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Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

... advocating for our public housing communities – and I can tell you why we oppose Intro 1447-C, even as it stands on ... City Council approval. Some recent op-eds and statements have claimed that the only...

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Workforce Development

Opinion: A Cash Guarantee for All Has Philanthropy Buzzing

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09/27/2017

... of utopian promise and real-world possibility. You can make the argument that universal basic income has ... secure a minimum standard of living. Variants of the idea have bubbled up for centuries, and in...

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Growing Fab Lab Network Brings the High-Tech, Hands-On STEM Education Out to Rural K-12 Students

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10/06/2017

... three-year push by Chevron to locate 10 labs where they can serve a diverse population of school-age children, rural communities that otherwise wouldn’t have access to such sophisticated technical equipment...

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Education

24 Oct 2019

The Capacity Building Blind Spot: What’s Holding NYC Nonprofits Back?

Thursday, October 24, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... mission. Over the past several years, a small group of funders have invested in nonprofits to support their growing their ... revenue generation projects. A small group of these funders...

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20 Feb 2024

New York’s Redraw and Fair Representation for Communities of Color - A Webinar Hosted by Fair Representation in Redistricting

Tuesday, February 20, 2024 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... in Redistricting funder collaborative is convening funders and philanthropy serving organizations for a virtual strategic discussion on how to ensure that the new maps fairly represent communities ... who wish...

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Census 2020

Carnegie Supports a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel

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06/12/2017

... a Roadmap for Storing Spent Nuclear Fuel Questions about how to handle nuclear waste have long eluded consensus answers. Rather they have generated social objections, political problems, and...

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The Commonwealth Fund Reports on Medicaid Expansion's Effect on Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending for Low-Income Families

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08/25/2017

... from the federal Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine how states’ participation in the Medicaid expansion ... families in nonexpansion states. For families that did have some out-of-pocket spending, spending...

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Health

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Report Finds U.S. Racial Wealth Gap Still Growing at an Alarming Pace

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09/15/2017

... report bears the ominous title “The Road to Zero Wealth: How the Racial Wealth Gap is Hollowing Out America’s Middle ... It projects that, if current household wealth trends (as have occurred between 1983 and...

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Economic Security

09 Jun 2015

Catch a Ride on a Roller-Coaster! Immigration Issues Facing the New York Region

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... and in the NYC area - and what's delayed and why How your foundation can mobilize to help make progress on immigration reform How immigration reform effects funders...

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NYS Health Foundation Launches ‘Health Reform Watch’

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03/17/2017

... you informed on a regular basis. It features analyses and resources about health reform efforts and their potential impact on our State. Check out this one-stop shop to keep ...

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Lauren Hadi Joins the Schott Foundation as Senior Vice President of Advancement

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12/16/2020

... work with our philanthropic partners to channel more resources to the education justice movement and our ... partners to increase the education justice movement’s resources , capacity and reach, thereby...

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Macquarie Group Launches $A50 Million Philanthropic Award to Mark Its 50th Anniversary in 2019

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10/10/2018

... a five-year period to fund projects globally that will have a lasting community benefit. The winners will be ... Officer Nicholas Moore. “In that time, our people have devoted thousands of hours to work with...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces the 2022 Clinical Scientist Development Awardees

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08/09/2022

... funds promising physician scientists whose projects have the potential to advance the prevention, diagnosis and ... Development Award grantees and their project titles can be found below: Erica Farrand, M.D.,...

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Speaker Honorarium Policy - A Pilot

... policy is to prioritize individuals and organizations who have traditionally not been resourced for their labor when ... our commitments and priorities. We acknowledge that we have benefited from the values-...

Capital One to Invest $150 Million to Help Close Digital Skills Gap

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03/10/2015

... and equip individuals with financial management tools and resources designed to help them invest for the future. ... also found that digitally intensive middle-skill jobs have grown more than twice as fast as...

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Salesforce.org Join Other Techies to Help Aid Groups Tackle the Global Refugee Crisis

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03/16/2018

... gathering. “So, it’s not just weeks and months that we have to think about their needs–we have to think about education, their health, and jobs as well ... resource to help them access the employment and...

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17 Jan 2019

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET): Quarterly Meeting

Thursday, January 17, 2019 -

8:30am to 10:30am

We have reached our max capacity for this event. Registration is ... for the purpose of sharing questions, experience and resources among peers in a confidential setting. It’s a new ... on setting professional...

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New Survey from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

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01/29/2019

... Overall, the findings indicate that museum staff have become more racially and ethnically diverse since 2015. ... being held by people of color. Most of the diverse hires have been in education and curatorial...

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