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Maya L. Harris Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors

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12/12/2017

... that Maya L. Harris, a distinguished attorney and public policy advocate, has joined the Foundation’s Board of ... her career to the fields of law and philanthropy, working to expand opportunity, strengthen...

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Salesforce Staff Ask CEO to Revisit Ties With Border Agency

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06/28/2018

Hundreds of Salesforce.com Inc. employees signed a letter to Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticizing the company’s contracts with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, the latest in a series of staff protests at technology firms...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report - Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today

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12/02/2021

... findings from our research, and outline the most important policy implications of our findings. A full dataset with ... where the work of integration has begun because some policy or legal tools are at the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Marcella Tillett of the Brooklyn Community Foundation Named Among 50 Women in City & State's 2022 Above & Beyond List

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03/21/2022

... social work. Tillett’s early career focused on sexual health , drawing upon her international experiences as a Peace Corps volunteer working in HIV prevention. Her early professional work taught ...

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COVID-19 Long Island Philanthropic Response Fund Provides Half a Million Dollars in Grants to Long Island-Based Nonprofits

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04/21/2020

... Foundation announced today that 36 Long Island-based health and human services organizations responding to the coronavirus health crisis have received grants. “While the Coronavirus ... status, low-income...

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Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... Society donates roughly $4 million every year to the Drug Policy Alliance and its electoral arm, Drug Policy Action, each of which supports decriminalization and ...

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Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats

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06/25/2018

Michael Bloomberg Will Spend $80 Million on the Midterms To Flip the House for the Democrats Michael R. Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York City, has decided to throw his political clout and personal fortune behind...

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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

... and economic theory impact virtually every aspect of policy making in this country. Policies that shape finance, labor, education, public health , the criminal justice system are deeply influenced by .....

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Jayson Jarushewsky Returns to Stonewall Community Foundation Board

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07/02/2012

... risks in the Americas. Jarushewsky began his legal career working as an associate with Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy's Financial Restructuring Group , focusing on cross border, partnership and products...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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Ford Foundation Supports Universities' Efforts to Boost Student Grad Rates by 20%

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03/04/2016

... than they would have prior to their involvement in the group . UIA recently received $3.85 million in new funding ... University of California, Riverside. Each has committed to working with the others on four...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

The New England Foundation for the Arts released a comprehensive evaluation of the National Dance Project- backed by Mellon & Doris Duke Foundations -and new research about current needs of the dance field.

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Century Foundation Fellow Comments on the Fate of Student Debt Forgiveness

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04/05/2017

... was set to be forgiven this coming fall. Last year a small group of borrowers learned that their eligibility for the ... had revoked. These include four people, all attorneys, working for the American Bar...

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Nathan Cummings Announces Increased Payout to Respond to ‘Extraordinary Times’

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05/03/2017

The Foundation’s board and staff met to consider the question: how can we stand alongside our grantees and philanthropic partners and respond to current societal challenges with leadership, urgency, and impact? Its board made the unanimous decision...

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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

... 2015 earnings. They represented the only major demographic group to lose income. The trend may help explain why the ...

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Economic Security

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New Release From NY Foundation's 'Engage to Change' Series on Neighbors Together

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09/19/2017

This conversation features Cynthia Agyeman , Community Organizer & Amy Blumsack , Community Action Program Director at Neighbors Together

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