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01 Dec 2021

For Us, By Us Farm - Based Education - A Webinar Hosted by Community Food Funders

Wednesday, December 1, 2021 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... their own language and wisdom, given the lack of access to resources , infrastructure and land What systemic issues ... Justice Educator, Rock Steady Farm Who should attend? All interested funders. What to...

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

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Food Systems

24 Jun 2015

Learning the Way: DACA, Educational Attainment and Philanthropy - Webinar

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... for a work permit, and in some states, a driver’ s license, among other benefits. Nearly 800,000 immigrants ... application, including over 400,000 individuals who meet all but the program’ s...

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A Commitment to Deep Change in 2025 - Launching a Philanthropic Toolkit for Transformational Systems Change

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12/13/2024

... of where to turn. Despite an increase in philanthropy’ s orientation toward systems change, the know-how and ... systemic orientations required to truly move systems into new ways of addressing social and...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Design Thinking for Advocates: Don’t Knock it Till You Try It

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02/23/2016

... it Till You Try It By Salem Tsegaye, Program Associate, New York Community Trust You’ve probably heard of design thinking by now. It’ s an approach to creating innovative products and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

Civic Engagement

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Marion Nestle Challenges Funders to Be More Strategic and Political

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08/08/2013

... to learn, network, ideate, collaborate and celebrate CFF’ s accomplishments. The second annual CFF gathering included ... practitioners who were engaged to help inform CFF’ s new working...

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All Funders

Nudge Your Grantmaking: Applying Behavioral Science Insights to Enhance Program Impact

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12/13/2017

... awarded behavioral economist Richard Thaler this year’ s prize for economics for “integrating economics with ... they received their harvest earnings. Shoppers at a New Jersey mall were presented with...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Soros Justice Fellows

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03/31/2022

... Society Foundations Announce 2021 Soros Justice Fellows NEW YORK —The Open Society Foundations today announced an award ... on a range of issues at the core of the Open Society’ s work such as...

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Social Justice

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Make Room for Makerspaces

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12/08/2015

... Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust Makerspaces are community-oriented ... So are funders. Recently, The New York Community...

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The New York Community Trust

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Education

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Deborah A. Phillips, Ph.D. Resigns as President of Foundation for Child Development

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08/22/2013

... in the PreK-3rd arena and to extend this work in exciting new early learning directions," said Ruth Ann Burns, Chair of ... to thank Deborah for her energy and hard work on FCD’ s strategic planning...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Foundation for Child Development

Simons Foundation Launches Simons Collaboration on the Many Electron Problem

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03/03/2014

... physics and everyday life. The Simons Foundation’ s Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS) division is pleased ... a program focused on developing, implementing and applying new methods for determining the...

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Science

Technology

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Wallace Foundation Invests $30 Million to Strengthen Supervisors Of School Principals

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06/24/2014

... Will Miller. “To strengthen this critical role, this new initiative will require districts to rethink how their ... on bureaucratic compliance,” added Jody Spiro, Wallace’ s director of education leadership. “...

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Research Yields Game Changer for Improving Understanding of Ebola

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09/19/2014

... to have been exposed to the virus. This represents a new tool for performing large, population-scale field ... both the human health and conservation communities. The new methodology exploits the fact that,...

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Health

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Ford Foundation Partners with Mozilla to Draw Young Engineers into Nonprofit Sector

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09/30/2014

... tech geeks working for nonprofits and in government. New research from Mozilla and its partner, the Ford ... percent — go to big, wealthy tech companies. While that' s great for Google and Facebook,...

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Technology

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Arcus Awards Grant to Alliance of Baptists to Support Inclusion and Racial Justice

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10/09/2014

... announced Oct. 8 receipt of a $104,400 grant to support a new initiative promoting LGBT inclusion and racial justice ... that promote LGBT equality around the world, will fund the new “Congregational...

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LGBTQ

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Century Foundation Announces Janice Nittoli "Forward Thinking" Award

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11/03/2014

... of a policy paper on a topic that is central to TCF’ s agenda. Ms. Nittoli served as The Century ... doubling the foundation’ s endowment and adding sixteen new policy experts to TCF’...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund Backs Food Studies Program at Hostos College

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01/29/2015

... and will enroll students this fall for the first time. The new program will go beyond the traditional culinary classes ... the Hunts Point food markets, and elsewhere. Hostos’ s program is intended to train a...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

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MetLife Foundation Increases Access to Online Capital for Small Businesses

Release Date:

02/27/2015

... to Online Capital for Small Businesses The Accion U. S . Network, the largest nonprofit micro- and small business ... content marketing and advertising; test and develop new loan products to meet the diverse...

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Workforce Development

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Citi and Goldman Sachs Launching Projects with NYC to Boost Women Business Owners

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03/12/2015

The de Blasio administration and Citi are launching a new program to expand the number of women entrepreneurs with ... and business services over the next three years. Here’ s Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen’ s...

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Gender Justice

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Arcus Develops Action Plan to Save Great Apes in Africa

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04/08/2015

... Wildlife Conservation Society, WWF, and partners in a new conservation plan. A new report--titled "Regional Action Plan for the Conservation .....

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Animal Welfare