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Brooklyn Public Library Receives $400,000 From The New York Life Foundation

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06/16/2014

... new skills, and introduce them to Brooklyn’s rich history . It is one of our most important programs and we ... and document analysis through the Library’s local history archive, helping young Brooklynites...

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Ford Foundation Appoints Bryan Stevenson to Board of Trustees

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02/17/2017

... today, and we need to acknowledge the shamefulness of that history ,” Stevenson told journalist Jeffrey Toobin. Widely ... join in the work of the Ford Foundation, which has a long history of supporting...

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Do You Promote or Impede Real Change?

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08/21/2017

... the Black Diaspora has formally celebrated our collective history of philanthropy each August during Black ... To learn more about the history of giving by African Americans we recommend the ...

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18 Feb 2020

Immigration: When Something So Personal Depends on Policymakers

Tuesday, February 18, 2020 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... is One Who Leaves ) and of a policy wonk who tells the history of the last time comprehensive immigration reform ... of immigrants, public policy impacts, and the public The history of and updates from the...

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New York Foundation Celebrates New Executive Director, Rickke Mananzala

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05/27/2021

... the next phase of our foundation’s more than 100-year history of supporting new ideas and community leaders, we do ... itself, and we believe there is value in challenging the history of exclusion and...

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The Reckoning Philanthropy Needs Right Now

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08/11/2021

... a masterful presentation by scholar Gretchen Sorin on the history of African American mobility and the ways that it has ... very ideas we have about race Why? Because understanding history , policy, and...

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Robertson Foundation Names Richard Barth President

Release Date:

08/19/2021

... of Teach For America. Mr. Barth earned a B.A. in American History from Harvard University, and is an Aspen ... has given away more than $1.5 billion in its 25-year history . By taking a targeted yet creative...

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Want to Make a Change in the United States? Look Abroad!

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10/23/2017

... But studying how other countries promote health and foster inclusion is not just about importing ideas or translating ...

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Workforce Funders Collaborative

... that prepare New Yorkers for employment. History In 2001, a group of more than 40 foundations with an ...

The Century Foundation Adds New Senior Fellow

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03/01/2013

... “The Century Foundation has a long and deep history of high-impact policy and is a perfect place for me ...

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Donn Weinberg Concludes Term as Weinberg Foundation Chairman, Judge Ellen Heller Assumes Board Leadership Role

Release Date:

03/01/2013

... gift to a long-term care center in the Foundation’s history ; the $8.1 million Weinberg Caregiver Initiative, ...

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The Century Foundation Announces New Senior Fellow, Presence in Beirut

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02/01/2013

... and The Atlantic. “The Century Foundation has a proud history of advocating American foreign policy that will ...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Appoints Neill Coleman as Vice President, Global Communications

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07/02/2012

... native of Glasgow, Scotland, Coleman has an M.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. The Rockefeller ...

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Former Brazilian Secretary of Justice Pedro Abramovay to Join Open Society Foundations

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... tipping point,” Abramovay said. “For the first time in history , we have a generation that has grown up with ...

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Michael Berkowitz to Join The Rockefeller Foundation

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08/22/2013

... the field of urban planning, and has a remarkable history in fostering resilience thinking and action in cities ...

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16 May 2012

Love Free or Die - Philanthropy New York's Documentary Series

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 -

5:30pm to 8:30pm

... and ordinary folk to come out from the shadows and change history . Panelists Macky Alston , Filmmaker Orlando ...

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15 Jul 2013

Justice Delayed – An Examination of the Ken Burns Film The Central Park Five

Monday, July 15, 2013 -

3:45pm to 7:00pm

The story of the Central Park Five is one scarring New York history ; a case of injustice for five teenagers of color ...

14 Nov 2013

American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

Thursday, November 14, 2013 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

Ford Foundation, 320 East 43rd Street, NYC

... the 1967 rebellions, and non-linear notions of time and history , Boggs emerges with an approach that is radical in ...

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18 Mar 2014

What Is the Case for Foundations Living in Perpetuity?

Tuesday, March 18, 2014 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... to advocates of spending down? Explore How the early history of individual foundations relate to their ...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Social Justice

Philip Zelikow Joins Markle Foundation As Visiting Managing Director

Release Date:

08/27/2014

... Zelikow, the White Burkett Miller Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is on leave from the ...

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