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Overcoming Setbacks

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09/11/2018

... our politics. It had been clear for some time that American politics were broken in fundamental ways. As ... that have held back our progress.” But after eight years in office, while Obama accomplished a great...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces First Cohort of Incubator Project

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06/29/2015

Three nonprofit organizations were selected to take advantage of one year of free co-working space and a $5,000 stipend for start-up costs.

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Astraea Lesbian Foundation For Justice Welcomes Joy Chia as New Executive Director

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07/20/2021

... Director on September 20, 2021! When we relaunched our search process in February 2021, we sought a fierce feminist, ... and other aspects of our complex lives? How can we channel resources in ways that are...

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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

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New York Life Foundation Awards Grants to Out-of-school Time Programs to Help Middle School Students Transition to 9th Grade

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08/05/2019

... announced $1.35 million in new grants, to be awarded to 26 youth development organizations across the country to support middle school youth during the out-of-school time (OST) hours. Twenty-six ... first...

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Children, Youth and Families

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New York Life Foundation

Ford Foundation Appoints Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode to Board of Trustees

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06/20/2019

The Ford Foundation announced today that Marca Bristo and Gbenga Oyebode have been elected to serve as members of its Board of Trustees.

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2021 Soros Justice Fellows

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03/31/2022

... will empower members of the refugee community to become fully-accredited Department of Justice representatives ... videos that seek to elevate the voices and experiences of youth directly impacted by the...

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Social Justice

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Abby Youngblood Joins North Star Fund as Food and Environment Program Officer

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08/01/2012

... which is a philanthropic organizing project providing resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ... by a July 2006 electric power outage. Youngblood has ten years of experience working on...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

PNY Welcomes Shanqua Harrison and Allyson Goldhagen

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02/12/2014

... not-for-profit local development corporations, for over 8 years . Shanqua managed the overall day-to-day operations of ... and the LearningbyGiving Foundation. Prior to focusing her career on advancing the...

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What Kinds of Public-Private Partnerships Do We Want?

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05/19/2014

... were taking advantage of the first campaign season in 12 years with open races for all the citywide offices, to focus ... and government. Given each sector’s purpose and relative resources , the normative...

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Seeing Is Believing…and Understanding

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01/25/2018

... courses to incarcerated populations who are within five years of release. The event promised to bring together ... of their general education coursework to their long-term career objectives. “I don’t...

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The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Announces New Chief Investment Officer, Leena Bhutta

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07/29/2021

... Heil will retire at the end of 2021 after serving for 18 years as the foundation’s chief investment officer. Leena ... I have in seeing my friend and coworker Leena Bhutta become my successor.” Bhutta, who...

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The New York Women’s Foundation Invests in Six Transgender, Gender Nonconforming and Non-Binary (TGNCNB) Organizations in Recognition of Transgender Day of Remembrance

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12/05/2019

... for TGNCNB communities have increased in the last five years , as of 2016, only three cents for every $100 awarded by ... four-year initiative to support organizations with limited resources to better the lives...

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Rockefeller Foundation Adds Donald Kaberuka to its Board of Trustees

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11/05/2015

... The Rockefeller Foundation has appointed former African Development Bank (AfDB) president Donald Kaberuka to ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

... designed to help foundation leaders gain the tools and resources to work towards equity internally and externally. ... making a commitment to racial equity and can articulate why this is important for them...

Opinion: Construction Safety Bill Would Hurt Minority Workers

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09/26/2017

... Minority Workers I am a NYCHA resident who has spent my career advocating for our public housing communities – and I can tell you why we oppose Intro 1447-C, even as it stands on the verge of ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and National Science Foundation Fund Creation of Battery-Free HD Video Streaming Technology

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04/27/2018

... in. Their prototype skips the power-hungry parts and has something else, like a smartphone, process the video instead. ... have made so far is that backscatter can be used only for low -data rate sensors such...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Weinberg Foundation Details Chief Investment Officer Transition

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03/22/2022

... advancement.” Before joining the Foundation nearly nine years ago, Mr. Hook served as chief investment officer for ... is well-positioned to further grow its grantmaking serving low - income...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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21 Sep 2021

Times of Crisis Call for A Shared Vision – How to Show Up for Nonprofit Leadership Transitions

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... , Executive Co-Director, Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing ; former Executive Director, Philadelphia ...

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It’s Time to Tell a New Story

Release Date:

07/30/2020

... entering the United States. For over a hundred years , these words have offered a promise of refuge and ... hombres ”), and immigrants take over our jobs and scarce resources . And more recently, immigrants are...

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