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Stonewall Community Foundation Promotes Jarrett Lucas to Executive Director

Release Date:

10/18/2013

... with a spirit of innovation that will serve the Foundation well in helping us to engage a broader cross-section of our ... we are an agent of change. And, as a public foundation, being accountable to the...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

Our Common Purpose: The Struggle for True Democracy and Equal Rights

Release Date:

10/03/2014

... a series on “Philanthropy and the Next Economy,” the well -attended briefing tied together questions of inequality, ...

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Social Justice

Are Your Grantees Keeping Workers in Poverty?

Release Date:

10/22/2014

... to pay living wages to human service workers. It was a well -attended and highly informative session. But like all ...

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PNY News

The Living Wage Debate: Affordability and Feasibility

Release Date:

11/17/2014

... Where would that significant sum come from? It may well be that the current administration would make covering ...

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Workforce Development

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Citizens Budget Commission

Send Grad Students Our Way

Release Date:

02/18/2015

... is available on our website at the link above, is also being circulated by leaders at CUNY, NYU, Columbia, The New ... who have come together to advise us on how we can do this well . They have been essential...

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PNY News

Ford Foundation Appoints Ursula Burns to Board of Trustees

Release Date:

02/20/2015

... who serve clients in more than 180 countries. After being named CEO, she made the largest acquisition in company ... “Serving on this board is deeply personal to me. I know well the many injustices this...

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Ford Foundation

A Forever 41’s Perspective on Social Media

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05/28/2015

... using social media and forget that it is best used with a well formulated goal in mind. There are several goals ... knows that the sincerest form of flattery is imitation or being quoted. It was back in...

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Communications/Media

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Technology

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New York Life Foundation

The Changing Face of Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/12/2015

... we have many questions and ideas. In fact, we may be very well -positioned to spot where the field has become ... driving us to the field? Are there any underserved groups being left out of the conventional...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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American Express

Doris Duke Foundation

04 Dec 2015

Catching Up: What High Schools Are Doing to Move Kids from Elementary Knowledge to College Ready

Friday, December 4, 2015 -

9:15am to 11:30am

... the challenges and possible ways to overcome them as well as identify how private funders might support this vital ...

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Children, Youth and Families

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Awards $1 Million Grant to The Financial Clinic to Build Financial Security for Working Poor Americans

Release Date:

11/19/2015

... a measurable difference in an individual’s financial well - being by helping clients take financial control of their ...

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Economic Security

New York Women’s Foundation Joins Collaborative to Advance Equity through Research

Release Date:

12/18/2015

... and policy briefs focused on the economic security and well - being of young girls and women of color, their families and ...

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

Josiah Macy Foundation Supports New Education & Training Programs to Foster Compassionate, Collaborative Healthcare

Release Date:

03/24/2016

... quality of care is improved and health care professionals' well - being is enhanced," said Julie Rosen, executive director of .....

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Health

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Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation

NY Women’s Foundation Announces Seven More Regional Young Women’s Initiatives

Release Date:

06/15/2016

... $100 million dollars over 5 years to support economic well - being for all women and families in the United States. Today, ...

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Gender Justice

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The New York Women's Foundation

27 Sep 2016

Healing from and Preventing Conflict: The Unique Power of the Arts

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

For some nations, war - current or past - defines them. For others, conflict occurs in pockets, affecting people and groups unequally. The effects of conflict on social cohesion create divides that threaten the health of families, communities, and...

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International/Foreign Affairs

J & J: Douglas Wallace, Ph.D., Wins 2017 Dr. Paul Janssen Award for Biomedical Research; Campaign for Champions of Science Launched

Release Date:

06/20/2017

... ubiquitous maladies and thus for enhancing the health and well - being of all peoples." A video of Dr. Wallace's full .....

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Health

Science

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Johnson & Johnson

14 Sep 2017

Dreams in Limbo: A Look at the Future of DACA, Young Immigrants, and How Funders Can Respond

Thursday, September 14, 2017 -

4:00pm to 5:30pm

... briefing. Explore: How are DACAmented immigrants, as well as their supporters and allies, responding to this ... policy setback What legislative options and trade-offs are being contemplated What immediate and...

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Issue-Based

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Funding Area

Immigration

Children, Youth and Families

New York Magazine Profile, "The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers"

Release Date:

01/08/2018

The New York Magazine article profiles the family that pioneered the oil industry in America wants to expose what Exxon hid from the public about climate change.

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Member News

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Family Fund

Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Brian Byrd, Program Officer at the New York State Health Foundation Joins The 2020 Justice Launch Committee

Release Date:

01/31/2018

... by 2020.” Dr. Crew said, “I believe the Task Force is well positioned to develop the kind of transformational ideas ...

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Social Justice

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New York Health Foundation

07 Jun 2018

CFF Annual Gathering 2018

Thursday, June 7, 2018 -

5:00pm to 8:00pm

... and hear from your colleagues about different strategies being used to impact our regional food system. As part of the ...

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11 Jun 2019

Economic Security for Immigrants: Innovative Workforce Approaches - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Tuesday, June 11, 2019 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... immigrants’ eligibility to work is increasingly being challenged. Moreover, for many immigrants in the ... to decreased wages and long-term earnings potential, as well as wage theft and other employer abuses...