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10 Nov 2011

The Common Core: NYC’s Department of Education and the New York State Education Department Bringing It Back to the Classroom

Thursday, November 10, 2011 -

1:30pm to 5:00pm

... Standards was a central piece of New York State’ s successful Race to the Top application, which brought $700 ... core and how one district – New York City (the state’ s and nation’ s largest...

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29 Nov 2011

Time as a Tool: Strategies for Transforming Schools through Time

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 -

1:45pm to 5:00pm

... Time and Learning Fred Frelow , Program Officer, The Ford Foundation Jane Quinn , Vice President and Director of National Center for Community Schools, Children’ s Aid Society Designed for All interested...

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07 Oct 2013

Transition Town NYC: Priceless Prosperity With Market Rate Returns

Monday, October 7, 2013 -

8:30am to 11:30am

Surdna Foundation, 330 Madison Avenue, NYC

Join us as we bring three of the world’ s leading economic visionaries together to discuss investing ... half of this event features the Transition Town Movement’ s founders, Rob Hopkins and Peter Lipman. The...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Could Universal Pre-K Disrupt the School-to-Prison Pipeline?

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06/19/2014

... Mercedes Gonzalez, Education Policy Intern at The Century Foundation This post was originally published on The ... Jersey Senator Cory Booker highlighted the growth of the U. S . criminal justice system over...

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Carol Levine to Receive Award for Raising Awareness About and Influencing Policy on Family Caregiving

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10/21/2014

... on Aging of New York has announced that this year’ s President’ s Award will be conferred on Carol Levine, director of the ... effectively together. In 1993, she was awarded a MacArthur Foundation...

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Health

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Four Freedoms Fund Names New Director

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11/14/2014

... Khashu brings to the job an extensive, multi-decade U. S . and international career at the intersection of immigrant ... and social justice philanthropy. She has worked in the U. S ., Latin America and Africa,...

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Appointments & Transitions

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25 Nov 2014

Understanding the President's Executive Actions on Immigration

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... five million undocumented immigrants, mostly parents of U. S . citizens and lawful permanent residents, to apply for ... work permits and avoid deportation. The President’ s Immigration Accountability Executive...

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15 Jan 2015

Getting Better at Getting Better: Using Data to Improve Student Social-Emotional Learning

Thursday, January 15, 2015 -

8:00am to 11:00am

... , Senior Research and Evaluation Officer, The Wallace Foundation Sue Lehmann , Chief Facilitator, Student Success ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Leadership Development

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Human Services

Children, Youth and Families

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United States

18 Feb 2015

Individualized Career Planning

Wednesday, February 18, 2015 -

12:45pm to 5:00pm

... with any questions. In Collaboration with Foundation Administrators Network Individualized Career ...

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Professional Development

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Workshop

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HR & Operations Staff

04 Feb 2015

Service for Impact

Wednesday, February 4, 2015 -

7:45am to 11:00am

... Gershon, Executive Director, Community Leadership, Gap Foundation Designed for Corporate funders and members of ...

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Atlantic Shows Support for Grassroots Organizing in Sandy-Affected Communities

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03/05/2013

... and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies With our U. S . offices located in New York City, Hurricane Sandy hit ... office building. In the aftermath of the storm, Atlantic’ s Board and staff were committed to...

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Driving Change in Public Policy: Responsible Budgeting in New York State

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02/29/2012

... lesson is unfolding right now in New York State. Let’ s go back to July 2009. New York Governor David Paterson was ... several New York-based sponsors, including the Bodman Foundation , the IBM International...

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Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/09/2010

... City Nonprofits United Way of New York City Sometimes it’ s easy to forget how much nonprofits touch people’ s lives. Reflecting on the ways my life has been touched by ... that for all our talk about...

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Welcome to Smart Assets!

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04/23/2009

... post is from Charles Hamilton, Philanthropy New York’ s Senior Fellow and former Executive Director of the Clark Foundation , on Mayor’ s Bloomberg’ s proposal to improve the...

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14 Apr 2015

Philanthropy in Nations with Weak Civic Infrastructures: Exploring the Challenges

Tuesday, April 14, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... to operate or the regulatory environment to flourish. Foundation staff considering funding to improve civil society ... O’Sullivan (Moderator) , Program Director, IBD/Crohn’ s Disease & Sr. Advisor, Israel...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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International/Foreign Affairs

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New York State

Supporting Emerging Leaders in the Field

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02/24/2015

... offer YLBC thanks to the generous support of the Taconic Foundation . Our thanks as well to American Express for their ...

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06 May 2015

Scaling for Social Impact: Perspectives from Both Sides

Wednesday, May 6, 2015 -

9:15am to 11:15am

... challenges and success of scaling, and why it’ s a sound non-traditional grant-making strategy funders can ... and tradeoffs Strategies for assessing an organization’ s capacity to scale and how can funders...

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