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20 Jun 2023

Cannabis, Communities and Real-World Reparations: What Funders Need to Know about How It’s Playing Out

Tuesday, June 20, 2023 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... intentions of New York’s cannabis legislation and the resources necessary to give justice-impacted communities a ... as a top priority, will have more information about the resources necessary to truly provide...

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Issue-Based

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Livestream

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All Funders

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

13 Nov 2013

Where is Opportunity in America? - New York Index Launch

Wednesday, November 13, 2013 -

3:00pm to 6:00pm

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Each year, Opportunity Nation releases new data for the Opportunity Index , the nation’s only ... Opportunity Nation at a briefing that will feature new data from the Opportunity Index and a solutions-oriented ...

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Issue-Based

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

Community Development

Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)

Release Date:

03/18/2016

... sometimes divisive deliberations. According to federal data , the number of such deaths has hovered at around 1,500 ... annually in recent years. But citing gaps in how this data is compiled, the report...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs

JPB Foundation Measures Bike-Share Equity in the U.S.

Release Date:

04/26/2016

... misses several important points. Most critiques highlight data showing that low-income people and people of color are ... is inequitable and inherently questionable. While the data is accurate, the conclusion...

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Member News

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Community Development

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Freedom Together Foundation

Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments

Release Date:

08/24/2016

... they are unlikely to meet their financial targets. New data show that while foundations increased their spending in ... executive of Commonfund Institute, which gathered the data ... Carnegie's Kim Lew...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Supported by Simons Foundation, Study Finds Genetics, Early Term Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity

Release Date:

09/02/2016

... Ultrasound Linked to Autism Severity The researchers used data from the Simons Simplex Collection autism genetic ... by the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative. The data was derived from 2,644...

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Health

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The Simons Foundation

New York Stem Cell Foundation HQ is a Linchpin for Biotech

Release Date:

05/05/2017

The New York Stem Cell Foundation's $22 million, 40,000-square-foot headquarters on West 54th Street, which opened last month, represents founder and CEO Susan L. Solomon's grand effort to turn the Far West Side into the city's newest biotech hub.

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Health

Science

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The New York Stem Cell Foundation

Student Absences Are About to Have Higher Stakes In Most States. Will Cheating Follow?

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... the risk that schools will try to manipulate that data . But it’s unclear how effectively states have prepared ... or have systems in place to accurately monitor absenteeism data at all. “It’s human nature,...

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Education

Capital One Invests $3 Million to Fund Machine Learning Research at University of Maryland

Release Date:

12/15/2017

... One is allowing the university to pursue research in data analytics, machine learning and cybersecurity. ... announced a partnership to develop a workforce pipeline in data analytics, machine learning and...

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Member News

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Capital One Foundation

The Heumann Perspective: Ford Foundation

Release Date:

01/05/2018

Ford Foundation Senior Fellow and human & disability rights advocate Judy Heumann investigates how our grantmakers are including a disability lens in their areas of work.

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Member News

Video

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Disabilities

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Ford Foundation

The Annie E. Casey Foundation Issues Report on Undercount of Young Kids in 2020 Census

Release Date:

06/29/2018

... census, as the Foundation released the 2018 KIDS COUNT® Data Book, its annual look at child well-being in the United States. In this year’s Data Book, the Foundation noted that about 4.5 million young ...

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Member News

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Census 2020

Children, Youth and Families

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The Annie E. Casey Foundation

NYCT Gives $5.6M For New Efforts to Stop Domestic Violence, Protect First Amendment Rights, Build Young Leaders and More

Release Date:

04/12/2017

... owners connect to energy-efficiency and affordable housing resources through its Help Desk service. New York University ...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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The New York Community Trust

A Big Move to Build Our Community

... PNY moved to Times Square in 2015, the new space was a big improvement – with more meeting spaces for our members and ... “serve as a connector of people, institutions, ideas and resources , as well as a...

Beyond Grantmaking: Foundations as Impact Investors

Release Date:

05/12/2014

... even combined with governments, don’t have the resources to solve the world’s pressing problems alone – ...

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Insights

Topic(s)

Impact Investing

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The Rockefeller Foundation

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

Release Date:

09/17/2014

... The danger for us in thinking about Heron’s financial resources as “assets” is that we stay stuck in the old ... how we’d like it to be, and then it will be a continuous improvement process, just as it is for...

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Insights

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Impact Investing

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Women on the Front Lines of ACA Implementation

Release Date:

03/28/2014

... leading community efforts to link women and families to resources that can help them through the enrollment process. ...

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Ms. Foundation for Women

Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

Release Date:

05/12/2015

Betsy Dubovsky, Executive Director of The Staten Island Foundation, discusses Staten Island's unique challenges and opportunities.

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Insights

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Health

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The Staten Island Foundation

Philanthropy Should Focus on the Assets of Aging

Release Date:

04/22/2016

Teresa Bonner at Aroha Philanthropies says it’s time for America to put the brakes on our national obsession with youth and our dismissal of the potential of older adults.