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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $9.1 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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03/12/2024

... and colleges, a 13% increase from last year’s grantmaking . $8.5 million will expand support to existing ... expenses, and food. By both deepening and widening our grantmaking for 2024, Gerstner Philanthropies...

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01 Oct 2024

October 2024 New York Age-Friendly Funders Network - Fall Meeting

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

Join the New York Age-Friendly Funders Network for its fall in-person meeting with our special guest Lorraine Cortés-Vázquez , the Commissioner for NYC Aging (formally called the Department for the Aging). We hope to have a robust discussion of the...

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12 Feb 2025

February 2025 New York Age-Friendly Funders Network - Winter Meeting

Wednesday, February 12, 2025 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

The New York Age-Friendly Funders is a peer network of grantmakers who fund or are interested in the program area of healthy aging and services for older adults. The network aims to advance members’ knowledge of (1) current and emerging needs among...

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09 May 2024

Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future

Thursday, May 9, 2024 -

9:30am to 4:30pm

... perpetuate old patterns or to courageously forge new and more equitable ones. We, as a philanthropic community, ... else should you know? Space is limited for this in-person event . Seating in the main room...

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Hartford Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $6 Million to Improve Geriatric Care

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09/19/2013

... from the John A. Hartford Foundation include an award of more than $5 million to the Gerontological Society of America ... on the strengths, resources, and expertise of the more than 1,000 nurses, social...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs

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05/06/2014

... Story Learning Guide” – based on PBS documentary and more than a decade of research, commissioned by The Wallace ... The Learning Guide’s five online units, including more than 25 activities, are intended for...

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Helmsley Trust Grant Gives Educators A Voice In Common Core Discussions

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07/21/2014

... Inc. is meant to give educators on the front lines more of a voice on how states implement the Common Core ... 100 educators to advise policymakers on the rollout of the more rigorous standards that are...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Financing the Social Sector

Release Date:

09/15/2014

... GDP. In order to do that, nonprofits will need to invest more in growth and develop more capacity in gaining access to capital. Funders and ...

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Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues

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12/16/2014

... women worldwide and to promote a joint effort to gather more data on their health, workplace roles, childbirth and ... nominee were she to run, has long championed the need for more information to help women...

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Gender Justice

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State Recoups $30 Million for Workers Who Failed to Receive Proper Minimum Wage

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02/05/2015

... “I’m proud to say that investigators recovered more stolen wages in 2014 than ever before – which means more money stays with the hard-working men and women who ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Brooklyn Accelerator

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02/06/2015

... President & CEO Cecilia Clarke. “Donors want to learn more about exciting local nonprofits. Nonprofits are always seeking more resources, donors, and board members. As Brooklyn’s ...

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White House Debuts $240 Million in New STEM Commitments

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03/24/2015

... Million in New STEM Commitments President Obama debuted more than $240 million in new STEM commitments this week at ... sector commitments are designed "to inspire and prepare more girls and boys —...

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Wallace Foundation President Will Miller Tackles Education Reform in NYTimes Editorial

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04/17/2015

... School districts, states and universities need to do much more to get outstanding principals into these schools. A ... in the mid-1990s. Today’s principal needs to be much more focused on the quality of...

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AXA Announces the 2015 AXA Achievers

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04/21/2015

... an additional scholarship award of $15,000. AXA has given more than $25 million in scholarships to more than 6,000 students since the program's inception in .....

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MetLife Foundation to Support Financial Education in Rural China

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07/20/2015

... businesses in rural areas of China; create or sustain more than twenty thousand jobs; and enhance the financial knowledge and skills of more than thirty-six hundred entrepreneurs through financial ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Century Foundation Explores the 'Double Burden' of Poverty

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08/12/2015

... is often different from the poverty of poor whites. It's more isolating and concentrated. It extends out the door of a ... grocery stores. A poor black family, in short, is much more likely than a poor...

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Economic Security

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Ford, Visa Fund Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations

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03/31/2016

... Incubator Program for Financially Fragile Populations More than $1.6 million in additional grants from the Ford ... fragile populations. “Credit unions can play a more active role in improving the financial...

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