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Mellon Foundation Names Carter Stewart Executive Vice President for Programs

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07/21/2021

... In 2021, Stewart was the lead investigator for the Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs’ ... child exploitation prevention working group from 2013 to 2015 . Stewart currently serves on...

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18 May 2011

Successful Advocacy -- and Its Challenges: What's "Public" About Public Education?

Wednesday, May 18, 2011 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... the cuts would have been even larger. Throughout the state , school boards and superintendents are warning of the ... throughout the state are looking closely at proposed cuts, examining...

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Karen Brooks Hopkins Joins the Jerome L. Greene Foundation Board of Directors

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01/12/2016

... Academy of Music and served as its president from 1999 to 2015 . During that time, she transformed the organization into ... In 2006, Ms. Hopkins was elected by the New York State Legislature to the Board of...

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Supported By Many PNY Members, 2016 Creative Capital Awards Given In Literature, Performing Arts

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01/13/2016

... receive up to 50,000 USD in direct funding and additional resources and advisory services—such as financial ... Medea as a Latin American variety show, and an opera examining America’s relationship with guns...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

The Power of Giving Caregivers Extra Hands for Their Research

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05/17/2018

... level. A request for letters of intent was issued in May 2015 . We received 72 letters of intent and 61 full ... revealed much new knowledge about its early influence, trends and participants’ experiences...

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

Enabling Sustainable Investment in Social Interventions: A Review of Medicaid Managed Care Rate-Setting Tools

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02/02/2018

... food, have a substantial impact on health outcomes and spending , particularly with respect to lower-income ... certain social services as covered benefits under the state ’s Medicaid plan; 2) explore the...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Soros Justice Fellows

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03/31/2022

... vindicate the rights of the hundreds of people in Arizona prisons who have a viable claim for parole or opportunity for ...

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

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06/29/2017

... and was recognized by Inside Philanthropy as one of 2015 ’s Boldest Moves and Top Trends . Before that, she was the Energy and Environment ...

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12 Oct 2017

ESSA: How Much Will it Change School Testing, Equity, Diversity and Discipline Practices?

Thursday, October 12, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 to replace its controversial predecessor the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), each state was given more power and tasked with producing its own...

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How Should Philanthropy Respond to Obama’s Speech on Black Men and Boys?

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08/15/2013

... Americans of all races who have devoted their time and resources to improving the life outcomes of black men and ...

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New York Community Trust Awards Grants to 56 Organizations in All Five Boroughs

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10/15/2019

... NONPROFITS TO INCREASE VOTER TURNOUT: New York City and State have some of the lowest voter turnout rates in the ... the program. It will also work with the City’s Human Resources Administration to promote the...

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August 2013 Working Group Updates

Release Date:

08/28/2013

... organizing project formed in 2011 to provide information, resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ... and Department of Probation. Background: In late winter 2010 , PNY convened a steering...

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Philanthropy New York

Program Recap: Philanthropy New York Hosts its First Next Generation Retreat

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10/30/2009

... Lynch. Before parting, participants learned of additional resources to help them on their philanthropic journeys. The next retreat will be held at the 2010 CoF Family Philanthropy Conference in San Diego. For...

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CSR in Focus: What did we learn in 2020?

... leading and making real change. Bring to the table the resources and tools you have as a business and work with them ... over time and deploy all your tools to support them. Resources : Is COVID-19 Changing...

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Twenty Puerto Rican Writers Receive the Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship

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11/16/2021

... writers from the continent under 39. Two years earlier, in 2015 , the Festival de la Palabra de Puerto Rico recognized ... first novel, Daughters of the Stone, was shortlisted as a 2010 Finalist for the PEN/...

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Mellon Foundation

Regents Approve Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools

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09/12/2017

... Plan to Evaluate and Improve New York Schools The New York State Board of Regents on Monday approved a plan laying out the state ’s goals for its education system, as required by the ... federal education law...

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The Visionary Freedom Fund, Launched by the Andrus Family Fund, Announces Inaugural Cohort of Grant Recipients in Grantmaking Led by Youth Organizers to Transform Youth Justice System

Release Date:

09/28/2021

... to set the grantmaking strategy and determine how VFF’s resources are deployed. Power Table members know firsthand ... restorative justice, calls to divest from policing and prisons and invest in vital...

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Andrus Family Fund

Senate Republicans Look to Revive Effort To Repeal Obamacare By End of September

Release Date:

09/18/2017

... of a plan that would devolve federal health-care spending to states. The Congressional Budget Office is in the ...

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Social Justice Funders: For National Movements to Win, Invest in Texas

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08/08/2017

... Texas’s elected leaders push a Right-wing agenda, the state ’s communities of color ‒ especially Latinx ... in the country and is growing. Between June 2014 and June 2015 , four Texas suburbs were among the...