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11 Dec 2024

Responding to the Opioid Crisis: What are the Opportunities for Funders to Make a Difference? - A Webinar Hosted by NCFP

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 -

4:00pm to 5:00pm

... only.* The opioid epidemic continues to be a major public health crisis affecting both rural and urban areas. In 2023 alone over 80,000 Americans died from an opioid overdose. Communities face specific...

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The New York Community Trust

Make Room for Makerspaces

Release Date:

12/08/2015

... Program Associate for the Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in The New York Community Trust Makerspaces are ... people gather to tinker, take things apart, and engage in creative projects— and they’re cropping...

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Insights

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Education

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic in Communities of Color

Release Date:

04/30/2020

Edward W. Hazen Foundation Fast Tracks $2.8 Million in Grants to Support Grantees Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic ... made in the summer in order to provide organizations with resources...

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07 Nov 2017

From There to Here: Adapting Global Solutions to American Problems

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

... to some of America’s most vexing social issues originate in a faraway land? Although social challenges in education, health , youth engagement, and community development play out ...

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Civic Engagement

24 Jan 2018

Through the Eyes of the Caregiver: “Care” Screening & Panel with Ai-jen Poo

Wednesday, January 24, 2018 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... who support their independence. Care invites us to engage in public discourse and consideration about solutions that ... care work with policies that contain the costs to public health programs, decrease...

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Workforce Development

Andrew Cuomo, Stop a Coronavirus Disaster: Release People From Prison - Op-Ed Co-Written by Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation

Release Date:

03/30/2020

... Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been an exemplar of leadership in this time of crisis, someone to whom other state and local ... million people, nearly 80,000 of whom are locked up in various New York correctional...

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Open Society Foundations Will Give More Than $130 Million to Aid People Hardest Hit by COVID-19 Pandemic

Release Date:

04/16/2020

... systemic inequality will have profound global consequences in the years to come. As the virus spreads across continents, we will also focus our efforts in the Global South, particularly in...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Sozosei Foundation Convenes Experts at Inaugural Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System

Release Date:

01/08/2021

... at Inaugural Summit to Decriminalize Mental Illness in the American Justice System Princeton, NEW JERSEY (JANUARY ... decriminalizing mental illness. During the three-day event in December 2020, Sozosei...

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Justice Reform

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits Additional $420 Million to Reduce Tobacco Use Globally

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02/02/2023

... also plummeted, with 750 billion fewer cigarettes sold in 2021 compared to 2012. From the new $420 million in funding, $280 million will be aimed at reducing tobacco ... with national and local governments to...

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23 Oct 2012

Embracing the Power of Education - GFE 16th Annual Conference

Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - 10:30am to Friday, October 26, 2012 - 3:30pm

... peer network, access leading thinkers and practitioners in the field and deepen your knowledge of education ... site visits featuring distinctive education programs in New York City A Philanthropy New York...

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NY's Joan Mitchell Foundation Invests $20 Million For New Orleans Arts Center

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06/12/2014

... Center The Joan Mitchell Foundation came to New Orleans in the aftermath of the 2005 storm and flood and spread ...

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Arts

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Mellon Grant To New Museum Supports Contemporary Art Scholarship

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08/05/2014

... seminars advancing research around new and evolving issues in contemporary art, and also help support the relaunch of ... discussions around timely and urgent topics in contemporary art. “Major funding from...

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Simons Foundation Helps Scientists Share and Review Findings

Release Date:

01/06/2015

... repository, launched as an ‘electronic bulletin board’ in August 1991, just before the dawn of the World Wide Web, ... make the raw, non-peer-reviewed manuscripts available in batches after a brief quality-...

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Prudential and Goldman Sachs Developing World’s Largest Vertical Farm in Newark

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03/12/2015

... $30 million project to redevelop a former industrial site in the Ironbound community of Newark, NJ into the world’s ... square foot indoor vertical farm and global headquarters in a converted steel factory...

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Food Systems

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Tiffany & Co. Foundation Woodland Gardens Exhibit Unlocks the Magic of Aquatic Life

Release Date:

08/20/2015

... preview today, ahead of its official first day tomorrow, in the Battery. Featuring 30 different sea creatures that ... unique" experience that's "a major step forward in plans to revitalize The...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Arts

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The Tiffany & Co. Foundation

$2 Million Mellon Foundation Grant Supports Digital Humanities

Release Date:

09/02/2015

... commitment to the most creative scholarship and teaching in the humanities,” said Penn President Amy Gutmann. “We ... with innovative analyses of the most important big data in the study of the humanities.” “...

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Mellon Foundation

Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

Release Date:

10/21/2015

... Day will take place this Saturday, October 24, 2015 in neighborhoods throughout the country, bringing Americans ... for the common good. Tens of thousands will participate in the nation's largest day of...

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

Seeking to improve the leadership skills at nonprofits around the world, the American Express Foundation is starting an ambitious new digital effort to train aspiring charity executives.

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Crotona Park East and Morrisania Have City's Highest Rate of Jailed Residents, Data2Go.NYC Shows (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

Release Date:

01/20/2016

... to be spending the night behind bars than people who live in any other part of the city. The South Bronx ... of the neighborhoods’ adult residents were locked up in a city jail on any given day during 2014, a...

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