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19 Jul 2010

College-Ready or Not? Preparing High School Students for Success

Monday, July 19, 2010 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

A Philanthropy Connects program presented by the Donors’ Education Collaborative (DEC) and the Public Education Grantmakers Network (PEGNET). WHO SHOULD ATTEND : This session is for all funders who are interested...

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20 Oct 2011

"Fixing vs. Preparing"...The Role of Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice

Thursday, October 20, 2011 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

"Positive Youth Development" is a process all young people go through as they move from less mature ways of thinking, feeling and acting as they transition to adulthood. This process often happens unevenly and with great difficulty for youth such as...

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03 Mar 2011

New York City's Future Looks Latino

Thursday, March 3, 2011 -

7:30am to 10:30am

A Philanthropy New York’s Collaborative Program presented with The New York City Youth Funders (NYCYF) and sponsored by The Aprendes Foundation , the Altman Foundation , and the Wallace Foundation . WHO SHOULD ATTEND:...

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03 Nov 2011

The American Economy, Manufacturing, and Sustainability

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -

10:00am to 2:00pm

Emerging from the dark grey smoke of political paralysis, chronic unemployment, increasing poverty and embarrassing wealth distribution are some new promising and hopeful themes—manufacturing growth, millions of unfilled good jobs, green...

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01 Apr 2014

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

Tuesday, April 1, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Effective advocacy communications today means successful navigation of social media. It isn’t just Twitter, Facebook and other new distribution channels; blogs, webcasts, digital services, and other innovative technologies offer immense potential...

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Communications

09 Nov 2015

How Does Implicit Bias Influence Philanthropic Effectiveness?

Monday, November 9, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

How does Implicit Bias influence the effectiveness of our philanthropy?

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19 Oct 2015

Learning From Transformational Women Leaders: Leymah Gbowee & Sophia Bracy Harris

Monday, October 19, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Join us for an exciting public dialogue between two extraordinary black women leaders who will share their groundbreaking work to organize grassroots women into a force for peace and equity in their respective communities.

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Gender Justice

Bloomberg Philanthropies and the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Launch a Global Plan to Save Coral Reefs from Extinction

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02/23/2017

... six faculties and eight research institutes. www.gci.uq. edu .au About The Ocean Agency The Ocean Agency is an ... Hazell, The University of Queensland, r.hazell@uq. edu .au or +61 7 3443 3150 Bloomberg...

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

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Andrew W. Mellon Supports Fellowship Program Diversifying the Intellectual Leadership of Scholarly Publishing

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06/29/2017

The American academic and cultural heritage communities are not keeping up with societal needs for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The University Press Diversity Fellowship Program, an initiative designed to diversify the acquisitions departments...

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Mellon Foundation

10 Jul 2017

Countering State Preemption and Protecting the Power of Local Government - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, July 10, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

American cities have historically been places of innovation and incubation when it comes to advancing equity and inclusion. Today, however, they face a fast-growing threat. Since the 2010 midterm elections, state lawmakers have become more...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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02 Nov 2017

New York City Vision Funders – Fall Meeting

Thursday, November 2, 2017 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Join the New York City Vision Funders Group for its next quarterly meeting.

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Network Building

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Health

The University of Washington Commits to Recruiting and Retaining Low-Income Students Through Bloomberg Philanthropies-Funded American Talent Initiative

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01/09/2018

Guerra and Hall were excited that the UW announced its commitment to graduate an additional 125 low-income students per cohort by 2025 through the American Talent Initiative (ATI). Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the ATI brings together a group...

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Education

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New Report Funded by Foundation for Child Development Focuses On Restructuring the Financing of Early Care and Education

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02/22/2018

High-quality early care and education (ECE) is critical to positive child development and has the potential to generate economic returns, but the current financing structure of ECE leaves many children without access to high-quality services and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Darren Walker Reflects on the Polling Results Released on the Coverage of Race in the News Media 50 Years Post-Kerner Commission

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03/06/2018

America's alarming disunion is evident any time you turn on the news or read the paper. But a recent survey commissioned by the Ford Foundation indicates that our disconnect goes beyond our political disagreements—that our division may be...

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Arts

Communications/Media

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New Report Sponsored in Part by the Carnegie Corporation Identifies Steps to Secure Americans’ Votes

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09/06/2018

To protect the integrity and security of U.S. elections, all local, state, and federal elections should be conducted using human-readable paper ballots by the 2020 presidential election, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Civic Engagement

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13 Feb 2019

Public Health Approaches to Eye Care Delivery

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Join the New York City Vision Funders Group for its next meeting. The meeting will include a discussion on why there is a dearth of vision care within the Federally Qualified Health Care system in the U.S and what might be done to improve the...

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Open Society Foundations to End Operations in Turkey

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11/27/2018

Open Society Foundations is closing its offices in Turkey, days after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused OSF founder George Soros of attempting to destabilize the country, Reuters reports.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Open Society Foundations

07 Jan 2019

Debriefing the 2018 Elections - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, January 7, 2019 -

3:00pm to 4:15pm

With history-making results from the Midterm Elections, join us for an important discussion on the lessons learned from 2018 that can help inform our work moving into 2019. After victories on a range of ballot initiative campaigns including voting...

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Tools & Strategies

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