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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

Release Date:

11/08/2013

... Farm project has surveyed the more than 700 existing sites (there are nearly 3 times as many farms and gardens in ... photographs, maps and a website with graphics, tools and resources . Of particular interest...

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Commonwealth Fund President Karen Davis to Step Down at End of 2012

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01/02/2012

... agency when she became the Administrator of the Health Resources Administration. From 1981 to 1992, she was a ...

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Appointments & Transitions

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The Commonwealth Fund

Why Philanthropy Should Help Strengthen Community Colleges

Release Date:

04/17/2014

Research shows the increasing importance of the post-secondary credential to one’s ability to participate in the labor market in this knowledge economy. It is predicted that in our not-too-distant future, over 60% of jobs in the U.S. will require one

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Education

New Partnership To Support Pain And Palliative Care For Veterans

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06/09/2014

... brings to this collaboration specific strengths and resources that, together, can result in a new level of ...

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Health

Veterans

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

The Mayday Fund

Closing the Queer Funding Gap

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07/21/2014

... only 24 cents goes to LGBTQ issues.” These scant resources are scattered among many community efforts. Of that ...

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Rediscovering the Enterprise Investment Approach

Release Date:

09/17/2014

... The danger for us in thinking about Heron’s financial resources as “assets” is that we stay stuck in the old ...

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Impact Investing

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F.B. Heron Foundation

02 Oct 2014

How Philanthropy Can Act to Stop the Ebola Crisis

Thursday, October 2, 2014 - 1:00pm

The CDC estimates the number of Ebola cases could reach 1.4 million within just four months, in a worst case scenario. Join us for a timely conversation with the experts in the field.

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04 Dec 2014

Big Ideas for Short Videos

Thursday, December 4, 2014 -

8:00am to 10:45am

The question is no longer “Should we be producing multimedia?” but “How do we?”.

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New York State

A Commitment to Playwrights: The Tow Foundation’s 2014 Residency Program

Release Date:

12/09/2014

... a targeted fund—using a relatively small portion of its resources —to have a big impact on the lives of one or a ...

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Arts

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The Tow Foundation

Nobody Needs a ‘Shark Tank’ in Philanthropy

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03/27/2015

... distance between smart organizations’ great work and the resources they need to do that work. Already, grant makers do ...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Council on Foundations

New York Foundation

Scaling Effectively: Create a Plan, Support the Vision and Manage the Risks

Release Date:

06/17/2015

... dollars set aside to ensure that the organization has the resources it needs to try new things. Sometimes, ...

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Community Development

Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Invest in Youth: Strengthening Brooklyn’s Future

Release Date:

07/02/2015

... youth arrests and re-arrests, and increase access to resources and services that empower and support immigrant ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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Brooklyn Org

Philanthropy Should Focus on the Assets of Aging

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04/22/2016

Teresa Bonner at Aroha Philanthropies says it’s time for America to put the brakes on our national obsession with youth and our dismissal of the potential of older adults.

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As Funders of Equity and Education, Connect Research to Action for School Integration

Release Date:

11/21/2016

... to action. School and government leaders need the resources to learn about different strategies and put them ...

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Education

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The New York Community Trust

What Post-9/11 Advocacy Can Teach Us about Fighting for Brooklyn Immigrant Rights Today

Release Date:

01/30/2017

... rights organizations that continue to act as vital resources on behalf of immigrant youth and their families ...

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Immigration

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Brooklyn Org

Manage Difficult Workplace Conversations Like a Jedi

Release Date:

04/13/2017

... and Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York members. Resources Research: The Work Conversations We Dread the ...

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Altman Foundation

Passing Raise the Age Legislation: A Big Step on the Long Road to Implementation

Release Date:

06/30/2017

... the planning phase, identify and advocate for county-level resources , and monitor implementation of the law, paying ...

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Justice Reform

Making the Most of Interesting Times – and Achieving the Global Goals

Release Date:

02/22/2018

... efforts impact the SDGs. As the practice of human resources becomes more closely aligned to CSR in terms of ...

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Johnson & Johnson

The Fight Over Immigrants and Refugees Is Going to Intensify. Here's What Foundations Need to Do

Release Date:

03/06/2018

Daranee Petsod, President, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrant and Refugees writes " A year ago, more than 200 foundations from across the United States signed onto our joint statement in support of immigrants and refugees. This rare act of...