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Ford and Open Society Foundations Comment on the Legacy of Lynching, On Death Row

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08/16/2016

... legal representation to every inmate on the state’ s death row. Over the decades, it has handled hundreds of ... of various crimes as juveniles and given long sentences or life in prison... Ford and Open...

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Justice Reform

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Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary

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09/06/2016

... for the Humanities, will host a sneak preview of "Hamilton' s America," a documentary film that delves into the life of Alexander Hamilton and the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda' s...

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Arts

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Brain Insight Lecture Series Continues

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02/10/2017

... Series continued on Feb. 8 at Columbia University’ s Faculty House in Morningside Heights. How Do Early Life Experiences Shape Behavior? was presented by Frances Champagne, PhD highlighted the brain’ s...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Health

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Are Crowding the Field of Urban Innovation Funding — and Making it More Interesting

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02/13/2017

... comes at a moment when more Americans are choosing urban life . Funders have come in from different angles. Bloomberg ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

'Dreamer’ Plan That Aided 800,000 Immigrants Is Threatened

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08/28/2017

... hired by a utility company to help modernize the city’ s electrical grid. But her life could soon be upended in a showdown over a five-year-old ...

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Immigration

One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

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09/06/2017

... on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration' s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals ... a mixture of resignation and resolve. "In some ways there' s a lot of...

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Immigration

My Brother’s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation

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09/07/2017

My Brother’ s Keeper Merges with Obama Foundation My Brother’ s Keeper, a White House initiative that later spun off into a ... just for the rest of my presidency, but for the rest of my life...

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What It's Like Aboard an NGO Ship Rescuing Hundreds of Migrants in the Mediterranean

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09/08/2017

What It' s Like Aboard an NGO Ship Rescuing Hundreds of Migrants in ... of the cabin: “All stations, all stations.” Then it’ s only belt buckles clanging and zippers being pulled as ... to get dressed. The...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Top CEOs Place High Value On Corporate Ethics And Social Responsibility To Drive Business

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... the movie Wall Street? Little did we know then how closely life could imitate art when the likes of Enron, Bernie Madoff ... and a worldwide financial crisis lambasted the world’ s economy a few years ago. But...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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How Did Marriage Become a Mark of Privilege?

Release Date:

09/26/2017

... or education, has become yet another part of American life reserved for those who are most privileged. Fewer ...

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Gender Justice

Bank of America Awards Grant to Youth Career Development Program

Release Date:

09/28/2018

... with adult mentors in the community. The foundation’ s Career Development program empowers Immokalee’ s youth to imagine and prepare for a future they may not have ... who describes The Immokalee Foundation’...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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13 Mar 2019

Stronger Together Part II: Building the Capacity of Social Movements – A Webinar Hosted by HRFN

Wednesday, March 13, 2019 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... How do we as grantmakers foster, support, and strengthen new or growing movements? February 13 – Synergizing ... Concepts and Indicators In 2018, Innovation Network’ s Social Movement Learning Project began...

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All Funders

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Social Justice

The Foundation Center's IssueLab

Publication date:

11/2012

... IssueLab, a website that provides free and open access to resources that analyze the world' s most pressing social, economic and environmental challenges ... to immigration to welfare. The Foundation Center' s IssueLab .....

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Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

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07/2005

... advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation' s mission. In this guide, contributors explain that advocacy ... a position, or enrich the policy debate, the guide offers resources and strategies for planning your work, reaching .....

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Report

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Legal Issues

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Foundations Moving On: Ending Programmes and Funding Relationships

... a small venture philanthropist, an NGO that re-grants resources from a back-donor, or a mix of any of the above, ...

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Report

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Philanthropy as Field Builder

Release Date:

04/25/2013

... series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’ s reflections on the unique strengths and enduring lessons of ... the private and public sectors can crowd in with their own resources and carry the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Policies, Practices, and Programs for Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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11/2013

D5 - a five-year coalition to advance philanthropy’ s diversity, equity, and inclusion - commissioned ... a comprehensive scan of existing written and web-based resources from philanthropy and the more general fields of ...

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Report

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Executive Leadership

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

PNY Makes Public Video from Session on Digital Badges

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06/12/2014

View the livestream recording and PowerPoint Presentations from the program Expanding Education, Youth Development, and Workforce Opportunities Through Digital Badges.

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PNY News

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

Technology

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The New York Community Trust

The David Rockefeller Fund

New York City Youth Funders Network

New York City Workforce Funders

Oliveira Outlines Plight of Women and Girls in NYT

Release Date:

12/30/2014

... in NYT When it comes to charitable giving, women’ s funds were created specifically to address the economic and ... that women and girls face. They channel powerful joint resources into funds that go towards a...

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