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One-Third of New Yorkers Don’t Have Internet Access. That Is an Issue for Funders

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05/26/2021

... workdays on Zoom; our 13-year-old daughter has attended school on Zoom; and we have had doctors’ appointments by ... in March 2020, people without internet could not attend school , enroll in unemployment...

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The New York Community Trust

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Community Development

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Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health Announces Five Winners of the Inaugural Innovation Awards

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10/06/2021

... literacy programming, education, therapy scholarships and resources to help Black girls and women lead mentally healthy ... and an implementation template for replicating to other schools . Smart from the Start...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Philanthropy New York Members Join A Call to Action: Philanthropy's Commitment During COVID-19

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03/25/2020

Philanthropy New York members join the growing number of foundations and philanthropic organizations committed to acting with fierce urgency to support organizations and communities impacted by COVID-19.

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Disaster Relief

Building Bridges: Philanthropy's Journey Towards Active Advocacy

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04/12/2024

... influx of new New Yorkers seeking asylum with essential resources . However, the nonprofits most suitable for this ...

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

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08/08/2017

... and a Master of Public Affairs student at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at ... in Texas. Texas social justice organizations need more resources to deepen capacity and expand reach...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Lessons on Movement Building

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06/27/2018

... the tone and focus of our immigrant rights work and our school -to-prison pipeline work. This is one way that we work ... Most of them had come to our organization as high school students; now they were leading...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

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Immigration

Bold Stories For Big Challenges

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12/17/2013

... for Grantmakers.” Storytelling helps us imagine a better society to work towards, said Maurine Knighton of the ...

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University of Houston Receives $10 Million Legacy Gift from Conrad N. Hilton Foundation

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03/03/2021

... Hilton gifted $1.5 million to build the first hospitality school in Texas – the University of Houston Conrad N. ... leaders. “Hilton College has become world-renowned as a leader in hospitality education and...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Education

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United Hospital Fund Launches Campaign to Reach Uninsured New Yorkers During Pandemic

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06/26/2020

... answers to frequently asked questions, and lists important resources . “It is critical that as many New Yorkers as ...

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United Hospital Fund

Report Commissioned by NY Women's Foundation Provides In-Depth Exploration of Women in the Justice System

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03/08/2017

... and parsimony, and engage social services to better serve individuals with criminal justice system ... With fierce determination, we mobilize hearts, minds and resources to create an equitable and just future...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

Justice Reform

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Centering Disability Justice

Release Date:

02/06/2019

... journey—we’ve focused on Ford’s internal learning and changes to its grantmaking practice to catalyze ... and how can the work supported by an existing grant better include and address the right of people with...

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Disabilities

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Open Society Foundations, Foundation for a Just Society, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Create Group Initiative to Support Women's Funds

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11/20/2019

... infrastructure, leadership, communications, fundraising, learning , and other efforts—to help them maximize their ... world. By strengthening the capacity of women’s funds to better operate and respond to a...

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Wellspring Philanthropic Fund

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Gender Justice

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Foundation for a Just Society

25 Jun 2018

Unpacking Nutrition Education – Why It Matters for NYC Students

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3:00pm to 5:00pm

School gardening, hands-on cooking, food justice education, ... to great nutrition education. Yet nearly half of our schools lack programming from one of the 40+ organizations ... operate. How can the funding...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Sheila Burke and Simon Stevens to Join Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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08/22/2013

... executive dean at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and Simon Stevens, Executive Vice ... In addition to her faculty role at the Kennedy School , Sheila Burke serves as Senior Public...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes Two New Public Policy Fellows, Shamira Lukomwa and Kimberly Roberts

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06/26/2019

... degree in Public and Urban Policy from the Milano School of Policy, Management and Environment at the New School where she worked on issues of school segregation, the effectiveness of...

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PNY News

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Perry Cammack as the Program Director of Peacebuilding

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01/29/2019

... the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He was the principal architect of “Arab World Horizons,” a ...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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In Conversation: Phil Buchanan Interviews Dr. Beth Breeze, Author of ‘In Defence of Philanthropy’

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11/18/2021

... In my own career, I have focused for 20 years, as the leader of the Center for Effective Philanthropy, on bringing ... movement - is the assumption that philanthropy needs to be better rationed, rather than...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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The 'Active (Read: Ongoing) Practice' of Equitable Evaluation

Release Date:

10/23/2019

... all the time – piano, soccer, reading – to get better at whatever it was I was doing. I practiced. I asked ... individuals committed to social change, are the acts of un- learning and re- learning...

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