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NoVo Foundation Looks to Girls As Change Agents

Release Date:

07/10/2015

... Looks to Girls As Change Agents Girls and young women of color have made important gains in education, health ... persistent and pervasive nature of the challenges faced by women and girls of color. Girls of...

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NoVo Foundation

At the City Council, Better Gender Balance Among Chiefs of Staff

Release Date:

09/20/2017

... City Council, a 51-member body, currently includes only 13 women , down from 18 in 2009, and that number is likely to ... Council gender imbalance, in part because the Council’s Women ’s Caucus released a report...

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Strategic Plan for 2017-2021

... provide lessons learned around implementing new practices Investing in the development of enriched communications ... our unique skills-based intensive training for grantmakers Investing resources...

Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

Release Date:

08/01/2012

... which is a philanthropic organizing project providing resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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North Star Fund

Wm. T. Grant Foundation Report: Scarcity of Funding for Research on Youth Inequality

Release Date:

11/09/2015

... on youth inequality on a national scale. The report, Investing in Knowledge: Insights on the Funding Landscape for ... young people as a population or in institutions. Investing in Knowledge was commissioned...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies Strengthens Support of Media That Matters

Release Date:

05/31/2016

Media Impact Funders (MIF), a member-supported network of funders who seek to improve society through media and technology, has been awarded a two-year, $500,000 matching grant from The Atlantic Philanthropies.

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Communications/Media

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

The Wallace Foundation and SMU DataArts Release Report - "The Alchemy of High-Performing Arts Organizations"

Release Date:

08/13/2020

... leaders, takes humility and an intensive investment of resources and time. According to the leaders who were ...

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Arts

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The Wallace Foundation

The Burke Foundation Plans to Expand CenteringPregnancy and CenteringParenting to 50 Sites in the Next Five Years

Release Date:

04/20/2021

Expanding access to transformative Centering group care model will improve birth, maternal health and pediatric outcomes, address racial health disparities

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Health

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The Burke Foundation

08 Nov 2023

Funder Collaboratives that Support Shifting Power to Communities

Wednesday, November 8, 2023 -

3:00pm to 6:00pm

... and racially-just grantmaking practices, including investing in the vision of impacted communities to develop, ... some constraints at individual foundations, can pooling resources catalyze efforts to cede...

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Vivian Tseng of The William T. Grant Foundation on Meeting this Moment (Part II): Unpacking Anti-Asian Racism

Release Date:

03/31/2021

... attacks on Asian elders and the murders of six Asian women in Atlanta, the virility of anti-Asian racism is ever ... dedication and determination of an earlier generation of women of color researchers.” Ten...

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William T. Grant Foundation

08 Oct 2014

Deputy Mayor and Four Commissioners Explore Opportunities for Better Coordination on Vulnerable Youth

Wednesday, October 8, 2014 -

1:45pm to 3:30pm

... foster care. There are 1,000 young people who annually age out of foster care. In September 2014, there were ... The Administration for Children’s Services, the Human Resources Administration, the Department...

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Workforce Development

Children, Youth and Families

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight and Research to Prevent Blindness Launch Low Vision Research Initiative

Release Date:

08/07/2015

... and visually impaired persons should have the tools and resources necessary to lead independent, productive lives,” ... of Trustees has made a strategic decision to leverage our resources by creating...

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Aging

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Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Research to Prevent Blindness

Newman's Own CEO Shares: What Paul Newman Would Tell Small Foundations in the Pandemic: Don’t Shift Course

Release Date:

04/22/2020

... profound question I take to bed: Should we redirect our resources to frontline responders and other efforts ... Congress, the CARES Act may help with that.) We lack the resources to build MASH units in New...

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Newman's Own Foundation

With Greater Commitment, Funders Can Solve the Healthcare Workforce Crisis

Release Date:

10/26/2016

... [4] and 72 percent of full-time nursing faculty are over age 50. [5] There are too few teachers to prepare the next ... funding approaches to achieve the greatest impact: Investing in scholarships, programming...

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Health

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Supports Database that Tracks Health Equity Implications of State COVID-19 Policies

Release Date:

07/28/2021

... people aged 65 and older, most states shifted to age -based vaccine priorities. While 21 percent of the White ... Black people and 8 percent of Latinx people are over 65. Age prioritization is then, by design,...

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Chapter 4: Big Conversations in Philanthropy

... in philanthropy during our century – impact investing, perpetuity vs. spend down, and general operating ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Dr. Fred Boltz as a Managing Director

Release Date:

07/01/2013

... focus," said Dr. Boltz. Dr. Boltz holds a Ph.D. in Natural Resources Economics from the University of Florida, and .....

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Ending New York’s Summer Jobs Depression

Release Date:

02/12/2015

... program. Unfortunately, New York City doesn’t have the resources to recruit employers. There is little federal ... programs, which rely largely on local public and private resources . This is where the private...

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Insights

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Children, Youth and Families

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

USDA, Surdna and Other Foundations Join to Strengthen Local Food Supply Chains

Release Date:

04/01/2016

... between producers, food purchasers, and access to shared resources . Food LINC aims to replicate that coordination in ... the help from our partners, USDA can 'supercharge' our resources to create...

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Food Systems

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Surdna Foundation

08 Mar 2017

Achieving Equity…How Exactly?

Wednesday, March 8, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:30am

... internally and training staff Specific changes in human resources , investment, governance and other functions that ... Samantha Gilbert , Vice President, Talent and Human Resources , Ford Foundation Edgar...