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One 'Dreamer' Vows to Finish Med School in The Face of DACA Chaos

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09/06/2017

... on Tuesday took the news of the Trump administration's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, better known as DACA, .....

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Nonprofit Offers Guidance for Charities Worried About Deportation Raids

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09/11/2017

... being swept up in a deportation raid. President Trump’s decision to end Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, a program that ...

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The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.

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09/20/2017

... on Syria, they also concluded that no single American action would have guaranteed a significant reduction in the ...

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Arts

HSBC Gives $1.5M to Scale Up Horizons Learning Programs

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05/16/2017

... to help bring Horizons multi-year learning programs to new communities and serve more low-income children across the ... rate, and 91% of these graduates go on to college or other post -secondary education...

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Me/We & Public Policy: A Journey from Foundations on the Hill to NYC to…

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05/25/2023

... building with wide eyes, imagining the power and decision -making that culminates in the policies that impact communities every day. Along with my colleagues and our ... policy journey. I have joined members at...

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Wait—What is Venture Philanthropy, Again?

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02/27/2014

... view of what it means to invest in solving global and/or local problems. As noted in a blog post on the Rockefeller Foundation website, foundations have ...

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Wallace Foundation Hopes New Initiative Will Better Prepare Principals

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12/12/2016

... are trained, specifically in creating partnerships with local colleges and universities to redesign teacher training, ...

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The Cricket Island Foundation

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Century Foundation’s Li to Chair Philanthropy New York Board

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06/09/2015

... Foundation in 2011, Li was the Chief Operating Officer for Brooklyn Community Foundation, another Philanthropy New York ... larger investments in technology and communications resources , and long-term...

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

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08/01/2012

... which is a philanthropic organizing project providing resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ... New York City food pantries with 240,000 pounds of fresh local vegetables annually. In...

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22 Jan 2015

What’s Next on the Healthcare Horizon? Five Big Trends Affecting Philanthropy

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... integration and coordination, how is that affecting communities ? What alterations to the payment system can ... youth and family, this program will be of interest to local and national funders interested in...

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

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04/22/2020

... profound question I take to bed: Should we redirect our resources to frontline responders and other efforts ... and nutrition, and independent media — and in our local communities . In times...

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Sloan Foundation Among Funders of New Report Outlining Research Agenda for Microbiomes, Indoor Environments, And Human Health

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08/16/2017

... dynamics, and functions of indoor microbiomes that can guide improvements to current and future buildings as well as ... this time, we do not know enough to manage the microbial communities around us in the...

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Bloomberg Report Shows Mayors Concerned About Budget, Infrastructure

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04/11/2018

... as one of the top concerns they hear about from local residents. The survey also found that mayors in the ... important, many said they were stymied in taking effective action by significant challenges,...

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Community Development

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Why Are Foundations Often Absent From Major Policy Shifts?

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08/13/2009

... agenda and develop—not just capture temporarily—human resources and talent to address that agenda. Fear of ... constantly assess whether they are spending where future action is likely. I know I oversimplify...

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Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

For decades, domestic violence survivors have been criminalized, prosecuted, and imprisoned for acts carried out by their abusive partners.

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Gender Justice

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What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

Release Date:

09/07/2017

... some major colleges said of the order to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA: The ... would lobby its Congressional representatives to "take action to provide protection...

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In Nighttime Tweet, Trump Offers Mixed Message on Immigration

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09/07/2017

... that a president does not have the power to take such action by himself. He then put the onus on Congress by giving ... before it would expire. Then, barely eight hours after his decision was announced, the...

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