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29 Nov 2017

The Changing Nature of Work and Income: How Philanthropy Can Respond to and Support Low Income Families - Webinar

Wednesday, November 29, 2017 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... every investment in education, public health, and economic development, chipping away at what would otherwise ... emerging strategies to address income volatility and economic insecurity through...

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Economic Security

TD Charitable Foundation Awards $2.5 Million for Affordable Housing

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12/11/2012

Grants of $100,000 each were awarded through the foundation's seventh annual Housing for Everyone ... in grants to support affordable housing initiatives through its seventh annual "Housing for Everyone...

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Community Development

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields

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10/09/2013

The grants to nine national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF's Fund for National Projects and are designed to ... $1.3 million to nine national arts organizations. Awarded through DDCF's Fund...

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Arts

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Rockefeller Foundation Awards $3.8 Million for IT Jobs in Ghana

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03/26/2014

... of information and communications technologies. Awarded through the foundation's $100 million Digital Jobs Africa ... leverages a $5 million grant from the World Bank through its eGhana Project.....

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Bank of America to Provide Clean Water and Opportunity in Southern India

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03/24/2015

... community-led and market-based solutions that change lives through safe water and sanitation. The grant will empower ... in their homes and communities. This will be achieved through a Water.org program,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Environment and Climate Change

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Johnson & Johnson Solicits Snaps For Students

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10/20/2016

... University to give health-care students a bit of a lift, through the Donate a Photo app. According to Rutgers' ... will give $1 to Rutgers for every photo donated through the app, to help support students...

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Health

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Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families

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02/14/2017

... Jordan in late 2017. The program will be made possible through a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos ... interests and developmental readiness from birth through age twelve... Supported by Stavros...

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A Commitment to Playwrights: The Tow Foundation’s 2014 Residency Program

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12/09/2014

... a targeted fund—using a relatively small portion of its resources —to have a big impact on the lives of one or a ...

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DC Dysfunction Isn’t the Whole Story

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04/20/2016

... nonprofits and encourage Congress to view foundations as resources on key public policy issues. Creating new materials ... staff,” said Jon Cardinal, the long-time director of economic development for Sen...

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As Funders of Equity and Education, Connect Research to Action for School Integration

Release Date:

11/21/2016

... more openly confronting issues of racial, gender and socio- economic justice, New York City schools are grappling with ... to action. School and government leaders need the resources to learn about different...

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The New York Community Trust

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04 Oct 2019

Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

Friday, October 4, 2019 -

9:00am to 5:00pm

... designed to help foundation leaders gain the tools and resources to work towards racial equity in both internal and ... internally and externally: Internally – To refocus the economic impact of your...

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HR & Operations Staff

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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31 Oct 2019

Not One More: The Fight to Stop Southeast Asian Deportation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, October 31, 2019 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Between 1975 to 1990, 1.4 million Southeast Asian refugees from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Laos were resettled in the United States.

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29 Jan 2025

Using Philanthropic Assets beyond Grantmaking: Shareholder Engagement as a Tool to Drive Change

Wednesday, January 29, 2025 - 5:30pm

... and policies can have a profound impact on the racial, economic , environmental and social issues philanthropy seeks ... opportunities, including practical tools, strategies and resources to complement the work...

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Environment and Climate Change

Century Foundation Report Calls for Funding Reform for Community Colleges

Release Date:

05/28/2015

... of low-income students into the middle class with few resources . A report released by the Century Foundation today ... students who have the greatest need receive the fewest resources and those who have had...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Works to Preserve Scholarly Latin Texts

Release Date:

08/19/2015

... Latin Library project, which—when complete—will create resources that people of varying levels of interest and ... and launch of this Linked Open Data resource for providing resources and support of new...

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Simons Foundation Backs Autism BrainNet and NIH NeuroBioBank Partnership to Advance Autism Research

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12/09/2015

... Autism BrainNet is a key step in developing the necessary resources to understand and treat autism spectrum ...

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Health

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What Foundations Can Do to Help Primary Care Succeed

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03/13/2012

... success of primary care: 1. Support struggling providers through transformation A number of incentives are emerging to ... close to being medical homes, or who have the capacity and resources to take on major...

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Three Essentials for Accelerating Funder Collaboration

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03/07/2012

... individuals, I think it all begins with learning networks. Through regional associations like Philanthropy New York and ... their communities and on their issues, funders must work through their networks to...

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

... and editing full-time—based on what we have seen through a lot of experimentation thus far, it will not be ... the state subsidized newspapers with low postal rates through the mail, which was at that time...

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