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Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

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12/05/2017

... to Amazon in an effort to woo its new headquarters. As it eyes a home for HQ2, Amazon should focus less on tax ... the quality of a skilled local workforce and a state’ s support for constantly developing...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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The New York Community Trust Awards $600K Grant for NYC Creative Aging Initiative

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01/05/2018

... Arts to lead major effort to advance Creative Aging movement in NYC. Lifetime Arts, Inc. announced today the ... Hunter College, efforts will focus on SU-CASA, the city’ s community arts engagement initiative...

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Tell Them We Are Rising: A Documentary Film Breaks New Ground, Andrew W. Mellon Program Associate Emma Taati Interviews Director Stanley Nelson

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02/13/2018

... the history of higher education. Director Stanley Nelson’ s new film, Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Black ... intersections between the university and the civil rights movement ; changing attitudes...

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04 Jun 2018

Philanthropy New York’s 39th Annual Meeting - Democracy, Demographics & Destiny: All in the Details

Monday, June 4, 2018 -

1:00pm to 6:00pm

... professions. We will center race and gender in the day’ s explorations of cross- movement building, and dive deep into the new tools that are ... The use of The Paley Center for Media’ s...

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Open Society Foundations Announce Inaugural Soros Arts Fellows

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05/09/2018

... Democratic Republic of Congo; and a cultural resistance movement against the privatization of natural resources in ...

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NoVo Foundation Announces Grantees of $34 Million Radical Hope Fund

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06/13/2018

... change?” said Jennifer and Peter Buffett, NoVo’ s co-presidents. “The answer has been overwhelming: ... to social justice. What might be possible, NoVo asked, if movement leaders had the support they needed...

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Social Justice

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Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust

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06/19/2018

Backed in Part By The Ford Foundation, Nina Simone’ s Childhood Home Named a National Treasure by National Trust ... she became an integral part of spreading the Civil Rights Movement across the country through...

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With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort

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06/21/2018

With Support from The Andrus Family Fund, Firelight’ s Impact Producer Fellowship Announces 2018 Cohort Firelight ... strategists, digital communications professionals and movement organizers that can influence...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Announces the 2018 Hilton Humanitarian Prize Recipient

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08/22/2018

... Humanitarian Prize. Based in Nairobi, Kenya, SHOFCO’ s mission is to build urban promise from urban poverty. ... first free school for girls. Today, SHOFCO is a grassroots movement that catalyzes large-scale...

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Dr. Cassie Schwerner Selected as Next Executive Director of the Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility

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08/23/2018

... Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility It ' s with joy and sadness that Schott announces that our friend, ... the whole greater than the sum of its parts. Cassie’ s...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Mellon Foundation Renews Support for Open Graduate Education at Brown

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09/17/2018

... million, five-year grant to support the University’ s Open Graduate Education program. Launched in 2011 with ... doctoral students to simultaneously complete a master’ s degree in a different field of study. “...

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Funder Group Support Development of Financial Counseling as Free Public Service for Low-Income Residents

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10/18/2018

... the national FEC Public platform looks to grow this movement across the country. Multiple avenues of grant ...

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Wells Fargo Private Bank - Philanthropic Services

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Ross Initiative in Sports for Equality Appoints Diahann Billings-Burford as New CEO

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10/30/2018

... Dolphins owner Stephen Ross to help bridge the nation’ s racial divide, has hired Diahann Billings-Burford as its ... the position as the NFL grapples with the new civil rights movement in sports and athletes...

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Ford Foundation to Open Gallery for Socially Engaged Art in New York

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02/13/2019

... for the real-estate company Two Trees Management. “ It ’ s a new way to present art, and our goal is to provide a ... new voices for artists.” Darren Walker, the foundation’ s president, said...

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Children, Youth and Families

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20 Mar 2019

Collaborative Grantmaking for Early Childhood: The Raising Childcare Fund - A Webinar Hosted by the NY Funders Alliance

Wednesday, March 20, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... from birth to 8 years old, for over 20 years. ECFC' s Child Care Subcommittee has developed the Fund to invest in .....

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Kathryn Snyder and maisha quint to Lead Criminal Justice Grantmaking Strategy at The Libra Foundation

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08/25/2019

... including time at the San Francisco district attorney' s office under Kamala Harris. A 2018 Criminal Justice Fellow at the Women' s Policy Institute, founding member of the Bay Area Chapter ... for...

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Open Society Pledges Support for African Cultural Heritage Restitution

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11/12/2019

... networks and organizations working to return Africa’ s heritage to its rightful home. “The legacy of colonial ... president of Open Society. “We are proud to support this movement towards reconciling...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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31 Jan 2020

Citizenship Data & Redistricting: New Opinion Research - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Friday, January 31, 2020 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... granted on a first come, first served basis.** There is a movement afoot to count and draw district lines based on the ... distribution of resources and services in our communities. It would also have...

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Leading With Race to Reimagine Youth Justice: JDAI’s Deep-End Initiative - Report Released by The Annie E. Casey Foundation

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05/26/2020

Leading With Race to Reimagine Youth Justice: JDAI’ s Deep-End Initiative - Report Released by The Annie E. Casey ... spans 12 demonstration sites across the United States. It employs intentional, data-driven...

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