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Open Society, Tow and Other Foundations Release Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform

Release Date:

01/12/2016

... seminal Blueprint for Youth Justice Reform. Drawing upon new research, the Blueprint provides concrete policy ... welfare, youth development, housing or health – will see how justice reform intersects with...

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Member News

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

Open Society Foundations

The Tow Foundation

Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy

Release Date:

06/29/2017

... displaced. Jobs in growing sectors increasingly require new skills earned through a post-secondary degree, ... or watch the news without coming across a story about how technology is displacing jobs. And while...

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Member News

Funding Area

Workforce Development

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

Microsoft Corporation

Student Debt and Social Justice: Five Things You Should Know

Release Date:

09/10/2014

... Student debt is not just about young people. A new nationally representative survey by the Federal Reserve ... compared with 16 percent for whites. 2. It’s not just how much debt you have that matters. Yes,...

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Insights

Funding Area

Children, Youth and Families

Education

Related Organizations

Ford Foundation

Team Working on Suicide Prevention Wins Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge

Release Date:

06/12/2014

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a team of Morgan Stanley professionals won the sixth annual Morgan Strategy Challenge -- an effort that pairs nonprofit organizations facing a mission critical issue with a team of the financial firm's...

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

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Morgan Stanley

Report from Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Finds Funder Collaboratives for Systems Change Gaining Momentum

Release Date:

10/01/2018

Based on interviews with three dozen individuals who work with or in funder collaboratives or organizations focused on achieving the kind of scale needed to create systemic change, the report, Scaling Solutions Toward Shifting Systems: Approaches...

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Member News

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Mellon Foundation Pledges $10 Million to Detroit Institute of Arts to Help with "Grand Bargain"

Release Date:

06/11/2014

... an effort to prevent the sale of art to cover the city 's financial woes. The Mellon Foundation will provide ... built with the support of many private individuals and the city ,” said Mariët Westermann,...

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Member News

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Earthquake Rocks Nepal

Release Date:

04/28/2015

... occurred in Nepal, in an area between the capitol city of Kathmandu and the city of Pokhara, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. ...

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Disaster Relief

Bloomberg Philanthropies Announces Grantees Of $30 Million Arts Innovation And Management Program

Release Date:

09/16/2015

... Bloomberg Philanthropies worked with local funders in each city to identify the grantee cohort of small and midsized ... comprise a thriving and robust arts community in each city , provide a total of over 1,...

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Member News

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Arts

Community Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Century Foundation Analysis Noted, Poverty in Syracuse Examined

Release Date:

11/20/2015

... are empty because a recent spate of shootings in this city has made parents fear for their children’s safety. ... an elevated highway that cuts through the heart of the city . There are no supermarkets here,...

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Member News

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Related Organizations

The Century Foundation

NYPD Boss James O’Neill Vacated Guilty Verdict Against Officer Accused Of Using Banned Chokehold: Sources

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... Sources The secret is out — at least part of it. The city ’s top cop recently overturned a guilty verdict against ... the cop was charged with using a banned chokehold. The city has withheld the name of the cop...

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Sector News

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... throughout the five boroughs—both efforts to count the city ’s vacant buildings and lots. For over a decade, ... public and private—in neighborhoods throughout the city . . . Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next...

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Sector News

Funding Area

Housing and Homelessness

14 Jul 2015

Using Advocacy to Support Mission: What Your Foundation Can and Can’t Do, Can and Can’t Fund

Tuesday, July 14, 2015 -

2:45pm to 4:30pm

... Delany, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Alliance for New York . Mr. Delany’s expertise in this field will give even the most seasoned grantmaker new information that can be put to use...

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Roundtable Discussion

Audience

All Funders

Topic(s)

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

Funding Area

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Location

New York City

To Avoid Being a Supporter of the Status Quo, Ask “So What?”

Release Date:

01/27/2016

... look beyond the data and make an effort to understand how to permanently contribute to opportunity and advancement. ... research and testing that deepens our understanding of how households adapt to...