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New MIF/Hewlett Foundation Webinars Explore How Funders Can Fight Misinformation

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09/27/2017

Media Impact Funders are planning a three-part webinar series: The Future of Truth: Can Philanthropy Help Mitigate Misinformation?

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12 Dec 2018

Effective Workforce and Entrepreneurship Strategies to Serve Older New Yorkers and the Quarterly Meeting of the Workforce Funders

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The New York City’s older adult population has grown rapidly in recent years both in size and diversity. New York City now has more people over the age of 65 than children ages 10 or younger.

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06 Feb 2019

2020 Census and the Current Immigration Landscape: Lasting Implications for Young Children in New York - A Webinar Hosted by the NY Funders Alliance

Wednesday, February 6, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

When children are missed in the decennial census, children suffer the results for a decade. Over 2 million children under 5 years of age were missed in the 2010 Census; here in NY, there was a net undercount of 55,000 young children. An accurate...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Census 2020

06 Mar 2019

Innovative Workforce Strategies for Criminal Justice: Involved Populations and Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, even with the rate in 2016 reaching a 20-year low. While there have been several promising legislative changes at the federal, state, and local levels recently, significant...

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Workforce Development

06 Jun 2012

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Innovative Approaches to Better Serve Youth and Young Adults

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Attendees will learn from presentations by JobsFirstNYC and the New York City Department of Education about new initiatives to better connect youth and young adults with an increasingly competitive labor market. Particular emphasis will be placed on...

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Arts Funders Create Fund in The New York Community Trust to Advance Cultural Policy and Equity in New York City

Release Date:

11/03/2014

The New York City Cultural Agenda Fund is supported by NYCT, Booth Ferris, Robert Rauschenberg and the David Rockefeller Fund, among other funders.

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Arts

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26 Mar 2020

COVID-19: Past Epidemics and Vulnerability — Lessons for Funders Today - A Webinar Hosted by Center for Disaster Philanthropy

Thursday, March 26, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

As the COVID-19 outbreak continues to worsen in the United States and abroad, one thing is clear: the most vulnerable among us will be hit the hardest and take the longest to recover. Lessons learned from previous epidemics like Ebola, H1N1 and the...

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04 May 2021

Towards a NYC COVID-19 Food Response in 2021 - A Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Tuesday, May 4, 2021 -

9:30am to 11:00am

Virtual Meeting - Register by 5/3

... stages of the pandemic in Spring 2020, CFF held weekly funder calls to help coordinate and share information about ...

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14 Sep 2022

How Funders Are Helping Their Nonprofit Partners Get their Student Loans Forgiven by October – A Members Briefing Co-Hosted by PSLF.nyc

Wednesday, September 14, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... and only lasts until October 31, 2022. Join your PNY funder colleagues to hear how they have activated new ...

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Education

14 May 2024

Food Waste Reduction: Philanthropy for People and the Planet - A Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Join us for a deep dive into the problem of food waste, where funding has been going, how local and national organizations are establishing innovative partnerships to address food waste, and why and where funders should get involved.

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Food Systems

15 Sep 2025

Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series Part II: Global Lessons in the Resistance Against Authoritarianism - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Monday, September 15, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... In this second session of GCIR’s Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series , we will lean into the wisdom of ... United States. In Collaboration with Anti-Authoritarian Funder Learning Series Part II: Global...

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RPA, Ford, MasterCard Foundation Among Funders Partnering with Foundation Center on Global Development

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11/20/2014

The partnership will focus on global development post-2015.

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform A ... above 18. Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform...

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Justice Reform

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

In a letter published in the New York Times , Lorie Slutsky—who runs the New York Community Trust—emphasized the role of community foundations in the context of Jeff Bezos' request for ideas to guide his philanthropy.

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of World’s Smallest Neutrino Detector That Found A Big Physics Fingerprint

Release Date:

08/08/2017

After more than a year of operation at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the COHERENT experiment, using the world’s smallest neutrino detector, has found a big fingerprint of the elusive, electrically neutral particles that interact only weakly with...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Along with Collaboration of Funders Highlight Immigrants’ Vital Role in Ohio Communities

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03/16/2018

Open Society Foundations, in partnership with a group of other philanthropy organizations, funded a Cleveland State University report, Our Pathway to a Brighter Future: Ohio's New Americans, which highlights the crucial role immigrants play in Ohio'...

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Immigration

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Arcus Foundation, Casey Family Programs and Other Funders Support Voices of Youth Count

Release Date:

04/27/2018

New Chapin Hall brief shows LGBTQ youth who are homeless experience high levels of trauma, assault, early death.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Housing and Homelessness

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Arcus Foundation

Casey Family Programs

Ford Foundation Partners with Other Funders to Increase Educational Attainment in the Rio Grande Valley

Release Date:

05/03/2018

RGV FOCUS leaders recently unveiled the organization’s 2017 Annual Report showing that Rio Grande Valley students now match or outperform their Texas peers in nine out of 11 key indicators – from high school graduation rates, to FAFSA financial aid...

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