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Could the Rauch Foundation Change Long Island? Only by Changing Itself.

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05/05/2020

... real problem, the Foundation reasoned, then that’s what we should be addressing. What regions have solved the ... editor of Newsday , the head of the tri-state Regional Plan Association, and...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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Community Development

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Ford Foundation Suggests that It’s Time to Reboot Grantmaking

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06/29/2017

... in the 1970s, today CIS serves 1.5 million students in 25 states and the District of Columbia. Some 91 percent of these ... growth does not ensure operational efficiency or financial health . Just the opposite...

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A Letter from Ronna Brown

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04/15/2020

... and your colleagues, safe and well. Without a doubt, we are living through a moment of intense collective crisis. ... these changes stay with us for the long haul. COVID-19 Resources Your work is as important...

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We’re Not Just Fighting the Good Fight

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09/22/2014

... in its public policy work. With limited staff and resources , we choose our issues carefully based on their ... As a reminder, The Act has four key provisions that are important to the philanthropic and...

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Accessibility Takes a Community

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10/31/2019

... rich diversity of the City itself. Disabled New Yorkers are students, parents, employees, and retirees; they visit ... become accessible; most didn’t know where to start, or what was appropriate to ask, and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Disabilities

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Frontier Thinking: Staten Island as Innovation Lab

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05/12/2015

... fewer public services, yet experience greater public health needs. Despite having the highest all-cause mortality ... Though the assets of Staten Island’s nonprofit sector are considerable, its operational...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Staten Island Foundation

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Siegel Family Endowment Publishes New Whitepaper Outling New Framework for Understanding and Funding Infrastructure

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10/07/2020

... lines, the pipes that carry water into your home. But what about all the other things that make society function? ... It’s inherently multidimensional. In 2020, the United States has reckoned with a ...

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Chad Shearer Promoted to Vice President for Policy at United Hospital Fund

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10/25/2016

... director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s State Health Reform Assistance Network, a project coordinating technical assistance to 11 states on the implementation of the Affordable Care Act’s ... Fund’s...

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Meet Nakia Wallace, the new Program Associate of the Communities Transforming Policing Fund at Borealis Philanthropy

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04/13/2022

... with the Michigan Justice Fund, where she worked to divert resources from law enforcement and the criminal legal system ... we spent some time learning about Nakia’s passions, and what brought her to the...

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United Way of New York City Establishes the COVID-19 Community Fund

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03/26/2020

... —SHEENA WRIGHT, PRESIDENT & CEO, UWNYC We are monitoring developments of this global pandemic, and as ... all we can to help those who need it most.   WHAT WE KNOW: We know that there will be serious short...

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United Way of New York City

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation and Ford Foundation Launch US 2050

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11/29/2017

... workforce, and economy will look very different by 2050. What isn’t clear is how these shifting trends will impact ... Ford Foundation. “The rampant inequality in the United States has been in part a result of...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Opioid Crises Takes Center Stage at 13th Annual H.F. Guggenheim Symposium

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02/26/2018

... idea why she had been invited to the event. Someone knew what they were doing because by the time the session ended, Cheri Walter, ... who heads Ohio’s Association of County Behavioral Health...

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

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01/30/2015

... to reform education, particularly teacher evaluation. But what escaped notice was his reference in the State of the ... budget. Education tax credit programs, in place in 13 states , allow corporations and...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Education

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Blended Finance "Plus”: Enhancing Support With Blended Knowledge

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09/04/2018

... long recognized that governments alone don’t have the resources to solve the most pressing challenges of our time. ... sectors. These models have been recognized for achieving what many believed was impossible...

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Is Nonprofit Board Service Worth It? Reflections from a One-Time Skeptic

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01/16/2014

... hoped I might just write a check to support their work. What I hadn’t fully anticipated were the many requests to ... obscured by the fact that most nonprofit board members are “volunteers.” And, in many cases...

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Governance

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New Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects High Stakes For Republicans

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09/19/2017

... that the effort was dead. The latest proposal would give states control over billions in federal health -care spending, repeal the law’s key mandates and enact deep cuts to Medicaid, the federally funded...

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It’s Time to Shut Down Government’s Unfair Treatment of Nonprofits

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04/26/2024

... that occur if the federal government shuts down, or there are steep spending cuts. However, it was clear from our conversations with congressional staff, what philanthropy can do is help ensure the billions of...

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Public Policy

These Leaders Are Rallying to Stop New NY Taxes on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits

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08/22/2018

These Leaders Are Rallying to Stop New NY Taxes on Tax-Exempt Nonprofits By ... Business Income Tax, how it will cost nonprofits and what ’s being done about it in Washington. But the action ... faced with an...

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PNY News

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