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Surdna Foundation Announces Appointment of Leticia Peguero as Executive Director of Andrus Family Fund and Andrus Family Philanthropy Program

Release Date:

02/01/2013

... that leveraged the power of partnerships by combining resources with local grantmakers to fund creative, pragmatic ... designing, implementing and managing a program to train health care professionals in New...

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29 Oct 2020

Mitigating Liability Risk from Workplace Re-Opening

Thursday, October 29, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:30am

... are steps that employers need to take to help guard the health and safety of their employees, and mitigate their ... Designed for All interested funders in Operations, Human Resources , and/or Legal roles...

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HR & Operations Staff

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New Book from Atlantic Philanthropies Explores ‘Giving While Living’ Approach to Philanthropy

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09/18/2017

... fortunes to philanthropy. “Donors who want to know what kind of difference they can make using their wealth to ... death penalty and reducing the number of children without health insurance in the United...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Trinity Joins Brief Filed in Support of Dreamers

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01/29/2018

... a temporary injunction was granted on January 9 by a court in California against ending the Deferred Action for ... people brought to this country as children, before they could make choices of their own….The...

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Trinity Church Philanthropies

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Immigration

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Two Views on the Failure of Policing

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07/16/2015

... has been reading the news and is not deluding themselves could conclude that dramatic reform is not urgently needed, and the Obama administration, ...

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Justice Reform

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The Century Foundation

Disrupting the Textbook Status Quo

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09/05/2014

... national market for materials that emphasizes quality could drive much-needed competition among textbook ... training efforts can help spread basic familiarity with what makes materials high quality, and...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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Education

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

The Art of Inclusion: New York Funders Mobilize to Make the Arts More Accessible

Release Date:

05/03/2012

... or joined your organization as an employee, you would do whatever you needed to to accommodate that person so he or she could do his or her job. Indeed, most people would be ... failure to...

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All Funders

Heckscher Foundation for Children Funded New York's First 'To and Through' Data Tool That Shines a Light on College Readiness Gap

Release Date:

10/14/2019

... K-12 data—including which courses students take, the resources and supports in their schools, and how they perform ... consider, including: QUESTIONS FOR SCHOOL DISTRICTS DATA: What data do...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 New Executives Fund Recipients

Release Date:

06/15/2021

... crises threatening our common future, to increase resources for systemic alternatives that support justice, ... advocacy in areas such as profiling, encryption, copyright reform , and dragnet surveillance, in...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Leadership Development

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Abraham Paulous Challenges the Immigration to Incarceration Pipeline

Release Date:

04/06/2017

... series. The program challenged grantmakers to see justice reform and immigration as part of the same equation, and ... run prison facilities every night. Central to the conversation were the current and...

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PhilTalks

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Immigration

Justice Reform

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Families for Freedom

Making Change Not Grants: Combining the 3 Roles of the Arcus Foundation for Impact

Release Date:

06/02/2015

... of research, pursuing policy change, leveraging new resources —in order to advance the change we seek to make in ... In addition, we regularly convene stakeholders into what we call Think Groups—small groups of...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Animal Welfare

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Arcus Foundation

High-Profile Philanthropy Contests Take Hold, Raise Concerns

Release Date:

09/14/2017

... giant Siemens went looking for simple technologies that could help people in developing countries, it didn’t ask ... like Africa and Latin America, and it’s really tough to do that," says Rolf Huber,...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York of New York Helps Support Fellowship Program Providing Post-Harvey Legal Aid

Release Date:

11/20/2018

... will help directly with immigration legal issues. “That could be anything from citizenship to a green card renewal, ... to wanting to reunify with a family member so they want to do a family petition and that...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Immigration

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We are In a Time of New Suns

Release Date:

10/19/2022

... climate change as outside the scope of their mission and resources , but still believe that it’s an urgent problem ... of the world’s wealthiest countries has been to put up what Bill McKibben calls “a global...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Unbound Philanthropy

A Recipe for Managing in Difficult Times

Release Date:

05/14/2009

... we live in nor the crisis we now face are the same as what we were dealing with twenty years ago, but there are ... cooking. If you can master them, you can, so she said, do anything. No surprise to anyone who...

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