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NY Juvenile Justice Funders Urge State Officials to 'Raise the Age'

Release Date:

06/18/2015

... Leader Flanagan and Assembly Speaker Heastie: We are writing as funders with over a hundred years of ... justice system and “raise the age” at which youth are charged as adults. This is greatly needed and it...

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Member News

Funding Area

Justice Reform

Related Organizations

Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation

Brooklyn Org

Long Island Community Foundation

The Tow Foundation

New York Foundation

Andrus Family Fund

The David Rockefeller Fund

Arcus Releases Statement Responding to United States Supreme Court Marriage Ruling

Release Date:

06/26/2015

... released the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s historic decision to legalize ... one day be able to enjoy all of the possibilities that are truly equal to those of our fellow...

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Member News

Topic(s)

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Public Policy

Funding Area

LGBTQ

Related Organizations

Arcus Foundation

Revisiting Attica Shows How New York State Failed to Fulfill Promises

Release Date:

08/26/2016

Inmates at Attica Correctional Facility during the 1971 uprising that ended with 39 people fatally shot when armed state troopers stormed the prison. Many reforms promised in the wake of the revolt have yet to materialize.

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Justice Reform

City & State OpEd Pushes for Coding to Fulfill Language Requirement in Public Schools

Release Date:

06/29/2015

... Schools At a time when the public and private sectors are struggling to create jobs, the technology sector is ... fill innumerable open positions. Jobs in computing fields are among the highest paying and...

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Education

Technology

Flying the Colors: Empire State Building Lights to Honor Jonas Center

Release Date:

03/17/2016

In celebration of ten years of advancing healthcare through nursing, the Jonas Center for Nursing & Veterans Healthcare will be recognized through the lights on the Empire State Building.

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Member News

Funding Area

Health

Related Organizations

Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

ASPCA Opens Permanent, State-of-the-Art Behavioral Rehabilitation Center

Release Date:

05/10/2018

... extremely fearful, unadoptable homeless dogs, most of whom are victims of cruelty or neglect. The ASPCA opened this new ...

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Member News

Funding Area

Animal Welfare

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ASPCA

Critics of State’s Campaign Finance Laws Seek Philanthropists’ Help

Release Date:

01/24/2013

Representatives from the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Foundations attended a meeting organized by the Piper Fund to enlist support for changing New York’s campaign finance laws.