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Following Ford's Lead, Another Foundation Goes All In on Equity

Release Date:

08/17/2016

... than a year ago. The statement made by Ford Foundation President Darren Walker at the time talked about not only the ... of “with whom” priorities were to be set and “ how ” grants were to be made. In this, the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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The Role Of Entrepreneurship In Ending Poverty And Homelessness

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09/13/2017

... innovations for poverty alleviation ," says Abby Maxman, President of OxFam America. Maxman was among a diverse group ... addressed a range of topics, including a focus on how social entrepreneurs would...

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After White House Issues Demands, Hopes for an Immigration Deal Dim

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10/10/2017

... Deal Dim The list of hard-line immigration demands that President Trump said he needs to back protections for young ... 800,000 young immigrants from deportation will depend on how far Democrats are willing to...

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

... Post "When I transitioned into education at the New York City Department of Education, the first thing that struck me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school ... global company...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Century Foundation Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students

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06/02/2016

... Report Looks for Better Results for Remedial Students A new report from the Century Foundation examines how to improve outcomes for students who begin college ... "When College Students Start Behind...

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

... and their state and district partners to participate in a new $47-million initiative to develop models over the next ... training at universities. The initiative seeks to explore how university programs can...

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Rockefeller Foundation Starts News Site to Spur Resilience Work

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02/15/2017

... Starts News Site to Spur Resilience Work Rockefeller's new platform, Zilient, wants to expose leaders to solutions ... natural and man-made disasters have the power to decimate how traditional society was...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Disaster Relief

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Most States Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success

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09/27/2017

... Plan To Use Student Absences To Measure School Success How do you judge how good a school is? Test scores? Culture? Attendance? In the new federal education law (the Every Student Succeeds...

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20 Mar 2020

COVID-19 and the Impact on Civic Engagement in 2020 - A Webinar by FCCP and State Voices

Friday, March 20, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

... practitioners and fellow funders for a conversation on how COVID-19 ("Coronavirus") is impacting 2020 civic ... in the moment Speakers Alexis Anderson-Reed , Chief Executive Officer, State Voices...

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27 May 2020

Election Protection: Funding Election Protection and Wisconsin Lessons in Light of Changing Realities - A Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Wednesday, May 27, 2020 -

3:00pm to 4:15pm

... work. The Wisconsin Primary Elections highlighted how partisanship is putting voters in jeopardy by forcing ... a state- and federal-level Speakers Debra Cronmiller , Executive Director, League of Women Voters...

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Funders Need Good Data to Evaluate Programs That Decriminalize Drug Addiction

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09/20/2016

... of Health and Justice: A Conversation on LEAD and New York’s Opioid Epidemic ." Rahman leads Vera’s work on bail reform and pretrial justice in New York City, with a focus on reducing the number of people...

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Vera Institute of Justice, Inc.

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Release Scaling Solutions toward Shifting Systems: Seeing, Facilitating, and Assessing Systems Change Report

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07/22/2020

... more complex, many philanthropic funders are reflecting on how to create more transformational impact. To help answer ... Philanthropy Advisors. Our goal is to examine when, how , and why certain solutions...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Citi Backs Program to Create 5,000 Women Entrepreneurs from Low-Income Neighborhoods

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03/16/2015

... That critical path from idea to success is where New York City is hoping to take 5,000 women from underserved ... communities in the next three years. Glen announced the new initiative, Women Entrepreneurs NYC...

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Gender Justice

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Works to Demystify NYC High School Admissions Process

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07/13/2015

... Admissions Process Applying to public high schools in New York City can be a daunting task, from the sheer number ... difficult admissions process. As a result, a number of resources have been developed, from...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Carnegie and Ford Plan to Foot Entire Bill for Cuomo's Public-Private Legal Defense Fund For Immigrants

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03/30/2017

... “provide services to meet the urgent legal needs” of New York immigrants. In fact, the program is budgeted at $1 ... from two private foundations, the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Ford Foundation...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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Mellon Foundation Grant to USC Libraries and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance to Support Digital Collection for Dance Heritage

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06/08/2018

... and the USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance will create a new home for a rich collection of recordings of more than ... significant dance performances digitized at hubs in New York, San Francisco, and...

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Arts

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HSBC Gives $1.5M to Scale Up Horizons Learning Programs

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05/16/2017

... to help bring Horizons multi-year learning programs to new communities and serve more low-income children across the ... status, reach their full potential,” said Pat Burke, President and Chief ...

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Urban Land Institute to Partner with 100 Resilient Cities, Pioneered by The Rockefeller Foundation to Help Improve Resilience of Urban Areas Globally

Release Date:

06/15/2017

... stresses of the 21st century,” said Michael Berkowitz, president of 100 Resilient Cities. “By providing advisory ... community building worldwide,” said ULI Global Chief Executive Officer Patrick L. Phillips...

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