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Racism, Inequality, and Health Care for African Americans - New Report by The Century Foundation

Release Date:

12/19/2019

... with inequalities that have a disproportionate impact on people of color and other marginalized groups. These ... care coverage for African Americans and shed a light on important social factors that uniquely...

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07 Jun 2012

-- POSTPONED -- Moving Beyond Your Comfort Zone: Unexpected Gains Through Creative Funding Practices

Thursday, June 7, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, chair of the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society and president of her ... of thoughtful risk taking,” she says. Come learn how funders have taken innovative measures...

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Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Former Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society

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02/01/2018

Paulina Helm-Hernandez, Former Co-Director of Southerners on New Ground, Will Join Foundation For A Just Society ... South. Prior to that she coordinated the Southern regional youth activism program at the...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

... argument in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association on Monday are any guide, the ruling bloc of conservative ... a decision later this year that would significantly weaken public sector labor unions. By...

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Workforce Development

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A Coalition to Move de Blasio Along on Bus Rapid Transit

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06/09/2014

... which has joined with the Rockefeller Foundation, the Working Families Party, the Transport Workers Union, the ... New York and others to form a coalition called BRT for NYC . The bus rapid transit coalition...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

... push for racial justice in other ways, including through education policy changes and public advocacy.... Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Social Justice

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

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09/21/2017

... Watchdog More than half of the city’s 1.1 million public school students attend overcrowded schools, according to a new report from the watchdog group Class Size Matters. Despite the Department of ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions

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10/13/2017

... to Myanmar and has “strengthened” its engagement in “ education , health services, electricity, rural roads and ... This loan, specifically designed to support the government on issues of financial and ...

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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

... New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan laying out the state’s goals for its education system, as required by the sweeping federal education...

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Reflections from Foundations on the Hill

Release Date:

03/24/2011

... to effectively inform members of Congress in the future: Education Because we had participated in Foundations on the ... Congressional staff turnover is very high. Many of those working...

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Century Foundation Reports Examines ESSA Learner Accountability Provisions

Release Date:

12/13/2018

... states and the District of Columbia have received formal federal approval of their Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) ... the 2015 law —the United States’ primary K–12 education investment—is fully underway...

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The Perpetuity Debate

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04/29/2014

... appreciate. The one limited-life foundation represented on the panel is the only one with a living donor. The ... as the attorney who continues to drag out court cases and charge exorbitant fees. He may be a...

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

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John A. Hartford Foundation's Fulmer to be Honored by New York Academy of Medicine

Release Date:

08/25/2016

... of Medicine 169th Anniversary Discourse and Awards on November 3, 2016. The recipients of the Academy's ... recognizes contributions by individuals in health policy, public health, clinical practice,...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Health

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Trusted Advisors—You Rely on Them and Lower Income Families Need Them Now

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09/09/2021

... a safety net for low-income families, specifically around education . Families rely on these highly credible ... trusting relationships with students and families. As funders , we seek to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2022 Soros Equality Fellows

Release Date:

11/09/2022

... the 2022 cohort of Soros Equality Fellows. The diverse group of fellows include documentary filmmakers, professors, ... organizers, policy advocates, journalists, and authors. Working across the United States...

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Former PNY Members Head to Social Impact Exchange

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10/16/2014

... Director of Encore Fellows at Civic Ventures, and serving on numerous boards, among them the New York Women’s ... worth philanthropists that support scaled impact in both education and health. Kaberi Banerjee...

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Appointments & Transitions

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What’s at Stake and What’s at Play: My Reckoning with Philanthropy

Release Date:

12/02/2022

... Philanthropy was born from inequity. While sometimes funders can overlook the slew of systemic reasons why this ... If funders don’t have members of the community they are working with...

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