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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... undergraduates at colleges and universities with high graduation rates is being announced today in an attempt ... students from modest backgrounds to campuses with high graduation rates by the year 2025. A...

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

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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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SIFMA Foundation Announces Winner of Fall 2018 InvestWrite Competition

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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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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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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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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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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Open Society Foundations Examines Worldwide Access to Digital Media

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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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Supported by Ford, JPB Foundations, 'America Divided' Series Provides Dose of Reality and Hope

Release Date:

10/04/2016

As we prepare for a presidential election and think deeply about the direction of our country in light of current events, it seemed important to watch America Divided.

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation Founder Writes About Ignoring the Debt Problem

Release Date:

10/24/2016

The deficit has grown sharply this year, and will keep the national debt at about 75 percent of the gross domestic product, a ratio not seen since 1950.

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

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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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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

Release Date:

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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NoVo Foundation

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Ford Foundation

Student Loan Company Accused of Mismanaging Debt Forgiveness Program

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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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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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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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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Social Justice

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 ...

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Technology

Workforce Development

Rockefeller Supports Training Workshops on Impact Investing in Ghana and South Africa

Release Date:

03/03/2017

... this is new terrain for evaluators, there are several resources on both impact investing and impact ...

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Member Input on Official Statement on Opposition to Eliminating the Estate Tax

... implies that, each year, the nonprofit sector would lose resources equivalent to the total grants currently made by ... directly effects creation of new foundations and the health of the philanthropic sector...

Opposition to Eliminating the Estate Tax

Century Foundation’s Li to Chair Philanthropy New York Board

Release Date:

06/09/2015

... James Knickman , President and CEO of the New York State Health Foundation. The foundation leaders newly elected to ... larger investments in technology and communications resources , and long-term...

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The Century Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation

The Cricket Island Foundation

Altman Foundation

New York Health Foundation

Credit Suisse Americas Foundation

Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

The Atlantic Philanthropies

The New York Women's Foundation

The New York Community Trust

Gap Inc. Sets New Climate Goals, Launches Sustainability Site

Release Date:

01/22/2016

... As a global fashion company, we rely on the same vital resources that are critical to the health of the communities that support our business. We ...

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