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William T. Grant Foundation Opens Applications for Two Research Grants Programs: Improving the Use of Research Evidence and Reducing Inequality

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11/21/2019

... on reducing inequality grew out of our view that research can do more than help us understand the problem of inequality—it can generate effective responses. We believe that it is time ...

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Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

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02/18/2016

... dollars by increasing the effectiveness and reach of their resources – wanting to make a bigger impact within ... access for people who would not otherwise be able to take advantage of a program. What we...

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Disabilities

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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LaVerne Evans Srinivasan Named Vice President of Education Programs by Carnegie Corporation of New York

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12/09/2014

... for excellence and equity in public education, and I look forward to upholding those commitments. We know a lot ... and managed the long-term strategic planning of the Human Resources division and the Student...

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28 Feb 2017

Prison Is The Most Unaffordable Housing

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... means that thousands of people with behavioral and chronic health conditions are falling through the cracks by being ... the homelessness-to-incarceration cycle and what can be done to break it. Explore: The...

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Justice Reform

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Stephany Fong

... in strategic communications, philanthropy, and public health . Prior to joining Philanthropy New York, she served as the North America Communications Manager at WomenLift Health , where she led the...

Nupur Chaudhury Joins NYSHealth Foundation as Program Officer

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01/12/2017

New York State Health Foundation welcomes its newest Program Officer, Nupur ... Chaudhury , who came from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene's Center for Health Equity...

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Health

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Public Arts Challenge Winners

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06/29/2015

Through its Public Art Challenge, Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced two-year grants of up to $1 million each to six cities for temporary public art projects.

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Arts

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Open Society Foundation Funds Program with Elmo And Big Bird Talking To Refugees

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05/09/2017

In partnership with the International Rescue Committee, Sesame Street characters will be bringing smiles — and education — to millions of refugee children forced from their homes in Syria, Iraq and other war-torn countries.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

International/Foreign Affairs

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Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves

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10/04/2017

... are their stories. Chupi Sweetman-Durney ran away from home when she was 6. She wisely took along the duvet cover ... a nesting spot under a tree, about a half-mile from her home in the Wicklow Mountains of...

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Gender Justice

Should We Be Worried That Foreclosure Sales Are Near Recession Levels?

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10/10/2017

... Recession Levels? Reports last week that the number of home foreclosures in New York City had returned to levels ...

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JPMorgan Chase, Ford Foundation and Kresge Foundation Back Development in Detroit's North End and Grandmont-Rosedale Neighborhoods

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05/11/2018

Develop Detroit will build or rehab or build 70 new homes in the North End and Grandmont-Rosedale neighborhoods.

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Community Development

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Supports Habitat for Humanity Worcester County Build

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10/26/2018

... Weinberg Foundation for its upcoming single-family home build in Bishopville, this fall. The Weinberg Foundation ...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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26 Apr 2023

Preventing Youth Homelessness Series Webinar: Identifying Student Risks through Project Upstream - A Webinar Hosted by Funders Together to End Homelessness

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... assessments. We will also explore what it would take to expand Project Upstream in the States and where such ... Amy Bilodeau , Sr. Manager for Community Investment, Home Depot Canada David French , Managing...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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18 Jun 2012

9th Annual Games for Change Festival

Monday, June 18, 2012 - 8:00am to Wednesday, June 20, 2012 - 6:30pm

NYU Skirball Center 655 LaGuardia Place at Washington Square, NYC

... includes a Game Arcade where award-nominated games can be played, along with speakers, panels, workshops and ... National Endowment for the Arts, National Institutes of Health , the Smithsonian, State...

10 Jan 2013

A Place at The Table - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Thursday, January 10, 2013 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

... Tremonica, a Mississippi second-grader whose asthma and health issues are exacerbated by the largely empty calories her hardworking mother can afford. Their stories are interwoven with insights ...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Rakesh Rajani as the New Director of Democratic Participation and Governance

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10/21/2014

... where he currently serves as the head of Twaweza (“We Can Make It Happen”), the organization he founded to ... and established Tanzania’s first center for sexual health , linking work on HIV/AIDS, sexuality,...

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Community Development

Public Policy

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Ford Foundation

14 Sep 2016

Advancing Racial Equity: the Opportunity for Philanthropy

Wednesday, September 14, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... criminal justice, jobs, housing, public infrastructure and health , regardless of intent or region of the country. ... of key terminology Use of a racial equity tool that can be used in routine decision making...

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Professional Development

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Executive Leadership

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Awards $52 Million to Support the Global Platform for the Prevention of Autoimmune Diabetes

Release Date:

11/06/2017

... Dresden, Hannoversche Kinderheilanstalt, Instytut Matki i Dziecka, and Warszawski Uniwersytet Medyczny. In addition ... administration of high-dose oral insulin in early life can prevent T1D-associated...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Health

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A Toxic Chemical in Marine Ecosystems Turns Out to Play a Beneficial Role, Study Funded by Ford Foundation Finds

Release Date:

07/22/2019

... to suppress "free radical" molecules in the body that can age cells as a response to stress. These destructive free ... new role for reactive oxygen species in the photosynthetic health of this...

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