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Finding—and Using—the Right Tool for the Job: A Landscape Scan of Assessment Tools

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08/02/2018

... are they best used? This is what the Hewlett Foundation’ s Effective Philanthropy Group were curious to discover, so ... funders and nonprofits better understand a nonprofit’ s health and capacity needs...

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The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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New York City Contract Delays: The Facts

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09/06/2018

... Scott Stringer showed how consistently late the city’ s contracts actually are. It also raised some additional ... The Facts – may not shock foundations whose grantee’ s do lots of business with the city, but...

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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Evaluating a Culture

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05/22/2019

... the practices, policies, and aspects of the Foundation’ s culture that contribute to exceptionally strong ratings ... philanthropic organizations learn from [Howard Gilman’ s ] process”). We are, of course,...

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You Can't Hack Trust

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06/17/2019

... time, patience, and a sincere belief that each donor’ s visions and dreams are as important to you as they are to ... of knowledge, reality and perspective to your client’ s decision making. What successes and...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Moore Philanthropy

04 Oct 2019

Leading With Race Equity: Building Stronger Culture and Practice

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9:00am to 5:00pm

... play a defining role in our personal and our community’ s trajectory, goals, experiences and outcomes. As grantmakers ... to effect some level of change within an organization’ s culture or grantmaking...

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Heckscher Foundation for Children Funded New York's First 'To and Through' Data Tool That Shines a Light on College Readiness Gap

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10/14/2019

Heckscher Foundation for Children Funded New York' s First 'To and Through' Data Tool That Shines a Light on ... data that offer a window into how well New York State’ s public high schools are...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

What Funders Need to Know About the Next Big Democracy Challenge

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12/06/2019

... toward the next essential step in fortifying our nation’ s democratic health. The New York State Census Equity Fund ... Foundation and leading organizer of the national funder’ s collaborative on redistricting...

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The New York Community Trust

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Census 2020

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Philanthropy & Social Sector Leadership at a Time of Crisis

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06/10/2020

... the brunt of invisibility in this country. Our nation’ s social compact is in tatters as a result of conscious, ... to refresh our collective thinking and purpose : it’ s a moment for courage. Our national...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Honors COVID-19 Responders Among 38 Distinguished Immigrants

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07/01/2020

... of “Operation Warp Speed,” the Trump Administration’ s effort to accelerate development of a vaccine. Ramon Tallaj ... novelist Yaa Gyasi, University of Connecticut women’ s basketball coach Geno Auriemma, and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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JPMorgan Chase Shares New Approaches to Summer Youth Employment Programs in Response to COVID-19

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07/08/2020

... to COVID-19 JPMorgan Chase is helping more than 20 U. S . cities prepare thousands of young people for the future of ... to the COVID-19 crisis and this moment of change in the U. S . Working closely with cities...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Economic Security

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Can Flexible Funding Become Our New Normal?

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07/15/2020

... organizations at the community level. The report’ s key findings include: General operating support is a form ... building funding results. Determining a nonprofit’ s readiness includes factors such as its...

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Three Actions Philanthropic Funders Can Take to Advance Equity for Immigrant and Refugee Workers

Release Date:

07/30/2020

... line of defense in the fight against the virus. Leonor’ s work entails cleaning a commercial office building and ... workspaces are sanitized, thereby minimizing the virus’ s spread. When the pandemic began,...

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World Education Services / WES Mariam Assefa Fund

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WES Mariam Assefa Fund Announces First Impact Investments to Support the Success of Immigrant and Refugee Workers

Release Date:

12/15/2020

... to workers in low-wage jobs. Ninety percent of Cell-Ed’ s current users are Black or Latinx, and the vast majority ... also first- or second-generation immigrants. The Fund’ s investment will help Cell-Ed ...

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The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Welcomes Marianna Schaffer, Vice President of Programs and Jennene Tierney, Vice President of People, Culture, Equity

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01/11/2021

... its vision of an equitable New Jersey . “Dodge’ s transformation to become an anti-racist organization and ... and network of partners,” said Tanuja Dehne, Dodge’ s President and CEO. “We are thrilled to have...

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Appointments & Transitions

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One Year Later: Food Scarcity in New York State During the COVID-19 Pandemic - New Report from the NYS Health Foundation

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03/03/2021

... Survey, an experimental data product designed by the U. S . Census Bureau in collaboration with multiple federal ... experienced food insecurity in the last year. [2] USDA’ s research uses different questions...

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New York Health Foundation

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Food Systems

Health

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Sozosei Foundation Awards Grants to Local Texas Communities Impacted by Winter Storm

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03/10/2021

... by the recent winter storm The Sozosei Foundation, a U. S .-based, private charitable foundation, awarded a total of ... recovery relief. These grants are drawn from Sozosei’ s Disaster Relief and Recovery...

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Food Systems

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What It Takes: Supporting New BIPOC Executives

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05/19/2021

... of solutions rather than withdraw or pause. It’ s also important to fund the new leadership’ s vision rather than simply our own assessment of gaps and ... reflective communities of peers. An executive...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Social Justice

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Countering the Flight of Talent from AAPI Communities & Building Grassroots Capacity

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06/09/2021

... Korean Community Services (KCS) in Flushing, one of KACF’ s grantee partners. It’ s a career path borne out of her personal experience. Several ... her own grandmother, were kicked out of a local McDonald’...

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Morgan Stanley Builds Digital Platform to Help Billion Oyster Project Speed Up Oyster Bed Growth

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06/08/2021

... (BOP) and Morgan Stanley (NYSE: MS) today announced BOP’ s data collection efforts will now be powered by a brand new ... beds in and around the New York Harbor area. The project’ s goal is to scale to one...

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