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Mellon Foundation

02 May 2018

Stronger Together: New Frontiers in Funders Supporting Social Movements - May Webinar Hosted by HRFN

Wednesday, May 2, 2018 -

12:30pm to 1:30pm

... smart investments in social movements for transformative change ? June 6 – The role of social movements in ... Civil and Political Rights and Humanitarian Response, American Jewish World Service I rit Houvras...

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Let’s Examine the Underlying Tensions of Civic Engagement

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04/18/2018

... with experts on the topic of our Annual Meeting. Philanthropy New York’s Annual Meeting Committee decides in ... emotional energy to immerse themselves in news and social change strategy. There are literally...

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30 Jul 2025

Understanding the Evolution of Birthright Citizenship and What Comes Next - A Webinar Hosted by AAPIP and GCIR

Wednesday, July 30, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

*This program is hosted by our partners, Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and Grantmakers Concerned with ... It is a fundamental principle that has come to define American...

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Partnering With State Governments to Strengthen Families: Early Lessons From the Work Support Strategies Initiative

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06/25/2013

... problems at a scale that results in real and enduring change — in this case, creating opportunity for low-income ... Federal and state governments remain the largest source of resources targeted at the issues...

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With Support from the Russell Sage Foundation, Researchers Analyze the Rise of White Identity in Politics

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10/21/2016

In a study of white Americans’ attitudes and candidate preferences, we found that Trump’s success reflects the rise of “white identity politics” – an attempt to protect the collective interests of white voters via the ballot box. Whereas racial...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report - Here Is What School Integration in America Looks Like Today

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12/02/2021

... access to diverse learning environments, equitable resources , and school cultures that affirm their identities. ... there are certainly many promising examples among them—but rather as a list of places where...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Pledges $250 Million to Reimagine US Monuments

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10/07/2020

... The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest humanities philanthropy in the United States, has pledged to spend $250 ... beautiful and extraordinary and powerful multiplicity of American stories.” The...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Controller

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08/2013

... on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job .....

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Two Views on the Failure of Policing

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07/16/2015

... clear—or it should have been—that antagonism between American law enforcement and young black men had reached a ... Alice Goffman’s On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City is a work of sociology (Goffman...

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Gender and Transformative Giving

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05/23/2013

... grantmaking focused on (for instance) young men, who are African - American , and perhaps also unemployed, is already a huge ... , we just published our new guide , Gender Transformative Philanthropy...

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Toward a New Gospel of Wealth

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10/01/2015

... foundations to exist at all. The origins of modern philanthropy This tension stretches back more than a century. ... the social entrepreneurship of a millennial generation of change agents. In the sheer...

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Evelynn M. Hammonds Joins Arcus Board of Directors

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08/22/2013

... and public health; gender in science and medicine; and African - American history. Hammonds served as the Dean of Harvard ... Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and...

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Arcus Foundation

Accelerating Your Impact: On-Ramps to Effective Advocacy Funding

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10/24/2024

... to accomplish, and the answer will likely be “lasting change ”. But in the current ever-shifting policy ... of the JPB Foundation, wrote recently in the Chronicle of Philanthropy that it’s time to ...

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TCC Group

Actions Civics: Activating Young Citizens to Go Beyond the Ballot

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07/03/2018

... women and people of color who collectively make up the New American Majority . Yet, these young voters vote at abysmal ... one of the root causes of this lack of civic participation among young people - the...

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Generation Citizen

Bridging the Knowledge Gap About Grantmaking for People with Disabilities

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11/04/2010

On October 19th, Philanthropy New York held a collaborative program to ...

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Toshiba America

Measuring Well-Being in the New York Metro Area

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05/10/2012

... opportunity in the New York metropolitan area? At a recent Philanthropy New York session, Sarah Burd-Sharps and Kristen ... Co-Directors at Measure of America, described how their American Human Development...

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In Time Magazine, Ford’s Walker Says Giving Back Is a Birthright

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06/30/2016

... virtue, dating at least to the dawn of religious teaching. Philanthropy as we understand it today, however, is a distinctly American phenomenon, inseparable from the nation that shaped ...

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Bank of America and Feeding America Partner to Tackle Hunger in America

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09/01/2015

... will give $2 more, up to $1.5 million – giving donors the opportunity to amplify their support for ...

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