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A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

Release Date:

05/14/2009

... My younger daughter is a chef and when she was in culinary school she told me that there are five “mother” sauces in ... essential. Look for leverage and where your deployment of resources can best be used...

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UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges

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07/10/2019

... census, this new threat means that important philanthropic resources will now be siphoned for litigation and the ... of local funders started meeting to strategize and hold learning sessions in Summer 2017,...

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09 Feb 2016

Campaign for Grade Level Reading: The Funder Action Series, Part 2 - Webinar

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 -

11:00am to 12:00pm

... The second webinar will cover: Community Solution Area: School Readiness Too many children start school already far behind their peers and never catch up. ... level by the end of third grade. Funders...

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Ashley Allen

... of low-income communities. She has worked in charter schools as a secondary English teacher and worked to provide ...

Wendy Liscow to Leave The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation After 17 Years

Release Date:

11/13/2020

... attending our state’s most historically under-resourced school districts. She has also developed sequential adult learning opportunities to help ensure nonprofit staff and ...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Philanthropy New York Welcomes Ashley Allen as the new Manager of Member Engagement

Release Date:

11/09/2022

... of low-income communities. She has worked in charter schools as a secondary English teacher and worked to provide ...

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Weinberg Foundation Enters New Grantmaking Space Through Partnership with Community Development Financial Institutions

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01/27/2021

... in nonprofit organizations such as local health centers, schools , and community centers; supporting black, Indigenous ...

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Economic Security

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13 Apr 2022

Seizing the Moment: Managing Risks and Closing Gaps in NYS’s Health Insurance Safety Net

Wednesday, April 13, 2022 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... for Children and Families, Georgetown University McCourt School of Public Policy Elisabeth R. Benjamin , MSPH, JD, ...

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Health

Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... The National Eye Institute (NEI)-funded study, led by principal investigator, Rohit Varma, MD, MPH, interim dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC and director of the USC Roski Eye ...

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Simons Foundation-Funded Research Reveals That Bacteria in Giant Aquarium Mirror Natural Ocean Microbes

Release Date:

11/07/2018

... Frank Stewart, an associate professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Biological Sciences and principal investigator of the study. “The microbial ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Simons Foundation

Judy Belk Appointed President and CEO of The California Wellness Foundation

Release Date:

03/12/2014

... for The California Wellness Foundation.” A seasoned leader with more than 25 years of senior management ... partners across the state in leveraging the Foundation’s resources and voice in bringing about...

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Surdna Foundation

PIMCO Awards New York City Mission Society Money for College Readiness Program

Release Date:

11/17/2016

... 25,000 dollars to support its college-readiness program, Learning to Work. Since its inception, LTW has served thousands of high school students in New York City’s most underserved ... after dropping out or...

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The Covenant Foundation Announces the 2018 Recipients of The Covenant Award

Release Date:

06/06/2018

... Tawonga, San Francisco, CA; and Dr. Susie Tanchel, Head of School at JCDS, Boston’s Jewish Community Day School , Watertown, MA, are the recipients of the Award, ... educators is engaged broadens the scope of...

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Ford, Rockefeller and Others Supporting NFF Knowledge-Dissemination Effort on Impact Investing

Release Date:

04/14/2016

... funding, and includes the launch of an online learning hub, a book slated for publication in early 2017, ...

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Ford Foundation

Sustaining Impact: Supporting Nonprofits to Thrive During Leadership Transitions

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05/02/2025

... received continuous funding during transitions reported better outcomes, such as: More engaged board members; ... unrestricted or flexible funding so they can allocate resources as needed, such as board or...

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NY Times Profiles James Simons, Simons Foundation

Release Date:

07/07/2014

... foundation that he established in 2004 to promote the the teaching of math in schools .... NY Times Profiles James Simons, Simons Foundation ...

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Health

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

Release Date:

06/03/2015

... Foundation – were announced today by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE), which ran the competition. ... entry – four in all – was given to the sponsoring school or social organization of the...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

Release Date:

08/27/2015

... The Souls of Black Folk. But this was no ordinary summer school class, and its students were not traditional ...

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Mellon Foundation

The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

Release Date:

04/12/2016

... enlists industry professionals to teach coding in public schools across the city. The Trust is also supporting the ...

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Arts

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The New York Community Trust

08 Dec 2021

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... that 1 in 4 young adults in New York City were out of school and out of work in 2020. These young adults continue ... need for an expansion of bridge programs to ensure out-of- school and out-of-work young...