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Alison Bernstein, Longtime Ford Foundation Official, Dies at 69

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07/12/2016

... managing other grant makers for the organization’ s Education , Creativity and Free Expression Program (which is ...

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Rockefeller Leads Initiative to Help Young People Without College Degrees Land First Job

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09/21/2016

... create economic opportunity for more Americans. It' s part of a national conversation with NPR and other member ... which aims to find jobs for young people with limited education and work experience...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Workforce Development

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How to Stop the School-to-Prison Pipeline for Girls of Color

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01/12/2017

... to the most recent data released by the US Department of Education , Black girls were suspended six times more than ...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Teach For America New York Executive Director Charissa Fernández On This Year’s Corps, DACA And Teacher Training

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09/21/2017

... York Executive Director Charissa Fernández On This Year’ s Corps, DACA And Teacher Training Teach for America may be one of the most well-known education nonprofits. The national group...

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City Schools Buy Marked-Up Supplies Thanks To DOE System

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09/26/2017

... — thanks to an in-house purchasing system set up by education officials. Every school must funnel its purchases through a city Department of Education portal called the Financial Accounting Management ...

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Century Foundation Hosts Discussion on College Affordability Ideas for the Next Congress and Beyond

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10/01/2018

... momentum recently, as public funding for higher education has fallen and student debt has skyrocketed. Watch ... wave of college affordability reforms with the nation’ s leading higher education...

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16 Jun 2016

Will Philanthropy Join In The Fight To Vote?

Thursday, June 16, 2016 -

8:30am to 11:00am

In the midst of this year’ s presidential election, understanding the right to vote – ... based on “the consent of the governed.” Waldman will be joined by a panel of voting rights advocates representing ... a...

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Remember! You’ve Got Friends

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07/30/2018

... 31 scholars named in Carnegie Corporation of New York’ s 2018 announcement. Thanks go to our friends — the ... in the humanities and social sciences. This approach can be applied to all manner of announcements...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Albany Dysfunction: Is Change Possible?

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07/30/2010

... in Albany. We are pleased to have one of the program’ s presenters, Dick Dadey , Executive Director of the ... parents and children don’t know what programs will be available; and teachers cannot adequately...

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JPMorgan Chase Furthers Commitment to Closing the Housing Affordability Gap for Black and Latinx Households

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06/16/2021

... its unique set of business, data, policy and philanthropic resources , the firm aims to improve housing affordability and ... Affordability and Wealth Creation JPMorgan Chase’ s five-year, $400 million...

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Mismanagement at nonprofits? Think again

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06/14/2022

... size and scope of that responsibility, the government’ s shifting of fiscal responsibility to nonprofits and ... for ensuring that the most vulnerable can get the resources they need to live – who are most...

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14 Sep 2012

Social Justice on the Streets: New Developments Around "Stop-and-Frisk" and Discriminatory Policing

Friday, September 14, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:30am

... or Latino New Yorkers. This group was also more likely to be frisked than whites, and those who were frisked were less ... The number of stops of young Black men exceeded the city’ s population of young Black...

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20 May 2015

Youth Participation: Creating a Rich Civic Ecosystem for Young People in NYC

Wednesday, May 20, 2015 -

8:30am to 11:30am

... adult leaders from DYCD, NYC Service, Borough President’ s Office, youth organizing, and citywide youth intermediaries ... Assistant Commissioner, Beacon, Cornerstone & Service Learning , Department of...

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New York City

05 May 2017

Legal Series - Investing in People: Making Grants to Individuals

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9:00am to 11:00am

... Your Questions February 16 – Legal Series - London’ s Calling! So is Syria, Sudan, North Korea… Best Practices ... There are a number of legal rules and pitfalls to be mindful of in structuring individual...

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Open Society Foundation-funded Report Finds Bias Warps the Way African-American Girls are Treated at School

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11/06/2015

... Way African-American Girls are Treated at School Our education system is a reflection of our society, along with ... encounter race and gender biases, which lead them to be unfairly labeled as aggressive,...

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Gender Justice

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As the South Goes: Philanthropy and Social Justice in the US South

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02/2013

Grantmakers for Southern Progress commissioned this report exploring how Southern and national funders support social justice work in the South; how local, regional and national foundations think and talk about social justice work in the South; and the major barriers and facilitating factors for foundations to support social justice work in that region.

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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families

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06/25/2013

Ford Foundation President Luis Ubiñas describes the Work Supports Strategies (WSS) initiative — an Urban Institute-directed project to design, test and implement operating changes to public work support systems — and what WSS has taught funders...

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Ford Foundation

03 May 2022

Philanthropy New York's 43rd Annual Meeting - Purpose as Compass

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... do I need to make? In the quick pace of daily work, it can be difficult to lift our heads up and imagine ways of working ... solutions? How do we re-orient our minds and bodies to be open to curiosity and...

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Where Walls Exist, the Arts Provide a Doorway

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03/27/2017

... this notion as rehearsing “the society that we want to be ,” an infinite process of repetition and revision in an ... billion Muslims across the world, one sixth of the world’ s population, span unique cultures...

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