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Two Hedge Fund Billionaires Donate $1M Each to Pro-Charter School Advocates

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10/21/2015

... each on a controversial charter school advocacy group in April, the Daily News has learned. Officials at ... Families for Excellent Schools have declined to name the nonprofit ’s funders since it was founded...

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Small Victories in Affordable Housing? We'll Take it!

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01/19/2018

Small Victories in Affordable Housing? We'll Take it! By Patricia ... affordable housing shortage is no longer just a problem in strong market cities like New York and San Francisco, it ... blue state/red...

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The New York Community Trust

04 Nov 2015

Dear Board...Are You Reading This?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015 -

8:45am to 11:00am

... View materials and recording here . Foundation and nonprofit boards have an important responsibility: They ... major polices, goals and governance of the organization. In order to effectively exercise that...

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Century Foundation Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity

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05/15/2018

... Releases First-Ever Inventory on Charter School Diversity In San Diego, a former carpentry teacher imagined a high ... to incorporate diversity into the design of a school. This report represents the first...

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The Century Foundation Has Obtained New Data Showing 99 Percent of Student Fraud Claims Concern For-Profit Colleges

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11/13/2017

... list of schools accused of predatory behavior. Now, in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request ... filed against each and every higher education institution in the country. When TCF analyzed...

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An Open Letter to Philanthropy, from People of Color-led, Movement-Accountable Public Foundations

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10/21/2021

... and unprecedented opportunity to dismantle white supremacy in both our country (who we fund) and our sector (how we fund). In both contexts, the cornerstone of ... By contrast, the...

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Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice

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Ms. Foundation for Women

North Star Fund

The New York Women's Foundation

25 Apr 2012

Navigating the Storm: Developing the Capacity to Manage Change

Wednesday, April 25, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th Floor, NYC.

Nonprofit leaders must routinely navigate a host of changing ... organizations to be creative and to do more with fewer resources . Yet, in a time of great uncertainty, leaders can focus ...

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Tools & Strategies

02 Jun 2010

Teacher Recruitment, Retention, and Equity: How Can School Districts Provide Effective Teaching in Every Classroom?

Wednesday, June 2, 2010 -

10:00am to 11:30am

MEMBERS: Please log in to register yourself or a colleague online by clicking on ... and retain effective teachers? How can they help teachers in all schools become more effective? Can New York find a ... factor...

Citi Foundation, America's Promise Alliance Launch $3 Million Fund

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04/27/2015

... Alliance have announced the launch of a $3 million fund in support of innovative, scalable programs that prepare ... To that end, the fund will award grants of up to $250,000 in support of local ...

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Open Society Foundations Tackles the Challenge of Prisoner Reentry

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04/26/2016

... prisoner reentry effort is getting some help from the nonprofit sector . Today, Project New Opportunity was announced by an ... Sentencing Commission under revised guidelines approved in 2014...

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Justice Reform

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Open Society Foundations

Brooklyn Community Foundation Announces Five Organizations Selected to Receive First Spark Prize

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01/10/2017

... only honor of its kind celebrating excellence and impact in Brooklyn’s thriving nonprofit sector . Each of the five Spark Prize recipients will get ...

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Brooklyn Org

New York Developer Raises Fund for Affordable Housing

Release Date:

09/12/2017

... to affordable housing, the company’s largest such fund in a sector drawing more attention from investors. The fund, which ... individuals and family offices, pension funds, banks and nonprofit...

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Housing and Homelessness

Foundation Presidents Defend Donor-Advised Funds—Is That the Best They Can Do?

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09/14/2017

... the Council of Foundations, Independent Sector , The Philanthropy Roundtable, and the Columbus ... defending donor-advised funds. This letter was written in response to a proposal outlined in...

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Philanthropy & Nonprofit Sector Support

Westchester Community Foundation Disbursed Millions in 2016

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03/22/2016

Westchester Community Foundation Disbursed Millions in 2016 The Westchester Community Foundation, one of the largest funders of nonprofits in Westchester, New York, started 2016 with a new website, ... The...

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New York Foundation Places Its Bets on Real Change

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05/29/2015

... process isn’t well-publicized, and many tenants living in such apartments, mostly members of low-income communities, don’t know their rights or have the resources to participate. Enter Community Action for...

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New York Foundation

Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters

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10/29/2014

Philanthropy’s Special Role in Supporting Community Recovery from Disasters This week ... and Canada. Many of the hardest hit communities were in New York and New Jersey – the storm’s destruction has ... along...

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Disaster Relief

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Philanthropy New York

Here’s How the Trump Administration Is Quietly Undermining Food Safety

Release Date:

10/04/2017

... influential watchdog group — the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for Food Safety, the ... STOP Foodborne Illness, Food Policy Action, and even the nonprofit that publishes Consumer...

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Food Systems

Rita Allen Foundation Supported Research Details Consequences of Kansas’ Lifetime Property Tax Exemptions on Local School Districts

Release Date:

03/02/2018

... found that such exemptions left roughly $630 million in Kansas wind farm equipment untaxed, depriving 24 rural counties of about $82 million in additional revenue each year. The Midwest Center for .....

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06 Jun 2013

Personal Democracy Forum 2013: Think Bigger

Thursday, June 6, 2013 - 9:00am to Friday, June 7, 2013 - 6:00pm

NYU Skirball Center and Kimmel Center, 566 LaGuardia Place, NYC

... by The New York Times , Personal Democracy Forum ( PDF ) is the world's largest and longest-running gathering of ... hands-on sessions, you won't want to miss the tenth annual PDF , featuring the...

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NYSHealth Foundation Testimony on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in New York City

Release Date:

12/09/2020

... Foundation Testimony on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity in New York City The New York City Council Committee on ... York City. We offer information from our recent research report on severe maternal morbidity...

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