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

Release Date:

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...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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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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Arts

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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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Community Development

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Groundswell Fund Shares An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

Release Date:

06/10/2021

... By contrast, the cornerstone of racial equity is sharing resources and decision-making power in a way that ... “different way” must include a significant transfer of resources into the control of institutions...

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Social Justice

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21 Oct 2020

A Peek into the Cloudy Crystal Ball Reality of Health and Human Service Budgets

Wednesday, October 21, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:15pm

... straightforward look at budget realities—on the federal, state , and local level—is a first step for philanthropy to ... and going forward to help inform your foundations spending decisions and directions...

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Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding

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01/25/2018

... learning in the arts and sciences for undergraduates. In 2015 , the Foundation awarded special grants to organizations ...

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Rita Allen Foundation Wants to Solve the Problem of 'Reader Alienation'

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04/03/2015

... bad news may sell, but more often than not, it comes at a price . The constant avalanche of depressing news can make any ... is particularly acute among college kids, whose natural state , if we're to...

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Audacious Philanthropy

Release Date:

08/29/2017

... eradicating polio globally. Providing free and reduced- price lunches for all needy schoolchildren in the United ...

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How Failure of the Obamacare Repeal Affects Consumers

Release Date:

09/27/2017

... quo; there have been no policy changes affecting the price or comprehensiveness of workplace health plans. The ...

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Richard Rockefeller Killed in Plane Crash

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06/13/2014

... Advisory Board of Doctors Without Borders from 1989 until 2010 , and served on the board of Rockefeller University until ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Health Department, United Hospital Fund, and Partners Release Plan to Promote Health Equity

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08/26/2016

... has been a central and unifying theme across New York State ’s signature health reform initiatives, including the ... care transitions, improved connections to community-based resources , and the use of quality...

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United Hospital Fund

Milbank Memorial Fund Releases Transgender Health Discrimination Study

Release Date:

07/29/2015

... in Massachusetts since the 2012 implementation of the state ’s gender identity nondiscrimination law. The study ...

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Environment and Climate Change

Gender Justice

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Milbank Memorial Fund

How Philanthropy Can Help Achieve the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals in the U.S.

Publication date:

07/2016

This report from the Council on Foundations examines how U.S. funders can view their work in the global development framework and contribute to the success of the goals in the United States.

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Changing the Conversation about Inequality

Release Date:

09/23/2014

... outcomes. For instance, we have supported research examining programs that serve immigrant youth, a group that ... a letter of inquiry for our next deadline, January 6, 2015 . Changing the Conversation about...

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William T. Grant Foundation

Ins and Outs of Forming Early Childhood Education Research-to-Practice and Policy Partnerships

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01/11/2018

... (the Foundation), we identified this gap- and in 2015 - launched the NYC Early Childhood Research Network. ... Opportunities for Placed-Based Strategies As federal, state , and municipal ECE programs are all...

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Foundation for Child Development

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Education

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Welcomes Isabel Sousa-Rodriguez As New Program Officer

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04/17/2019

... racism and, over the next five years, will commit the full resources of the Foundation to the goal of engendering a ... rights movement with FLIC straight out of high school. In 2010 , Isabel was one of the...

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20 Issues, to Be Specific

Release Date:

07/19/2017

... in March of this year. This slate – 20 federal, state and local issues, to be exact – provides background ... is that the Committee and the Board took a lot of time examining not only the 20 issues, but also...

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