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New York Life Foundation, Afterschool Alliance Award $750K in Grants to Middle School Out-of-School Time

Release Date:

06/21/2017

... first awards made under the Foundation's new $1.95M "Aim High " initiative. The Aim High grant recipients are receiving support for their ... application process. In all, $750,000 went to 18 Aim...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

Release Date:

02/21/2019

... InvestWrite Competition Johanna Van Fleet may still be in high school, but she knows as much about stocks, bonds and ... of investing enabled this impressive senior from Concord High School in Concord, to...

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Mellon, Ford, Getty, and Terra Foundations Announce New $5M Initiative Designed to Advance Latinx Art in Museums

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02/13/2023

... work in our museums and arts organizations.” “We need to invest more if we want Latinx art to be more broadly ...

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Arts

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18 May 2023

Setting a New Standard: The Role of Philanthropy in Grantee Working Conditions

Thursday, May 18, 2023 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

High rates of staff turnover, dissatisfied team members, and ... Organizational leaders are asking big questions about how to best support their staff, while trying to remain ... quality jobs and sustainable work...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

20 May 2014

Building a Legacy of Healthy Children in New York

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 -

10:00am to 2:30pm

Join Grantmakers in Health and Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families as ... discuss their grantmaking strategies related to children's health . Presented by Grantmakers in Health...

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Children, Youth and Families

Health

Insights from The Mechanics of Working Through Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens - A Workshop Led by PRE

Release Date:

12/06/2022

... lens in your grantmaking? And what internal barriers need to be dismantled to advance racial justice? In a ... justice funding are critical, Villarosa described the need to impact both current and longer-term...

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14 Jun 2018

Policy Core Course 2018 - June 14th Sessions

Thursday, June 14, 2018 -

9:00am to 12:45pm

... The sessions from this half-day will guide participants in how to use advocacy as a strategy for achieving impact, and how to plan for steps towards creating meaningful and lasting ... happens after the law or...

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Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

Release Date:

09/24/2014

... access. Two billion of those people will be in developing countries , which means writers have an increasing audience of ... affecting digital media worldwide. Researchers in 56 countries detailed both the...

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Ford-Backed Poll Finds that Young Americans Fear They Will Be Worse Off Post-Trump

Release Date:

01/17/2017

According to a new poll of Americans aged 18 to 30, the country’s young adults are more likely to expect they’ll be worse off at the end of Trump’s first term than better off. Such young Americans are also far more likely to think Trump will divide...

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Ford Foundation

Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

Women for Afghan Women (WAW), which describes itself as a “grassroots, civil society organization dedicated to securing and protecting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan women and girls in Afghanistan and New York,” has backing from NY foundations...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Ford Foundation

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

Release Date:

08/28/2017

One of the country’s largest servicers of federal student loans has badly mismanaged debt forgiveness programs for public service workers, significantly raising repayment costs for hundreds of thousands of borrowers, according to a lawsuit filed on...

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Education

China’s Xi Slams Unwillingness to Combat Climate Change

Release Date:

09/05/2017

... world economy faces growing risks and uncertainties from countries turning inward on trade and resisting combating ... Xi told leaders of emerging economies and developing countries . . . China’s Xi Slams...

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Environment and Climate Change

05 Dec 2018

Harnessing Apps to Develop Career Pathways - A Brown Bag Discussion

Wednesday, December 5, 2018 -

11:30am to 2:00pm

... to Common Sense Media , teens are spending nearly nine hours a day on average using media. Given this state of affairs, how can we use technology to embolden positive change? Please ...