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NoVo Foundation

Jonas Center Announces New Focus on Environmental Health

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05/20/2016

... to spot early symptoms of overexposure and to advocate for policy solutions to minimize environmental hazards.” Toxins ... will focus on barriers and attitudes of evidenced-based policy change for head lice in...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Health

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

Every Experience Builds Expertise

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08/16/2016

... Expertise by Tatianna Scott, Philanthropy New York Public Policy Intern It’s not often a 17-year-old gets to work in ...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

If You Want to Go Further – Invest in Advocacy

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03/20/2017

... has an initiative attempting to combine programmatic and policy changes called Frontier Set . As they describe it, ... what works and why, and used it as a catalyst to drive policy change at the federal, state...

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Workforce Development

Examine Organizational Blind Spots With This New Gender Lens Tool

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03/31/2017

... New Gender Lens Tool By Stephanie Chrispin, Public Policy Fellow at Philanthropy New York Why would a funder ... them. One of my most satisfying projects as a Public Policy Fellow here at PNY has been helping...

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Gender Justice

Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far

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05/09/2017

... for change. This means: Funding community organizing and policy change along with needed services for immigrant ...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New Grants for Immigrant Families Facing Deportation

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06/21/2017

... to build a boroughwide response to unjust government policy changes threatening Brooklyn’s immigrants and their ...

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Brooklyn Org

Bloomberg Announces $200M American Cities Initiative to Help U.S. Cities Innovate, Solve Problems, & Work Together

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06/26/2017

... will empower cities to generate innovation and advance policy that moves the nation forward. In an era of ...

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Hilton Foundation Awards $25.5M in Grants in Q2 '17, Approves New Foster Youth Strategy

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07/19/2017

... with grantees, community partners, other funders and policy makers to move public child welfare systems and ... achieve this vision in three ways: Strengthen systems and policy for transition age foster youth...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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The Wallace Foundation Announces Promotions of Five Staff Members to Senior Program Officer

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12/18/2017

... and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Social Policy and Planning: Urban Superintendents Program). Nicholas ... of cities through community-based programming, policy research, and leadership development...

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The Wallace Foundation

Listening for Bits of Truth in DC

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03/22/2018

... Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Communications If you’ve ever spent a day or two ... (I had great support in these discussions from our Public Policy Fellow, Jo Christine...

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PNY News

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New Report from The Century Foundation on Students from Low-Income Families and Special Education

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01/23/2019

A new TCF report finds that low-income students are more likely to be identified for special education and more likely to be placed in separate classrooms than their non-low-income peers. While the exact reasons for the differences are unknown, the...

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The Smart Way to Get US Employees Back to Work

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04/29/2020

... and David March, Senior Manager for State and Federal Policy , the Markle Foundation. This article was originally ... role or want to pursue a better opportunity, federal policy should empower them with...

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COVID-19 PNY Member Webinars

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05/2020

... Health, New York Community Trust Chai Jindasurat , Policy Director, Nonprofit New York Beth Maldin , Deputy ... Brooklyn Community Foundation City, State and Policy Efforts Join us in this week’s COVID webinar to ...

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Philanthropy & Social Sector Leadership at a Time of Crisis

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06/10/2020

... our values and practical insights to inform the public policy issues that matter most? After decades in ...

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Disaster Relief

The Fund for the City of New York Announces Lisette Nieves as President

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08/10/2020

... is currently the Director of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at NYU Steinhardt where she co-founded the ... and full Clinical Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at NYU Steinhardt...

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It's Time for More Foundations to Fund Democracy - Here's How

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12/10/2020

... your foundation focus on healthcare? Surely healthcare policy would stand to gain from a campaign finance landscape ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Public Policy

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Justice Fellows

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12/18/2020

... toolkit that explains the history of immigration policy and its criminalization. Tamisha Walker will ... excessive and extreme sentences and fighting for policy change. Waleisah Wilson will mobilize ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Open Society Foundations

Powerful Networks: Working Across Borders to Reconnect Separated Families

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01/20/2021

... that under the U.S. government’s “Zero Tolerance” policy , immigration authorities were separating thousands of ... reminds us that it is far easier to inflict harm through policy than to redress it. More...

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Tinker Foundation Inc.

What does it mean for the Luce Foundation to support public knowledge?

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10/21/2021

... and the individuals who work in them: scholars, curators, policy researchers, scientists, etc. These institutions and ... information publicly available can provoke significant policy change. That example is a...

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