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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Announces Plans to Spend Down

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03/05/2019

The Edward W. Hazen Foundation in New York City has announced that it plans to spend down its assets over the next five years in support of education and youth organizing, with a focus on racial justice. Established in 1925, the foundation was an...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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What It Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives

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05/19/2021

... New BIPOC Executives By: Bipasha Ray, New Executives Fund Project Director, Open Society Fellowship Program, Open ... Funders need to double down and add on general support resources during leadership...

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Sesame Workshop Receives Groundbreaking Gift from Peter G. Peterson to Expand Community Initiative

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06/07/2018

... million challenge grant to establish the Joan Ganz Cooney Fund for Vulnerable Children, named for Peterson's widow, ... provides tools designed to address early-learning basics, health and well-being, and...

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NYCT Announces Finalists for 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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10/13/2015

... management practices to elevate their own management performance .” "The New York Community Trust is proud to ... restoring hope and dignity and offering opportunities for health and self-sufficiency. •...

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The New York Community Trust

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Atlantic Philanthropies Shares Four New Reports that Examine Their Grantmaking Successes, Failures and Lessons

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02/26/2020

... Support By Ben Kerman Why fund nonprofit overhead? And how do you do it strategically? ... Atlantic Philanthropies’ Investments in Community-Based Health Care By Susan Parker This ... strategies and impact of...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Every Experience Builds Expertise

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08/16/2016

... obstacles in educational success because they lack the resources needed to prosper. Family income shouldn’t be the ... Non-profit organizations sometimes use grant money to fund basic operating expenses, but...

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Why U.S. Foundations Should Take the Global Sustainable Development Goals Seriously

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06/21/2016

... recognize this unprecedented opportunity to leverage their resources . Philanthropic institutions have a critical role to ... solutions that address the human development, health and economic and environmental...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

5 Questions for…Melissa Bradley, Chief Executive Officer, Tides

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03/11/2013

... an African-Latino Diaspora initiative with the Baobá Fund for Racial Equality in Brazil, and we have continued ... action funds. With so many organizations competing for resources , we believe we need to be...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Leadership in Government Fellows

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05/21/2021

... in Government Fellows NEW YORK—A former Florida state -level representative. The first African American woman ... and equal protection of cultural and environmental resources in Guam. “At a time when our...

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Lessons on Movement Building

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06/27/2018

... days that followed, the inhumanity of the US immigration system was exposed with searing images and recordings. And ... to citizenship for young immigrants without additional resources for enforcement. As a...

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Responding to Haitian Devastation, At Home

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08/13/2010

In the wake of the Haitian earthquake, the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) worked to find a way to help ... at the same time follow its mission to improve the health of New Yorkers...

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Health

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The New York Women’s Foundation Honors DeAnna Hoskins, President & CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, and Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of The Equal Justice Initiative, at 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner

Release Date:

10/08/2019

... event were grantee partners of the Justice Initiative Fund , The Foundation’s first-of-its-kind, collaborative ... Bill Moyers about bringing justice to the justice system . A nationally recognized leader,...

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20 Oct 2022

From Cautious to Courageous: How Foundations Can Step up Advocacy & Invest in Change (Session 2 of 2)

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2:00pm to 3:30pm

... legally permissible) tools to enact change at the local, state and federal levels. By bringing key constituencies to ... the tax code provides simple methods for foundations to fund 501(c)(3) public charity...

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Four charter schools will be launched under initiative started by Mayor Bloomberg

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03/05/2013

The state Education Department has received applications to open ... of four charter high schools, The Post has learned. The state Education Department has received applications to open ...

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Education

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What DAFs are Learning from the Community Development Sector

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08/05/2019

... instruments like the Calvert Impact Note, the Contact Fund or LISC NYC’s Inclusive Creative Economy Fund and ... The loans from the Fund provide early stage, catalytic resources...

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Melissa Daar Carvajal Joins the Schott Foundation as Communications Director

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01/21/2021

... racial and education justice, helping to secure new state and local legislation to safeguard resources for public education students. In her leadership ...

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Sozosei Foundation Announces Inaugural Summit in December

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11/19/2020

... in order to eliminate the inappropriate use of the justice system for mental health diagnosis and treatment. Each session of the Summit ... A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health...

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Health

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4 Questions about Disaster Philanthropy for Bob Ottenhoff

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04/23/2013

... Service providers may find themselves overworked and their resources stretched. And then there are the aspects of ... we know that the sooner you can get people back into the state of normalcy the quicker they...

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