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12 Nov 2019

Disability 101: Let’s Talk about the I in D.E.I.

Tuesday, November 12, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... of more than 1 million people, is New York City’ s largest and most diverse minority group. Despite efforts to ... and inclusive, foundations often leave disability entirely out of these conversations. Now, as...

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Passing Raise the Age Legislation: A Big Step on the Long Road to Implementation

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... Children and Naomi Post, Executive Director, Children’ s Defense Fund-NY On April 10, 2017, Governor Cuomo signed ... in dramatic ways. Two major questions come to mind here: How did we achieve this victory,...

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Justice Reform

05 Mar 2013

CEO Interview Series with Clara Miller, The F. B. Heron Foundation

Tuesday, March 5, 2013 -

3:15pm to 7:00pm

... future as a leader in mission related investing, but also how her background, values and philosophy inform her plans. ... Explore What Clara Miller and the foundation’ s trustees envision as the most urgent...

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Bloomberg Commits $64 Million to Beyond Coal Campaign

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10/12/2017

... the United States. The funds will support the Sierra Club' s Beyond Coal campaign, which has almost achieved its initial ... in the face of proposed federal rollbacks of public health and environmental...

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Environment and Climate Change

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

Release Date:

02/01/2025

... in crisis while equipping partner organizations with the resources needed to deliver aid efficiently and ... housed one year later, while 90% of student recipients have persisted in their studies or graduated...

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Community Development

Housing and Homelessness

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Lori Evans Bernstein Joins Board of United Hospital Fund

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06/29/2015

... Bernstein has been elected to the United Hospital Fund’ s board of directors. Ms. Evans Bernstein is co-founder ... and chief operating officer of HealthReveal, a digital health company reinventing the way...

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Health

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Reimagining Safety and Justice for Black Life Now and Forever

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07/07/2020

... stories were cautionary tales of survival to inform me on how to walk in the world, but the themes of redemption and ... visions and dreams. Reflecting more on my grandmother’ s neighborhood, I think of the...

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Ford’s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are Missing About Capacity Building

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07/05/2016

Ford’ s Walker in Harvard Business Review: What Foundations Are ... Over the past five years, more and more foundations have come to understand that their nonprofit grantees’ ... gone so far as to issue this brave...

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17 Jun 2019

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Spring Meeting

Monday, June 17, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:30pm

... and work with stakeholders across the organization. You have to ensure that work gets done efficiently, deadlines and ... loop. In the spirit of continuous learning and resource sharing , the June PACNET...

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Executive Support Staff

To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

Release Date:

06/23/2020

... By: Nancy Rauch Douzinas , President, Rauch Foundation. How a research project transformed a region - and the ... Itself. Read Part 2: Research Studies: A Convener' s Best Friend In 2016 the Rauch...

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Community Development

19 Mar 2019

Census 2020 Messaging Testing Results – A Webinar Series Hosted by FCCP

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... and advocacy to enhance collaborative efforts to “Get Out The Count”. Explore The findings from the San Joaquin ... Ellen Braff-Guajardo , Senior Program Officer, Sierra Health Foundation Ed Kissam , Co-...

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Immigration

Ana Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women's Foundation, Named a Lifetime Achievement Honoree in City & State's 2023 50 Over 50 List

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02/02/2023

Ana Oliveira, President & CEO of The New York Women' s Foundation, Named a Lifetime Achievement Honoree in City & ... view – and offer well-deserved accolades for leaders who have amassed a long list...

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26 Mar 2020

Advancing Natural Climate Solutions in New York - A Webinar

Thursday, March 26, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

... renewable energy. COVID-19 has also unexpectedly impacted how we think of these natural climate solutions on both a local and global scale. How will society’ s thinking on this change for...

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Disaster Relief

Environment and Climate Change

Try it, You’ll Like It: The Promise of Digital Media

Release Date:

07/26/2012

... is that you learn new things from your colleagues, or have nascent ideas tweaked, tested and maybe even reinforced. ... In other words, you just don’t impart, but learn. That’ s what happened to me recently...

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13 Jun 2012

2012 Conference on Scaling Impact

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 8:00am to Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 6:30pm

Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Park Place, NYC

... Explore Strategies to achieve large-scale impact. How funder collaboratives can support scaling efforts. How major donors can co-fund with foundations to scale ... in education, youth development, poverty...

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New York Life Foundation and Afterschool Alliance Launch Aim High Grant Competition

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01/18/2017

... an important new initiative: Aim High: Supporting Out of School Time Programs for Disadvantaged Middle School ... across the country. Afterschool Alliance is the nation’ s leading advocate for afterschool...

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Education

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New York Life Foundation

Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Others Make $1.1M Grants to CEP and GEO

Release Date:

10/16/2015

... — to help foundations improve their grantmaking so they have more impact. They both are founding presidents of their ... within a few months of each other in 2001. Now they have one more thing in common,...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Stonewall Community Foundation Issues RFP for LGBTQ Safe Spaces

Release Date:

07/29/2016

... and for whom safety is most elusive within New York City' s LGBTQ community. To that end, the foundation encourages .....

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Gender Justice

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Native American Youth Can't Wait

Release Date:

08/22/2016

... and partner on efforts like the Obama administration' s My Brother' s Keeper initiative. More recently, the field ... communities. And that invariably causes me to think about how...

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