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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

Release Date:

11/12/2015

... the marketplace was validating our approach and asking us to do more. . . Knowing that the same often holds true ...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Build Up Advisory Group Shares Part III of How to Build an Effective Grant-Making Process

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03/26/2021

... and inclusion in your approach, analysis, discussion, and struggle , and then finally ensure that the entire process has ... process? About your values? And about risk? Let us know in the comments! You can...

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Build Up Companies

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of Funders in Conflict

Publication date:

11/2014

The Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) released a white paper on how funders can affect conflict.

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Iris Chen Named Executive Director of The Fund for Public Schools

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08/05/2014

... As executive director, Chen will focus on the New York Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña's priorities and ... system, to help ensure all of the city’s students have access to a rigorous and enriching...

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Boys and Girls Clubs Do Have to Change to Run Quality Arts Programs, Wallace Study Finds

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11/29/2017

... class at another site. Three of those programs are still going strong today. One of the lessons learned is to ... serving low-income youth who would not otherwise not have access to them... Boys and Girls...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Wallace Foundation

F.B. Heron Foundation Is Going 'All In' with 100 percent Impact Investments

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02/26/2018

... to go all in? Clara Miller: When I arrived, we were still in post-2008 cleanup. We had to reevaluate our ... and we'd traditionally done that by helping people to get access to bank credit or home...

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Newman's Own Foundation Pledges $1 Million to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp

Release Date:

02/17/2021

... Camp was founded by actor Paul Newman in 1988. “All of us at Newman’s Own were devastated by the fire,” said ... Gang Camp’s future,” said Canton. “We envision both new buildings that reflect the latest...

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Disaster Relief

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Sloan Foundation Supports Study Mapping Space Dust in 3-D

Release Date:

03/23/2017

... possible by the combination of a very detailed multiyear survey known as Pan-STARRS that is powered by a 1.4-gigapixel ... covers three-fourths of the visible sky, and a separate survey called APOGEE that used...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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21 Oct 2021

Change Makers Activate -- Supporting Innovative State Policies: A Case Study of State EITCs - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Thursday, October 21, 2021 - 1:00pm

... states over the last several years expanded refunds and access to previously excluded households. Explore The role ... policies Speakers James Jiminez , Executive Director, New Mexico Voices for Children Abby...

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29 Mar 2022

Policies that Support a Thriving Small Business Ecosystem - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, March 29, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... support America’s small businesses and address access to capital and technical assistance for entrepreneurs ... and help Main Street thrive. On March 10, 2022 Greater New York Asset Funders Network focused on...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Economic Security

Close the Divide Between Education and Work

Release Date:

01/21/2016

... and public schools. The basic belief that drove – and still drives – the work was that both students and ... forward to my current role. Through JPMorgan Chase’s New Skills at Work initiative, a $250 million...

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Workforce Development

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Launches Innovation Prize, Seeks Applicants

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01/29/2015

... Applicants The J.M.K. Innovation Prize is an exciting new initiative of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, a New York-based family foundation. In 2015 up to ten Prizes ...

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Technology

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The J.M. Kaplan Fund

Ford, Knight and Others Give $20M for United States Artists Campaign

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04/19/2016

... James L. Knight Foundation will contribute $1 million to a new $20 million operations endowment campaign in support ... Foundation, announced the campaign Monday night at the New World Center in Miami Beach...

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Arts

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Commonwealth Fund's Kathy Regan Makes City and State's Above & Beyond 2017 List

Release Date:

03/29/2017

... president, millions of women marched in Washington, D.C., New York City and other cities across the country and around ... the rights of women and others who felt threatened by the new administration. Of...

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Gender Justice

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The Commonwealth Fund

Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Supports Female Playwrights at Centenary Stage Company

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... Women Playwrights Series is back at Centenary Stage, with new plays from writers from all over the country. Centenary ... Fawcett and Michelle Kholos Brooks, and distinctive new plays that will feature...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Arts

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JPMorgan Chase Focuses on Asset Building in Communities of Color

Release Date:

05/26/2017

... can't move faster to build earning power and wealth. A new partnership between CFED and JPMorgan Chase brings asset ... to multiple cities across the country, starting with New Orleans and Miami. JPMorgan...

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Community Development

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Poll: Majority of NY Voters Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up

Release Date:

09/06/2017

... Support Keeping Confederate Statues Up A majority of New York voters believe Confederate statues or memorials should stay up, according to a new poll, amid pleas for statues of Southern Civil War icons ...

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Community Development

Success Academy Founder Eva Moskowitz: ‘We Are Making Progress, but It’s Frustratingly Slow’

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... CEO Eva Moskowitz has more in common with her longtime foe New York Mayor Bill de Blasio than you might think, she told ... is a level of injustice in the city, around the state of New York, around the country...

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Ford Funds at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... at the Crossroads of Immigration and Artistic Activism The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) has received a ... cities, using NYFA's Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program in New York, NY as an...

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