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Applying Social Enterprise to Refugee Settings

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... has passed, other approaches might better deliver services in a market-driven, customer-centric way. A ... in March 2011, when they were forced to flee their home in Syria due to the violent civil war. Today,...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs

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02/01/2019

The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as its next vice president for US programs. She will join the foundation in May, succeeding Xavier de Souza Briggs, who has served as vice president for five years and...

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NYCT and JPB-Backed Immigrant Legal Aid Program Will Expand Beyond NYC

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05/14/2015

... Island, the lower Hudson Valley and northern New Jersey, home to thousands of recently arrived unaccompanied minors ... immigrants, have nearly as many people eligible for legal services as does the city. But...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Casey Family Programs Report Finds NYC ACS Leader in Child Safety Practices

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07/10/2017

... helm of New York City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS), an agency that had found itself again in ... although ACS staff had repeatedly visited the child’s home . Jordan’s death, which the NYC...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... the city for the last 20 years. He says when he returned home in 1994 from two decades in prison, he spent months ...

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Nonprofits Scramble to Respond to the New DACA Deadline

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09/29/2017

... responded to those directly affected by offering legal services and other help. The move would phase out a program, ... the program into law. Providers across New York, which is home to roughly 42,000 DACA...

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Immigration

Claire Tow, Co-Founder, The Tow Foundation, Dies At 83

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07/08/2014

... of the disadvantaged, medical research, treatment and care , the cultural arts, and higher education." Claire Tow, .....

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How Bloomberg is Still Changing the Way Cities Operate

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03/30/2015

... emergency rooms and into a doctor’s office or urgent care center. The first round of results encouraged Bloomberg ...

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Community Development

Carnegie, Helmsley-funded Report: Fewer than 1 in 7 Community College Students Get Bachelor’s Degree

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01/19/2016

... Center at Teachers College, Columbia University. “If we care about upward social mobility, then we need to pay ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry Over Budget Easing'

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02/10/2016

... as the budget picture has darkened, the public appears to care less. . . Peterson Foundation Cited in 'Public Worry .....

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Public Policy

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Sessions As Attorney General Means Criminal-Justice Reform Is Dead

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12/15/2016

... general is a nightmare come to life for people who care about the enforcement of civil rights and voting rights. ...

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Justice Reform

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation has not only adopted the red knot bird as a poetic symbol of the modern plight of migrants and refugees; it is sending a few of its affiliated poets to the film’s showing in Princeton.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Request for Proposals to Support City-Based Advocacy Coalitions Using Culture as a Strategy to Advance Policy

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03/30/2017

New York City Cultural Agenda Fund in The New York Community Trust is now seeking proposals to support City-based advocacy coalitions using culture as a strategy to advance policy.

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RFPs Etc

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The New York Community Trust

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Simons Foundation's SPARK Initiative is Calling on Dads With a New "Men of Action" Campaign

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07/11/2017

... highlight the lengths these dads would go to protect and care for their children. The campaign addresses the need for ...

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Science

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‘Grassroots Means No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... No Brains': How To Tackle Racism In The Aid Sector “ I am so tired of dealing with ‘grassroots’ organisations ... no money.” “It doesn’t matter. Ethiopians don’t care about their children anyway.” “...

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De Blasio Fails To Give Public School Teachers Maternity Leave

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... plays in providing a quality education to our children, I will speak out as Councilwoman to demand an end to the ... policy of paid leave which protects teachers’ rights to care for and bond with their own...

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Gender Justice

Disabled Parents Sue New York City Over Child Removals

Release Date:

10/10/2017

... workers have removed Shantell’s three children from her care at various times, beginning in July 2016, following ...

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