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The Commonwealth Fund

30 May 2024

Resistance at The Border and Beyond: Frontline Efforts to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Legislation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, May 30, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... further dehumanize and criminalize immigrant and refugee communities while also expanding state powers to detain, ... What will you learn? How organizations are leveraging different...

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Immigration

Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... The Trump administration on Friday moved to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for ... religious freedom that critics said could also erode civil rights protections for lesbian,...

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Health

What Philanthropy’s Response to Changes in Washington Means for Civic Engagement

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06/15/2017

... swiftly changing context in which we work. Its findings are illuminating, indicating that nearly half of foundation ... as a means unto itself — to heal the fractures in our communities and our democracy. PACE...

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05 Jun 2017

New York Foster Youth Funders Group - Summer Meeting

Monday, June 5, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... Youth Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New ... the group's summer meeting. Agenda The Vera Institute of Justice , in partnership...

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $400,000 in Emergency Response Funding for 10 Baltimore Nonprofits

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05/14/2015

... to low-income individuals, youth, families, and seniors impacted by the recent events,” said Rachel Garbow Monroe, Weinberg Foundation President and CEO. “While we are working to develop a deliberate and...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Community Development

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Insights from Indonesia: Protecting Our Coral Reefs

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02/08/2018

... 2018 the International Year of the Reef. Coral reefs are home to one in every four fish in the ocean, and are a ... can provide economic support to small-scale fisheries and communities . For...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Why Women and Girls?

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03/27/2014

... 7 and featuring special guest Hillary Rodham Clinton. We are just as enthusiastic about our subject matter for the ... concerns -- economic development, health, human rights , criminal justice...

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PNY News

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Gender Justice

29 Oct 2019

Resiliency Finance: A Pivotal Role for Philanthropy

Tuesday, October 29, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... efforts and financial due diligence demands How to buffer communities against socio-economic inequities as cities ...

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Tools & Strategies

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Finance & Asset Management

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Impact Investing

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Environment and Climate Change

The Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective Increases to $15 Million Commitment to Support BIPOC-Owned Businesses

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02/02/2021

... by $3 million. The announcement was made during at event with former President Bill Clinton and The Rockefeller ... just how deadly the inequities that exist in our society are , especially to ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Community Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation

19 May 2020

Addressing Racial Inequities in our COVID-19 Responses

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... annual domestic foundation giving focused explicitly on communities of color has never exceeded 10%. Investing in ... on the communities they serve, yet POC-led organizations are still wildly...

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Mellon Foundation Names Carter Stewart Executive Vice President for Programs

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07/21/2021

... to better understand the impact of our grantmaking. We are delighted to have him join the senior leadership team at ... sourcing new investments and grantees—primarily small, justice -oriented organizations—and...

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Mellon Foundation

NYSHealth Foundation Testimony on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in New York City

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12/09/2020

... research has found that for every maternal death, there are up to 100 occurrences of severe maternal morbidity (SMM). ... more than half of all Black and Hispanic deliveries. There are significant disparities...

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New York Health Foundation

Gender Justice

Health

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BoardServeNYC: Responding to the Challenge of Strengthening Grantee Boards

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06/07/2010

... that a board can exert over an organization, many funders are not certain about how to address the topic of governance ... such as governance. As a result, most nonprofit boards are left to their own devices...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies' 2019 Annual Report: Michael R. Bloomberg’s Annual Letter on Philanthropy

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06/13/2019

... a good education and the opportunity to go to college. And communities that were once home to thriving industries slip ... that.” In the report, Bloomberg highlights some of the ways Bloomberg Philanthropies...

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One-Third of New Yorkers Don’t Have Internet Access. That Is an Issue for Funders

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05/26/2021

... By Eve Stotland, Program Officer for Education and Human Justice at The New York Community Trust Like many New ... appointments by Zoom. In the words of our teenager, we are over it. But what if we didn’t have...

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

Technology

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Playwright, Novelist and Songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank

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10/15/2015

... attended by leaders of the performing arts and literary communities , will include remarks by Oskar Eustis, Artistic ... Theater, and playwright and screenwriter Tony Kushner. The event will also feature a...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

01 Apr 2014

Advocacy and Policy Communications: Where Does Social Media Fit In?

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Yet while these tools have given voice to some, others are silenced on the sidelines. As they are unfamiliar with ... the rules of these new communication avenues, and the best ways to use...

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Spelman College Receives Funding from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Help Fuel the Field of Black Women Economists

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08/29/2019

... the advancement of scientific knowledge. Nationwide, there are very few African Americans in economics professions, and fewer than 10% of minorities are awarded advanced degrees in the discipline, said Mary...

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