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NYC's Action on School Discipline Moves Closer to Just Education

Release Date:

07/30/2015

... Even one suspension in the 9th grade doubles a student’ s chances of later dropping out of high school, research ... This crisis of punitive discipline has become so critical that last week, the White House...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

Gerstner Philanthropies Awards $4.3 Million For Helping Hands Emergency Grant Program

Release Date:

01/28/2021

... Emergency grants have been a core part of Gerstner’ s work for over a decade, with this year’ s grants bringing ... urgent needs, such as utilities, medical expenses, and food . 87% of people...

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13 May 2013

Conversations for Grantmakers: CORe — Community Opportunity and Reinvestment

Monday, May 13, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Webinar

New York State invests enormous resources in our cities. Despite these significant resources , certain urban neighborhoods face persistent ... to provide these local communities with three kinds of ...

Salesforce.Org Empowers Nonprofits and Higher Education Institutions to Drive Social Impact at Scale With Einstein AI

Release Date:

03/21/2019

... impact. Built on the Salesforce Platform, Salesforce.org’ s industry-specific CRM solutions Nonprofit Cloud and ... and workflows, allowing them to fundraise and allocate resources more efficiently to drive...

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Salesforce

Results from The Moody's Foundation-sponsored National Survey of America's Top Math Students Provides Glimpse into their Academic Success

Release Date:

04/05/2017

Results from The Moody' s Foundation-sponsored National Survey of America' s Top Math Students Provides Glimpse into their Academic ... 24 percent prefer healthy foods but frequently eat fast ...

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Tenants Take the Hit as New York Fails to Police Huge Housing Tax Break

Release Date:

12/07/2015

... the city to approve a set of sleek towers on Brooklyn’ s industrial waterfront last year, he pitched his company as ... laws requiring rent stabilization in exchange for a large property tax break it received...

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Housing and Homelessness

Guttman Community College to Move to UWS

Release Date:

04/05/2016

... Community College, the City University of New York’ s newest institution, will relocate from its Midtown home to ... building on the Upper West Side. The institution, CUNY’ s first new community college in...

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Stella and Charles Guttman Community College CUNY

Report: NY Has The Second Highest Foreclosure Rate

Release Date:

04/19/2016

... — a major issue for municipal governments squeezed for property tax revenue. “Our communities are paying a big ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Bloomberg Backs 'Breathing Lights' Exhibit to Draw Attention to Vacant Buildings

Release Date:

09/30/2016

A public art installation called Breathing Lights is aiming to draw attention to vacant buildings in the Capital Region.

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Arts

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

NYC To Vie for Amazon's Second Headquarters

Release Date:

09/18/2017

NYC To Vie for Amazon' s Second Headquarters Start spreading the news. New York City wants to score Amazon' s second North American headquarters. The local Economic ... criteria and recommendations about...

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Workforce Development

Should New York City's 'Symbols of Hate' Be Reconsidered?

Release Date:

09/19/2017

Should New York City' s 'Symbols of Hate' Be Reconsidered? After the ... to take a closer look at “all symbols of hate on city property .” Harriet Senie, a member of the Mayoral Advisory ... at the...

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Reimagining Safety and Justice for Black Life Now and Forever

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07/07/2020

... visions and dreams. Reflecting more on my grandmother’ s neighborhood, I think of the various situations that ... Trinity grantee, pushing to redirect human and financial resources from punishment-oriented...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Proactive Support Pays Off: The American Art Renewal Fund

Release Date:

04/11/2012

... Luce Foundation For 30 years, the Henry Luce Foundation’ s American Art Program has supported projects and programs ... respective American art collections. Other needs included critical building maintenance...

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08 Dec 2020

Lessons from COVID Relief: Spoiler Alert - One Time Cash Disbursements are NOT enough - A Webinar Hosted by Asset Funders Network

Tuesday, December 8, 2020 - 1:00pm

... policies and innovations New yet tested approaches to address income inequality and economic security in a new ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Economic Security

Public Policy

United Hospital Fund Releases Report Finding Wide Variation in Unnecessary Antibiotic Prescribing for NYS Medicaid Patients

Release Date:

06/22/2018

... antibiotic prescribing patterns among New York State’ s Medicaid population, released today by United Hospital Fund’ s Medicaid Institute, found wide variations in prescribing ... population were notably...

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Boston Globe Op-Ed: Vartan Gregorian on Welcoming New US Citizens to the ‘Crusade Against Ignorance’

Release Date:

07/19/2018

... example, in 1858, Abraham Lincoln argued that America’ s ideals were available to all who understood the principle ... forth were always upheld. Throughout our history, men and women have fought bitterly, and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Kathryn Snyder and maisha quint to Lead Criminal Justice Grantmaking Strategy at The Libra Foundation

Release Date:

08/25/2019

... including time at the San Francisco district attorney' s office under Kamala Harris. A 2018 Criminal Justice Fellow at the Women ' s Policy Institute, founding member of the Bay Area...

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The Libra Fund

María Teresa Kumar Joins the Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees

Release Date:

02/09/2023

... Trustees The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has elected voting rights activist María Teresa Kumar to its board of trustees. ... on-air analyst for MSNBC. Voto Latino is the country’ s largest and most effective...

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Nathan Cummings Urges Firstenergy Shareholders to Vote for Proposal Regarding Disclosure of Lobbying Expenditures

Release Date:

05/06/2016

... that you will be asked to vote on at the Company’ s May 17, 2016 annual meeting. We urge you to vote FOR ... of diversifying away from coal, FE appears to be investing resources to subvert public policies that...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Annie E. Casey, Conrad N. Hilton, Ford and JPB Foundations Join FHO to Pledge $4.9 Million in New Affordable Housing Initiative

Release Date:

02/20/2018

... Initiative A new charitable initiative wants to help address the nation’ s affordable housing crisis , leveraging funding from many of the nation’ s biggest foundations to help fill a growing...