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09 Dec 2010

Shareholder Activism: Changing Corporate Behavior

Thursday, December 9, 2010 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... safety laws or one that used suppliers dependent on child labor ? Would you use your power as an owner to try to improve safety practices or eliminate the use of child labor ? As the company’s owner, would you...

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Five New Open Society Fellows Will Address Economic Inequality

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09/16/2021

... concentration of wealth in the Middle East, a labor rights organizer finding ways to unleash the power of ... will explore the relationship between land, labor , and social welfare in Mozambique. She hopes to...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Economic Security

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Open Society Foundations

18 Sep 2025

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Convening: A Systemwide Approach to Career Connections at CUNY

Thursday, September 18, 2025 -

9:30am to 12:00pm

... alignment between CUNY’s community colleges and major labor unions. Leaders from LaGuardia Community College and ... good jobs in healthcare, tech, and construction. CUNY and labor union leaders will then...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Supports the Rebuilding of Jacob's Pillow Theater

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12/17/2022

... new audiences. It will also give dancers a space to create digital art. “They need a maker space for those works,” ... and capabilities that will be required to ensure that the digital future is one that is...

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Arts

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Doris Duke Foundation

Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows

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07/15/2020

... reckoning with systemic injustice magnifies inequities in our societies that marginalized communities have faced for generations. That’s why the work of our fellows is so urgent, as they work on the frontlines...

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Arts

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Open Society Foundations

New Member Spotlight: ASPCA

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07/10/2009

... of animal welfare organizations in the United States. Our largest and most successful grant program is ASPCA ... euthanasia of homeless animals simply because of a lack of resources . AM:O is a five-year...

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All Funders

Bringing the Liberal Arts to Engineering Education

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05/19/2015

... liberal arts, even though solving the complex problems of our time — eliminating hunger, preventing terrorism, minimizing our carbon footprint, to name a few — requires a ... decision making. And finally,...

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Education

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The Teagle Foundation

Nathan Cummings Foundation Fellow Bridgit Antoinette Evans to Lead Pop Culture Collaborative

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03/15/2017

... work resonates strongly with NCF values and aligns with our commitment to expand radical empathy through voice, ... narratives about the communities and cultures that make our country strong and beautiful. The...

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Arts

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Funded New York's First 'To and Through' Data Tool That Shines a Light on College Readiness Gap

Release Date:

10/14/2019

... K-12 data—including which courses students take, the resources and supports in their schools, and how they perform ... this “to and through” analysis provide that can help? RESOURCES : How are schools and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Learning Together to Grow the Field

Release Date:

09/17/2021

... be an inflection point in generating greater awareness and resources for SBYD. Lesson 2: There is no “I” in Team ... idea for a sport-specific survey first emerged from one of our grantees - Play Rugby USA...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA

United Hospital Fund Literacy Project, funded by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation, Makes Lasting Difference at East Harlem Health Center

Release Date:

09/27/2023

... in the basement. "When I started residency in 2020, our bookshelf had like four books on it — we weren’t able ... or English proficiency. While providing tangible resources like books are important,...

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Health

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Understanding NY City & State's Legislative Landscape: An Overview for Funders with the Advocacy Institute

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The Simons Foundation

Mellon Foundation and NEH Recognize College Professor for Book on Israel

Release Date:

11/29/2016

Gary S. Schiff’s first book, “Tradition and Politics: The Religious Parties of Israel,” has been selected under a $773,761 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as a “great humanities book.”