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Heckscher Foundation for Children Announces their Newest Leadership Fellow

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09/27/2022

... that help level the playing field for underserved youth . Our inaugural Heckscher Leadership Fellows, Ruth Genn ... focuses on specific obstacles that keep underserved youth from realizing their full potential...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

What World Do You Want to Live In?

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05/21/2015

... are being shortchanged, all you need to do is compare the learning opportunities that are typically available to kids ... programs for children. We see that families with financial resources invest in...

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... science research to promote advocacy or filmmaking to help youth express their emotions. They take risks that large ... standards to our due diligence processes—yet funneling resources to known entities doesn’...

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Century Foundation Senior Fellow Comments on Disrupting the One-Teacher Standard

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09/01/2016

In a perfect world, education experts would shrink class sizes and children would learn from multiple teachers.

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The Century Foundation

Mellon Foundation Awards St. Lawrence University $800,000 to Support Sophomore-Year Experience

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10/21/2016

... This new program will offer a new series of second-year student seminars and courses that are linked to experiential learning opportunities, including internships, community ...

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Why Cultural Critics of Color Matter

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05/15/2018

... stop this representation of it,” he writes. As Smith’s analysis demonstrates, Black critics matter too. This movie ... example of what pop culture critics of color can do with resources and real estate. The...

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

October 2013 Working Group Updates

Release Date:

10/23/2013

... organizing project formed in 2011 to provide information, resources and networking opportunities for funders in the New ... Union; Lois Uttley , Co-Founder, Raising Women’s Voices and Director of MergerWatch;...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation

Surdna Foundation

Why Aren’t There More Nonprofit Leaders of Color?

Release Date:

04/28/2016

... also tackled this issue and there were very good resources available everywhere. At roughly the same time, we ... research. Our leadership work has always included a race analysis , but we were interested in...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

The Weight of Privilege in Crisis

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08/19/2020

... comprehension. For those of us who have more time and/or resources , the mental health toll seems invisible, but it ... what is revealed by the light and bearing the cruelty of truth of how we got to this place...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Backs Community Development in Baltimore

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05/11/2015

... nonprofits as part of a joint $1.5 million Summer Youth Initiative that brings together three of Baltimore's ... to create high-quality summer programs that blend academic learning with enrichment...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Awards Emergency Grants to Prison Education Programs as COVID Crisis Continues

Release Date:

08/06/2020

... allow incarcerated students across the nation to continue learning while in-person instruction is paused as part of ... “The Mellon Foundation believes in each and every student ’s humanity,” said Foundation...

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23 Sep 2020

Social Impact Exchange: 2020 Scaling Impact Together: Unifying Leadership

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, September 24, 2020 (All day)

This year has laid bare the truth and consequences of leadership in all forms, ... wealth managers and philanthropy advisors interested in learning about innovative methods to support high-impact nonprofits in...

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11 Dec 2013

Leaving Vocational Education Behind: Making Sure College Ready = Career Ready

Wednesday, December 11, 2013 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... between secondary, post-secondary and workplace learning ? What do the students expect of these schools – ...

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Workforce Development

To Change The World, “Eat What You Buy, And Stop Buying More Than You’ll Eat”

Release Date:

08/31/2017

... a team of five District Managers dedicated to providing student well-being solutions and supporting student achievement, serving more than 60 school districts in ... ensuring students receive quality meals in...

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Food Systems

Ashley Allen

Ashley Headshot.png As Manager of Member Engagement at Philanthropy New York, Ashley Allen works with PNY’s Salesforce CRM, maintaining existing and establishing new relationships with current and prospective members. She is a key resource to...

Wendy Liscow to Leave The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation After 17 Years

Release Date:

11/13/2020

... school districts. She has also developed sequential adult learning opportunities to help ensure nonprofit staff and ...

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Philanthropy New York Welcomes Ashley Allen as the new Manager of Member Engagement

Release Date:

11/09/2022

Join us in welcoming Ashley to the Philanthropy New York community!

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How Collaboration Can Spur Innovation and Spread Good Ideas (Part I)

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07/14/2016

... new ideas. They become more efficient. They increase resources , and innovation flourishes. End of story. Right? ... and Schools” on July 26, and the “ South Bronx Learning Tour ” on Aug. 4. And based on my...

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The New York Community Trust

The Juvenile Justice Initiative at Philanthropy New York: Closing Remarks from Judge Judith S. Kaye

Release Date:

06/22/2010

... by philanthropy to reduce the flow of children and youth into the juvenile justice system, and to reorient the system from a correctional to a youth -development and therapeutic model. On June 14, 2010, .....