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For Teachers Working Through DACA, a Bittersweet Start to the School Year

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09/07/2017

... his tears on Tuesday while teaching Brooklyn sixth graders about liquids, gases and solids. In between science classes ... from deportation to immigrants brought to the country at a young age. Under DACA, as...

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More Healthful Kids Meals? Panera CEO Dishes Out A Challenge

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09/27/2017

... chain aims to put a lot more options in front of its young customers. Beginning this month, there's a kid-sized ... combinations," Panera CEO Ron Shaich told NPR. So, how about a Greek salad with...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Member Input on Official Statement on Tax Reform that Sustains and Grows Charitable Giving

... deduction is an especially efficient method of directing resources to communities, because for every $1 that the ... in donations to support nonprofits that serve millions of people every day. While...

Hudson Valley Mourns Longtime Dyson Foundation President Diana Gurieva

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02/08/2017

... that helped shape the fabric of the region. "There are few people who had as much positive influence on the Mid-Hudson ... searching for the best way to apply the Foundation's resources to accomplish...

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The Dyson Foundation

31 Mar 2017

Advocacy: A Compass for Today’s Terrain

Friday, March 31, 2017 -

8:30am to 4:30pm

... Agenda This in-depth program is structured to allow people at different levels of knowledge and responsibility to ... be able to: Recognize the specific skills, knowledge, and resources needed for effective...

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Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg Philanthropies Make $10M Commitment for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses in Baltimore

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08/15/2017

... Babson College. The curriculum covered accounting, human resources , negotiation and marketing, among other topics. The ... and national business organizations, as well as the people of Goldman Sachs and...

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Goldman Sachs

SeaChange Capital Partners Produces New Report That Sheds Light on Financial Health of Nonprofit Human Services Sector

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01/22/2018

... of life and stay connected to their communities; equipping people with disabilities with tools and resources so they can live their lives fully; building ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation's Incubator Project Offers Free Co-Working Space and $5,000 Grant for Start-Up Nonprofits

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04/17/2019

... approach; are led by directly affected communities and people of color; have been in operation for at least a year; ... information, idea exchange, and gathering of philanthropic resources across the borough...

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Hugh Hogan to Step Down as van Ameringen Foundation Executive Director to Launch Advisory Practice and to Become Senior Advisor to The Action Lab

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03/24/2022

... to more service providers and advocates in support of people with mental illness in New York City and ... to any individual, family or private foundation with resources to give.” Andrew Friedman, Senior...

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Citi Foundation Announces Inaugural Global Innovation Challenge To Empower Nonprofits Improving Food Security Around The World

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02/22/2023

... of low-income families and communities. With 770 million people suffering from some form of malnutrition around the ... businesses. Resilience: Increase the number of available resources that enable low-income...

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Alison White Joins Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program as Research, Learning and Evaluation Program Officer

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07/23/2020

... Today (2004) , the first-ever book written by the San people themselves about their traditional lives and the impact of other people ... of Conservation and Ecology at the University of Kent...

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Practices That Put Your Expertise Into Play

Release Date:

10/16/2018

... to create 30 guides that shared lessons learned about their “second job” – the craft of how they worked ... , I’ve produced a guide to 4 core tools that I heard about from people in...

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The Giving Practice

Can Flexible Funding Become Our New Normal?

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07/15/2020

... and scale their programs while not having to worry about shortchanging their capacity Grantee readiness is an ... through a racial equity lens as we think more critically about how we level the playing field...

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Citi Foundation

To Achieve Equity, We Must Accurately Measure Need

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10/06/2022

... workers, who like their clients are disproportionately people of color, are challenged all the more. FPWA has been ... City registered voters have the option of doing something about this. Beginning with early...

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13 Jun 2019

Reimagining Career Pathways for (and with) Youth, Educators and Employers

Thursday, June 13, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... a tight labor market and low-unemployment, job gains for young adults in New York City over the last five years have ... to design and implement new strategies for preparing young people for...

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Children, Youth and Families

Education

Workforce Development

Inaugural Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellows Tackle Problems with Creative Projects

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05/01/2013

... fellows are Saqib Bhatti, who will work to rebalance the debate around municipal budget cuts in the United States; ... Union (SEIU) community organizations to rebalance the debate around municipal budget cuts...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

How Social Innovation Labs Contribute to Transformative Change

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11/07/2014

... is growing quickly in response to increasing demand— about 70 percent of the labs were founded in the last five ... With the recent release of a couple of books and articles about social innovation labs, The...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

18 May 2016

Can Failure Be a Success?: Dissecting the Rikers Social Impact Bond Experiment

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Mission? At their core, social impact bonds are about learning from and scaling what works, and discontinuing ... of the experiment? Does this experiment say anything about the amount of evidence an...

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Justice Reform

Public Policy Positions and Priorities

... urges Congress and the Administration to devote sufficient resources to the 2020 Census now, to put planning and ...

21 Sep 2015

What Does it Mean to Serve on a Nonprofit Board?

Monday, September 21, 2015 -

5:15pm to 7:00pm

... . * This event is a special offering of the Young Leaders Breakfast Club and open to all interested ... interested in joining a board but want to understand more about what it means to serve on a board? How...