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12 Jul 2012

Education Working Group Lunch: 2013 Reform Review Project

Thursday, July 12, 2012 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... heavily. Mayor Bloomberg’s control of the school system , gained early in his tenure, provided unprecedented stability to the system , enabling the Department of Education to execute ... Such a discussion can...

Relinquishing Purse Strings: Orlando Bagwell Leaves Ford Foundation’s JustFilms

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02/15/2013

... about the civil rights movement and the black American experience , will leave the foundation in June to make his own ...

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UJA-Federation Awarded $4 Million Matching Grant for Teen Education

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08/07/2014

UJA-Federation of New York will receive up to $4,403,119 as a 1:1 matching grant from the Jim Joseph Foundation for a new summer education initiative for NY area Jewish teens.

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Appoints Jane Mendillo and L. Rafael Reif to its Board of Trustees

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04/11/2016

... will offer wise leadership, grounded in deep and broad experience , as well as steadfast commitment to the ...

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Century Foundation Releases Report on Diversity in New York City’s Universal Pre-K Classrooms

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09/20/2016

A new report finds that on average, New York City's pre-K classrooms are even more racially segregated than kindergarten classrooms.

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Wallace Foundation Supports a Transgender Story Told Through Opera

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11/11/2016

... to self-understanding. The opera is meant to be both an experience , and a vehicle for meaningful conversation. Based ...

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Ford, Warhol and Shelly & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition of Black Women Artists at Brooklyn Museum

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03/02/2017

Focusing on the work of black women artists, We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 examines the political, social, cultural, and aesthetic priorities of women of color during the emergence of second-wave feminism.

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, The JPB Foundation and Others Fund Brain Circuitry Research

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05/03/2018

Observational learning, offers a major evolutionary advantage, says Kay Tye, an MIT associate professor of brain and cognitive sciences and a member of MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Freedom Together Foundation

28 May 2020

Humanizing Immigration: A Conversation in Three Parts

Thursday, May 28, 2020 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... three-part series, examining the U.S. immigration system . While immigration remains a contentious and much ... policy issue in the United States, we rarely examine how narratives are created about who belongs...

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Financing the Social Sector

Release Date:

09/15/2014

... to 3 percent of GDP. In order to do that, nonprofits will need to invest more in growth and develop more capacity in ...

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UJA-Federation of New York's Supplies for Success Program Fills Backpacks in Time for Back-to-School

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09/07/2016

... donated school supplies destined for local children in need of a hand to start the school year on a positive note. ...

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Member Input on Official Statements on Indirect Costs

... provide services, those nonprofits legitimately incur and need to be paid for their indirect costs, again, often ... be game-changing for the fiscal stability and long-term health of a number of nonprofits, if...

Citi Foundation Expands Summer Jobs Connect to New Cities

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03/05/2015

... Connect, which provides low-income youth with summer work experience , access to financial education and appropriate ... to develop the workplace skills and leadership experience that are critical to compete in...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes New Vice President of Policy & Collaboration, Rico Blancaflor

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04/24/2019

... Rico Blancaflor . Rico comes to us after 20 years of experience with the Posse Foundation. At Posse, he was ... immigrant communities in the United States. Rico’s experience will be invaluable in helping us to...

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PNY Sends Letter to Senator Chuck Schumer's Office in Continued Call to Action on Behalf of NYC's Nonprofits During COVID-19

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04/24/2020

... large nonprofits that house the homeless, support foster care youth, care for the disabled and so much more. These nonprofits, ... essential providers during the pandemic, and are in most need...

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Stavros Niarchos & Leon Levy Foundations Supported Research Finds Common Cerebral White Matter Abnormalities in Children with Autistic Traits

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09/06/2017

Researchers in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at NYU School of Medicine found structural abnormalities in the brain's white matter match up consistently with the severity of autistic symptoms not only in children with autism...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources go online — especially for the enthusiastic ...

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