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Building Our Equity Muscles

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12/08/2021

... Dear Philanthropy New York members, Growing up, I was not an athlete. I found running in my late 30’s when ... tendencies and use conflict as a tool of growth and change . Learning requires that I give up the...

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FORE Announces $4.8 Million in Grants That Support Innovative Solutions to Ending the Opioid Crisis

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02/01/2022

The projects, all part of FORE’s new Innovation Program, were selected based on a national request for proposals that yielded 479 submissions from around the country.

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Health

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Foundation for Opioid Response Efforts (FORE)

To Achieve Equity, We Must Accurately Measure Need

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10/06/2022

... been enabled by structural racism and systemic inequity, not their root causes. Only when we change these discriminatory structures and institutional ...

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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

... conversation. As I left DC, I realized this experience was not a series of firsts for just me; it was a series of firsts ... as important as ever. Public policy and community does not have to be separate and...

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Public Policy

Insights from “The Path to Racial Equity: How Board Readiness Informs Organizational Readiness for Black Board Leadership”

Release Date:

02/03/2023

... As moderator Keecha Harris , who leads an institutional change firm explained, “Conversations like these can be ... ‘Am I showing up in a way that will help create the change that I want to see in the world...

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Governance

Member Input on Official Statement on Opposition to Eliminating the Estate Tax

... implies that, each year, the nonprofit sector would lose resources equivalent to the total grants currently made by ...

Opposition to Eliminating the Estate Tax

... implies that, each year, the nonprofit sector would lose resources equivalent to the total grants currently made by ...

Janet Robinson is New Chair of Carnegie Corporation Board, Kurt Schmoke is New Vice Chair; The Honorable Ann Claire Williams and John S. Hendricks Join Board

Release Date:

03/01/2012

... include co-founding Minority Legal Education Resources , which has helped more than 4,000 lawyers pass the ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

25 Apr 2012

Power to the People: Participatory Budgeting as a New Model of Civic Engagement in NYC

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

Participatory budgeting is a democratic process that gives ordinary people real decision-making power over real money. Community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process has the potential to transform relationships...

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Issue-Based

27 Apr 2011

Success in College for New Majority Students: Applying What Works

Wednesday, April 27, 2011 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... goals, funders who are themselves stewarding constrained resources seek evidence of what works best with these groups ...

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Catherine Rick Named Senior Advisor for Nursing Leadership at the Jonas Center for Nursing Excellence

Release Date:

12/11/2013

... in health careers. She also worked with the Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA) on workforce ...

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Health

Serious Policy Between Our Two Ferns

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04/23/2014

Philanthropy New York's Michael Hamill Remaley on the April 30th event, CEO Interview with Wallace Foundation President Will Miller.

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The Wallace Foundation

Brooklyn Public Library Receives $400,000 From The New York Life Foundation

Release Date:

06/16/2014

... grant will allow the Library to extend these educational resources to six high-need areas of Brooklyn, and conduct ...

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Education

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New York Life Foundation

Diversity Is a Core Commitment for Philanthropy New York

Release Date:

07/08/2014

... While the focus on diversity, inclusion and equity is not new, there are many fresh perspectives, newly framed ...

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President's Message

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

15 Oct 2014

Busting the Business of Trafficking Women and Children

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

Human trafficking is often approached as a women and children’s human rights and social justice issue. Rightly so considering the U.S. State Department estimates 600,000 to 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders every year with...

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Children, Youth and Families

We’re Not Just Fighting the Good Fight

Release Date:

09/22/2014

... in its public policy work. With limited staff and resources , we choose our issues carefully based on their ... please contact Michael Hamill Remaley . We’re Not Just Fighting the Good Fight ...

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The Moment I Lost It

Release Date:

11/19/2014

... felt like it was an erudite reading of the situation, but not new information to me. The panel discussion of leading ... was simultaneously overwhelmed with sadness that there are not more resources...

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Education

“Poor” is Washington’s Four Letter Word

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01/21/2015

... to diseases like Ebola. The word “poor” was not uttered. “Low-income” was said once, and it was ... food pantries and live in shelters. Stagnant wages affect not just the middle class, but the poor, too. Why...

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Advancing Women in Science: A Groundbreaking Model

Release Date:

08/27/2012

... granted 50% of Weizmann’s Ph.Ds. The disparity was not limited to Weizmann. There was a significant gap between ... a requirement for a tenure-track position in Israel) was not sufficient to outweigh the...

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All Funders

10 Mar 2015

Supporting Grantee Capacity

Tuesday, March 10, 2015 -

3:30pm to 5:00pm

Missed this session? View the recording here . Each foundation takes its own approach to thinking about and supporting grantee capacity. GrantCraft, a service of Foundation Center, launched a guide called Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening...