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

Release Date:

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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Children, Youth and Families

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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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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Community Development

Social Justice

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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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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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

Release Date:

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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Appointments & Transitions

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Environment and Climate Change

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Making the Sausage in Albany: An Artisanal Cookbook for Funders

Release Date:

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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PNY News

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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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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Grantmakers in the Arts

... is a member-driven group that aims to provide information, resources , and networking opportunities for funders to invest ... working groups. Member criteria: For an organization to join NYGIA, it must meet two...

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

Release Date:

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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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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

Release Date:

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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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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Immigration

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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NY Foundation Releases 'Engage to Change' Video on Henry Street Settlement

Release Date:

04/17/2017

... members. This conversation features Talia DeRogatis, Public Policy and Community Engagement Liaison & Gabriella ...

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Video

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Community Development

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New York Foundation

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Studies Impact of Volunteerism

Release Date:

03/06/2015

... measures of reading proficiency over a control group of students , many of whom also received supplemental reading ...

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Volunteerism

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Schools Are Finally Starting To Embrace Integration as a Method Of Closing The Achievement Gap (Century Foundation)

Release Date:

02/11/2016

... helping to close the achievement gap between rich and poor students and lift the performance of struggling pupils. ... But in doing so, many schools may have overlooked a proven educational innovation: school...

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Aetna Supports Projects Using Big Data to Get At-Risk Kids the Services They Need

Release Date:

05/11/2017

... healthcare access and delivery underscores the fact that public health in the U.S. still has much room for ... core of this problem are resource allocation challenges. Resources are always scarce, no matter...

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