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Brooklyn Community Foundation Awards $2 Million in 2015 to Nonprofits Empowering Borough’s Vulnerable Youth

Release Date:

11/23/2015

... in May with a 10-year, $25 million commitment to improving social and economic opportunities and outcomes for 16- to ... Over 40% of Brooklynites are foreign-born and half of all households’ speak a language...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Org

3/12/2015 - Looking at the 990 Part 2 - Recording & PowerPoint

Publication date:

03/2015

View materials and the recording of the program,"Looking at the 990 - Part II"

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Audio/Video Recording

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New Staff

Nathan Cummings Foundation Welcomes Lavastian Glenn, Director, Racial and Economic Justice

Release Date:

10/04/2018

... now capturing national attention. She deeply understands how gender intersects with poverty and race to amplify the ... wealth, increase income, and end mass incarceration, using all of our resources...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Four Members to Board of Directors

Release Date:

05/24/2017

... team at this pivotal moment and look forward to all that we’ll accomplish together for Brooklyn.” ... including the University of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, Resources for Children With...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Brooklyn Org

Closing the Queer Funding Gap

Release Date:

07/21/2014

... that trans women are women and that black and brown bodies matter . Funding statistics echo this portrayal of the LGBT ... only 24 cents goes to LGBTQ issues.” These scant resources are...

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Ford’s Darren Walker Writes About Why Foundations Need to Pay Attention to What Grantees Are Saying

Release Date:

12/07/2016

... are committed to disrupting and dismantling inequality in all of its forms. Yet we constantly are confronted with an ... we fund to focus on short-term projects, to spend valuable resources accounting for...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Social Justice

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Ford Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation Opportunity Collective Increases to $15 Million Commitment to Support BIPOC-Owned Businesses

Release Date:

02/02/2021

... organizations from across sectors to share best practices, resources and ideas to address global challenges, including ... and Oakland, Calif. “The Covid 19 pandemic showed just how deadly the inequities that...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Community Development

Economic Security

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Philanthropy New York's Policy Corner - October 2023

Release Date:

10/25/2023

... embedding equity as an essential organizing framework for how and why we do the work we do of investing in people and ... our society towards the vision of opportunity for all . It provides a framework for...

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11 Jun 2015

Funding Where Poverty Lives: City and Suburban Realities

Thursday, June 11, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... that focus on redesigning and moving policies to provide resources for metro areas. This conversation will dive deep ... Institution Melanie Hartzog, Executive Director, Children 's Defense Fund Jerry...

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Community Development

Four Ways to Incorporate a Gender Lens in Your Measurement and Evaluation Efforts

Release Date:

02/20/2018

... , there is one question that is inevitably raised: how do we measure that? The first thing to know about ... a small nonprofit with limited human and financial resources , or a business starting to think about...

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Insights

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Gender Justice

LGBTQ

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FSG Social Impact Advisors

Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

Release Date:

05/11/2017

... core of this problem are resource allocation challenges. Resources are always scarce, no matter how well a economy is performing — or how large a ... works with local...

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

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Aetna Foundation

Sample IRS Form 990

Publication date:

04/2014

A sample of IRS form 990, which is an annual reporting return that certain federally tax-exempt organizations must file with the IRS. It provides information on the filing organization's mission, programs, and finances.

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Public Policy

The Post-Copenhagen Funding Landscape: Thoughts from Rachel Leon and Terry Odendahl

Release Date:

02/12/2010

... multi-state level processes will not provide all the solutions to climate adaptation and mitigation. As ... such as oil exploration and mining. According to the World Resources Institute, deforestation...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

Release Date:

06/30/2020

... major strategic evolution announcement prioritizing social justice in all of its grantmaking, Mellon and Yale Law School’s ... The Million Book Project, conceptualized by poet and legal...

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International Crisis Group Receives Grant from Open Society Foundations Aiming to Combine Local Voices and Global Expertise to Reduce Human Suffering

Release Date:

04/25/2022

... Group is the go-to organisation for ideas on how to prevent or end deadly conflicts. It is a trusted ... is transforming the shape of conflict, from the use of social media to foment unrest to the deployment...

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Human Services

International/Foreign Affairs

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Centering Disability Justice

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... a disability lens into our work means asking ourselves, “ How does a specific problem impact people with disabilities ... alternative-text descriptions, and changes in our human resources practices. We detail...

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Disabilities

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Ford Foundation

Nourishing Strong Communities: Thoughts on Food Policy from Karen Karp

Release Date:

05/03/2010

... one of the presenters, Karen Karp , President of Karp Resources , share her thoughts with Smart Assets. As a ... contemporary food problem began as a hunger problem and all manner of emergency food programs...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches $3 Million Fund for Coal Communities

Release Date:

04/27/2017

... from the ground up. Its mission is to support a family of social enterprises that inspire the courage to grow, activate ... to solve their own problems if given adequate support and resources , the Just...

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Environment and Climate Change

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We are In a Time of New Suns

Release Date:

10/19/2022

... climate change as outside the scope of their mission and resources , but still believe that it’s an urgent problem ... space from our particular lens; there is a role for all of us, no matter...