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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

Release Date:

06/30/2016

... suit, which is being backed by the charter-school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools. The suit claims that the New York City Education Department isn’t doing enough to stop the ...

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Brooklyn Org

Mellon Foundation Awards Wilson College $100K to Strengthen Writing Instruction

Release Date:

07/25/2016

... capacities -- central components of a liberal arts education . The Mellon Foundation award, which will be ... for four main initiatives conducted under an umbrella group that will integrate writing instruction...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Contributes to Mayo Performing Arts Center 2016-2017 Season

Release Date:

11/03/2016

... Brigade Touring Co., the famed improvisational comedy group , comes to Mayo Performing Arts Center on Thursday, ...

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More Than Half of City's 1.1M Students Attend Overcrowded Schools: Watchdog

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of Education ’s addition of more seats and new buildings, many ...

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Minorities and Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows

Release Date:

09/28/2017

Americans who were left behind as the country pulled out of the Great Recession — African Americans, Hispanics and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three years, the Federal Reserve reported.

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World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... to Myanmar and has “strengthened” its engagement in “ education , health services, electricity, rural roads and ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

More Training Needed to Fill New York’s ‘Middle Skill Jobs

Release Date:

10/13/2017

... paid to the workers in the middle – those who have some education or training beyond high school but have not earned ... of Training & Employment Professionals, a nonprofit group representing the workforce...

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Mike Bloomberg Sends Statement to the United Nations Following Unprecedented Outpouring of Support for Paris Agreement

Release Date:

06/06/2017

... transparent and accountable manner. More information about America’s Pledge, including how to join the effort, ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Surdna Foundation Announces a Reorganization and Promotions

Release Date:

07/11/2023

... and Promotions Dear Friends, Today, I want to share news about a recent reorganization at Surdna and celebrate some of ... an integrated fashion across the foundation. Today, this group serves as a leadership...

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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

Release Date:

06/10/2021

... and justice in the United States will take all of us working together – white people and people of color. We all ... In the decades leading up to this moment, when talking about race was still largely...

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Consultant & Vendor Recommendations

... directly with the listed member references to learn more about the specific work each consultant/vendor performed for ...

Are Foundation Leaders Using Social Media?

Publication date:

09/2010

... of the Center's Grantmaker Leadership Panel, finds that about one-third of foundation CEOs surveyed regularly use .....

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Executive Leadership

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Ten Ways for Family Foundations to Consider Diversity and Inclusive Practices

Publication date:

02/2010

This guide is designed to help foundations think about how more diverse and inclusive practices might advance ...

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Family Foundation

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Community Development

New York Foundation Video: In Their Own Words: Community Food Advocates

Release Date:

07/30/2018

... work of Community Food Advocates that brought about the Universal Free Lunch victory in September of 2017. ...

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Amsterdam News Profiles Harlem Native George Suttles of the John A. Hartford Foundation

Release Date:

02/16/2017

... adults. Suttles’ work at the foundation consists of working with strategic partners to develop age-friendly ... to health care. Suttles said that long before he started working as a professional, he learned...

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"Culture Changes Us" Campaign and Retreat Series Launches with Support from Nathan Cummings Foundation

Release Date:

05/20/2016

... Foundation President Sharon Alpert. “We’re excited about pop culture as a promising strategy for shifting ... Co-Founder and Co-Director, Women and Justice Project ( NYC ) NICOLE RODGERS , Founder and Co-...

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The Helmsley Charitable Trust Appoints Kevin Cavanaugh Director of Communications and Public Affairs and Ryan Kelsey Program Officer for New Programs

Release Date:

01/01/2013

... educational practices, with a special emphasis on higher education , STEM learning and effective uses of technology. ... and analysis of effective solutions for improving higher education classroom practice...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Toward a New Gospel of Wealth

Release Date:

10/01/2015

... these past 15 months have entailed both deep introspection about this privilege and broad exploration of how we can ... opulence; ordinary people endured low wages, dangerous working conditions, and...

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Insights

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Ford Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York Celebrates 2019 Great Immigrants Honorees

Release Date:

06/27/2019

... and Peggy Cherng , who cofounded the Panda Restaurant Group as a family business and grew it into a ... and leading advocate for expanded access to music education in underserved communities Mariano Rivera ,...

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Fiscal Sponsorship

... members that enables charitable projects to quickly begin working towards their mission and efficiently manage ... Philanthropy New York members interested in learning more about working with...

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