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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

15 Sep 2010

Can You Hear Us Now? Evaluating Policy Change and Advocacy

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... policy and advocacy strategies, initiatives, and grantees are having an impact. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION 2:30 to 3:00 ... Check-in and Coffee 3:00 to 5:00 PM Program What is your advocacy strategy? How will your...

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Building and Strengthening Partnerships Across New Jersey: Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Announces More Than $5 Million in Grants

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08/25/2022

... partners and collaborators, support new partners who are driving racial equity and justice, and respond to the ... Jersey’s water infrastructure for the benefit of public health , access to clean water and...

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The Restaurant Industry Is Structured on Racism. The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Wants to Rebuild It.

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04/14/2021

... and race, mental health and ability, all these things are intertwined. So racial justice has been baked into our ... that they loved that the fund was really transparent in what was happening...

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Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

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Food Systems

Social Justice

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases Report: The Road Ahead for Smart Covid-19 Testing and Tracing in India

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05/20/2021

... pandemic response. The report’s recommendations are comprehensive and context-specific, laying out a ... and how to inoculate against it. We’ve also learned what we can do when we act together. As Covid-19...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

When Venture Philanthropy Meets Organizing: A Page from Propel Capital’s Playbook

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01/30/2018

... to build lasting progressive power in this country. We are also intentionally supporting both new and existing work, ... administration is essential for mobilizing the level of resources -- money and people...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Propel Capital

United Hospital Fund Offers Providers and Payers Strategies for Developing Integrated Family Care

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03/21/2019

United Health Fund Offers Providers and Payers Strategies for ... socio-economic factors that impact health . The report, Plan and Provider Opportunities to Move Toward Integrated ... for ensuring...

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Children, Youth and Families

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United Hospital Fund

The Smart Way to Get US Employees Back to Work

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04/29/2020

... grapples with grave and interconnected challenges to our health and economy. We are a long way from returning to full employment. Missing in ... First, within the context of public health...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Disaster Relief

Economic Security

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United Hospital Fund Report: NYS Faces Obstacles in Signing up Remaining 1.2 Million Uninsured; "Public Charge" Regulation Could Lead to Significant Disenrollment

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08/20/2019

... but 1.1 million residents still lack coverage, and there are a number of potential obstacles that could make further ... of policymakers to further progress and identify state resources to support coverage...

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Public Policy

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United Hospital Fund

Challenges and Opportunities with Organizational Structure

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05/2013

At this Foundation Administrator's Network meeting, organization development consultant Martha Sherman will lead a conversation on challenges and opportunities related to organizational structure. Members identified the top challenges FAN members face. Sherman offered advice, based on her 20+ years of experience in organizational development, and members can broke out into small groups to discuss specific challenges in more depth, understand some of the different hats our colleagues wear, and connect with those who can continue to serve as a resource after the meeting.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches $3 Million Fund for Coal Communities

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04/27/2017

... needs are growing – Washington is stepping back from what little they were doing . So we are stepping up,” said ... communities in coal-dependent regions across the United...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Brings More Data to NGOs in Africa

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10/19/2016

... flying. NGOs working in these regions attempting to get resources to where they’re needed are often met with a severe lack of data. Meaning, they don’t know who, what , and how much money is...

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UPDATE: Foundations Cannot Waver in Face of Latest Census Challenges

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07/10/2019

... census, this new threat means that important philanthropic resources will now be siphoned for litigation and the ... a subtle but important distinction. Most people now know what a census is and that it is...

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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

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11/08/2013

... rates, especially among youth and in communities of color, are at record-high levels. Data from the NYC Department of ... of the most vibrant urban agriculture cities in the United States . The Five Borough...

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08 Dec 2016

Food as a Community-Building Tool

Thursday, December 8, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... to engage the residents of a place to build community? What happens when food is used as a means to create ... leaders to advocate for and increase access to community resources Understanding a community’s...

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Food Systems

From the Desk of Irfan Hasan: The New York Community Trust and Vaccinating our City

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05/13/2021

... all those who want to get a shot receive it—the United States will still fall short of achieving herd immunity by ... that groups convene regularly. The issue is bigger than what a single foundation can do. We...

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The New York Community Trust

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08 Jan 2025

POSTPONED The Transportation Road Ahead: A Briefing with the Clean RIDES Network

Wednesday, January 8, 2025 -

1:00pm to 2:30pm

... the focus of climate action turns once again to the states . One front on which significant progress is possible is transportation: states across the U.S. are enacting new rules that require...

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Environment and Climate Change

The Next Five Years: Three Reasons We Must Adapt

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05/01/2018

... Do we revisit strategies every 3 or 5 years because they are ‘round numbers’? Or do we watch the world around us ... and the nonprofits and social enterprises they run. What we’ve seen and heard is this: 1. ‘...

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Open Road Alliance

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Launches New Blog Series on Trust-Based Philanthropy

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10/17/2018

... comes to how we interact with our grantee partners. Folks are often surprised to learn that we accept grant ... paperwork headaches and maximizing the time they can spend doing their important work. Trust-...

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JPMorgan Chase Joins Second Chance Efforts to Reduce Obstacles to Employment

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10/21/2019

... rate — and research shows that over 600,000 people are released each year from prison. Policymakers and ... Chicago. Specifically, the firm will apply its business resources and expertise — including data,...

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