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07 Jun 2017

Trailblazers: The Bold States Leading the Charge on Climate Change

Wednesday, June 7, 2017 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... Council Stephan Edel , Policy Director, New York Working Families Jose Lopez , Director, Community Organizing, Make ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Science

National Progressive Advocate Heather McGhee Receives Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Inaugural Fair and Just Fellowship

Release Date:

05/16/2018

... Civitello confessed to his personal racism, stating that it stemmed from a fear of black people, and asked McGhee how ... and currently serves on the boards of the Working Families Organization, the...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Brooklyn Org

Patrick Gaspard, Open Society Foundations and Maria Torres Springer, Ford Foundation Named to NYC Fair Recovery Taskforce

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04/26/2020

... than ever. “This crisis is not only about a virus; it ’s about the fallout from hundreds of thousands of our ... losing their jobs and struggling to provide for their families . It ’s about the...

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Community Development

Disaster Relief

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation

NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education

Release Date:

07/30/2015

... school discipline that the mayor, schools chancellor and police commissioner will all jointly adopt to guide school ... interests—students and parents, educators and advocates, police and government—around the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

Release Date:

10/11/2016

How could a small foundation be impactful when hundreds of billions of dollars are needed to achieve large-scale environmental problems mission globally?

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arabella Advisors

New Member Spotlight: Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

Release Date:

09/11/2009

... to look at vision loss from the patient’s perspective; it ’s influencing them to start referring patients to low ... our grantee organizations to “partner up” where it makes sense, I think it ’...

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New York Women's Foundation-Backed Report Sees Aging Immigrant Women as the 'Invisible Population'

Release Date:

07/08/2015

... After spending their working lives taking care of their families or working off-the-books in low-wage jobs, they ... are picking up their grandchildren who depend on them, it can be all too easy to assume that...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Aging

Gender Justice

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Governor Cuomo Announces Nearly $21.6 Million for Eight Supportive Housing Projects

Release Date:

10/21/2016

... and Oneida counties for homeless veterans and their families , as well as ones in New York City, Erie, Nassau and Oneida Counties for homeless individuals and families . All eight projects are part of Governor...

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Housing and Homelessness

Philanthropy New York Signs Letter to Governor Cuomo for Prompt Contracting and Payment of Nonprofits

Release Date:

07/29/2020

... to honor its financial commitments to pay for the services it has contracted nonprofits to provide, while also asking ... pay, or close programs that communities need to survive. It jeopardizes untold millions...

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PNY News

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Disaster Relief

The Carnegie Compact Revisited: Re-envisioning New York City’s Branch Libraries

Release Date:

11/26/2014

... for lifelong and non-institutional learning—whether it is English-language workshops for immigrants, after-school ... and most diverse cross-section of people in the city. It is time to restore the Carnegie...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Three Exceptional New York Nonprofits Win 2015 Nonprofit Excellence Awards (New York Community Trust)

Release Date:

11/11/2015

... “We will be out in force at the Awards ceremony because it ’s such a great opportunity for the entire sector to come ... competent organizational practices; enlightened human resources ; model IT...

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The New York Community Trust

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The Clark Foundation

Ford Foundation

Private Philanthropy Cannot Replace the NEH

Release Date:

05/16/2017

... however, fallback on justifying this work only when it ’s under threat, as it surely will be again. We need to constantly educate the ... abolishing the NEH would make access to our cultural resources...

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Mellon Foundation

Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas

Release Date:

08/08/2017

... state officials are eager to implement the Trump agenda, it is Texas. U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised the ... in Texas. Texas social justice organizations need more resources to deepen capacity and...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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When Venture Philanthropy Meets Organizing: A Page from Propel Capital’s Playbook

Release Date:

01/30/2018

... administration is essential for mobilizing the level of resources -- money and people -- necessary to build effective ... coordinated, strategic plans. We know we won’t get it all right, but understand that...

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Propel Capital

New York Life Foundation Supports Summer Reading and Education at NYC Public Libraries

Release Date:

04/30/2019

... annually and millions more around the globe who use its resources at nypl.org. To offer this wide array of free ... materials in multiple languages, technology and digital resources , and more than 80,000...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

New Humanities in Place Program at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $15 Million to Organizations Doing Place-Based Work

Release Date:

09/30/2021

... said Program Officer Justin Garrett Moore . “ It is an exciting and critical time to direct much-needed and deserved resources to shaping these landscapes and narratives to ... among the inaugural recipients...

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