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05 Oct 2021

Making Up For Lost Time: How Funders Can Support Tutoring Interventions That Accelerate Learning

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 -

1:00pm to 3:00pm

After nearly 18 months of disrupted learning, many students are entering this school year with significant gaps ... core skills and knowledge. One much-discussed way to help students learn more, faster has been...

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9/30/2014 - To Convene or Not To Convene? - PowerPoint Presentation and Video

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09/2014

View related materials presented during the program, "To Convene or Not to Convene?"

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21 Jul 2014

Demystifying Funder Transparency: Sharing Assessments

Monday, July 21, 2014 -

3:15pm to 5:00pm

View resources and webcast recording of this program. Grantees, funding partners, the public , and philanthropy professionals themselves all benefit ... for doing so and it benefits their work and the sector...

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Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant Outreach

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09/02/2014

... Instead, the foundation is likely to push for racial justice in other ways, including through education policy changes and public advocacy.... Ford Foundation President Refocuses Grant ...

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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

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04/14/2016

... workforce development, education and criminal justice ... Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Scaling Effectively: Create a Plan, Support the Vision and Manage the Risks

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06/17/2015

... dollars set aside to ensure that the organization has the resources it needs to try new things. Sometimes, ...

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Weinberg Foundation Announces Grants as Part of $3M Summer Funding Collaborative

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03/30/2016

... Foundation • Art with a Heart • Patterson Park Public Charter School • Baltimore Corps • Paul's ... Saint Ignatius Loyola Academy • Baltimore Montessori Public Charter School • Soccer Without Borders...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Puerto Rico Youth Fellows

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01/13/2021

... develop Amarilla, a workshop and community garden offering resources for a more dignified life to the disadvantaged in ... Agroecological Vieques), with a mission to provide educational resources...

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Open Society Foundations

Beyond the Glass Cliff: Reimagining Executive Transitions in the Sector

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04/06/2023

... creativity, compassion, equity, inclusivity, and justice . I envision the communities that nonprofits partner ... organizations on their race equity journey, funders should join us by committing to a journey of...

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Boutiques for the People

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09/27/2016

... has come to be used as a derogatory label for labor -intensive – or “high-touch” – programs that ... itself as a “school within a school”. It provides students with a carefully structured curriculum, including...

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

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07/13/2015

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

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Artealia Gilliard as its First Director of Communications

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03/23/2017

... Cummings Foundation announced that Artealia Gilliard will join the Foundation as its first Director of Communications. ... energy development decisions. In Atlanta, she led social justice and community...

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Environment and Climate Change

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with several organizations to train future principals for the city's schools.

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Making the Sausage in Albany: An Artisanal Cookbook for Funders

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09/20/2017

... Funders by Michael Hamill Remaley, Senior Vice President, Public Policy & Communications, Philathropy New York This ... past two years to support funders interested in national justice reform, many of whom...

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10 Dec 2020

Uncovering Dyslexia, NYC’s Literacy Crisis and its Effects Across Systems

Thursday, December 10, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... programs used in American schools leave more than half the students struggling to read. It perpetuates the loss of human ... systemic solutions, incubate ideas and promote greater public understanding. Explore...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Elects New Board Chair and Five Members to Its Board of Directors

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01/15/2016

... Marnie S. Pillsbury, Senior Policy Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council Theo Spencer, and former Executive ... as a member of the Statewide Leadership Council of the Public Policy Institute of...

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Ford Foundation Asks if Capitalism Can be Made to Work Better for Society

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10/02/2014

... to a number of experts: “Where Markets Lead, Will Justice Follow?” Referring to foundations as products of ... efforts to change a system in which our own grantmaking resources are cultivated? How can we...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

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03/15/2017

... power of entertainment to move hearts and minds towards justice . This work resonates strongly with NCF values and ... as White House Speechwriter and Associate Director for Public Engagement where served as...

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Arts

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30 May 2024

Resistance at The Border and Beyond: Frontline Efforts to Oppose Anti-Immigrant Legislation - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, May 30, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

... to detain, deport, and terrorize undocumented individuals. Join us for a panel conversation with frontline leaders, ... are leveraging different strategies–from litigation to organizing –to prevent the...

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