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The Ford Foundation has announced the appointments of Hilary Pennington as Vice President for the foundation’s program on Education, Creativity and Free Expression, and Martín Abregú as Vice President for its Democracy, Rights and Justice program,...

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Investing in Advocacy Work Is Good — for Everyone

Release Date:

04/03/2014

Carla Washington, Executive Director of Direct Care Alliance discusses the advocacy efforts that would bring policy changes to improve the financial security and stability for direct care workers and their families.

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Marketplace IT Glitches: The Sky Is Not Falling

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10/03/2013

Via The Commonwealth Fund, three researchers from Georgetown University Health Policy Institute’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms put the IT issues encountered during the rollout of the Affordable Care Act into perspective, comparing them to a...

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Health

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Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project

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04/20/2010

Philanthropy New York’s Philanthropy Connects Committee recently sponsored a program featuring Linda Gibbs, New York City’s Deputy Mayor for Health and Human Services , which explored six initiatives now being designed to strengthen the City’s...

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NYC: The Starting Point for Critical Conversations to Address Historic Challenges

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04/21/2015

Independent Sector President and CEO, Diana Aviv, recaps the Threads NYC event and explores the importance of creating connections to spur social change.

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16 Sep 2015

Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting: Industry Partnerships - Current and Future Strategies

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

New York City has made significant progress in the past ten years in developing a more employer-driven workforce system. The New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS) and the Workforce Funders have partnered on a number of sector-...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Workforce Development

JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

Release Date:

03/24/2016

Women account for only a third of positions in growing, middle-skill jobs that pay at least $35,000 or as much as $102,000 per year, according to a new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), supported by JPMorgan.

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Three Ways the Arts are Advancing Equity in NYC

Release Date:

04/06/2016

New York Community Trust Program Associate Salem Tsegaye says the arts can help sustain a vibrant, more equitable New York.

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arts

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Associate, Budgets and Contract Compliance, EducateNYC (United Way of New York City)

Release Date:

08/16/2016

United Way of New York City (UWNYC) is a nonprofit mobilizing people and organizations to eradicate barriers and create opportunities that improve the lives of low-income New Yorkers.

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Peter G. Peterson, Bloomberg & Others Give $10 Million to Launch Financial Crisis-Response Project at Yale School of Management

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05/17/2017

... grateful to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation that provided initial support for the program. With Yale SOM’s ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Launches Network of Cross-Sector Leaders To Advance Economic Mobility In New York City

Release Date:

01/08/2018

City leaders across nonprofit, government, and business sectors join forces to make systems impact

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Making Lunch Free Was Just the Beginning

Release Date:

12/10/2019

It was a proud moment for New York City when its public school system began implementing universal free school lunch on the first day of the school year in 2017.