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Opinion: Small Charities Should Lead by Example in Paid Parental Leave

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08/29/2017

... were the emotions I felt as my husband and I welcomed our daughter Norah into the world. I couldn’t have imagined ... nonprofit, and my new role as mother. This was because our organization has a comprehensive...

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Opinion: With Or Without DACA, New York Must Step Up For Immigrant Communities

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09/05/2017

... who had already been in the U.S. for years, having left our home country because they knew they couldn’t earn ... a proud mother and homeowner, contributing every day to our state with my love, sweat, and tax...

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Immigration

With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York City Leaders Pledge Support for Students and Teachers

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09/06/2017

... student, parent and educator is welcome and safe in our schools. We will do everything we can to defend you in our schools.” . . . With Trump Moving to End DACA, New York ...

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What Major Universities Had to Say About Trump’s Move to Roll Back DACA

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09/07/2017

... a stark message on social media, tweeting, "We stand with our undocumented students." In a statement, the university's ... representatives to "take action to provide protection for our...

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Opinion: Planned Parenthood of NYC Joins Call to Remove Racist Statue

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09/14/2017

... groups. The protests were powerful affirmations of our city’s stance against racism and hatred. But even ... – New York must recognize white supremacy in our own backyard and we must take steps to upend it...

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Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

... am a NYCHA resident who has spent my career advocating for our public housing communities – and I can tell you why we ... before the bill receives a Council vote – to claim that our months of advocacy have had...

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Workforce Development

The Return Of Hookworm And The Limits Of Public Health Philanthropy

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09/27/2017

... last several months that delivered a punch to the gut of our national self-regard, challenging Whiggish notions of moral progression that still color some of our deepest beliefs about the United States and its...

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Listen: Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Hosts a Conversation On The Value Of Workplace Diversity

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02/28/2018

... diversity was part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Our Compelling Interests series . The panel, recorded before .....

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Pfizer Foundation Fights Hunger and Supports the UN Global Goals at SXSW

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03/27/2018

... Goal 2: Zero Hunger, and we’re proud to continue our long-standing support of Rise Against Hunger’s work to ... helped to reach Pfizer’s first milestone of completing our first 1 million meals packaged. Pfizer...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Nina Stack Joins Champlain Foundation as Executive Director

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04/17/2018

... remarks: “We are thrilled to have Nina joining us as our new executive director. … Her breadth of experience and ... Rhode Island communities and vital institutions across our state.” In her time with the New...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation's Ninth Annual Fiscal Summit Will Outline Urgent Need for Fiscal Reset following Recent Tax and Spending Legislation

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05/01/2018

... fiscal condition remains a transcendent threat to our collective future. The ninth annual Summit will convene ... debt is on course to eclipse the size of the economy, our nation will face increased budgetary...

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Rockefeller Foundation, FAO Supporting Africa to Halve Food Loss

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06/21/2018

... by 2030 through strengthening policies and strategies. " Our work with The Rockefeller Foundation and the African ... less pressure on the environment, which both contribute to our vision of a Zero Hunger...

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Aetna Foundation President Discusses What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis

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06/29/2018

... What it Will Take to Solve the Opioid Crisis In 2015, our life expectancy dropped for the first time since the ... 40,000 individuals died due to opioid drug overdoses. Even our healthiest communities aren’t...

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Edwin Gould Foundation | EGF Accelerator

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Health

Why We Support Media

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07/05/2018

... benefactors. But often, it did not. We look at our grantmaking to journalism organizations through a very ... plays an important role in helping the public and our policymakers keep step with the changing...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows

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07/24/2018

... work, individually and as a community, represents our highest aspirations for what our founder Chuck Feeney and the Atlantic Philanthropies set ...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation Gives Stem Programs Over $5 Million

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09/13/2018

... going to have a tremendous impact by allowing us to evolve our program called Teen STEM Initiative," said Marisa ... us opportunities to teach STEM principles throughout our boat-building process,"...

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Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation

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Education

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Eric Marchall Concludes Tenure as FCCP’s Executive Director

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10/02/2018

... to find FCCP’s next leader. During this process, it is our priority to find the best individual to lead, while ... Board, and increasingly following the lead and energy of our members as we went. These...

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Funders' Committee for Civic Participation

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Names Nicole Taylor as President and CEO

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11/14/2018

... donors’ interests to the most pressing needs throughout our community. In Nicole Taylor, the Board Search Committee ... Her eagerness to join SVCF at such an important point in our history speaks to her great...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

... in New Orleans. “Thanks to Mitchell’s vision and our own desire to continue to be responsive to artists’ ... funds and very much look forward to the ongoing success of our artist community,” Blatchford added...

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