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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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Practices That Put Your Expertise Into Play

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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

NYTimes Editorial Focuses on Importance of 'Grit' in Learning

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01/12/2015

Additional qualities highlighted are self-control and curiosity.

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Education

OSF Denounces Hungarian Government's Attacks Against Soros

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11/27/2017

Hungarian-American financier and philanthropist George Soros has denounced a Hungarian government campaign against him as "distortions and lies" designed "to create an outside enemy to distract citizens."

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Open Society Foundations

What Benefits One Might Benefit Us All

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11/01/2017

... New York supports aim to both educate its own members about the issues in the field, but also to inform a broader array of funders about how their concerns figure into other program ... the work of your...

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Public Policy Positions and Priorities

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

Andrus Family Fund Announces New Mission and Strategic Direction

Release Date:

10/31/2014

... organizations whose work directly connects youth to the people and services they need to become self-sustaining and ... doesn’t when it comes to creating sustainable change in young people ’s...

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Education & Youth

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Andrus Family Fund

Seeking Just & Sustainable Communities: Surdna Foundation Awards Grants Totaling $14 Million

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07/26/2017

... over two years in support of its NYC Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color; the People 's Action Institute in Chicago, which was awarded ... justice efforts, which are focused on working-class ...

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Surdna Foundation

Supported By The Taft Foundation, Rising Tide U Launches New Online Program, The Autism Advantage

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01/31/2018

... is the key to independence, purpose, and fulfillment for people on the autism spectrum," said Thomas D'Eri, primary ... Florida-based pioneering social enterprise that helps young people...

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The Taft Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York Launches New Voting Rights Report, Philanthropy’s Role in Protecting and Strengthening American Democracy

Release Date:

11/01/2019

... low-income voters, rural voters, communities of color, young people , and people with disabilities. American philanthropies now have an ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Are Your Grantees Keeping Workers in Poverty?

Release Date:

10/22/2014

... These questions will get a thorough examination – and debate – on November 5 in the Philanthropy New York program ... should pay living wages. There is little disagreement about that. But there are major...

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PNY News

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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All Funders

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Justice Reform

13 Jun 2013

Disaster Grantmaking and Preparedness: The Role of Family Philanthropy

Thursday, June 13, 2013 -

2:30pm to 4:00pm

Webinar

Usually, disasters bring out the best in people . Donations to charities surge as television coverage ...

Digital Storytelling for Social Impact

Release Date:

06/02/2014

... made it increasingly difficult to break through, capture people ’s attention, and engage them in meaningful ways. ...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... the foundation believes, could feed more than 1.5 billion people . . . Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight ...

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Environment & Sustainability

Food Systems

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

Release Date:

08/23/2017

... colitis—illnesses that affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and that are being diagnosed with ...

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Health & Human Services

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IBM Corporation

Witness Warrants Were Misused in Queens and Elsewhere, Court Papers Say

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... material witness warrants are typically handed out to people who are not under suspicion and are merely in ...

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Justice Reform

ASPCA Launches New Social Media Campaign

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... appearing at different locations in the city. ASPCA hopes people share photos of Fido as well as dogs available for ... media fun as well. “We have a message we think is very powerful ,” said Gail Buchwald, the...