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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... subways, closing Rikers, rescuing failing schools – it can seem like New York’s most insurmountable crises are ... and taking the path of least resistance. This isn’t how it’s always been in our city. When the...

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Housing and Homelessness

EMpower - The Emerging Markets Foundation Announces New Grants in Emerging Market Countries

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01/13/2022

... growth in its global grantmaking to be able to better support local organisations during these difficult times. ... including adolescent girls. We remain ready to help and support our partners in the difficult...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Research to Prevent Blindness Funds Study of Alzheimer's and Brain Health Detection Using Eye Exams

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03/12/2019

... microscopic network of blood vessels in the retina, which can be observed through an eye examination. This web-like ... cases and controls: We’re measuring blood vessels that can ’t be seen during a regular eye...

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Trump's DACA Decision Could Strip Thousands In New York Of Medicaid Coverage

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09/06/2017

... to approximately 800,000 children brought to the United States by their parents, would begin to unwind in six months. ... choice: whether to continue providing Medicaid to the DACA population . . . Trump's...

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Immigration

20 Oct 2011

"Fixing vs. Preparing"...The Role of Positive Youth Development in Juvenile Justice

Thursday, October 20, 2011 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... that has broken down. When an object breaks down you can get a new one. With an adolescent you need to keep ... the context of the crucial role positive youth development can contribute in juvenile justice...

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Open Society Foundations Announce Puerto Rico Youth Fellowships Program

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09/05/2018

... and building the island back stronger than before. To support that activism, and help build a pipeline to develop ... economic, social, and cultural change projects that can help create more resilient and self...

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Disaster Relief

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Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

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04/16/2020

... initial COVID-19 response will go toward the United States , which has so far suffered the largest number of ... kind of world will emerge from this catastrophe, and what can we do to make it a better one?” “...

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Research to Prevent Blindness Grantee Dr. Gregg Semenza Wins Nobel Prize in Medicine

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10/10/2019

... life’s most essential adaptive processes,” namely, “ how oxygen levels affect cellular metabolism and ... is interrupted because HIF cannot properly bind to DNA, it can lead to disease in many different areas...

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20 Oct 2021

Impact Investing, Picking Up Where Philanthropy Leaves Off

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... different types of impact investing a private foundation can pursue Why impact investing may feel intimidating and how you can develop your confidence and overcome the barriers What ...

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26 Jan 2022

Flexing Your Biggest Muscle: Shareholder Engagement for Foundations

Wednesday, January 26, 2022 -

2:00pm to 4:00pm

... Shareholder engagement is one way that foundations can influence a company’s behavior by exercising their ... engagement is, where shareholder engagement works, and how to get your foundation started on...

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28 Apr 2025

Fighting Exclusion and Expulsion: Protecting the Freedom to Move and to Stay - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Monday, April 28, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... long history of excluding people from entering the United States , including individuals from China in the 19th century, ... starting with noncitizens. What will you learn? How advocates are addressing the...

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Immigration

Do Funders Have the Right to See a Nonprofit’s Management Letter?

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04/19/2016

... needed within the organization’s control structure. How would a potential donor know that? In addition, there is ... control structure of the organization. This distinction can be unclear to funders who obtain...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Sharon Percy Rockefeller, Mellody Hobson and Admiral James Stavridis to Board of Trustees

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12/11/2017

... could not ask for three better or more qualified people to support us in our mission amidst new and growing ... Board of Trustees. Leveraging the Foundation’s resources and influence, I am confident we...

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An Opportunity for Will: Announcing PNY’s Racial Equity Working Group

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12/01/2021

... liberation—required for collective liberation. But we can do more than survive. As Arundhati Roy writes in The ... being held in ways that are clearly not moving us forward: how some employers are “returning...

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Commonwealth Fund Releases Report on Insuring Younger Adults Through the ACA’s Marketplaces

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12/20/2016

... affordable premiums. This is particularly true if policymakers wish to retain reforms such as the ban on ... participating in large enough numbers, and insurers can ’t deny coverage or charge sicker people...

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AAPI Civic Engagement Fund and Groundswell Fund Collaborate on a Groundbreaking New Report - Ahead of the Majority: Foregrounding Women of Color

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08/13/2019

... makeup of the American electorate. Since 2008, the population of women of color has increased by 18% while their ... for substantive policy change when strategies and resources are centered on women of color...

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Civic Engagement

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28 Nov 2012

Coordination Updates on the Philanthropic Response to Hurricane Sandy: A Webinar for Funders and Regional Associations Nationwide

Wednesday, November 28, 2012 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

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... to the various ad hoc funder groups developing around aging populations, youth programs, disabled individuals, ... Josh Barnes , National Coordinator, Economic Recovery Support Function Ronna Brown , President...

23 Feb 2021

Preview of the Knight Media Forum: Polarization in America - A Webinar Hosted by Media Impact Funders

Tuesday, February 23, 2021 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... or no masks?), who we listen to (CNN or OANN?), and even how we think (fair or rigged election?). And the division is ... in which hatred motivates voters more than loyalty. How can...

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Workforce Development

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... impacted by health disparities. Projects also support the advancement of one or more of the recommendations ... barriers and biases in the health care system and how it’s funded.” He continued, “I am very...

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