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With Support from Citi Foundation, City Accelerator Expands to Five More U.S. Cities

Release Date:

08/02/2018

... to test new approaches that improve the lives of residents , especially those with low incomes. For example, Baltimore created an online portal for residents returning from the criminal justice system to ...

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Citi Foundation

Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

Release Date:

04/27/2018

... a technique called backscatter, through which a device can share information by reflecting signals that have been ... assumption people have made so far is that backscatter can be used only for low-data rate...

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New York Foundation Releases: What Happens When Communities Organize Through a Crisis?

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06/17/2020

... 11, 2001, and Hurricane Sandy—that neighborhoods where residents felt connected to one another, communities that ...

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New York Foundation

09 Jun 2015

Catch a Ride on a Roller-Coaster! Immigration Issues Facing the New York Region

Tuesday, June 9, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... mostly parents of U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents , the opportunity to apply for temporary work ... NYC area - and what's delayed and why How your foundation can mobilize to help make progress...

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Immigration

Children, Youth and Families

Flexible Funding Is the New Kid on the Block

Release Date:

03/04/2020

... technology, rent, and people (salaries and other human resources costs), you know, that same “overhead” that is ... point for that internal analysis. Measuring impact I can understand why a funder might be...

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Build Up Companies

Hillman Foundation Announces 2017 Innovation Grants

Release Date:

11/17/2017

... Foundation announces $1.6 million in new awards to support nursing driven innovation for vulnerable populations. To ... accelerate the development and scale of forward thinking nursing -driven models of care,...

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Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation

Mellon Mays Fellow Discusses New Book About an Enslaved Woman’s Escape from Nation's First President

Release Date:

03/08/2017

... of a young enslaved woman’s escape from the Philadelphia home of the nation’s first president to Portsmouth, New ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Invests $2.5M in Youth Initiatives for 2017

Release Date:

12/14/2017

... of leaders, we are proud to fund these truly innovative, home -grown programs that are creating opportunities for young ...

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Brooklyn Org

Brooklyn Community Foundation Increases Investment in Youth Initiatives to $2.8M in 2018

Release Date:

12/14/2018

... a more fair and just future for Brooklyn.” Brooklyn is home to more than 100,000 youth ages 16-24 living in low ...

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Brooklyn Org

Good Grantmaking Where Our Work is Not Always Welcome

Release Date:

04/27/2015

... relationships (as both donors and recipients), which can lead to donor-recipient relationships, common in the US, ... in depth, and fostering partners in each society who can help identify both short-term and...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

31 Mar 2017

Advocacy: A Compass for Today’s Terrain

Friday, March 31, 2017 -

8:30am to 4:30pm

... first half of the day will guide participants in how to use advocacy as a strategy for achieving impact. We encourage ... Director, The Clark Foundation 9:00 – 10:20 AM: What You Can and Cannot Do: Legal...

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Putting Capital to Work for Democracy

Release Date:

07/10/2018

... We know this is happening around the country– yet how can we capture these individual actions and harness them for ... to provide the best available data, technology, and resources to the progressive community...

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Propel Capital

20 Feb 2019

Activating Philanthropy’s Power for Change: The Role of Self-Assessment and Honest Feedback

Wednesday, February 20, 2019 -

2:30pm to 5:00pm

... of planning, action and reflection. In the process, how can funders receive and make the most of honest feedback to ... assessment tools What NCRP has been learning about the use of Power Moves in its first...

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Eighteen arts organizations founded by, with and for communities of color are selected for national arts initiative funded by The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

05/26/2022

... sustains these organizations, it will give them time and resources to explore new approaches to urgent challenges. ... far we’ve come, where we’d like to go next, and how we can contribute to the bigger...

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The Wallace Foundation

Mertz Gilmore Foundation Welcomes Aditi Vaidya as its New President

Release Date:

10/13/2022

... work, and absolute clarity about the role that funders can have in the ecosystem of strategies needed for ... humility, expertise, and a belief that the only way we can create systemic change is by bringing...

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Mertz Gilmore Foundation

02 Jun 2025

Stronger, Smarter + Louder Together: A Report From New York's Statewide Power Fund

Monday, June 2, 2025 -

10:00am to 12:00pm

... discuss how the fund used a power-shifting process to move resources to emerging and growing coalitions. What will you ... in locally-led movements. How funders and donors can get involved to support this...

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Public Policy

14 Apr 2010

Accountability: Judging Students, Judging Teachers

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... ATTEND: All interested funders. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION How can data-driven systems improve student achievement and ... promote children from one grade to the next, and wants to use these data in decisions about...

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Betsy Edasery Appointed Philanthropy Analyst at TCC Group

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... young people of color with wealth to leverage their resources for progressive social change. She also conducted ...

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TCC Group

Spelman College Announces $2 Million Match From Philanthropist Jon Stryker, Founder and President of Arcus Foundation, for Endowed Queer Studies Chair Named After Audre Lorde

Release Date:

10/29/2019

Spelman College, the global leader in the liberal arts education of Black women, today announced the creation of a chair in Queer Studies backed by a matching gift from philanthropist Jon Stryker of up to $2 million.

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