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Russell Sage Foundation - Gates Foundation Pipeline Grants Awarded to Emerging Scholars

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03/17/2021

... by analyzing the effects of President Woodrow Wilson’ s 1913 directive segregating federal government workers by race. Yaa Akosa Antwi (Johns ... counselors, and social workers in providing financial aid...

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Ending Whack-a-Mole Philanthropy

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10/08/2020

... COVID-19 hit New York City, the epicenter was the city’ s jails on Rikers Island [1] . Advocates called on the ... thereby create - or exacerbate - another problem. It’ s whack-a-mole philanthropy. Dismantling...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

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Disaster Relief

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Leadership for Change: Will, Skill, and Courage

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03/23/2023

... Will to Bring About Real Change Philanthropy New York’ s recently released Strategic Framework is a valuable tool to ... the particular wisdom and knowledge of the group’ s participants. The Public Policy...

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Breaking Down Barriers: Meet the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation's "Open Call" Grantees

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10/25/2023

... Down Barriers: Meet the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation' s "Open Call" Grantees President' s Message from Tanuja Dehne ... in New Jersey. Through their work, they advocate for the ...

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Getting Beyond Philanthropic Colonialism

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11/05/2013

... experts . The thread of comments following Wayan Vota’ s “ Open Letter to Peter Buffett ” is fascinating, albeit ... clearly the complexity of what is going on. Not to do so increases the probabilities of...

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Newly Created Heckscher Foundation Workforce Development Grants Aim to Create More Than 1,100 Full-Time Jobs in New York

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07/19/2023

... and receive the training required for success in today’ s workforce. The Heckscher Foundation’ s unique initiative is a transformative grant model for work ... students need to be retrained, increasing the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Supporting Leaders of Color? Insights from “Showing Up to Share Power: A Conversation with Building Movement Project”

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05/09/2022

... is crucial, especially given that over 80% of U. S . nonprofits are currently led by white Executive Directors ... an internal pipeline of future leaders. Additional Resources : As philanthropy continues to...

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Updated: Government Shutdown: What It Means for Nonprofits

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10/01/2013

... in on the government shutdown during Independent Sector’ s annual conference. Big swaths of the federal government have closed shop because Congress failed ...

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Alliance For Justice Puts "Scary" Nominees Onscreen

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11/08/2017

... that the scariest thing on our radar was Donald Trump’ s raft of federal judicial nominees. While the threat these nominees ...

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Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

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05/12/2015

... thinking.” Staten Island, one of New York City’ s five boroughs, is a 7 by 14 mile-Island located in New York ... Atlantic Ocean. Representing just 6% of New York City’ s total population, Staten Island’...

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Children, Youth and Families

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For Funders Focusing on Developing Countries, Impact Bonds Present Fresh Opportunities

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08/04/2016

... roles for foundations outlined by Social Finance U. S . in 2014—building capacity of service providers, ... as outcome funders in the two DIBs: the Children’ s Investment Fund Foundation is the outcome funder...

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Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... is not to find a better cookie cutter. Rather, it’ s to put the cookie cutter away. The Opportunity by Design ... quiz, but instead on a portfolio demonstrating a student' s exploration of a topic,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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The Fight Over Immigrants and Refugees Is Going to Intensify. Here's What Foundations Need to Do

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03/06/2018

... Over Immigrants and Refugees Is Going to Intensify. Here' s What Foundations Need to Do by Daranee Perstod , President, ... geography and issue area—and affirmed our nation’ s highest ideals of fairness,...

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Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees

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Five Reasons to #PressforProgress and Develop More Female Health Leaders

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03/08/2018

... is largely dominated by women. On International Women’ s Day, we must #PressforProgress to have more women in the ... the health sector, especially in parts of the world where resources and opportunities are...

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Responding to Change: A Look at Strategies Helping Wildlife and People Adapt to Shifting Climates

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03/28/2018

... tremendous ripple effects—helping increase water’ s availability to wildlife, expanding riparian habitat and ... often lead to rain rather than snow, decreasing wildlife’ s access to water in warmer months...

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World Education Services Mariam Assefa Fund Supports Launch of Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative in Philadelphia

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01/15/2020

... for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’ s Office of Workforce Development, announced today an ... strategy that aims to prepare Philadelphians for today’ s jobs and tomorrow’ s...

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