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Philanthropy New York's 2022 - 2027 Strategic Framework

... to examine our assumptions and re-imagine a new way of working to build a better society for all. In this Strategic ...

Foundations as First Responders?

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04/18/2013

... and communities most affected by this type of unexpected event . Our office was located in a storefront on Atlantic ... establish and support the efforts of nonprofit coalitions working together across sectors...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies' Partnership for Healthy Cities Helping Cities Grow More Powerful

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11/22/2017

... Mike Bloomberg first became Mayor of New York City ( NYC ), the 2nd most populated city in the world, he was asked ... was needed at the United States Conference on Mayors in NYC . Bloomberg responded, "I...

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Community Development

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Langeloth Foundation Grants $10 million to Support Urgent Initiatives to Get Out the Vote, Focusing on Communities of Color

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06/04/2020

... $88 million endowment. The Foundation is calling on other funders to join them to help narrow the significant funding ...

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Philanthropy As “Invisible Aid”

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08/31/2009

... commitments that also built collaborations with other funders , nonprofits, the business world, and/or government. ...

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Communications During a Disaster: Five Lessons Learned

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11/23/2012

... Manhattan, where I also live, there were no cell towers working and no cell phone service. I woke up Tuesday morning ... addresses. On that first day, we were already working to organize a conference call for...

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Urban Land Institute to Partner with 100 Resilient Cities, Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation to Help Improve Resilience of Urban Areas Globally

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06/15/2017

... offering expertise on building for resilience to a select group of 100RC cities, as they design and implement their ... Head of Strategy Partner Network for 100RC. Together the group analyzed the findings of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Community Development

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"Unveiling the Illusion: How DEI Roles Echo the 'Magical Negro’ trope in Philanthropy

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03/01/2024

... put numerous white men out of work and lock them out of leadership opportunities. Even though there’s so little ...

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HSBC Gives $1.5M to Scale Up Horizons Learning Programs

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05/16/2017

... these graduates go on to college or other post-secondary education . Demand for summer programs is high, and ...

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Simons Foundation, Stony Brook University Partner to Improve Diversity in STEM Fields

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05/11/2022

Stony Brook University has announced a major new initiative funded by the Simons Foundation and its sister foundation, Simons Foundation International

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Ford and RBF Lead Charge to Publicize Diversity Data

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07/01/2015

... might have. GuideStar is joined by the D5 Coalition, a group of 26 nonprofits and donor organizations, and Green 2.0, a group that advocates for increased diversity at environmental ...

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ESSA Explained: Inside the New Federal K-12 Law

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01/13/2017

... back much of the federal government's big footprint in education policy, on everything from testing and teacher ... No Child Left Behind Act, which ESSA replaced and updated. Education Week's Alyson...

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Supported by WT Grant Foundation, Research Finds School Choice Policies Impact Segregation

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05/23/2017

... According to Erica Frankenberg, associate professor of education and demography and co-director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Penn State, the new generation ...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Provides Support to Sheltering Arms to Open New Building to Serve Children and Families

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08/25/2017

... Sheltering Arms, Georgia’s largest nonprofit early education and child care organization, announced the opening ... Atlanta, the center will provide high quality early education and care to children six weeks...

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Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

... approved a plan laying out the state’s goals for its education system, as required by the sweeping federal education law signed by President Barack Obama in 2015 known ... state can now submit its plan to the...

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New Pre-K Center Slated to Open on Upper East Side in 2019, Officials Say

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09/19/2017

... with about 18 seats each, according to the Department of Education and the local community education council. On Friday, the School Construction ... said Linda Lumpkin, administrative assistant for Community...

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In Response to TCF Lawsuit, DeVos Begins to Release ACICS and ABA Documents

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02/22/2018

... filed by The Century Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education has started to release documents regarding two higher education accrediting agencies with a history of regulatory ...

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Free To Fail? Foundations Face Few External Performance Pressures

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01/11/2017

... gap,” as it has been called by The Bridgespan Group ? I think it is because we are squandering the biggest ... risk without grounding in strategies and logic models , but intelligent, conscious risk that excites...

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2012 NGen Fellows Project: Hacking the NGen Experience

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09/29/2013

... Sector American Express NGen Fellows examined the " leadership void" that will be created by the impending ... executives. The Fellows also sought to identify the leadership development needs of mid-...

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