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To Serve Racial Equity, What Are You Doing Less Of?

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10/28/2020

... to address institutional racism within our organizations when one of you asked a question about how to create buy-in ... Budget , this frame argues that there are “abundant resources for economic revival”, and...

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Taking the Time to Learn in Transition: How the Ford Foundation Board Revamped the Traditional CEO Search

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11/13/2014

... an opportunity for peers to share what matters and what is hard when it comes to leading productive change in philanthropy. ... very grateful to Kofi for sharing his experience with us and...

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12 May 2015

Funding General Operating Support

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2:15pm to 4:00pm

... lacking in strategic rigor and accountability. Please join us for a discussion among three funders who have a practice ...

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Opinion: Irma, Harvey and Sandy - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These

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09/14/2017

... - We Need a Marshall Plan for Future Disasters Like These When superstorm Sandy struck my home state of New York in 2012, it dealt a severe blow to communities that were unprepared for a...

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The Century Foundation Releases Report on Achieving Financial Equity and Justice for HBCU's

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09/14/2021

... for a historic investment that will bring unprecedented resources to HBCUs, giving them the stability and financial ... democratic society. For example, during Reconstruction, when many colleges and...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Grantee Brings Star Tortoise Back From Extinction

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10/12/2017

... Tortoise Back From Extinction YANGON, MYANMAR (October 11, 2017 ) – The Burmese star tortoise (Geochelone platynota ), ... Conservation Division of the Myanmar Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Announces Its Resilience NYC Grants

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11/20/2017

... would face increased demands for services with strained resources . They felt a growing urgency to organize and ... unites both low-wage citizen and immigrant workers across home health care, factories,...

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Century Foundation Fellow Co-Authors Report on Admission Preferences of Low-Income Students

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01/11/2016

... for low-income students because such students – even when they are high-achievers academically – now face ... their parents, enrolling in a top-tier college far from home seems as impossible as taking a trip...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Unbound Philanthropy, Nathan Cummings Explore the Promise and Potential of Pop Culture for Social Change

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05/04/2016

... and also transforms and reverses them. What do we mean when we say “#PopJustice”? #PopJustice represents the ... “Of course, no one television program, viral video, or hit song can transform culture all by...

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Unbound Philanthropy

26 Mar 2025

Philanthropy's Paths Forward for Racial Equity & Racial Justice

Wednesday, March 26, 2025 -

2:00pm to 3:30pm

... navigate pushback on DEI using all the tools and resources available to us while also recognizing the threats and concerns present ... be both responsive and proactive as we anticipate the road ahead...

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Markle Foundation and Microsoft Partner to Accelerate a Skills-Based Labor Market for the Digital Economy

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06/29/2017

... they need to qualify for jobs employers are having a hard time filling. Our work in Colorado is proof that while technology is displacing jobs, it’s also helping us upskill people and get them back to work.”...

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John & Mary R. Markle Foundation

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Workforce Development

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Microsoft Corporation

Goldman Sachs and Bloomberg Philanthropies Make $10M Commitment for Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses in Baltimore

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08/15/2017

... Babson College. The curriculum covered accounting, human resources , negotiation and marketing, among other topics. The ... real impact on Baltimore City,” said Governor Hogan. “ Hundreds of Baltimore small...

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Goldman Sachs

How Rapid Assessments Can Help the Shift from Response to Recovery

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05/13/2021

... working to understand how to most effectively deploy our resources beyond crisis response. Emerging market countries have been among those hit hardest by COVID-19, and they are facing skyrocketing ... been...

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OpEd: CEO Lori Bezahler on Edward W. Hazen Foundation’s Decision to Empty Its Coffers

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03/06/2019

... supporters of social-justice organizations, have rallied resources to protect fundamental rights that seemed suddenly ... attention and dollars. We are in a movement moment, a time when major shifts in the...

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NYS Health Foundation Challenges Philanthropy to Do more to Fix our Flawed Health Care System

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01/12/2018

... community residents are in the room and able to comment when the state authorizing body is considering hospital ... We are supporting a project that trains ombudsmen, nursing home residents, and their family...

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New York Life Foundation and Afterschool Alliance Launch Aim High Grant Competition

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01/18/2017

... Afterschool Alliance that will amplify our impact in local communities and schools across the country. Afterschool ... support youth in the transition to the ninth grade. WHEN : Applications are due by...

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Education

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28 Mar 2019

Enlisting a Critical Constituency: Youth Civic Learning and Engagement

Thursday, March 28, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... the value of youth voice. Martin Luther King, Jr. was 26 when he gained global prominence by leading the Montgomery ... social equity. Such voices are critical to enriching our communities and strengthening...

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