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11/20/2014 - Today’s Libraries - Live Stream Recording and Presentations

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11/2014

View the materials and livestream recording of the program, "Today’s Libraries: Community Anchors for Innovative Digital Media Learning, Makerspaces, and After-school Programming."

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William T. Grant Foundation Welcomes Two New Staff Members

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01/11/2022

... for Black students. “We are very fortunate to have attracted the high caliber of experience and expertise that both of our new teammates bring to their roles,” said Senior Vice President of Program, Vivian...

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $16.8 Million for Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

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02/01/2025

... across 27 states. An additional $2.1 million will fund student emergency aid programs at seven colleges in the ... in crisis while equipping partner organizations with the resources needed to deliver aid...

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Community Development

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New Report From the Silicon Valley Community Foundation Probes Tech Use Among Young Kids in Silicon Valley

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03/06/2018

... data limits, and more broken computers and devices than their white and Asian-Pacific Islander counterparts. More ... uses digital media because they worry that families do not have access at home. And mixed...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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UJA-Federation To Launch Largest Anti-Poverty Push In Its History

Release Date:

01/31/2018

... one-stop social-service approach is back this time as a way to fight the stubborn problem of Jewish poverty. Even as ... the array of social services offered by UJA-Federation agencies , with the improved food...

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UJA-Federation of New York

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Food Systems

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New York’s Graduation Rate Could Drop Under New Federal Education Law

Release Date:

10/05/2017

... provision in the new federal education law. The Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, requires states to count only ... by a “preponderance” of students or honors diplomas in their federal graduation rate. It’s...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

13 Apr 2022

Thinking Outside of the Box to Address Today’s Challenges

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... two years, the crises of COVID-19 and racial injustice have injected new urgency into our work, new technologies ... times by embracing new ways of thinking and challenging their operating norms. What will you...

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HR & Operations Staff

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

06 Jun 2013

Community Food Funders Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System: Fostering Equity and Adaptation in a Post-Sandy World

Thursday, June 6, 2013 -

8:30am to 10:00am

... community-based organizations for help. While government agencies have begun rebuilding, there are still significant barriers ... the most marginalized communities in accessing available resources...

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Michelle A. Adams and Stephen Berger Elected to United Hospital Fund Board

Release Date:

06/24/2014

... Fund Board Michelle A. Adams and Stephen Berger have joined the United Hospital Fund Board. Adams, ... Corporation, and, earlier, chairman and CEO of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. From 1985 to 1990, he...

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Two Changes in Executive Team at Carnegie Corporation of New York

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02/04/2020

... Trish Callahan joins the foundation as chief human resources officer, bringing more than 25 years of human resources leadership to the role, most recently with The ... the greater New York City area. Her...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints New Managing Directors

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02/01/2012

... has announced that Nancy Kete, Scott Leeb, and John Irons have been appointed to the role of Managing Director. Nancy ... Foundation. “They bring significant expertise in their field, a passion to make the...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education

Release Date:

07/30/2015

... recent years, thousands of New York City school children have been disciplined through exclusion from school, ... system. Even one suspension in the 9th grade doubles a student ’s chances of later dropping out...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

Release Date:

06/10/2021

... By contrast, the cornerstone of racial equity is sharing resources and decision-making power in a way that ... together – white people and people of color. We all have a place in this work...

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Walter Panzirer, Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Trustee Shares Rural Healthcare Program's Telehealth Support During COVID-19

Release Date:

11/17/2020

... specialists and emergency room doctors, hampering their efforts to seek treatment for complex concerns. ... to rethink the need for in-person meetings, physicians have turned to telehealth to provide high-...

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Toward a New Gospel of Wealth

Release Date:

10/01/2015

... For my colleagues and me, these past 15 months have entailed both deep introspection about this privilege ... First of all, no one in philanthropy has the independent resources to solve our collective problems...

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Community Development

Economic Security

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Ford Foundation

Ending New York’s Summer Jobs Depression

Release Date:

02/12/2015

... enough job opportunities to meet the demand, we also have to make improving the quality of these jobs a priority. ... training aligns with real job skills that are needed in their communities. With ...

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Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Boutiques for the People

Release Date:

09/27/2016

... “high-touch” – programs that cannot be scaled up in their full form. It's certainly understandable that ... of Newark. The program launched in fall 2015 and aims to have Newark residents make up two-...

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