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Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander is one of the TIME 100 most influential people of 2022

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05/26/2022

... , an educator, and an intellectual, but most of all , she’s a visionary. In her six books of poetry, ... Alexander is an explorer who’s constantly finding new ways to tell the stories of Black America. And...

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United Hospital Fund Announces Seven Health Care Professionals Chosen for Pediatric Fellowship Program

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05/25/2022

... Care Professionals Chosen for Pediatric Fellowship Program NEW YORK, NY—May 25, 2021—United Hospital Fund (UHF) ... Children’s Jisha Jacob, MD Primary Care Pediatrician NYC Health + Hospitals/North Central...

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01 Jun 2016

Investing in Independence Through Supportive Housing

Wednesday, June 1, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... and aging. Supportive housing has proliferated in New York and nationwide because it stabilizes the most ... want to continue living independently but lack financial resources and family support networks How...

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What More Can We Do?

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02/03/2021

... In February 2020, as the first cases were reported in New York City, our staff and Board came together to begin ... and who had been systematically denied the material resources to buffer them from the...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Ai-jen Poo to Board of Trustees

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06/19/2017

... work with Filipina domestic workers at CAAAV, she helped create Domestic Workers United (DWU), an organization promoting the rights and dignity of all domestic workers in New York. In 2010,...

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TED: Exceptional Media and Ideas for Change

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05/28/2013

... belief that sharing ideas can be transformative, and can create real change. Notably, it’s also founded on the ... central to TED’s growth and success. Fourth, we are all competing for eyeballs and attention (...

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RE.invest Initiative to Partner With Eight Cities to Develop Resilient Stormwater Systems

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05/29/2013

... effort to help municipalities rethink the way they design, plan , implement and finance infrastructure. In the aftermath ... finance urban infrastructure. By helping cities use public resources more efficiently...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Cuomo Says Penn’s ‘Summer Of Hell’ Was Prevented

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08/31/2017

... communication, and execution of our mitigation plan and the LIRR saw its best on-time performance of the ... who got it done and proved that when we have the right resources , management, and cooperation at...

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Design and Health: Back Together Again?

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06/21/2017

... Together Again? By Nupur Chaudhury, Program Officer, The New York State Health Foundation Having worked at the ... Design’s Lisa Creighton. I’m proud to say that the New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth...

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Listening, Learning and Taking Action: Our Journey to Advance Racial Equity

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03/09/2022

... words in a press release. We agreed to commit substantial resources . The question was: how and where? Typical for an ... were chosen to form the initial PALN core group, but our plan was to offer public...

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The Pinkerton Foundation

Let’s Address the Real Reason Great Fundraisers Are in Short Supply

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01/27/2023

... schedules, remote work options, and retirement funds. All of these are important human- resources practices and should be offered to every staff ... lines of race and class. The same racist systems that...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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Unlocking the Power of Co-Leadership: Part Two of A Candid Conversation with Rebecca Tye and Camaro West, Co-Executive Directors of Peace is Loud

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12/08/2023

... needs to ask itself a series of questions, ‘What are the resources that we have to put behind this?’ And, beyond ... else have we learned along the way? Rebecca: Don't create a co-leadership model where...

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Asian American Leaders In A Moment Of Pride And Peril - Featuring Don Chen, Surdna Foundation and Taryn Higashi, Unbound Philanthropy

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06/30/2020

... economic policies, public narratives, and the social and cultural patterns of a place. I found great purpose there, ... is my sixth job here. Over the years, I’ve helped create new organizing...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

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10/19/2016

... flying. NGOs working in these regions attempting to get resources to where they’re needed are often met with a ... NGOs, foundations, and government in an attempt to create a comprehensive plan...

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Loren Harris of the Nathan Cummings Foundation and Don Chen at Ford, Weigh In On The 7 Deadly Sins of Philanthropy

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03/15/2018

... survey I conducted of senior philanthropic leaders across all type of foundations—from the small and local to the ... taught that the rigor comes from researchers in a dominant cultural model that’s university...

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08 Oct 2015

Making Space for Tinkering, Design-Thinking and Technology in Education

Thursday, October 8, 2015 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... Explore: The educational benefits of encouraging youth to create , tinker and learn-by-doing in an unstructured, ... Leah Gilliam (Moderator), Director, Mozilla Hive NYC Learning Network Designed for ...

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Beyond the Glass Cliff: Reimagining Executive Transitions in the Sector

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04/06/2023

... critical to making this a reality. I am here to work with all of you – and many who are not yet part of our ... Glass Cliff, and what they did - and continue to do - is create the conditions and environment...

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While Announcing Main Branch Renovations, NYPL Notes Mid-Manhattan Library to Be Renamed for Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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11/16/2017

... At a Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday evening, The New York Public Library revealed the $317 million master plan that will guide the renovation of the iconic Stephen A. ... was developed by Dutch...

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For Family Foundations, Family Ties and Good Governance Work Together

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05/30/2017

... spotlights several common practices and structures that all seven multigenerational family foundations have embraced ... group of equals; Planning for specific processes to select new family board members as...

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