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Brooklyn Community Foundation Adds Four Members to Board of Directors

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05/24/2017

... upon graduation from Columbia Law School. After serving 8 years as General Counsel, she was appointed president of the ... including the University of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum, Resources for Children With...

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Long Delays Cloud Police Department Disciplinary Trials

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09/19/2017

... found that he used excessive force. In the nearly two years that elapsed, Mr. Blake said he has canceled three ... of the people involved. After the trial, Mr. Blake will wait again — likely for months — for...

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Russell Sage Foundation-Supported Study Details How The System Fails Grandmothers Raising Kids

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01/06/2016

... needs. For a new study, researchers interviewed 77 African - American grandmothers living in some of the poorest areas of ... children, navigating the complications of getting state resources...

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Schott Foundation CEO John H. Jackson Named by EBONY Magazine One Of 100 Inspiring Leaders

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11/13/2017

... 100 list recognizes the most influential and inspiring African -Americans in a variety of categories including ... "Working for policy change that both brings up-to-date resources to neglected schools and...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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Mariko Silver Named Next President and CEO of Luce Foundation

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04/22/2019

... Gilligan, who last June announced his retirement after 16 years of leadership devoted to the foundation and its ... for all dimensions of life at the college and has become a recognized thought leader for her...

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Continue Reframing Philanthropy With PNY

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09/12/2019

... Philanthropy With PNY By Kyung Yoon, President, Korean American Community Foundation I am pleased to be writing as ... together to ensure that philanthropy, over the next forty years , will help to create a...

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Building Our Equity Muscles

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12/08/2021

... the ways that my body must break down in order to build something stronger. Many of you recently started your own ... before moving on to heavier and more difficult work. Six years later, we are still...

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17 Mar 2016

Changemakers: National Networks Engaging Next Gen Philanthropic Leaders - Webinar

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12:00pm to 1:30pm

... an unprecedented change in leadership over the next few years as the next generation of philanthropists begins to ... national organizations - including the Nexus Global Youth Summit , Resource Generation ,...

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From Land Acknowledgement to Land Back: Philanthropy’s Role & Responsibility in Returning Stolen Land to Native Communities

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02/03/2022

... community in New York and beyond, and returning wealth, resources and land back to the original peoples of the ... settlers to gift money as a kind of “land tax” to the American Indian Community House (AICH),...

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UH Launches First U.S. Digital Humanities Research Center for Latina/o Studies with Funding from Mellon Foundation

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08/15/2017

... projects involving work by Latinas and Latinos from the American colonial period through 1960. The two-year ... $167,700 grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources and the Andrew W. Mellon...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

... get jobs or grow their businesses. Over the next five years the company will award $1 billion in grants to ...

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Playwright, Novelist and Songwriter Suzan-Lori Parks to Receive the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize: JP Morgan Private Bank

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10/15/2015

... looking up to them and following in their footsteps for years . And now I’m invited to join them? It’s brilliantly ... invited into this family of artists.” The first African American woman to...

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The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and AARP Name Recipients of Health Equity Innovations Fund Awards

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01/10/2023

... of color, as well as older Americans, women, people with low - income , those with disabilities, those from LGBTQ ...

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New Multi-Foundation Matching Fund Recognizes Public Transit’s Importance to Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability

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09/17/2020

... of times, the consequences of under-invested transit have become deadly. Over one-third of habitual transit riders are ... staff and clients, particularly the elderly, people with low income...

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The Joys and Frustrations of Managing Young People

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09/29/2016

... to learn about the philanthropic sector as a possible career path, especially if they’re from under-resourced ... young woman who has accomplished a lot already in her 17 years . That being said, she had never...

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22 Jan 2015

Learning to Write Code: The New Literacy?

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7:45am to 11:00am

... understand how being computer literate is important in any career and can boost the number of girls and youth of color taking and completing computer science. For ... Talent Pipeline. And for adults who have...

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Bank of America Issues $2.25 Billion Green Bond

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05/23/2018

... addressing climate change by financing the transition to a low -carbon, sustainable economy. Since 2007, the bank has provided more than $87 billion in financing for low -carbon, sustainable business activities...

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Philanthropy Can Help Build a Thriving Democracy by Building Up Programs and Places That Fuel Civic Involvement

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01/20/2022

... Endowment for Democracy , or NED. In the nearly 40 years since, with strong bipartisan support, NED has sent ... scholar and commission member Yuval Levin . We cannot wait for Congress alone to act...

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Don’t Say “When Did You Stop Caring About Children?” and Other Guidance for Child Advocates

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09/23/2010

... and Company As state budget deficits and competition for resources mount, child advocacy groups and their funders ... My New York-based strategic communications firm with 20 years ’ experience helping...

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