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Why Philanthropy Should Help Strengthen Community Colleges

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04/17/2014

... educated workforce in the U.S. Across the country, high school graduation and college enrollment rates are up but ... are in community colleges Upon graduation from high school , half of NYC public ...

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Mellon Foundation Names Carter Stewart Executive Vice President for Programs

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07/21/2021

... Stewart is a deeply engaged and strategic thinker, and his leadership and richly varied experience have been marked by ... system through his work raising awareness about the school -to-prison pipeline and by...

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21 Oct 2010

Understanding the Educational Trajectories of Young Black Men in New York City

Thursday, October 21, 2010 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

The Open Society Institute, 400 West 59th Street, NYC.

... needed to coordinate and make effective grants, leverage resources , and influence a change agenda to eliminate the ... at transforming the academic trajectory and educational resources for Black males in New...

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Rules and Rituals: How to Drive Change

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07/06/2017

... how to drive major change in the way government works. The conversations were confidential and thus very candid. One ... like marine drill sergeants, call center managers, and school teachers—we’d hear a lot...

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United Way of New York City Names Sheena Wright as New President & CEO

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10/01/2012

... neediest residents, and has demonstrated tremendous leadership and success in delivering on that commitment. I ... commercial and retail space, including the first new high school building in Harlem in 50...

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United Way of New York City

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Ford Foundation Announces New President

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08/22/2013

... ability, deeply committed to our mission and tradition of leadership in the social sector,” said Irene Hirano Inouye, ... in 30 years, and led the development of the first public school built in New York City...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Arts Are A Strategy To Build Racial Equity

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11/15/2016

... City also adopted the first ever Race and Social Justice Initiative in government. In conjunction with Office for Civil Rights (OCR), ARTS has increased our resources and commitment to centering race in all...

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Arts

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

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03/11/2013

... For instance, 21CF initiated an African-Latino Diaspora initiative with the Baobá Fund for Racial Equality in ... action funds. With so many organizations competing for resources , we believe we need to be...

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Success Academy Boss Eva Moskowitz and Charter Leaders Demand Answers on Space Requests from de Blasio

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09/07/2017

... Answers on Space Requests from de Blasio The charter school war grinds on. Success Academy founder Eva Moskowitz ... for failing to respond to requests for space in city school buildings. The school...

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Reframing Accountability as an Act of Humanity

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07/13/2022

... punishment; • Commitment of time and financial resources . While we are firm in our belief that ... gets activated when a group of staff members asks senior leadership for a more emboldened approach to align...

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How Philanthropy Can Help Fix Democracy

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Progress Update on Stavros Niarchos Foundation's €25 Million Grant to the Hellenic Fire Department

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05/06/2019

... citizens, and the preservation of Greece’s natural resources , and to reinforce, at the same time, the ... in July 2018. Following the 2018 catastrophic fires, the leadership of the Fire Department and SNF...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation President & CEO, Cecilia Clarke, Announces Departure

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03/17/2021

... as I pursue a long-standing dream of attending graduate school to study clinical social work. However, my joy is not ... in nonprofits led by people of color and provided critical multi-year general operating...

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How Foundations Can Grapple With the Reality That Their Wealth Was Accumulated Unjustly

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12/05/2019

... home community of Oakland, Calif. Both recognized the critical moment we are confronting and have made the decision to increase spending to move resources into the hands of communities. For Hazen, that .....

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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"Culture Changes Us" Campaign and Retreat Series Launches with Support from Nathan Cummings Foundation

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05/20/2016

... increasingly investing staff time and programmatic resources in projects and initiatives that move people in ... pop culture and movement building, have yielded critical learning opportunities for the...

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Social Justice

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12 Jun 2018

Foundation Administrators Network Meeting: Building Relationships and Successful Networking

Tuesday, June 12, 2018 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... with others and that means conversational skills are critical . Please join for a social networking breakfast event ... for foundation administration, including human resources and operations. Registration 8:45...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants

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11/20/2017

... would face increased demands for services with strained resources . They felt a growing urgency to organize and ... expansion of the NYC IGNITE Fellowship, which trains high school - and college-aged women to...

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Gender Justice

Mellon Foundation Supported New York Historical Society Fellows Announced

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10/21/2015

... their academic careers—provide scholars with material resources and an intellectual community to develop new ... each teach two courses at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts during their year...

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Mellon and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Letras Boricuas - A New Fellowship Aimed at Supporting Puerto Rican Writers Across Genres

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05/12/2021

... President, Elizabeth Alexander . “Mellon’s program initiative and funding in Puerto Rico was one of my first ... the Fund has committed over $10 million and has provided critical support to 541 artists and 106...

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