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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

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Unbound Philanthropy, Nathan Cummings, Ford and JPB Foundation Supported Pop Culture Lab Accelerates Justice Through Entertainment

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07/25/2017

... explore for purposes of positive culture change and social progress . As movements for social change swell in American ... signals our firm belief that the policy and societal progress we seek requires an...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Arts

Immigration

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Ford Foundation

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Learning What Worked to Support Women After the 2008 Recession

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06/23/2016

... nonprofit organizations became increasingly strained as resources declined. When the stock market failed, foundations ... 19 community-based organizations were supported to improve access to economic...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Trinity Wall Street Appoints Rev. Canon Benjamin Musoke-Lubega As Director Of Faith In Action

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06/03/2013

... a grants program that is slated to spend $3.2 million in 2013 — the highest amount in more than two decades. Recent ... a year in communities serving others here in the United States . Historically, the Trinity...

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Q&A: Rockefeller's Ashvin Dayal On Inclusive Growth

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07/18/2017

Q&A: Rockefeller's Ashvin Dayal On Inclusive Growth In late 2013 , the Asian Development Bank and the Rockefeller ... then, the $160 million fund — supported by the United States , the United Kingdom, and...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Take It From the Nonprofits: Even in a Crisis, Funders Are Falling Short on Equity

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07/29/2021

... election season as overwhelming as the pandemic’s health and economic impacts. Amidst all this, our membership ... of swiftly and equitably delivering responsive, flexible resources to nonprofits facing urgent...

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Council Seeks to Protect Domestic Workers

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04/13/2016

... labor-friendly City Council has taken up the cause of home- care workers. Councilman Andrew Cohen, D-Bronx, introduced ... legislation Monday that could empower nannies, home health aides and other home-...

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Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

... schools, totaling more than 1,500 schools by the end of 2015 . In 2014, GivePower Foundation donated solar powered ... for each megawatt of solar power it installs in the United States . The GivePower Foundation...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Education

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In Effort Lead by Arcus Foundation, LGBTQ Groups Call for Unity in Wake of Orlando Shooting

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06/14/2016

... second largest set of hate crimes documented by the FBI in 2015 (over 20%). Murders and violence against transgender ... to Work GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) Gay Men's Health Crisis The...

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Disaster Relief

Design High Schools for the 21st Century

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10/12/2016

... us is daunting, it is not impossible. Between 2002 and 2013 , New York City shut many of its large high schools, ... want to embark on this mission. Since it was launched in 2013 , Opportunity by Design has...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Education

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Insights from “Philanthropy’s Role in Reparations and Building a Culture of Racial Repair”

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06/13/2024

... taking accountability, and redress. As Florant states , “We all are beneficiaries of repair; we all have to ... to affect the entire nation. “Justice for any group is progress for all of us.” — Heather McGee It...

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Trump Administration Rolls Back Birth Control Mandate

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10/10/2017

... to expand the rights of employers to deny women insurance coverage for contraception and issued sweeping guidance on ... transgender people. The twin actions, by the Department of Health and Human Services and...

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Taking a Stand for New York

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04/12/2018

... only if there is an opportunity to share information and resources on how to implement advocacy strategies. Many of ... to convince their boards to support advocacy to sharing resources on how to evaluate...

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New York Foundation

President's Message: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5.4 Million in Grants

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04/13/2022

... them with information on issues relevant to their rights, health , and well-being. $25,000 – Neighborhood ... the larger community, 4. Referring people to community resources , 5. Socially Serving the community...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Arts

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announces Freedom to Read: "Million Book Project" Brings Literature to 1,000 US Prisons

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06/30/2020

... detention center, across every state in the United States over the next three and a half years. The Mellon ... the Mellon Foundation, will have two objectives: extending access to books – including poetry,...

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities

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01/10/2017

... in Support of Healthy Communities The New York State Health Foundation's (NYSHealth) Sponsoring Conference ... in New York and nationally. Yet, because of a lack of resources , they are often unable to do...

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RFPs Etc

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New York Health Foundation

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces $65 Million Investment in America’s Working Families

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02/25/2020

... low-wage workers and their families across the United States meet their basic needs and have a path to a better ... in America – from enabling public schools and health payers to direct their dollars toward...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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The Rockefeller Foundation

Elliott S. Fisher Joins Fannie E. Rippel Foundation Board

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03/01/2012

... member and active advisor of the Foundation’s ReThink Health initiative, Dr. Fisher is a professor at the Dartmouth Medical School and Director for Population Health and Policy at The Dartmouth Institute for...

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Fannie E. Rippel Foundation

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12 Oct 2017

ESSA: How Much Will it Change School Testing, Equity, Diversity and Discipline Practices?

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9:00am to 11:00am

... signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) in 2015 to replace its controversial predecessor the No Child ... schools. This flexibility was seen as an opportunity for states to think past test scores...

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Rockefeller Foundation and EPIC-Africa Launch the First African Civil Society Organization (CSO) Excellence Awards

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10/16/2018

... and Adaptability, Leadership and Governance, Financial Health and Management, Human Resources and Staff Development, Operations, Communications, ... to be more than double ( http://bit.ly/2OtflLF ) the...

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