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Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

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02/17/2017

... serve as a member of its Board of Trustees. A renowned public interest lawyer, Stevenson is founder and executive ... Initiative, which seeks to strengthen the system of public defense and protect the rights...

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Recordings of Philanthropy New York's 45th Annual Meeting - Power With: Building A Shared Future

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05/2024

AM24 Banner - no date.png Watch the recordings from our 45th Annual ... our shared future through the lens of power: In what ways do we name and make visible the various forms of power in ... The Wright Group NY Marlon Williams , Vice President of Public Policy and Collaboration, Philanthropy New York ...

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Open Society Foundations, Foundation for a Just Society, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Create Group Initiative to Support Women's Funds

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11/20/2019

... firm. Women’s funds have received significant new resources from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Global ... in recent years. However, the vast majority of these resources are used to support grassroots...

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Gender Justice

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Funds New Justice in Education Initiative

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05/07/2015

... and students in prison and jail education. To change public and political thinking about the importance of access ... Washington Post last month. This summer, the Heyman Center Public Humanities Initiative...

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Education

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Mellon Foundation

Bloomberg and WHO Present Report on Global Road Safety

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10/20/2015

... for people from the ages of 15 to 29. We know this is a public health challenge with clear solutions. And we know what ... the road. At a joint press conference today, the World Health...

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Erik Estrada Joins Andrus Family Fund

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12/14/2015

... from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s New Jersey Health Initiatives (NJHI) in Camden New Jersey. He has ... New Jersey organizations working at the intersection of health and social issues including for...

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United Hospital Fund's Jim Tallon to Step Down in Second Half of 2017

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06/23/2016

... and UHF’s impressive work to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker.” About the United ... : United Hospital Fund works to build a more effective health care system for every New Yorker...

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JPB Foundation Funded Study Shows More Than Half Of US Children Will Be Obese By 35

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11/30/2017

... according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health . The study also found that excess weight in childhood ... programmer/analyst at Harvard Chan School’s Center for Health...

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Report from Commonwealth Fund Finds Patient Worry About Out-of-Pocket Healthcare Costs at All-Time High

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05/17/2018

... individuals ages 50 to 64, women, and individuals with health problems. Each of these demographics saw serious ...

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New York Community Trust Staff, Irfan Hasan and Anna Silvera, Promoted

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02/11/2021

... for grants made from The Trust’s program for health , behavioral health , and biomedical research, as well as oversee more than ... equitable, and thriving community for all. It is a public...

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19 Aug 2013

Conversations for Grantmakers: Crowdfunding, PEAKS & Gathering to Give

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12:00pm to 1:00pm

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Many public charity grantmakers are using crowdfunding techniques ... like-minded individuals to pool their charitable resources and support causes they espouse has become a ... Community Foundation of Tompkins...

Useful Skills for Grantmakers

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06/2012

... the following additional skill areas may be useful: Public Relations Government Affairs Community Relations ...

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Century Foundation Fellow in NYTimes OpEd: Strong Unions Equals Strong Democracy

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01/12/2016

... a decision later this year that would significantly weaken public sector labor unions. By stripping these unions of key financial resources — their fair share of fees provided by nonmembers ... democracy work...

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Nicky McIntyre Begins Tenure as CEO of Foundation for a Just Society

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07/03/2017

... where she oversaw one of the world’s largest public funds that supports the rights of women, girls, and ... leader in philanthropic advocacy to ensure more and better resources for this field. Previously,...

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Foundation for a Just Society

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Social Justice

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UN Secretary-General Taps UN Special Envoy Michael R. Bloomberg to Lead Climate Finance Leadership Initiative

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09/27/2018

... $100 billion per year by 2020 through a combination of public development finance and private foreign direct investment. “Mobilizing resources from the public and private sectors is critical...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Gives Grant for State-of-the-Art Computer Science Building at Ben-Gurion University

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06/29/2023

... to leverage its expertise in desert-tech, cyber-tech, and health -tech for innovative R&D. Inspired by our location in ... and Eilat | 6 faculties: humanities & social sciences, health sciences,...

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25 Jun 2018

Unpacking Nutrition Education – Why It Matters for NYC Students

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

School gardening, hands-on cooking, food justice education, health literacy - by any name nutrition education is more ... operate. How can the funding community best leverage its resources and influence to achieve...

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Pfizer, Global Partners Announce Donation of 500 Millionth Dose of Azithromycin, Marking Progress to Help Alleviate the Suffering from Trachoma

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11/16/2015

... eye disease that can lead to permanent blindness as a public health threat by the year 2020. Today, delegations from ... 75 million people at risk, and the Federal Ministry of Health is...

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