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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

Release Date:

11/08/2013

... Mental Hygiene indicate that 9 out of 10 New Yorkers eat fewer than the recommended five servings of fruits and ... in the process provide job-readiness skills and employment opportunities for youth. With very...

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International/Foreign Affairs

Data-Driven Gender Equality

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09/15/2017

... agriculture, meanwhile, could have an even more profound impact on families and productivity in the developing world. Today, for example, women make up nearly half of the agricultural workforce in ... access...

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Gender Justice

Rockefeller Report Cited by Geena Davis at United Nations Convening

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03/13/2015

... of female characters in entertainment media for young children can be changed overnight, saying: “We don’t have ... shows “disturbing” results of how “profoundly fewer ” female characters are in family movies...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Communications/Media

Gender Justice

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Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of Changing Minds

Publication date:

07/2005

... contributors explain that advocacy includes a lot of opportunities to improve public policy through work that is ... a position, or enrich the policy debate, the guide offers resources and strategies for planning your work, reaching your audience, assessing impact , and more. Advocacy Funding: The Philanthropy of ...

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05 Nov 2014

Should Nonprofits Be Mandated to Pay Living Wages, and What is Philanthropy’s Role?

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

Missed the program? View resources and the live recording here . Leaders in ... sponsored by The New York Community Trust , The New York Women ’s Foundation and PNY’s Funders of Women and Girl...

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William T. Grant Foundation Website Gets New Look

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07/01/2014

... information about their work and discussing issues that impact America's young people. The redesigned site also features funding opportunities from the foundation and posts current ... to advance theory,...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

Education

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William T. Grant Foundation

Supporting Grantee Capacity: Strengthening Effectiveness Together

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02/2015

... including investment approaches, appraisal of funding opportunities from the standpoints of opportunity assessment ... capacity, funder-grantee power dynamics, and assessing impact . It blends data from interviews, focus groups, a ... accompanied by a curated collection of capacity-building resources from around the field. Supporting Grantee Capacity: ...

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... one of these organizations provided me with life-changing opportunities that might not have been available to the son ... It’s true: small organizations are more likely to struggle with infrastructure issues,...

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10 May 2012

Strengthening All Families: Spotlight on LGBT Families of Color

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... create significant challenges for LGBT families of color. Children of color are more likely to be raised by de facto ... parents. As a result, antiquated laws that only protect children with legal ties to...

17 Nov 2010

If Not Superman, Who? Confronting Systemic Inequity in Education

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... While these films vividly show needs and denied opportunities , they address less clearly the systemic ... students different access to educational opportunity, resources , and effective teaching – differential...

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As National Momentum Grows, Advocates’ Voices Ring Out On Capitol Hill

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12/19/2012

... in their schools. As one youth leader of Innercity Struggle explained to me, “There are four tracks in our ... about the so-called “training schools” where their children were sent for minor behavior...

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Borealis Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations Moves $2.5 Million to Trans-Led Organizations

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07/12/2022

... Philanthropy’s Fund for Trans Generations (FTG) proudly resources trans-led organizations that are building futures ... United States, representing its largest annual grantmaking budget to date. Of grants...

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LGBTQ

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Understanding Risk Tolerance in Grantmaking

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08/10/2015

... situations, which can be hard to detect and even harder to change. Understanding decision-making patterns ... avoid risk and loss while seeking certainty and gain can impact sensible decision-making. Research...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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A New Way Forward: Bringing an Equity Lens to the Work of Reducing the Influence of Money in Our Democracy

Publication date:

12/2015

... the issues we address: most notably, communities of color, women , and young people. Piper believes that if we grow the ... and infrastructure needs? The report also includes resources and links to readings to help funders think further ...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

David Blumenthal, President of The Commonwealth Fund On How the New U.S. Tax Plan Will Affect Health Care

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12/21/2017

... the so-called individual mandate, and the bill’s overall impact on the federal deficit — which will increase by an ... healthy to exit the market According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the repeal...

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Economic Security

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The Commonwealth Fund

As NYC Museums Reopen, $1.5 Million in Grants from Rockefeller Brothers Fund Aims to Build Back a More Equitable Cultural Sector

Release Date:

09/22/2020

... and other projects that provide greater visibility and opportunities for artists who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color, as well as for women and LGBTQ artists, whose work continues to be ... networks,...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Arts

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Grantmakers Should Seize the Moment to Support Racial-Justice Solutions

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10/10/2014

... and political interests have become further entrenched and harder to decipher, let alone challenge. Against this ... on the ground. Throughout the country there are opportunities to invest in building stronger...

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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Social Justice

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12 Oct 2017

ESSA: How Much Will it Change School Testing, Equity, Diversity and Discipline Practices?

Thursday, October 12, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

When President Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 to replace its controversial predecessor the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), each state was given more power and tasked with producing its own framework for...

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Philanthropy & Social Sector Leadership at a Time of Crisis

Release Date:

06/10/2020

... where foundations spend a little more and nonprofits struggle to meet a surge in demand. Further, as a sector we ... the wealth of field knowledge, civic capital and financial resources amassed over a century...

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