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Alliance Building in a Hyper-partisan Environment

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02/25/2022

... more than ever, we are a deeply polarized country. It’ s difficult to imagine our elected officials agreeing on ... has made a bipartisan compromise on a range of policy issues more challenging. Yet, to...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Public Policy

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Stephen McConnell Appointed Country Director for the United States at The Atlantic Philanthropies

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09/03/2012

... In this position, McConnell will oversee all of Atlantic’ s U. S . programmes—including work focused on Aging, Children ... Association, including as its Vice President for Public Policy and D...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Aging

Children, Youth and Families

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Welcomes Michael Burke as New Chief Operating Officer

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01/02/2012

... , the largest charitable fund in New York City’ s most populous borough, has announced the appointment of ... and experience will help the Foundation to build the resources and attract the investments we need...

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17 Oct 2011

Environmental Justice in NYC: Successful Advocacy for Sustainable Policy Change

Monday, October 17, 2011 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

By the year 2000, more than 80% of the City’ s trash was sent to four of the city’ s 59 community ... Environmental Justice Alliance . Eric Goldstein , Natural Resources Defense Council . Peter...

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10 Nov 2011

The Common Core: NYC’s Department of Education and the New York State Education Department Bringing It Back to the Classroom

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -

1:30pm to 5:00pm

... Standards was a central piece of New York State’ s successful Race to the Top application, which brought $700 ... evaluation to the Common Core How parents and the broader public can support implementation of...

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TCC Group Welcomes Two New Partners

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09/15/2016

... Chief Financial Officer for TCC Group. She is a Certified Public Accountant who began her career as an auditor with ... worked with nonprofit boards and Executive Directors on issues including mission,...

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30 Sep 2025

BBB® Forum on Corporate Responsibility XVIII - Meeting the Moment: Trending Topics in Business Responsibility

Tuesday, September 30, 2025 -

12:30pm to 2:30pm

... leaders about how they approach emerging responsibility issues and find new opportunities to drive business value. ... and advisers; marketing and communications officers; public affairs leaders and advisers;...

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Tools & Strategies

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Webinar/Teleconference

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All Funders

Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

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07/2005

... advocacy can play a crucial role in advancing a foundation' s mission. In this guide, contributors explain that advocacy includes a lot of opportunities to improve public policy through work that is well within the limits of ... a position, or enrich the policy debate, the guide offers resources and strategies for planning your work, reaching .....

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Philanthropy as Field Builder

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04/25/2013

... series of Rockefeller Foundation President Judith Rodin’ s reflections on the unique strengths and enduring lessons of ... on the hardest parts of the work so that the private and public sectors can crowd in...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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The New York Women’s Foundation Honors DeAnna Hoskins, President & CEO of JustLeadershipUSA, and Bryan Stevenson, Founder & Executive Director of The Equal Justice Initiative, at 2019 Radical Generosity Dinner

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10/08/2019

The New York Women’ s Foundation Honors DeAnna Hoskins, President & CEO of ... by addressing individual and family needs. Acclaimed public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson is the founder and ... women and...

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Is Universal Voting an Idea Whose Time is Coming?

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11/17/2022

... of perpetual trench warfare about whether we move forward toward a fully inclusive democracy, or backward toward one ... While universal voting has not been part of the American public debate...

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Internet to Newspapers: Drop Dead—A Program Recap with Nicholas Lemann and Victor Pickard

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06/12/2009

... Dean and Henry R. Luce Professor at Columbia University’ s Graduate School of Journalism, and Victor Pickard , a ... is for original, independent news reporting on matters of public importance. Opinion,...

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JPMorgan Chase Announces $75 Million Commitment to Help Close the Racial Wealth Divide in Greater Washington

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01/25/2022

... are drawn from critical lessons learned from the firm’ s business growth and community investments in the ... inequities requires concerted and sustained efforts by public and private sector partners that seek...

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Community Development

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Research for a 21st Century Child Welfare System

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03/24/2022

Research for a 21st Century Child Welfare System By: Lauren Supplee, Senior Program Officer, William T. Grant Foundation, Geoff Cloepfil, Administrative Specialist, Research Services, Casey Family Programs, and Krik O'Brien, Senior...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Long Haul: Lessons from Charitable Responses to Previous Disasters

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09/05/2017

... Trust Leadership Fellows, Baruch College, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs While countless media ... And Susan Dell on September 2 announced their foundation’ s pledge of $36 million ...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

Philanthropy’s Best

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Disaster Relief

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The New York Community Trust

Bloomberg Announces $200M American Cities Initiative to Help U.S. Cities Innovate, Solve Problems, & Work Together

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06/26/2017

... Announces $200M American Cities Initiative to Help U. S . Cities Innovate, Solve Problems, & Work Together In an ... to Washington D.C.’ s deepening disengagement on urban issues to the...

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... on the scale and scope of the challenges America’ s incarceration crisis presents. While it seems that federal ... for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’ s still possible to take meaningful...

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Justice Reform

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Commonwealth Fund: Why the Graham-Cassidy Repeal Bill Is Unworkable

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09/25/2017

... Repeal Bill Is Unworkable As Republicans rush toward a precipitous vote on the Graham-Cassidy ... one issue needs a lot more attention: even last night’ s version of the bill won’t work. Graham-Cassidy would,...

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Health

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The Commonwealth Fund

What It Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives

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05/19/2021

... leader. They shared from their perspectives what they view as funder “best practices” that had been beneficial ... Funders need to double down and add on general support resources during leadership transitions...

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