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25 Oct 2012

Funder Briefing and Discussion: Five Borough Farm

Thursday, October 25, 2012 -

9:00am to 12:00pm

Community Food Funders will have their next funders briefing on Thursday, October 25th. This event will focus on a new report: Five Borough Farm: Seeding the Future of Urban Agriculture in New York City . Explore Conversations and discussions on the...

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Dodge Foundation Awards $3.8 Million to New Jersey Nonprofits

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08/13/2018

The foundation awarded forty-five grants totaling nearly $1.6 million through its Arts focus area, including a grant of $230,000 to Creative New Jersey , which works to foster creativity, cross-sector collaboration, and inclusion as a way to build...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Rockefeller Brothers Fund Join Coalition of 29 Philanthropies to Pledge $4 billion To Combat Climate Change

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09/17/2018

A coalition of twenty-nine philanthropies has pledged $4 billion over the next five years to combat climate change, the largest-ever philanthropic investment focused on climate change mitigation.

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Environment and Climate Change

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Apollo Theater Launches Initiative Dedicated to the Creation of a Diverse 21st Century Performing Arts Canon with Support from the Ford Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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02/27/2020

... times and, by providing these unique perspectives, rewrite what is possible and allow us all to see the world in a ...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... release nearly 50,000 inmates each year. Many quickly get into trouble again and return to custody. The beleaguered ...

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Justice Reform

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Opinion: How A Pied-À-Terre Tax Could Help Solve New York City's Housing Crisis

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08/31/2017

... an understatement to say that every time we think it can’ t possibly get more expensive to live in New York City, somehow it does. ...

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Sector News

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Housing and Homelessness

City Busing Over 5,000 Students Living In Homeless Shelters To Public Schools This Year

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09/11/2017

... from shelters to public schools this year in an effort to get more kids to class. City officials said the 5,161 ... $17 million to operate the 270 yellow-bus routes needed to get the students to class. . ...

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Sample Job Descriptions: Director of Administration / Chief Administrative Officer

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09/2013

... on PNY's Jobs Board . We update our sample job description resources as we post new positions on our site. Sample Job .....

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HR & Operations Staff

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Consultant & Vendor Lists: Coaching & Leadership Development

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02/2022

... https://www.cadencepacepartners.com/about-the-partners/ Don Crocker Ronna Brown Center for Creative Leadership ... https://www.teamdynamicsmn.com/ Trina C. Olson and Alfonso T . Wenker, Principals The EWS Collective ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, Headwaters Foundation, and The Whitman Institute Launch the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project

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01/22/2020

... helped sustain. Left unchecked, these power dynamics get exacerbated by policies and practices that require ... even as we fund to alleviate them? Instead of clinging to what we can control, we can meet this...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

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30 Jun 2021

Equity and Evaluation: Can We Embrace Both in Collecting Demographic Data?

Wednesday, June 30, 2021 -

11:00am to 1:00pm

... evaluative practices within foundations and how to get started Presenters Jara Dean-Coffey , Director, Equitable ... Designed for All interested funders in grantmaking roles. What to expect: Presentation...

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How We're Addressing the Overhead Fiction

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11/24/2015

... history of the Ford Foundation has been our investing in what I think of as the three I’s —groundbreaking ... are party to a charade with terrible consequences— what we might call the “overhead fiction.”...

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Excellence is the Best Strategy

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12/10/2013

... that connects developers to communities, offering loans to get housing projects off the ground. Its projects also ... system to create housing in Arizona, Texas and Florida. What can these three very different...

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The New York Community Trust

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

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07/30/2015

... them from learning and increasing the likelihood they will get caught up in the justice system. Even one suspension in ... on challenges that need addressing, as well as ideas about what can be done to enhance...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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Is Universal Voting an Idea Whose Time is Coming?

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11/17/2022

... current strategy of speaking exclusively to your own base ( what I’ve come to call “enrage to engage”) would be ... to speak to everyone. Persuasion, rather than frenetic Get Out the Vote efforts, would become...

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27 Jun 2012

Role of Public Media in Our Democracy - GFEM Annual Funder Conversation

Wednesday, June 27, 2012 - 5:00pm to Thursday, June 28, 2012 - 6:00pm

With the decline of traditional journalism outlets, some public and independent media organizations are making significant strides in expanding news and information services to fill the gap. And public media is engaging people of all ages and...

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20 Jul 2012

New Opportunities for Undocumented Youth: One Step Closer to the Dream

Friday, July 20, 2012 -

8:30am to 11:00am

President Obama recently announced that undocumented students will soon be eligible to apply for deferred action. Although not a pathway to permanent residency, deferred action will allow qualifying young people to remain in the U.S. for two years...

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