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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Flamboyan Foundation’s Arts Fund Announce Twenty Puerto Rican Writers Receive the Inaugural Letras Boricuas Fellowship

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11/16/2021

... NY; a big-hearted 1980s Bushwick-raised “bocona,” learning the breath of silence; an oil-and-water combination ... education. In Washington, DC, Flamboyan is accelerating student learning by...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

College and Career Readiness: Are We Measuring What Matters?

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06/11/2013

... by PNY’s Education Working Group and the New York City Youth Funders Network — that explored how educators, ... policymakers and nonprofits are rethinking and supporting student readiness for college and the...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Do You See Yourself In the First Nations Struggle?

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03/02/2017

... edge of domestic and global unrest, this is a moment of truth that holds great responsibility and offers profound ... issue such as education, the environment, the arts, or youth development. Take your pick,...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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15 Dec 2014

Why We Can’t Wait: Lessons from Listening to Girls of Color

Monday, December 15, 2014 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... ongoing racial and gender discrimination. However, their voices and specific assets and needs are frequently absent ... improve the lives of girls and women of color. Explore Learning from listening sessions...

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Children, Youth and Families

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A Call to Men and NY Women’s Foundation Host Training Institute to Prevent Violence against Women and Girls

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10/21/2015

... violence against women, sexual assault, sexual harassment, bullying and many other social ills. Men doing this work are ... ills – from domestic violence and sexual assault to bullying and discrimination –...

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The New York Women's Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Supports Construction Projects Through 'Pay for Success' Loans

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11/02/2015

... PFS is an innovative structure that drives government resources toward social impact projects that achieve positive ... include target population selection, data gathering and analysis , economic modeling,...

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Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

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Community Development

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As Schools Adopt Social-Emotional Programs, A New Guide Funded by the Wallace Foundation Offers Help

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05/17/2017

... empathy and coping skills through “social and emotional learning .” For starters, the audience wanted the answer to ... the jargon phrase for years: What is social and emotional learning and why should schools...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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15 Mar 2022

In the Time of COVID - Building Relationships with Grantees Virtually

Tuesday, March 15, 2022 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... share promising practices, and walk away with tools and resources that you can implement in your own grantmaking. ... Cunningham , Director of Operations & Development, Spark Youth NYC Stephanie Kinlock ,...

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11 Oct 2012

Measuring Social Media Efforts: A Meet the Author Event with Beth Kanter and Katie Delahaye Paine

Thursday, October 11, 2012 -

9:30am to 12:00pm

The Foundation Center, 79 Fifth Ave. 2nd Floor, NYC

... outline measurement frameworks, and offer up a host of resources from their forthcoming book, Measuring the ... from experts about social networking innovations and data analysis . A Philanthropy New York...

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Peterson Foundation On New Tax Reform Framework

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09/28/2017

... decisions. We all want higher economic growth, but the truth is that growth is hard to predict, let alone control ... In addition, the Tax Policy Center (TPC) released an analysis illuminating the tradeoffs...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Economic Security

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Our Journey: Celebrating the Eighth Year of Philanthropy 101 and Sharing What's to Come

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09/13/2023

... Philanthropy 101 series. Below Carolyn Peters , Manager of Learning , and Yi-Ching Lin , Vice President of Learning , ... from the Fund for 2025, we were able to invest significant resources to...

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NYS Health President Speaks Out for Free Lunch for NYC Children

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05/23/2017

... the important links among food access, health, and learning . From affordable housing to universal pre-K, the ... the lunch program. What stops them? It’s simple: Stigma. Bullying . Shaming. . . NYS Health...

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New York Health Foundation

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United Way of New York City Establishes the COVID-19 Community Fund

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03/26/2020

... UWNYC also has the ability to provide and sustain remote learning for students. Principals, teachers and families ... reach their families and provide critical and ongoing resources like learning...

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United Way of New York City

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25 Jan 2012

All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families

Wednesday, January 25, 2012 -

7:30am to 11:00am

... think tank that provides rigorous research, insight, and analysis that help speed equality for LGBT people, created ... Trust , in collaboration with Grantmakers for Children, Youth , and Families and Funders...

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It’s Time to Fund Children’s Mental Health

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04/15/2021

... address social inequity and prevent the criminalization of youth , especially in vulnerable communities. The ... That’s why we launched the Alliance – to combine the resources of the Morgan Stanley Foundation...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Health

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Morgan Stanley

It’s Time to Tell a New Story

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07/30/2020

... hombres ”), and immigrants take over our jobs and scarce resources . And more recently, immigrants are portrayed as a ... social venture partner Opportunity Agenda is providing an analysis of immigration media...

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Tides

Study Finds Test-Score Growth at NYC Charter Schools Outpaces District Schools

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10/04/2017

... school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, ...

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Editorial: Unemployment in Black and White

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08/30/2017

... for blacks, compared with 2.5 percent for whites. The hard truth is that the persistence of twice-as-high joblessness ...

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The Long Island Sound Funders Collaborative has granted $377,250 in 2020 to nine nonprofits through its Long Island Sound Stewardship Fund at the Long Island Community Foundation

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12/29/2020

... working to restore and protect the health and living resources of Long Island Sound. The Long Island Sound Funders ... $19,250 to support water quality data collection and analysis that will be used to develop...

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