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Russell Sage Publishes First Book on Court Fines and Fees Exposes Lifetime of Debt Faced by Poor Americans

Release Date:

06/08/2016

... prison time. Drawing on original research from Washington State , University of Washington sociologist Alexes Harris ... sentence is only the beginning of our criminal justice system ’s punishment for convicted...

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18 Mar 2013

Measuring What Matters: Indicators of College and Career Readiness

Monday, March 18, 2013 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... done right here in New York, where both the City and the State are recalculating their metrics for college and career ... have focused on academic preparedness, but the City and State are each looking at ways...

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Marianna Islam Joins the Schott Foundation as Director of Programs and Advocacy

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04/01/2016

... coalitions towards achieving personal, program, policy and system change goals. Marianna brings over a decade of ... for Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Roadmaps to Health Community Grants Programs at...

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Education

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

The Pfizer Foundation Partnered With CARE to Help Deliver Catalytic Care to Women in Benin

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... create sustainable solutions that help improve women’s health and access to family planning . Beginning in 2015, we ... and care for family planning that optimizes local health capacity in Benin and helps...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Pfizer

Excellence is the Best Strategy

Release Date:

12/10/2013

... residential program for vulnerable kids in New York State for over 100 years. Yet when evidence began to show ... two decades, when it connected low-income households to health insurance. The dedication paid...

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The New York Community Trust

Philanthropy in Haiti: Don’t Miss Out on the Opportunity

Release Date:

01/22/2010

... sites; so are those for organizations like Partners In Health and the Lambi Fund of Haiti and individuals like the musician Richard ... institutions continue to commit large amounts of resources...

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COVID-19

... grantees Advocacy Leveraging relationships with city and state officials to voice your support for nonprofit grantees' ... advocacy efforts around nonprofit inclusion in federal, state and city relief...

Don’t Forget the Small Guys

Release Date:

07/09/2010

... have admitted to me that they are more likely to fund large, older, “tried and true” nonprofits than to ... relationships are critical to an organization’s performance , yet we cling to authoritarian structures...

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Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

Release Date:

03/10/2017

... Queens Theatre is able to offer affordable, high-quality performance and education programming with support fromSeason ... City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts with...

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Arts

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Con Edison

Bank of America [Corporate]

Kathryn O’Neal-Dunham

... government actors and strengthened partnerships with city, state , and national nonprofit leaders; Ensured that ... University and a Master’s in Public Administration and Health Policy from NYU’s Robert F...

23 Apr 2013

Elder Abuse: How Funders Can Make a Difference — Conversations with GIA

Tuesday, April 23, 2013 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

Webinar

... knowledge about the aging process, systems of care and health care reform, there is now an unprecedented opportunity ...

The Atlantic Philanthropies Introduces 2020 Fellows for Racial Equity

Release Date:

08/03/2020

... impactful change. Today – in the wake of the unfolding health and economic crises exacerbated by COVID-19, and the ...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Henry Street Settlement Debuts Neighborhood Center in Historic Firehouse with Support from The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

Release Date:

10/29/2019

... etc.), affordable housing counseling, employment services, health insurance enrollment and legal services. There’s ... The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, New York State Regional Economic Council’s...

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Community Development

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William Simon President Questions Motives of "Liberal" Foundations Working To Advance Democracy

Release Date:

07/23/2014

... for Women, the National Council of La Raza, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Environmental Defense Fund and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund . According to ... in charge, and every...

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Arts

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Gender Justice

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

The Rockefeller Foundation

Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

Release Date:

07/03/2017

... leader in philanthropic advocacy to ensure more and better resources for this field. Previously, Nicky served as the ... president of development and communications at the Global Fund for Women, a public...

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Social Justice

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Foundation for a Just Society

Ford Foundation Launches Effort To Diversify Art Museum Leadership

Release Date:

11/29/2017

Walton Foundation and Ford Foundation announced today they are each committing $3 million over three years to support creative solutions to diversify curatorial and management staff at art museums across the United States.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces $100,000 to Promote a Fair and Accurate Census 2020

Release Date:

06/14/2018

... communities of African descent to increase fair access to resources and political power. The New York Immigration ... foundations funding Census 2020 organizing across New York State , to bring greater...

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Civic Engagement

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Brooklyn Org

Six NYC Scientists Win Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research

Release Date:

05/08/2017

... to understand the main mechanism that hinders the immune system ’s ability to fight the growth of ovarian tumors. ... social investments across a number of fields, including health and medicine, education,...

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Looking at IRS 990 Forms

Publication date:

03/2012

Participants learned what information can be gleaned from the 990 form and what has changed within the form since prior years.

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Finance Staff

Grants Managers

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Finance & Asset Management

30 Mar 2016

The IRS Form 990 as a Tool for Understanding Organizational Capacity

Wednesday, March 30, 2016 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... grantmakers to understand their grantees’ financial health and how it connects to overall organizational ... capacity. The session will address the financial health and organizational capacity of individual...