest days of my career when I served as a paramedic...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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A Commitment to Deep Change in 2025 - Launching a Philanthropic Toolkit for Transformational Systems Change

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12/13/2024

... money actually can be sacred, something that could be used as medicine.” Edgar Villanueva, Decolonizing Wealth Project Grounding Many of the actors in the philanthropic industry who are engaged ... systemic...

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Digital Badges: What They Are and Why Funders Should Pay Attention (Part 1)

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06/13/2014

... Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust. Technology has transformed traditional modes of learning—creating a vast online universe of...

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The New York Community Trust

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Morgan Stanley, Kresge Foundation, LISC Launch $100 Million Investment Fund For Health Care, Affordable Housing

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01/14/2013

... Protection and Affordable Care Act and the 20 million new health care consumers that the legislation is likely to ...

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Community Development

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Smashing the Stigma: Deputy Mayor Richard Buery On ThriveNYC and Treating Mental Health

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09/08/2017

... Treating Mental Health ThriveNYC is a coordinated system of 54 initiatives, estimated to cost $850 million over four years. One in 5 New Yorkers in any given year will experience mental illness. ... and...

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Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change

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04/27/2016

Rita Allen Foundation Funds Study to Understand Rejection of Climate Change Climate Central, a Palmer Square-based ... in a study that seeks to understand why many members of the public reject the findings...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Advocating an End to the Death Penalty

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07/20/2016

... Advocating an End to the Death Penalty The use of the death penalty in the United States is arguably one of the country’s most controversial political issues. The ... the number of its...

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