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Ford Foundation Commits $75 Million in New Funding to the US South

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06/28/2021

... legal organizations working to safeguard the tentpoles of our democracy by ensuring safe, fair, and equitable access to ... ties, to more effectively mobilize, leverage and align resources to...

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Community Development

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Ford Foundation

NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education

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07/30/2015

... for the New York: a remarkable convergence of diverse interests —students and parents, educators and advocates, ... change in zero-tolerance policies. As outlined in our new report, Tilling the Field , the...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Dear Fellow Funders: No More Statements on Racial Equity Please (Until You Publish “The Receipts”)

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09/23/2021

... reformed to better include and serve communities of color, our statements of allyship are more about self-serving PR ... should commit to tracking and publicly sharing a few basic diversity , equity and...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Arbor Rising

OpEd: CEO Lori Bezahler on Edward W. Hazen Foundation’s Decision to Empty Its Coffers

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03/06/2019

... supporters of social-justice organizations, have rallied resources to protect fundamental rights that seemed suddenly ... usual at exactly the wrong time. Rather than retreating to our comfortable practices of...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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The Space Between Intention and Impact

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10/24/2022

... its purpose. He noted that we cannot fundamentally meet our shared missions without using equity as a guiding ... trying to provide. Dwayne named a tension that many in our sector are feeling— including...

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NYCT Gives $5.6M For New Efforts to Stop Domestic Violence, Protect First Amendment Rights, Build Young Leaders and More

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04/12/2017

... find and apply to schools that best match their skills and interests . Graduate Center for CUNY will use $170,000 to ... through a coalition of 18 organizations. Last year, with our grant of $100,000, the...

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The New York Community Trust

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz to Receive Philanthropy’s Highest Honor

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10/10/2018

... premier leaders on democratic institutions and civil society development, will deliver an address on the state of ... led discussions on some of the more challenging issues of our time, including climate...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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It’s Time Responsible Business Became Business as Usual

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03/22/2016

... The class had already spent a session or two on Shared Value and Collective Impact. I had spent most of my time in ... their employers, the shareholders, and as such, allocating resources to CSR amounts to...

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30 Sep 2021

Mapping Indigenous Migrant Communities in the United States - A Webinar Hosted by GCIR

Thursday, September 30, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:00am

*This program is hosted by our partner, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and ...

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Immigration

17 Jul 2014

Pulitzer Winner Barton Gellman on Philanthropy’s Role in Better Balancing Competing Demands on Civil Liberties and National Security

Thursday, July 17, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... wonder, how do we protect ourselves while not compromising our rights and fundamental values as a nation? One way is for ... National Security and Human Rights Campaign at Open Society Foundations who has...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

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06/30/2020

... people of color bear the brunt of systemic inequities in our conception and application of the law. The Million Book ... and thinkers whose work offers knowledge and analysis of society ’s injustices, a diverse...

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Mellon Foundation

PRIs and Effective Intermediaries

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06/30/2015

... commonly disparaged for making money while adding little value . As a trustee, head of the Finance Committee of the ... in New York City for over 100 years. We dedicate 5+% of our corpus ($250mm) to five areas...

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Altman Foundation

Philanthropy, You in Danger, Girl! Five Things Philanthropies Need to Do Now in the Trump Age

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02/13/2017

... could be targeted as a source of revenue , and that our ability to support work that goes against Trump’s ... First Philanthropy has always been a critical pillar of democracy and has helped to fill in gaps,...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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03 Jun 2021

Philanthropy New York’s 42nd Annual Meeting - Looking Back, Moving Forward: A Time of Reckoning

Thursday, June 3, 2021 -

1:00pm to 4:30pm

Philanthropy is navigating a great wave of change. As our sector grapples with the context in which our work is embedded, we are acknowledging how deeply ... in the way of a more just, equitable, and sustainable...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Newman's Own CEO Shares: What Paul Newman Would Tell Small Foundations in the Pandemic: Don’t Shift Course

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04/22/2020

... among us suffer the most. Since Covid-19 took control of our lives, I awake every morning to the same profound question I take to bed: Should we redirect our resources to frontline responders...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Disaster Relief

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Newman's Own Foundation

The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Welcomes Marianna Schaffer, Vice President of Programs and Jennene Tierney, Vice President of People, Culture, Equity

Release Date:

01/11/2021

... work to better equip ourselves, the nonprofit sector, and our communities for activating people for social change and ... to center racial justice and equity and direct resources and trust in new ways. I am...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Philanthropy's Difficult Dance With Inequality

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07/08/2015

... it. Nevertheless, inequality is an inescapable fact of our world: while extreme poverty in many regions of the globe ... economic prosperity, the environment, public health, democracy , and just about any other...

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Community Development

The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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F.B. Heron Foundation

Carnegie Corporation of New York

Leadership Transition at Philanthropy New York

... build on Philanthropy New York’s strengths and champion our mission and vision in the years to come. The following ... about structural racism through our programming and resources shared...

See the Storify and More: Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event

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10/10/2013

... research papers commissioned by EdFunders. Thanks to our dedicated Tweet team, we have a Storify recap of our launch event — you can read it (and several other resources and write-ups) below...

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