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A Right to Know: School Environmental Health Hazards

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07/20/2015

... larger and broader impact. This is a challenge we face as funders : we often view final reports within the confines of ...

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New York Health Foundation

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How Foundations Can Be the Risk Takers They Want to Be

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06/25/2014

... laudable impulse to quantify concrete returns on our grant investments a bit too far? Our grantees sure seem to think ...

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The Case for Giving Cash to Poor Kids

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08/25/2014

The Century Foundation's Clio Chang writes that the implementation of child allowances could go a long way toward reducing child poverty rates in the United States.

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Economic Security

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Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know

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09/10/2014

The Ford Foundation's Amy Brown outlines the disproportionate nature of student debt in the United States.

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The Carnegie Compact Revisited: Re-envisioning New York City’s Branch Libraries

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11/26/2014

Charles H. Revson Foundation President, Julie Sandorf, examines the growing needs of NYC's libraries and why it is vital they survive.

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Artists at the Center: A New Doris Duke Initiative

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12/21/2012

By Ben Cameron, Program Director for the Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation has supported artists in jazz, contemporary dance and theatre in creating, producing and touring...

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Young Black Males and the Urgency of Now

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11/26/2012

By Dr. John H. Jackson , President and CEO, The Schott Foundation for Public Education In April 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King reminded the country that “We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now….Life often leaves us standing...

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How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

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09/28/2011

... this. For their part, foundations can use program-related investments (PRIs) to provide the needed capital, without ...

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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

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05/14/2009

By Hildy J. Simmons While sorting through some office files recently, I came across a speech I gave in December 1990 at the annual meeting of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee (NPCC). In looking it over, I...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards Grants to Nonprofits to Partner with Schools for 4-Year Pilot Initiative

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10/15/2015

Brooklyn Community Foundation announces grants to four expert restorative justice providers to launch full-time, in-school programs in four Brooklyn public schools.

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Social Justice

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What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

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01/30/2017

Prachi Patankar, senior program officer at Brooklyn Community Foundation, writes that many immigrant rights groups are now sharing stories similar to what communities felt almost two decades ago.

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Immigration

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Ford-funded Study Points to Potential Security Weakness in Online Voting Registration Systems

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09/06/2017

Online attackers may be able to purchase - for as little as a few thousand dollars - enough personal information to potentially alter voter registration information in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia, according to a new Harvard...

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Small Victories in Affordable Housing? We'll Take it!

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01/19/2018

Patricia Swann, Senior Program Officer, Thriving Communities, New York Community Trust celebrates a few victories in tenant protection laws.

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The New York Community Trust

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Housing and Homelessness

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The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

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05/17/2018

Betsy Myers, Ph.D., Program Director for Medical Research at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation writes, " More than 40 percent of young physicians with full-time faculty appointments at academic medical schools leave academics within 10 years. The...

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World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund Supports Launch of Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative in Philadelphia

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01/15/2020

Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’s Office of Workforce Development, announced today an 18-month initiative to advance employer-informed immigrant workforce integration, at all skill and education levels and...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Releases Results of 4-Year Study of Restorative Justice Implementation in Schools

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10/08/2020

Focused on addressing racial disparities in school discipline, the Brooklyn Resorative Justice Project is a partnership with NYC DOE and the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline

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Philanthropy Must Prioritize Democracy Beyond Election Day

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11/17/2020

... most impacted by mass incarceration—and they were right. Investments focused on these levers of change yielded both ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The Rockefeller Brothers Fund is Building an Anti-racist, Anti-sexist Institution

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02/09/2021

... Center, including human resources, programs, grantmaking, investments , and operations. The RBF’s journey is ongoing, ...

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