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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation's CEO Interviewed in Funder Spotlight

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09/07/2017

... featuring funders embodying trust-based philanthropy, we sat down with him to get the scoop: TWI: What was the ... to the table — knowledge, boots on the ground — and if we can approach our grantees as...

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New York City Wants To Know: How Effective Is Its Training For Pre-K Teachers?

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09/12/2017

... student achievement. “The question for us is, ‘How do we make pre-K better, as fast as we can?’” said Josh Wallack, a deputy chancellor for the ... study. “This study will point us in the right direction,...

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Playing Chicken with Maryn McKenna

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09/14/2017

... with Maryn McKenna In her 2015 TED Talk, “What Do We Do When Antibiotics Don’t Work Anymore?” journalist ... tells the audience, didn’t die of the lifestyle diseases we do now, but of simple injuries that led...

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Pound Foolish

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09/22/2017

... defined their challenge as lack of food. In response, we have collected large quantities—including junk ... by pounds of output. While bellies have been filled, we have missed a real opportunity to improve the...

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New Census Figures Offer Hope in Buffalo's Fight Against Child Poverty

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10/02/2017

... said Mayor Byron W. Brown. "The collaborative plan that we have put in place in the city is helping to reduce poverty ... is working. Childhood poverty is still much higher than we would like to see and...

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Ms. Foundation Responds to Alabama Special Election

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12/13/2017

... statement in response to the Alabama Special Election: “ We are proud of the people of Alabama for refusing to be ... they suffered as children: thank you for your courage. We will continue to speak up...

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Gender Justice

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Forbes Women's Summit: Pfizer Shares 'the Way Forward' to Driving Social Impact

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06/20/2018

... company, and also as stewards of improving global health, we recognize at Pfizer the importance of working together ... around the world are able to access the medicines we develop," Roan said. “With that...

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Johnson Family Foundation Welcomes New Executive Director

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08/06/2018

... served as Interim Executive Director for the past year. " We are excited to welcome Frank to help guide JFF’s future ... It is a pleasure to partner with both of them as we work toward our mutual goals...

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Thank You

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11/14/2018

... pace of the season begins to move in double time. As we get ready for a whole host of exciting activities in 2019, ... the year. It is through your continued support that we are able to move forward towards...

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Joan Mitchell Foundation Names Recipients of 2018 Painters & Sculptors Grants

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12/12/2018

... by the diversity of this group of grant recipients, we work with a spectrum of artists, whose practices, backgrounds, and careers vary widely, but we hear consistently that day-to-day financial support—the...

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Rahima Nasa, Named First FRONTLINE Fellow of Tow Foundation Journalism Program

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02/06/2019

... projects combining text, visual, and data elements. “ We are so pleased to kick off the first year of our ... Raney Aronson-Rath, FRONTLINE’s executive producer. “ We ’re very grateful to The Tow Foundation for...

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Rockefeller Foundation Launches #Solvable

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06/12/2019

... Launches #Solvable Yes. At The Rockefeller Foundation, we believe some of the biggest challenges that limit the ... meaningfully improve lives. But expertise is not enough: we need to marshal the optimism that...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Welcomes New President, Dame Louise Richardson

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01/03/2023

... world, Carnegie Corporation of New York, at a time when we are still in the pandemic. You’ve had experience at the ... are many lessons from the pandemic. The first is that we cannot afford to ignore risks...

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Simons Foundation Announces First Pivot Fellowship Recipients

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09/07/2022

... experiments to make more effective use of limited resources and to elucidate the complex interdependence among ...

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Science

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18 Feb 2025

"Sing Sing": A Special Film Screening & Conversation on Art, Incarceration, and Systemic Change

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 -

4:00pm to 7:00pm

... as leaders from The Legal Aid Society and RTA. Together, we will explore the power of storytelling and the arts to ... of New Yorkers as they approach their 150th anniversary. We 'll also delve into the...

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New York State Health Foundation Among Health Legacy Foundations That Address Social Causes of Poor Health Outcomes

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12/07/2017

... and CEO Lawrence Burns explains the shift in strategy: “ We still consider Children’s a major partner and always will. However, since we are no longer a hospital foundation, we won’t be as...

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Governor Andrew Cuomo Names PNY Members Among Members of a Reopening Advisory Board

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04/28/2020

... the members of the advisory board is available here . " We 've come up with a phased plan to re-open New York so every region in the state has the same opening template as we begin this process,...

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