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DNAinfo Highlights Senior Profiles Supported by New York Community Trust

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02/04/2016

... his Puerto Rican hometown of Mayaguez. . . Cajigas' life , and his insistence on living it despite a painful ... Block and Ruth Finkelstein, an anthropologist and health policy expert. The project, which...

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The New York Community Trust

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Nine Graphs That Show How Hard It Is To Be a Homeless Student In New York City

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08/19/2016

... as a point-in-time event,” said Jennifer Erb-Downward, a policy analyst who worked on the report. “We need to think about the life course of a student and the effect homelessness ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Grant to the Bard-Brooklyn Public Library College Degree Program

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10/30/2019

... ethos.” Together, BPL and Bard provide critical resources for classroom success including dedicated ... Public Library, financial and academic support, and social services to help students manage a wide range...

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The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

... in three mid-sized cities can work together to tackle social and educational challenges in their local communities. ... Henig and Carolyn Riehl, of the Department of Education Policy and Social...

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The Wallace Foundation to Support Study of Whether and How Community Institutions Can Work Together on Education Reform

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03/18/2014

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Ford Foundation Names Kathy Reich as Director for Effort to Strengthen Institutions and Networks

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04/29/2016

... to help strengthen institutions and networks critical to social movements. Reich currently serves as director of ... She has been with Packard since 2001, earlier serving as policy analyst and program officer...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... the idea that the wealthy are harnessing their fortunes to social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new money flowing into the social sector. What's a cause for concern, though, is...

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The New York Community Trust

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Elects Kevin Burke to Board of Trustees

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06/04/2012

... economic performance and the quality of American life .” Burke has worked for Consolidated Edison for the ... economic performance and the quality of American life . He has lived in New York City all his...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Donn Weinberg Concludes Term as Weinberg Foundation Chairman, Judge Ellen Heller Assumes Board Leadership Role

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03/01/2013

... charter, which was authored by Harry Weinberg before his death in 1990. “As an organization, we have worked to make ... of Directors, are responsible for the overall setting of policy for the Foundation. This...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Why the Trump Admin Opposed a UN Resolution On Killing Gay People

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10/04/2017

... for voting against a U.N. resolution that condemned the death penalty for LGBT people. For many on the left, it ... was apparently about the White House’s support for the death penalty, not opposition to gay...

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Martha Matsuoka Elected New Board Chair for Noyes Foundation

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02/01/2013

... an Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy at Occidental College, was elected Chair of the Jessie ... regionalism, sustainable community development, social movements and environmental justice...

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Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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11 Leading Philanthropies Respond to White House Report on Young Men of Color

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05/30/2014

... John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Kapor Center for Social Impact, Nathan Cummings Foundation, Robert Wood ...

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UJA-Federation Launches Campaign for Passage of Education Tax Credit

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05/27/2015

OU Advocacy-Teach NYS, the nonpartisan public policy arm of the Orthodox Union, together with the ... lobbying efforts in Albany, community advocacy, and social media outreach. Over the course of the next 30 days...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Seeks Applicants for Arts & Culture Grants Program

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09/08/2015

... code for its grants program 2016 supporting art and social justice. The Foundation supports arts and cultural ... action, promote equality, contribute to advocacy and policy change and develop capacity for...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 33 Winners of Its Prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellows

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04/19/2016

... of their proposed research on an array of topics in the social sciences and humanities. Each of the 2016 winners of ... including education, law, technology, business and public policy . The philanthropic...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Why Ford Foundation Is Underwriting Black Lives Matter

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08/08/2016

... for Black Lives (M4BL) published a detailed and ambitious policy agenda, with a long list of “demands” that are ... underwriting what it calls a “new and dynamic form of social justice leadership and...

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Justice Reform