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ASPCA Awards Nearly $7.4 Million In First Half of 2014

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08/08/2014

... ground-breaking work of organizations across the country who can accomplish great things with the financial support we ... law enforcement officers, forensics experts and others who could help identify and...

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Changing the Conversation about Inequality

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09/23/2014

... should feel useful to the practitioners and policymakers who work to address unequal youth outcomes. Consider English language learners (ELLs), who are about nine percent of the nation’s public school ...

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Benjamin Chu Elected Commonwealth Fund Chairman; Mark Smith Elected to Board

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12/10/2014

... Jr., president of the United Hospital Fund of New York, who has served as chairman since 2007 and as a director since ... from Yale University. Mark D. Smith, M.D., who joins The Commonwealth Fund board...

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Try it, You’ll Like It: The Promise of Digital Media

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07/26/2012

... Finally, as Edith, my co-panelists and other participants who have thought about or begun to dip their toes in the ... Mikey in the old Life cereal commercial ( who really didn’t like anything), go “try it...

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Big Gaps in the Big Apple: Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

... in the New York metropolitan area—22 million people who live in the five boroughs of New York City as well as the ... New York lags in terms of the proportion of adults who have completed high school. And the...

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The Art of Inclusion: New York Funders Mobilize to Make the Arts More Accessible

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05/03/2012

... or concert hall have been equipped to accommodate a patron who is blind or hearing impaired? Would any of their ... and their caregivers, they also support millions of people who have “invisible disabilities”...

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Dyson Foundation’s Leadership to Change in June

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03/19/2015

... established and greatly appreciated.” Ms. Gurieva, who will continue to serve the Foundation as an advisor ... the Dyson Foundation going forward than Andrea Reynolds, who has the right mix of talent,...

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Creating Onramps Towards Economic Success – Tackling Youth Unemployment in the U.S.

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06/05/2015

... example, take Miles , a young entrepreneur in Los Angeles who used the business training he received to develop a new ... And then there is Artem , a student in New York City who not only learned the ins and...

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08 Oct 2015

Funding Atrocity Prevention and Response in Iraq - Webinar

Thursday, October 8, 2015 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

... funding landscape in Iraq. On this call, we will discuss who is currently funding atrocity prevention and response, what funders are currently doing and who they are funding, where major funding gaps lie, and...

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15 Jan 2016

The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice: Lessons from the Campaign to End the Racially Biased Marijuana Arrest Crusade in NYC

Friday, January 15, 2016 -

8:30am to 11:30am

... and funders for a discussion with the activists who built the campaign and the elected officials who championed their cause. Explore: The intersection of the ...

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PhilTV: Funders, “Blow People’s Minds” on Gender Norms to Reduce Teen Suicide

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01/15/2016

... City – Recent data from the World Health Organization ( WHO ) shows that suicide has now surpassed maternal mortality ... what’s male; to allow people the flexibility to be who they are, and not feel the...

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NYS Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, Unfiltered

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02/17/2016

... struggling schools. In her discussion with funders, who asked sometimes pointed and challenging questions, she ... into the complicated relationships of the many players who are shaping educational priorities...

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Philanthropic & Social Enterprise Leader Betsy Fader Joins Surdna Foundation

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02/18/2016

... areas, has been appointed Vice President, Programs. Betsy, who will begin on March 30, will report to Surdna's ... one of those rare and creative philanthropic professionals who is both an innovator with...

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Celebrating Black Philanthropy Month and Our Collective History

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08/09/2016

... morning to deliver hot, home-cooked meals to those who didn’t have the means or had no family to share and ... donors. Colleagues and allies outside the Black Diaspora who didn’t realize that Black Americans...

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Helmsley-backed DATA2GO.NYC's Veterans Data Highlighted by Social Science Research Council

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11/11/2016

... officials, policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and others who need data in their work to improve the well-being of New ... poverty, employment, and the proportion of adult veterans who never completed high school...

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After the Election, Building the Beloved Community

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11/23/2016

... is hopelessness : the hopelessness of many millions who expressed themselves with their ballots, and the hopelessness of many millions more who expressed themselves by not voting at all. If we are to ...

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Economic Security

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Debate Your Philanthropic Philosophies

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01/18/2017

... of Jack McCoy in Law and Order. Despite not knowing who our debaters would be for last month’s program ... vs. personal outlook on grantmaking. As someone who has worked on both sides of philanthropy, first at...

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Arcus Foundation

17 May 2017

The Price of Justice: America’s Unfair Bail and Prosecution System

Wednesday, May 17, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... until proven guilty” is only reserved for those who can afford it. Every day, approximately 450,000 people ... prosecutors, judges, and law and order politicians- who are invested in upholding a system that...

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Beth Cobert Named CEO of Skillful at Markle Foundation

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04/25/2017

... on empowering the nearly seven out of ten Americans who don’t have a four-year college degree but have great ... President Obama’s former White House Chief of Staff who joined Markle in February to pursue the...

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