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Mayor de Blasio Can Make Lasting Change with Nonprofit Living Wages and Career Opportunities

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12/16/2014

... address growing wage inequality through the provision of a living wage. However, one important segment of the ... that employ over 125,000 workers. These employees provide a variety of vital services that keep...

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Seven Things Foundations Can Do to Shape Public Debate in the NYC Election Season

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02/21/2012

... York City campaign season is the first one in more than a decade—and only the second since 1973—where there is no ... the current Public Advocate and City Comptroller. As a result, we can expect a...

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How Grantmakers Can Respond to the State Budget Crises

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09/28/2011

... Center. Used by permission. ) Reassuring is not a word we hear often in this deeply difficult time for much ... the survey findings: More general operating support. In a time of seriously constrained resources...

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Philanthropy Must Lead With Its Heart

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02/19/2015

... in the Chronicle of Philanthropy . We are struck by a paradox that confronts philanthropy. The very meaning of ... about our hearts? This is not, as some might claim, a question of fuzzy emotions. Instead, as...

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Take Us To Your Leaders

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03/10/2015

... alone in this. Nor are we alone in preferring to succeed. A key factor in the success of a project, along with its design and its fit with the ... it means, what it takes, how to acquire it—has been a...

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Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... of Technology This piece was originally published as a commentary for The Chronicle of Higher Education . It's ... utter this simple phrase when asked why they are taking a particular liberal-arts course...

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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

... As the recipient of the 2015 Gish Prize, Parks now joins a roster of honorees that includes Frank Gehry, Bob Dylan, ... and screenwriter Tony Kushner. The event will also feature a performance of an excerpt...

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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

... on School Climate and Discipline with the goal of creating a sustainable and racially just model for school-based ... Consulting. Each nonprofit organization will partner with a Brooklyn middle or high school...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Richard D. Parsons Elected Next Chair of The Rockefeller Foundation Board; David Rockefeller Jr. To Step Down At End of Five Year Term

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10/29/2015

... on one hundred years of impact and to launch new work for a second century. David Rockefeller Jr. said: “It has ... me great pleasure that my successor will be Dick Parsons, a good friend of mine. Dick has led...

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Win 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards (New York Community Trust)

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11/11/2015

... Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards, which include a total of $60,000 in prizes as well as tuition scholarships ... created and manages the nine-year-old Awards program. A selection committee of 34...

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Citi Foundation Funds Book Which Explores Americans' Financial Well-Being

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12/11/2015

... Book Which Explores Americans' Financial Well-Being A majority of Americans today struggle with debt, limited ... moving up the economic ladder. What can be done to address a problem that has devastating...

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Disaster Philanthropy Playbook Launched, Living Online Resource Funded by J&J and Rita Allen Foundation

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01/14/2016

... Allen Foundation The Disaster Philanthropy Playbook, a comprehensive resource of best practices and innovative ... for use at www.disasterplaybook.org . Designed as a multimedia, interactive website, the...

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Why Should We Care About Tax Policy?

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06/14/2016

... an organization that does not pay property taxes, offers a charitable deduction to donors, and receives funding from ... public good work. These core beliefs and laws represent a trade-off. Charities subjugate...

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Funders Should Invest in Health Programs to End Mass Incarceration and the War on Drugs

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09/15/2016

... New York Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic For ... it's important for this conversation to identify myself as a person who has had problems with...

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Boutiques for the People

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09/27/2016

... Foundation The term “boutique” has come to be used as a derogatory label for labor-intensive – or ... to the relatively disadvantaged. Let us consider a few examples, from a range of colleges...

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As the White House Changes Hands, Philanthropy Must Change Too

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01/26/2017

... connecting with young people, and setting us all on a path toward freedom. If you know the nonprofits you’re ... with, skip the reporting requirements. Sit down for a conversation with your grantees about the...

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

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05/17/2017

... governments fight financial crises is being supported by a group of esteemed business leaders and prominent ... Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Kenneth Rogoff ’75 B. A ., ’75 M. A ., Professor...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New Grants for Immigrant Families Facing Deportation

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06/21/2017

... $72,500 in new grants through its Immigrant Rights Fund, a special initiative created by Foundation donors in the weeks after the 2016 presidential election to build a boroughwide response to unjust government...

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The Long Haul: Lessons from Charitable Responses to Previous Disasters

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09/05/2017

... Greg Abbott has already noted that ‘this is going to be a multi-year project for Texas to be able to dig out of this ... pressure to “get the money out the door” right after a disaster occurs to demonstrate...

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