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Six Winners to Receive Help Setting Up Social Impact Bond Projects

Release Date:

06/12/2013

... a national competition to provide technical assistance to state and local governments looking to develop ... the six winners of a national competition to provide state and local governments with technical...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announces 2013 Soros Justice Fellows

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05/15/2013

A mix of emerging and established social justice leaders, the fourteen fellows include investigative journalists, lawyers, grassroots organizers, policy advocates and scholars who will take on a range of reform issues that relate to broader OSF...

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Social Justice

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Open Society Foundations

Wallace Foundation Releases Report on Creating Effective School Principals

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10/07/2015

... by the Wallace Foundation has outlined three major state policies that are necessary in order to create the most ... report, it is the first study of its kind to examine how state policy could be effective in...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $20M for New Skills for Youth Initiative

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01/11/2017

... for New Skills for Youth Initiative The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. today ... global New Skills for Youth initiative, each winning state will work with...

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

Release Date:

06/23/2017

... free SUNY tuition this fall, you will be paying more. The state University of New York this week quietly voted to ... the Excelsior Scholarship, that Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the state Legislature instituted in...

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The Century Foundation on How Healthcare Repeal Would be a Disaster for Women’s Health

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07/28/2017

... complications of pregnancy and childbirth doubled; the state now has the very best maternal mortality fee within the ...

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Report: Job Gains In NY, But Not Everywhere

Release Date:

09/11/2017

... Not Everywhere Unemployment rates are down for New York state overall, but wide swaths of upstate had fewer jobs in ... part of the workforce last year, the highest number the state has seen since the...

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Economic Security

Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

... Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan laying out the state ’s goals for its education system, as required by the ... Student Succeeds Act...

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Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

As Republicans rush toward a precipitous vote on the Graham-Cassidy repeal-and-replace bill by Friday, one issue needs a lot more attention: even last night’s version of the bill won’t work, according to the Commonwealth Fund.

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Cuomo Says Major Budget Changes May Be Needed If New York Loses $2B In Health Care Funding

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09/26/2017

... Care Funding Gov. Cuomo said a special session of the state Legislature may be needed if more than $2 billion in ... could require lawmakers to make drastic changes in the state ’s already-adopted budget. “If...

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The Commonwealth Fund Finds that Middle-income Americans are Paying More for Health Insurance

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12/10/2018

Middle-income families are spending more of their incomes on health insurance as average premiums skyrocketed in 2017 after modest rate increases earlier this decade, The Commonwealth Fund found in a new report.

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Recording: The Youth Mental Health Crisis: Innovations and Updates from the Field

... Services: Experts will provide an update on the current state of youth mental health from a local, state , and federal policy perspective. We will also discuss ...

10 Nov 2015

Justice Reform: The End of Mass Incarceration

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 -

8:30am to 12:00pm

With 2.3 million people currently behind bars in the United States - and an annual cost of $85 billion to run our prisons- politicians on both sides of the aisle are talking about what needs to happen to reform the criminal justice system.

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Amida Care Fund at Stonewall Community Foundation Announces 2017 Grant Awards for HIV/AIDS Initiatives

Release Date:

12/01/2017

... Medicaid Special Needs Health Plan (SNP) in New York State , provides comprehensive coverage and coordinated care ... Cuomo’s Blueprint to End the AIDS Epidemic in New York State by 2020. The Fund supports HIV...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

Lessons on Movement Building

Release Date:

06/27/2018

... to citizenship for young immigrants without additional resources for enforcement. As a result, we were able to shape the national debate and win important state - and city-level policies that limit ICE’s reach...

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Strengthening our Framework to Maximize Impact

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06/01/2022

... and important policy changes being considered at the state and federal levels, the opportunity to seize on ... knowing that harm reduction and access to restorative resources are key underpinnings of community...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Social Justice

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Arnold Ventures

Looking at IRS 990 Forms

Publication date:

03/2012

Participants learned what information can be gleaned from the 990 form and what has changed within the form since prior years.

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Finance Staff

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Finance & Asset Management

16 Feb 2022

Haitians and Afghans in Crisis: Lessons for Rapid Resettlement

Wednesday, February 16, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

Join us for a discussion of how advocacy groups and service providers are serving new arrivals, the relevant government policies and programs, and the role of philanthropy in helping those who arrive today—and improving the infrastructure for those...

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Census 2020: Focus on the Real Work in Communities, Not the Legal/Political Morass

Release Date:

07/11/2019

... Census Decision Means for Nonprofits , written for Nonprofit Quarterly the day after the Court ruled, I urged ... Second, the article identifies three specific steps every nonprofit can take. Yes, there are...