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New York City Offers Free Lunch for All Public School Students

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... charge to all 1.1 million students beginning this school year , Carmen Fariña, the schools chancellor, said on ... of a Hell’s Kitchen elementary school. The new school year begins on Thursday. “This is about...

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13 Sep 2016

Intersections of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... recording here: Watch Part II Watch Part III Health care costs associated with the current U.S. opioid epidemic ... death rate has equaled or exceeded the national rate every year since 2006. Watch related...

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25 Apr 2019

Empathy in an Era of Social Division and Toxic Politics - A Food for Thought Conversation

Thursday, April 25, 2019 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... depends on its citizens having the urge and ability to care for others. Today, however, political and social ... to understand and share the feelings of another, help us sew our country back together? If so,...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

Release Date:

01/07/2016

... Positive Approaches to School Discipline Last year , at the beginning of ninth grade, my son's friend ... in the schoolyard, and with the satirical wit of a 14- year -old, named it "Softie" and...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards $750,000 Grant to Bard College for "Cultures of Conservation" Curriculum

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07/13/2017

... the foundation initially funded in 2012 for a period of five years. The second phase of “Cultures of ... Active Matter” with the goal of creating intellectual resources with which 21st century conservators and...

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Mellon Foundation

Experts Analyze Mayor De Blasio's Jobs Plan

Release Date:

09/21/2017

... years, discussing the challenges of growing the city’s economy while ensuring that New Yorkers are its ... freight, and manufacturing to create 10,000 jobs each year that pay at least $50,000 a year...

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Surdna Foundation Announces a Reorganization and Promotions

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07/11/2023

... reevaluate our structure and how we collaborate. Late last year , I began to reorganize Surdna with a vision to create ... learning and impact, which is an important opportunity for us to contribute lessons and...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awarded More Than $84 Million in Grants in First Half of 2021

Release Date:

07/27/2021

... communities in mission dioceses in the U.S. through the US -Latin America Sisters Exchange Program. Center for ... will support religious institutes in these countries to care for their elderly sisters...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

Release Date:

09/28/2017

... would actually be anti-growth, because more debt hurts our economy . “Relying on unreliable projections of economic ... of hypothetically higher growth is setting voters, and the economy , up for disappointment...

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What Does It Mean to Do Policy Work in a Foundation?

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03/27/2014

... and policy. We think the way we work has allowed us to make a difference. We are often credited by education ... more in the policy arena, and I was brought on board last year to lead an effort to consider our...

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TCC Group Welcomes Two New Members to its Nonprofit Strategy Team

Release Date:

02/23/2016

... the social impact of documentary film. Shome served for five years as Assistant Director at Columbia University's ... efforts. She has worked with B Lab to create tools and resources for assessment of...

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01 Apr 2020

Service for Impact - A Webinar

Wednesday, April 1, 2020 -

9:30am to 11:00am

... dynamic learning but add a new approach. The focus of this year ’s meetings will be to uncover new and stronger proof ... have for internal stakeholders. In the first meeting this year , on November 12 th , we...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Promotes Arlene Cox to Role of Chief Operating Officer

Release Date:

02/01/2021

... has led or coordinated the Foundation’s work in human resources , information technology, and facilities and ... a Philadelphia-area firm within the international death care industry. She was promoted to an...

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Mellon Foundation Announces Imagining Freedom, An Arts & Humanities Initiative Supporting Creatives and Thinkers Reenvisioning the Criminal Legal System

Release Date:

02/15/2023

... of people and communities with lived experience of the US criminal legal system and its pervasive forces of ... communities of color and those living in poverty. The US is the most incarcerated country in the...

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Mellon Foundation

Markle Foundation President and CEO Zoë Baird Writes About Where Amazon Should Build Their New Headquarters

Release Date:

12/05/2017

... labor market that prepares workers for the digital economy . History has shown that the quality of a skilled ... for comfortable middle class lives. For example, more than five million Americans have lost...

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JPMorgan Chase Commits $6 Million to Prepare Greater Washington Area Students for Local, In-Demand Jobs

Release Date:

12/06/2018

... workers in the Greater Washington region. As the regional economy grows, these investments are designed to increase the ... to create opportunity for more people and grow the local economy so that everyone...

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Aetna Foundation: Closing the Health Divide, One Community at a Time

Release Date:

12/16/2015

... profound impact on health because it determines access to care , services, information and healthy food. As a ...

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The Tow Foundation Announces Playwrights in Residence

Release Date:

08/03/2017

... has meant for them in the past and his hopes for this year , “Participating in The Tow Foundation’s Playwright ... Theater, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, has another perspective . Its artistic director,...

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10 Apr 2014

Leading Through Change: Advice from and for Seasoned CEOs and Their Boards

Thursday, April 10, 2014 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... and commitment of their trusted leadership staff? Join us as we explore these questions and many more with a panel ...

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Family Foundation

Executive Leadership

Investing: Can You Apply Your Values to Create Value?

Release Date:

05/06/2014

... my husband, Steve, in 1997. Having had the benefit of a perspective from different sectors, a couple things have ... it – that have dogged our communities both here in the US and across the globe haven’t seen...

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