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Documents Show NYC’s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records Requests Over Past 3 Years

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10/05/2017

Documents Show NYC’ s Education Department Failed to Answer 526 Public Records ... sent an intriguing public records request to the city’ s Department of Education. “Under the Freedom of ... I request all e-mail...

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

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10/06/2017

... around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’ s Youth Arts Initiative. The initiative is based on Something to Say, a 2013 study of successful arts-focused organizations that ... larger, generalist...

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander as President

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02/07/2018

... have elected Elizabeth Alexander to be the Foundation’ s next President, effective March 2018. Alexander will succeed Earl Lewis, who has served as President since 2013 . Alexander, a renowned writer, poet, and...

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Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’s Board of Trustees

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06/06/2018

Heather Gerken Joins Mellon Foundation’ s Board of Trustees The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced ... commitment to educational access and the liberal arts. We are delighted to welcome her to the Mellon board...

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Hospitals: We Want Billions Back if Obamacare Dismantled

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02/10/2017

... message for Washington: if you dismantle the Affordable Care Act, we want the billions in funding we received before the law was enacted. WSJ' s Melanie Evans explains on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. .....

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ASPCA Steps in to Rescue Piglets, Llamas, Cats, Dogs From Mendocino Complex Fire

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08/09/2018

... Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) joined members of Lake County Care and Control to rescue and shelter more than 2,500 ... state history as of Monday. Responders from both agencies are checking individual residences...

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Animal Welfare

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Scott Stringer Unveils Transition Team

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11/18/2013

... appointed as co-chair of Comptroller-elect Scott Stringer' s transition team. Its members include Lisa Garcia Quiroz, ... Stringer appointed Ana Oliveira, president of the New York Women ’ s...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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$50-Million from Goldman Sachs Seeds Fund for Businesswomen

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03/05/2014

... money for the venture, which builds on the banking giant’ s 10,000 Women venture to provide business education in developing countries. The World Bank’ s International Finance Corporation is...

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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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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 justice movements – and ...

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U.S. Trust Surveys 1,435 U.S. High Net Worth Households on Attitudes Toward Giving

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11/21/2016

U. S . Trust Surveys 1,435 U. S . High Net Worth Households on ... three years as they have in the past. These percentages are even higher among women , African-Americans and...

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Video: At Rockefeller, Actor Robin Wright on Negotiating Equal Pay on ‘House of Cards’

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05/25/2016

... for gender equality and to put a stop to violence against women and children. On our first dialogue, Robin joined us ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama's Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap

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08/31/2017

Ivanka Trump Supports Rollback Of Obama' s Policy To Close Gender Pay Gap Ivanka Trump, who came into her father’ s administration vowing to fight for women in the workplace, has blessed a...

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Ms. Foundation President and CEO Teresa C. Younger on MSNBC

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12/21/2017

... and holding people accountable when they don’t treat all women with respect. Ms. Foundation President and CEO Teresa ...

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The New York Community Trust

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The New York Community Trust Issues A Request for Proposals (RFP) Focused on Programs Serving Immigrant Youth

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05/08/2018

... for programs that serve immigrant girls and young women as well as immigrant LGBTQ young people are encouraged. You can download the RFP here . Proposals are due on May 24th. The New York...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Aligns Investments with Mission: Diversifying Investment Managers

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03/31/2020

... of its endowment holdings with firms majority-owned by women and/or people of color. As of December 2019, approximately 12 percent of the Fund' s endowment is invested with firms led by women...

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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. ... More recently, this discussion—in the Ford Foundation’ s halls and throughout our sector—has...

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