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Make Room for Makerspaces

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... sounded alarms: To maintain economic competitiveness and growth , the country must invest in higher-quality STEM ... aside the hyper-specialized learning that characterizes many standard-issue STEM programs,...

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Education

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The New York Community Trust

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Role of Funders in Conflict

Publication date:

11/2014

The Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG) released a white paper on how funders can affect conflict.

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Report

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Is There an App for That? New Thinking on Kids and Digital Media

Release Date:

03/10/2016

... digital media. What’s less clear is how we ought to feel about it. Depending on whom you talk to, smart phones, ... modern broadband technology, but teens from poor families still have limited access to...

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The New York Community Trust

New Interactive Data Tool from the Education Opportunity Project, Supported by William T. Grant Foundation, Finds that School Poverty - Not Racial Composition - Limited Educational Opportunity

Release Date:

09/23/2019

... that students’ early test scores do not predict academic growth over time, indicating that poverty does not determine ...

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Children, Youth and Families

Community Development

Education

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William T. Grant Foundation

Give Generously—You Can’t Help It!

Release Date:

12/18/2009

For those of you who read blogs about philanthropy and charity (you’re reading this, aren’t you?), maybe, like me, you’ve been struck by a few of the articles about altruism and giving and human biology. Since we are deep in the middle of the “...

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All Funders

13 Sep 2012

--POSTPONED-- Innovative Action: Promising New Initiatives to Stop HIV Transmission

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Despite effective treatments and increased testing, HIV is still a threat in New York City — but there are promising ... heard of numerous successes over the past year, there is still a role for funders to play...

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Issue-Based

Arabella Advisors Hires Julia Sze as Managing Director of Impact Investing

Release Date:

02/03/2016

... past three-and-a-half years and overseen a period of rapid growth . “I’ve known Julia for years, and I know she has ... Sze said. “We are at such an exciting point in the growth of impact investing, and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Arabella Advisors

Inside the Joan Mitchell Foundation: How a Visual Arts Funder Is Evolving

Release Date:

11/08/2018

... Blatchford, about the foundation’s evolution, the growth of artist-endowed foundations, and some of the larger ... example of supporting process and the artist.” On the Growth of Artist-Endowed Foundations We...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation

11 Sep 2019

New Voices, New Approaches to Workforce Development, and the Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders

Wednesday, September 11, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... result of advances in technology, population and economic growth , local and federal policy shifts and may other ... themselves, join the workforce ecosystem, and implement growth plans. In addition, this...

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Workforce Development

Kimberly Roberts

... schools, creating career ladders for social service workers and achieving salary parity for NYC’s early ...

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces New President Cecilia Clarke

Release Date:

07/01/2013

Alan Fishman, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Community Foundation, announced that Cecilia Clarke will join the Foundation as its new President and CEO. Ms. Clarke succeeds Marilyn Gelber, who stepped down from the post on June 30,...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Community Development

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Brooklyn Org

Farms in the Projects? (Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund)

Release Date:

01/05/2016

... community engagement, and job training for residents. The workers will be supplied by Green City Force, a nationally ...

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Community Development

Food Systems

Surdna, Ms. Foundation Authors: Mind the Gap – How Philanthropy Can Address Gender-Based Economic Disparities

Release Date:

03/08/2016

... gap between men and women to close. The women garment workers in New York City who marched on this day in 1857 and ...

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Gender Justice

15 Jun 2016

CFF Annual Gathering

Wednesday, June 15, 2016 -

5:00pm to 7:00pm

... your focus is on hunger, health, education, food chain workers , youth engagement, neighborhood improvement or ...

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All Funders

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Food Systems

Immigrant Rights Fund: 6 Lessons We’ve Learned So Far

Release Date:

05/09/2017

... with regards to gender. And, overwhelmingly, informal workers like domestic workers , construction workers and street vendors are finding it challenging to ...

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Insights

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Barbara and Donald Jonas Receive Honorary Doctorates from Frontier Nursing University

Release Date:

08/01/2017

In honor of their extensive support and contributions to the advancement of nursing, Frontier Nursing University awarded honorary doctorate degrees to philanthropists Barbara and Donald Jonas.

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Member News

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Health

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

Tow-Playwright-in-Residence Featured in New York Times

Release Date:

11/02/2017

Ms. Bioh, a native New Yorker whose parents emigrated from Ghana in 1968, has made it her mission, theatrically and personally, to tell stories about African and African-American characters that buck expectation and defy stereotype.