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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... more about the projects and recipients. “This is our first time offering this award and we received an impressive ...

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

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Mellon Foundation Appoints Sheree Carter-Galvan as Chief Legal Officer

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01/11/2023

... within their collections. Carter-Galvan spent the first 10 years of her career in the New York City offices of ...

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Trinity Church Wall Street Philanthropies announced our 2022 grants total of $57 million

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01/31/2023

... for dioceses across Kenya. And in 2022, we welcomed the first class of Trinity Leadership Fellows, with participants ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Partners on $2.2M "Welcome NYC" Initiative for Nonprofits Serving Asylum Seekers

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03/03/2023

... own communities. It was clear from the moment when the first buses arrived at the Port Authority that giving asylum ...

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University of Montana Receives Mellon Foundation Grant to Expand Native American Humanities

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07/13/2023

... the country in the arts and higher education. This is the first time the Mellon Foundation selects UM for funding to ...

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Philanthropy Must Act Now — Vulnerable Communities Can’t Afford to “Wait and See”

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04/01/2025

... during Covid or the so-called Muslim ban during the first Trump administration. “Please,” we asked, “can ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Does Funder Risk Aversion Stifle Innovation?

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09/12/2013

... with foundations points to a number of problems. First , people who work in foundations are naturally ... : I would split your argument in half and agree with the first point. Whether it is big foundations or...

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As National Momentum Grows, Advocates’ Voices Ring Out On Capitol Hill

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12/19/2012

... and hog-tied like an animal. It was in that meeting that I first remember hearing the phrase “school to prison ... Education and Dignity in Schools Campaign, testify at the first -ever Congressional hearing on...

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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... Governor, Andrew Cuomo, took office in January 2011. His first budget proposal was entirely directed at achieving the ... are tracking projections; this can be seen as a big first step toward Ravitch’s...

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Capacity Building Begins At Home

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06/04/2009

... of funding practices…” (emphasis added). The first step is to identify what foundations should do to ... true when we are talking about our own practice. Thus, the first two steps could be: Survey grantees...

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Some Measure of Leadership

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04/23/2009

... progress, they struck me and others as no more than first steps, given the importance of the sector (in his ... help too. The Mayor’s speech raises two larger issues. First , it simply isn’t clear from the...

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Hostos Food Studies Program is Creating Opportunities in the Bronx

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10/07/2015

... of a new interdisciplinary food studies program – the first in the US at a community college. The food studies ... program was two years in the making, and last month, the first official class of students...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants

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11/20/2017

... have been awarded a combined total of $1,000,000, the first recipients of Resiliency-NYC grants from The New ... provides support for NALP leadership programs that prepare first and second-generation women to...

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