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The Century Foundation

Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison - Op-Ed Co-Written by Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

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03/30/2020

... of ordering the release of 1,100 people from New York’ s jails and prisons. But he must do more. If we don’t act ... work in prisons get infected, they will bring the virus home to their families. As happened...

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Benjamin Chu Elected Commonwealth Fund Chairman; Mark Smith Elected to Board

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12/10/2014

... health system. He has been a member of the Fund’ s board since 2003. Before joining the Kaiser Foundation ... clinical affairs and associate dean at New York University Medical Center. He takes office...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Simons Foundation Announces Historic Gift to Stony Brook University Endowment

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06/01/2023

... University during a news conference at the foundation’ s Manhattan headquarters. This monumental gift — the ... stemming from this gift will have a direct and positive impact on perpetual funding for student...

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Education

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The Amida Care Fund at Stonewall Community Foundation Announces 2021 Grant Awards for HIV/AIDS Initiatives at NYC Community Organizations

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12/09/2021

... Foundation was established as part of Amida Care’ s privately funded Live Your Life wellness program and is ... communities and break down barriers they face to accessing quality health care,” said Doug Wirth...

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Stonewall Community Foundation

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3/10/2015 - Supporting Grantee Capacity - Live Stream Recording & PowerPoint

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03/2015

View materials and the live stream recording of the program, "Supporting Grantee Capacity."

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Technical Assistance & Capacity Building

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Foundation Center

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Ten Grants at COP27 to Scale Indigenous and Regenerative Agriculture Practices Globally

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11/09/2022

... Farley, Vice President of The Rockefeller Foundation’ s Global Food Portfolio . “Our goal is to develop the ... currently cannot afford a healthy diet . “Food systems impact every person on the planet and the...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... and closure decisions that directly affect people’ s lives. We have launched an initiative to spread OpenNotes ... We are supporting a project that trains ombudsmen, nursing home residents, and their family...

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Morgan Stanley Announces $10 Million Cash Commitment to Support Coronavirus Relief Efforts

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03/19/2020

... relief efforts. Funding will support critical frontline medical responders globally as well as community providers ... the CDC Foundation, and the World Health Organization’ s Covid-19 Solidarity Health Fund...

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Borealis Philanthropy's Racial Equity to Accelerate Change Fund Moves $2.2 Million to Racial Equity Practitioners

Release Date:

11/01/2022

Borealis Philanthropy' s Racial Equity to Accelerate Change Fund Moves $2.2 Million ... Racial Equity to Accelerate Change (REACH) Fund proudly resources racial equity healers, facilitators, and capacity .....

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Social Justice

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New Report from The Century Foundation: How the Federal Government Can Make Funding Accessible to Maternal Health Community-Based Organizations

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07/10/2023

... populations in particular. Many of the holistic, patient - centered models of care used by CBOs have demonstrated the ... health disparities is to ensure that CBOs have the resources they need...

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A Critical Catalyst: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Sandy

Release Date:

01/30/2013

... issues that came up during the course of the Commission’ s analysis: 1. Evacuation s . Evacuation policy during ... problems. Study and systemic action is needed to ensure quality...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

20 Sep 2011

School Transformations III: Practices and Programs that Are Transforming Schools & Policies that Support Them

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... in turning around schools and highlighted instructional quality and school climate as two essential ingredients for ... support these efforts? Part of Philanthropy New York' s Back to School Series . A...

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Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo

Release Date:

09/05/2014

... Core], because they can just rely on their salespeople’ s relationships [with state and district purchasers].” Now, ... publishers are increasingly competing on quality and cost , just as...

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Education

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Rachel Block Joins Milbank Memorial Fund as Program Officer

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04/03/2017

... most recently spearheading development of New York state’ s health information technology strategy as deputy ... and certification programs, with particular emphasis on quality improvement, data, and systems...

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Could Universal Pre-K Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

Release Date:

06/19/2014

... Jersey Senator Cory Booker highlighted the growth of the U. S . criminal justice system over the past thirty years. "We ... has still received scant attention. Could a high- quality universal pre-K program...

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An Update on Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Limited Life

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10/23/2018

An Update on Edna McConnell Clark Foundation' s Limited Life "Today Blue Meridian Partners is announcing ... soon to be announced. We have begun a search for a new home for the initiative that will help...

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16 Nov 2015

Neighborhoods Count: Using Data to Transform High Poverty Neighborhoods

Monday, November 16, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... and partner organizations via collaboration and collective impact /Promise models. A challenge for CBOs is that they are ... , Chief Research and Data Strategies Officer , Mayor’ s Office of Criminal Justice...

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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... lesson is unfolding right now in New York State. Let’ s go back to July 2009. New York Governor David Paterson was ... expansion allowed the state to spend more, such additional resources often became the...

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Danielle Deane-Ryan Joins the Nathan Cummings Foundation as Director, Inclusive Clean Economy

Release Date:

06/29/2017

... energy sector. In her new role, she joins the Foundation’ s leadership team working to advance solutions to the two ... and acting director for Stakeholder Engagement at the U. S . Department of Energy (DOE),...

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