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Open Society Foundations President Names Nicole Wilett as New Chief of Staff

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07/16/2019

... Society President Patrick Gaspard, effective August 20. In this newly created position, Wilett will lead the Foundations’ work on public policy and advocacy, and advise the president on new ... Nicole’s...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

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Doris Duke Foundation Announces "Racial Equity in Clinical Equations"

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06/27/2023

Doris Duke Foundation Announces "Racial Equity in Clinical Equations" New York – June 27, 2023 – The ... necessary is a concerted and collaborative movement among funders , researchers, clinicians and...

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Nonprofit Resource Equity and Access: A Call to Close the Gap

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08/14/2018

... risk of replicating or compounding society’s inequities in our sector. The issue of equity and access in the ... NFF partnered with local community conveners and where funders and resources...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Joins Impact Investment Efforts

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06/25/2014

... Fund Joins Impact Investment Efforts At a White House event earlier this week , the Rockefeller Brothers Fund ... will initially prioritize support for clean energy, in an effort to identify businesses...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform

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06/30/2016

Brooklyn Community Foundation Mentioned in Atlantic Article On School Discipline Reform The ... suit, which is being backed by the charter-school advocacy group Families for Excellent Schools. The suit claims that...

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

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07/25/2016

... writing instruction for students, especially those in their first year. Wilson plans to use the funding to ... capacities -- central components of a liberal arts education . The Mellon Foundation award, which...

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

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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

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09/28/2017

... Americans Without College Degrees Showed Greatest Gains In Wealth Since 2013, New Data Shows Americans who were left ... and people without college degrees — saw large gains in net worth over the past three...

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Economic Security

World Bank Withholds Myanmar Funding, but Some Call for Sanctions

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10/13/2017

... for Sanctions The World Bank announced Wednesday that in response to the “violence, destruction and forced ... of a credit deal reached with the fledgling democracy in August and represented the first instance...

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

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10/13/2017

... school diploma. But less attention is 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...

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Workforce Development

How To Grow and Activate Your Audience On YouTube

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03/12/2014

... predicted to make up the vast majority of internet traffic in the next few years. Many foundations fund advocacy videos ... to generate actions and new members many months after the programs first aired. .....

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Newman's Own Awards Donates $200,000 to Five Military Non-Profits

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10/05/2018

... honor five non-profit organizations for their innovative programs created to improve military quality of life. The ... benefit service men and women and their families. As the event commenced,General Joseph...

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Bettina Alonso and Eugene Keilin Elected to United Hospital Fund Board

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06/29/2016

... at Oceana, an international advocacy organization working for ocean conservation, and she also served as marketing manager for the Embassy of Austria. Born in Spain and fluent in English,...

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Arcus Foundation Supports Efforts to Protect Forest Habitats Through Local and International Strategies

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01/20/2021

... to habitat degradation and destruction. The latest grants in Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program support efforts ... that offer residents a chance to live with dignity in the most natural settings possible...

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Mass. Unveils Biggest U.S. ‘Pay for Success’ Effort

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01/30/2014

... Sachs and five other supporters will invest $18 million in a Massachusetts program to reduce recidivism among ex-convicts, the biggest "pay for success" project in the U.S., reported The Chronicle of...

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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... graduate students, entrepreneurs and business leaders in a setting to advance research and business start-ups. In other words, the campus can be seen as a monument to a ... also represents significant power...

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Ms. Foundation for Women Selects E. Tammy Kim as Inaugural Fellow

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09/03/2012

... Housed within the Ms. Foundation’s new Advocacy and Policy department, Kim will examine the working conditions of child care providers and the challenges that low-income women face in...

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Equitable Opportunities for Effective Philanthropy

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06/08/2022

... you first stepped into philanthropy, whether you have been in the field for a few months or for quite some, how did your ... experience? Was your voice respected? Did you feel trust in the organization? How...

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Revson Fellowship Produces Research on Female Face of Genocide

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03/16/2016

... Academy welcomed Dr. Sarah Cushman as its third guest in a Genocide Speaker Series on March 7. Cushman is the ... for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Clark University in Worcester. She has made it her...

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