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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Continues Pandemic Relief Efforts with New Grants Totaling over $27.7 Million

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05/29/2020

... holistic and granular. Community foundations and community- based organizations are uniquely positioned to implement a ... New Orleans, New York, and San Antonio that are pooling resources to most effectively...

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10 Oct 2019

Uniting US: Challenging Fear and Standing Up for Humanity

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

... culture; “…we need comprehensive immigration reform policy .” It is clear that our identity – as a nation ... and values can compromise with empathy in a more human context What’s working from philanthropy and...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces the Addition of Four New Staff and Six New Board Members

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01/28/2015

... the strategic direction and execution of priority initiatives across the nonprofit’s 48 regions. Before ... South Asia Solidarity Initiative (SASI), a New York– based collective she co-founded that works in...

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What’s at Stake and What’s at Play: My Reckoning with Philanthropy

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12/02/2022

... who isn’t here with me. Philanthropy can move capital resources quickly and with less friction than the public sector. The pandemic exposed how essential our work is ...

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Maverick Capital Foundation

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Dumbarton Oaks and JSTOR award Plant Humanities Fellowships Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/19/2019

... of rare books and manuscripts, herbaria specimens, online resources such as JSTOR Global Plants, and scholarly ... with the aim of engaging teachers, students, and the public . “The excitement of this...

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The Wallace Foundation Names Bronwyn Bevan as New Director of Research

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07/31/2019

... Bevan will contribute significantly to the design of initiatives in the foundation’s program areas, integrate ... team, share responsibility for strategic planning, public policy engagement,...

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The Wallace Foundation

Owning My Expertise & Embracing My Leadership

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02/10/2022

... Brown University and an MPA from the Baruch CUNY School of Public Affairs through the National Urban Fellows Program. In ... and I continue to run into people who remind me to mind my place . However, I am...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Names 27 Winners of Andrew Carnegie Fellowships

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05/12/2020

... online town halls with members of Congress can help shape public policy • Factors driving economic disparities : combining ... In this year’s class, 14 are from public institutions of...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in Communities of Color

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04/30/2020

... made in the summer in order to provide organizations with resources as they ramp up programming to respond to the ... on a range of issues, including equity in funding for public schools, ending police...

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14 Sep 2012

Social Justice on the Streets: New Developments Around "Stop-and-Frisk" and Discriminatory Policing

Friday, September 14, 2012 -

8:45am to 11:30am

... City have escalated as New Yorkers are policed differently based on their class, race, ethnicity, religion, gender ... including community organizing, litigation, legal defense, policy reform, public...

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The Rockefeller Foundation has Announced the Launch of The Communities Thrive Challenge

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04/05/2018

... of eligible applicants will be published to help funders, policy makers , and others identify and learn more about ...

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25 Apr 2012

Power to the People: Participatory Budgeting as a New Model of Civic Engagement in NYC

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... Community members directly decide how to spend part of a public budget. The process has the potential to transform ... new leadership Prioritize dwindling government spending based on local knowledge Utilize...

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Practical Plans for Strengthening Nonprofits: The Human Services Data Project

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04/20/2010

... Mayor for Health and Human Services , which explored six initiatives now being designed to strengthen the City’s ... documents online in the Vault, accessible to any of their public and private funders...

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Century Foundation Fellow Co-Authors Report on Admission Preferences of Low-Income Students

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01/11/2016

... such a "poverty preference" for admissions to selective higher education institutions, akin to existing preferences ... of students in America's most competitive institutions of higher education...

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The Century Foundation

Time To Revisit Reporting

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10/04/2017

... benefit from capacity support, field connections, or other resources that the funder could offer. Grantmaker learning to ... requirements necessarily eat into our grantees’ finite resources , Project Streamline...

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Announcing the Heckscher Leadership Fellows Program

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03/31/2020

... giving, strategic partnerships with other funders in the public and private sectors, and targeted problem ... Teach for America. She holds a master’s degree in Public Policy from the Goldman...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Open Society Foundations Commits $5 Million for Accountable Governance

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06/02/2019

... of accountable, responsive, and inclusive governance initiatives . The grant includes $1 million in 2020 and an ... and effective. The funding from OSF will advance shared policy priorities in the areas of...

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Carolina Espinal Elected Schott Foundation Board Chair

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07/13/2020

... Schott Foundation Board Chair The Schott Foundation for Public Education board of directors has elected Carolina ... and later leading the NAACP’s national civic engagement policy platform. Through her work...

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A Year of Progress Toward Vision 2025

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12/02/2015

... facilities, upgrade technology, expand programming, grow a public policy fellowship program and deepen our overall ... is a brief outline of the important work that our first Public ...

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