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United Way of New York City Names Elwanda Young as Interim President & CEO

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09/03/2012

... active in community life as a member of both the Black Women for Black Girls Giving Circle and Black Agency ... Journal recognized her as one of 25 Influential Black Women in Business. The United Way of New...

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PNY Members Explore Barriers Placed on Black Girls in School

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02/10/2015

... Girls in School President Obama’s November report on Women and Girls of Color was an important step, inviting ... some attention to the unique obstacles these girls and women face. Girls of color, and African...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

Support from MasterCard Facilitates Launch of the Global Girls Entrepreneurship Project

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03/25/2015

... dedicated programming, specifically designed for young women in high school. Through the program, girls will have ... access to strong female role models and collaborate with women entrepreneurs and corporate...

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AOL Charitable Foundation Joins Others in Event on the STEM Workforce

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11/03/2015

... countries around the world. And yet students, particularly women , are dropping out of STEM at the moment when their ... needed. Just 24 percent of the world's STEM workforce is women and only 10 percent...

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PhilTV This Week: Feb. 3, 2017

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02/07/2017

... Spread the Word About HIV Prevention For African-American Women Nonprofit Shouldn't Mean Nonviable in New York The .....

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Third Wave is Blazing New Trails for Gender Justice

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09/08/2017

... only hold 13% of top leadership positions. And although women comprise 75% of the nonprofit workforce, they make up ... different. The staff and board of Third Wave Fund is 90% women and 70% people of color...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... performed surgical experiments on enslaved black women in the 19th century without their consent and without anesthesia. According to Sims, “black women don’t feel pain.” . . . Opinion: Planned Parenthood ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Quoted in Article on Men’s Salaries in Decline

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09/14/2017

... is part of the reason the gender pay gap is narrowing: Women are earning more, but their male counterparts are ... Sage Foundation, which focuses on poverty research. " Women 's earnings are...

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New Multi-Foundation Matching Fund Recognizes Public Transit’s Importance to Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability

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09/17/2020

Philanthropy has an important role to play in amplifying community-based voices calling for reform and improvement of public transit, instrumental to more just and sustainable cities.

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Weinberg Foundation Approves $400,000 in Emergency Response Funding for 10 Baltimore Nonprofits

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05/14/2015

... strategy for our grantmaking to have even a greater impact in Baltimore City, the Weinberg Foundation wants to ...

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MetLife Releases 2014 Corporate Responsibility Report

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09/23/2015

... corporate responsibility report, highlighting the positive impact it makes on society while achieving its core business ... financial commitments. The report, titled Global Impact , provides a progress update...

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Ford to Dedicate $1B of Endowment to Mission Related Investments

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04/05/2017

... an important, sometimes contested, conversation about “ impact ”—both how we measure it and how we deliver it. ... and throughout our sector—has focused on how to create impact through the capital market,...

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New York City’s Community Foundation Announces $6.5 Million in Grants to 81 Nonprofits

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10/16/2013

... farmers’ market; helps Bard professors teach imprisoned women ; gives dozens of young artists a career boost; builds ...

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Scott Stringer Unveils Transition Team

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11/18/2013

... Stringer appointed Ana Oliveira, president of the New York Women ’s Foundation, and Robert Kasdin, senior executive ...

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Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/15/2014

... Center, Gaskins was Executive Director of the League of Women Voters in Minnesota, where she worked on a wide range ... rights issues, and Executive Director of the Minnesota Women ’s Political Caucus. In 2008...

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$50-Million from Goldman Sachs Seeds Fund for Businesswomen

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03/05/2014

... the venture, which builds on the banking giant’s 10,000 Women venture to provide business education in developing ...

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Andrew W. Mellon Study Examines Demographic Composition of Museum Staff

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08/05/2015

... Study Examines Demographic Composition of Museum Staff Women account for a clear majority of art museum staffs in ...

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With Support from Atlantic and Hartford, Researchers Develop Novel 3-D Imaging Tool

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04/06/2016

... conducted a prospective study of 100 patients (56 percent women ) with biopsy-proven NAFLD to assess the efficacy of ...

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Jerome Foundation Supports 32nd Annual Health and Humanitarian Awards in Genesee County

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10/05/2016

... Medical Center Foundation. It recognizes volunteer men and women of Genesee County who have helped promote emotional, ...

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William T. Grant Foundation Supports Study Examining Student Involvement in Racial Justice Movements

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10/14/2016

... of Chicago and the University of Michigan, finds that women college students are more active than men in racial ...

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