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Lavelle Fund for the Blind

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13 Dec 2016

School Discipline, Pushout and Gender Norms

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... a “drop-out” crisis, we have to address our public education system’s biases, policies, and practices that ... unique experiences of girls, and of teen mothers, and LGBT youth in schools. Watch recording here...

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16 Jun 2015

Creating and Seizing the Moment: School Discipline and School Safety Reform in New York City

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

*Registration for this session has reached capacity. If you'd like to be ... is reform needed? How did advocates create the public will for reform? Now that the Mayor has formed a School Climate ... by which...

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Recognized At The 2017 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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12/04/2017

... Brooklyn Community Services empowers at-risk children, youth and families, and adults with mental illness or ... and scholarships to Columbia Business School Executive Education Programs in Social Enterprise...

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The New York Community Trust

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Philanthropy New York

Philanthropy: Beyond Business or Charity

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12/12/2013

... and competition as levers of change, stressing business models of measurement and accountability without ... in other words, is not ideologically neutral, but rather based on a set of morals and beliefs that...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Bard-Brooklyn Public Library College Degree Program

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10/30/2019

... been previously excluded or deterred from higher education —find a path for economic mobility, meaningful ... contributions to civic life in Brooklyn." The first group of Bard at BPL...

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Community Development

Social Justice

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Mellon Foundation

SNAP Cuts Lead to 80% Increase in Soup Pantry “Foot Traffic” Over the Past Five Years: Charity Umbrella Group Says

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11/19/2018

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Economic Security

13 Sep 2012

--POSTPONED-- Innovative Action: Promising New Initiatives to Stop HIV Transmission

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... receive timely medical care and related support. The NYC Health Department and its community partners have ... successes over the past year, there is still a role for funders to play. Experts...

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07 Jan 2016

Powerful Resource or Unhealthy Distraction? The Ongoing Debate about Young People and Technology

Thursday, January 7, 2016 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... here . Technology is omnipresent in the lives of American youth . Studies show that by the time they turn two, more than ... for integrating digital media into a young person’s education and...

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New York City

08 Dec 2016

Food as a Community-Building Tool

Thursday, December 8, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... advocates for their neighborhoods? Join Community Food Funders and a panel of practitioners and evaluators to hear ... who are interested in food justice, community-building, education ,...

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Food Systems

The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

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11/17/2014

... In contrast, the average cost of compensation for a NYC employee, including generous fringe benefits, is more ... to assure that this source of funding is guaranteed in the event of a fiscal...

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Citizens Budget Commission

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Workforce Development

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The Time is Now for Philanthropy to Talk about Healthcare

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01/18/2017

... President James Tallon (the co-chairs of PNY’s Health Working Group ) with facilitation by Sherry Glied , a national ... RSVP list for this program is filled with a wide range of ...

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PNY News

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Ending New York’s Summer Jobs Depression

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02/12/2015

... a summer jobs depression. In fact, only 25 percent of youth who applied to the city’s Summer Youth Employment ... At Virtual Enterprise, for example, the students are working...

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Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Poses Family Foundation and Citi Behind New Public-Private Partnership to Pull People With Disabilities Out of Poverty

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02/08/2018

... was recently launched with $2 million in support from funders . So, who’s behind this effort, and how will the New ... Poses Family Foundation, and the Mayor’s Fund to Advance NYC are also in the mix to push...

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Disabilities

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14 Sep 2012

Social Justice on the Streets: New Developments Around "Stop-and-Frisk" and Discriminatory Policing

Friday, September 14, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:30am

... status. Join a panel of community organizers and funders to learn more about this pressing issue and discover ... litigation, legal defense, policy reform, public education , research, and forms of civic...

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Stavros Niarchos, Charles H. Revson Foundation Initiative Recognizes Queens Branches with 'Oscars of Libraries'

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06/07/2016

... for the great work they do in the community. The NYC Neighborhood Library Awards gave two Queens branches the top ... wrote in to nominate their favorite library branch, a group...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

37th Annual Meeting Re-Cap: Rethinking American Justice

... get locked up.” Charles Nuñez , Community Advocate, Youth Represent In 2007 he was a normal teenager who wanted ... gainfully employed and major barriers to accessing higher education . “While other kids were...

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation President Says Jersey Water Works Initiative is a Powerful Collaboration

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04/27/2016

... urban water infrastructure, today released its workplan for 2016. Focus areas include improving water system ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Community Development

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Con Edison, Mertz Gilmore, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Support Radical Comedian's Latest Work at New York Live Arts

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03/21/2017

FCA Recipient and 2014 Doris Duke Impact Awardee Adrienne Truscott , the radical comedian, activist and performance artist best know for her blistering satire about rape culture, will premier her latest work THIS at New York Live...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Arts

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

Sloan Foundation Funds Pratt Professor’s Work to Restore Roman Painting Buried By Volcano

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08/30/2017

A number of prominent publications, including Forbes, National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, and Archeology Magazine, have recently spotlighted the cutting-edge work of Eleonora Del Federico, professor of chemistry at Pratt Institute, and a...

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