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Gates Foundation Names Robert Hughes as New K-12 Strategy Director

Release Date:

02/18/2016

... track record of success in closing the student achievement gap for low-income students and students of color. Bob is ... toward greater equity and narrowing the achievement gap . Bob currently serves on the...

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Education

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

JPMorgan Report: Good, Growing Middle-Skill Jobs Exclude Women

Release Date:

03/24/2016

... in these growing sectors. “Progress on closing the gender wage gap has slowed to a halt in the last decade,” ... degree. This highlights that not only are women lacking opportunities to build...

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Gender Justice

Workforce Development

16 Moments of Pride for LGBTQ Philanthropy

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06/30/2014

... invested more than a billion dollars to advance legal equality and improve the lives of LGBTQ people. Some of the ... Movement. Over the years, the Ford Foundation has awarded close to $70 million to advance...

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Paul Rapoport Foundation, Inc.

Brooklyn Community Foundation Partners on $2.2M "Welcome NYC" Initiative for Nonprofits Serving Asylum Seekers

Release Date:

03/03/2023

... newly arriving people and families. Welcome NYC will help organizations on the ground providing support to asylum ... the specific gaps that exist in services, and the need for resources and support to...

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Children, Youth and Families

Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Hurricane Sandy Giving Stories

... support to relief efforts and is putting additional resources and processes in place to quickly funnel aid to ... agencies and public authorities, GJNY will alert them to opportunities for public hearings or...

2024 PNY Membership Report to the Board

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Producers and Speakers: Money and Power in Post-Election America

... 14 years on the staff of the House Ways and Means Human Resources Subcommittee, serving as the subcommittee’s Staff ... rights and social justice issues and edited Speech and Equality : Do We Really Have to...

Salesforce Gives $19M to Support Five School Districts Across the US and Education Nonprofits

Release Date:

09/20/2021

... equity. This series of grants brings Salesforce’s total investment in education to more than $140 million. As the ... Superintendent Dr. Alessia Johnson. “These additional resources will help...

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Education

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Salesforce

Thanu Yakupitiyage Appointed Program Officer, Sustainable Environments at the Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

04/27/2023

... Director and interim U.S. Program Lead at 350.org, a global organization working to build an equitable world safe ... within the climate justice movement, I am eager to shift resources to organizations and...

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Surdna Foundation

Want to Make a Change in the United States? Look Abroad!

Release Date:

10/23/2017

... November 7th for our Program "From There to Here: Adapting Global Solutions to American Problems" Ten years ago when New ... have no borders. As funders, our ultimate goal is to help ensure that the...

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Health

27 Jul 2016

Beyond the Feel Good Factor: The Corporate and Philanthropic Benefits of Building a Skills-Based Volunteer Program

Wednesday, July 27, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

Most companies know volunteerism is one tool to help elevate employee engagement and bring about positive ... Preeti Chaturvedi , Director, Product Management, Global Receivables and Payments, Citi Alison Kozak ,...

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Professional Development

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Panel

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Corporate Funders

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Vision for 2025

... out their CSR campaigns. In line with her passion to help students of all backgrounds access education and opportunities , she serves as a mentor for the New Jersey ... can have a social impact using all of...

Accelerating Your Impact: On-Ramps to Effective Advocacy Funding

Release Date:

10/24/2024

... are building trust and relationships through long-term investment in communities and local leadership, strategic ... to go far, go together.” On Ramp # 1 – Creating Opportunities for Collective Learning and...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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TCC Group

Federica Mogherini and William Lee Join Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees

Release Date:

03/28/2022

... of the European Commission, and William Lee , former chief investment officer for New York-Presbyterian Hospital, have ... insights and leadership as trustees of the Fund will help sustain and strengthen our...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

Release Date:

06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in ... or geographic regions. Our Think Group participants help educate us, keep us current on...

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Animal Welfare

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arcus Foundation

After a Gay Rights Victory, a New Challenge for Grantmakers

Release Date:

07/10/2013

... the Constitution of the United States and that marriage equality is the law in those states where same-sex marriage ... this decision, but now donors have much more work to do to help assure full ...

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Childcare Hasn’t Gained Much Traction with Funders. Who's Trying to Change That?

Release Date:

09/29/2017

... families, but few funders have stepped in to fill the gap . In 2015, the Economic Policy Institute, a ... on reaching women of color and low-income women through investment in grassroots organizations. It got...

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Children, Youth and Families

Reshaping the Business of Social Change

Release Date:

06/20/2013

... do it? What does it achieve? And what does it get back in return ? When I joined the Foundation in 2008, Thomson had ... from the social responsibility mindset and instead very close to the principles of shared...

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Ford Foundation Among Funders of ImpactUs Marketplace: Four New Issuers Join

Release Date:

09/13/2017

... advisors an extensive range of private impact investing opportunities . The four issuers* are mission-driven ... in Maine and across the country. Enterprise Community Investment , Inc. : Enterprise Community...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Ford Foundation

With Support from Bank of America, a City Takes on Inequality

Release Date:

12/20/2017

... In an important 2013 study conducted by Raj Chetty’s Equality of Opportunity Project , Charlotte ranked dead last ... Opportunity Task Force. Their task: Figure out how to close the gap...

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Member News

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Community Development

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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