Economic Recovery Through Racial Equity: Thoughts from Maya Wiley
Release Date:
01/07/2010
... Legal Department, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund , Inc. in the Poverty and Justice Program, and the Civil ...
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Standby Letters of Credit: The Underdog of Charitable Financing
Release Date:
06/25/2009
... did not obtain proceeds from a loan. In the event of default , payment could be considered a charitable donation ... is to post no more collateral than you are willing to fund through future years’...
Morgan Stanley Foundation Partners with Mindful Philanthropy to Conduct a Funders Survey on Children's Mental Health
Release Date:
01/13/2023
... survey is intended for philanthropic funders who currently fund , plan to fund , or have chosen not to fund children and youth well-being. By completing this ...
Compensating for Your Philanthropic Blind Spots
Release Date:
01/09/2014
... Foundation and decided to open a “corporate-advised” fund called the Make a Stand Foundation, which would accept ... the success of that effort, the couple is now planning to fund similar projects at public,...
Why Are Foundations Often Absent From Major Policy Shifts?
Release Date:
08/13/2009
... agenda and develop—not just capture temporarily—human resources and talent to address that agenda. Fear of ... they already have the answers, and that their job is to fund projects that back them up and get “...
Westchester Community Foundation Met $2 Million Goal and has Distributed $861,500 in COVID-19 Grants to Date
Release Date:
08/03/2020
... raised $2 million for its Westchester Covid-19 Response Fund and distributed $861,500 to 38 human services ... $1 million remaining in the Westchester Covid-19 Response Fund , the Foundation will shift its...
Surdna Foundation Celebrates Centennial Year with $4.5 Million Commitment to Equitable Community Development
Release Date:
12/06/2017
... members. Surdna's catalytic contribution to the Amplify Fund will seed a multimillion-dollar pooled fund to put neighborhood development in the hands of the residents of those communities. The ...
The Spend-Out Presumption And The Value Of Enduring Institutions
Release Date:
02/26/2010
... perpetuity as well. It is, for instance, the unthinking, default position for far too many foundations and donors. ... with a longer-term perspective. Assuming perpetuity as the default or presuming spending...
These Days Everyone Can Be A Communicator…But Is That Enough?
Release Date:
01/12/2012
... with their program colleagues to develop content for Web sites . Many foundation communicators also play a critical ... (!) said their organizations host videos on their Web sites . Survey respondents also...
How Philanthropy and Nonprofits Responded to the Government Shutdown
Release Date:
10/18/2013
... all grateful that Congress moved back from the brink of default and frankly, it is hard not to simply want to forget ... midst of the Washington standoff, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund announced the formation...
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Jan
2016
The Drug War, Mass Incarceration and Racial Justice: Lessons from the Campaign to End the Racially Biased Marijuana Arrest Crusade in NYC
Friday, January 15, 2016 -
8:30am to 11:30am
In 1977, New York decriminalized the possession of small amounts of marijuana. Yet between 1995 and 2010, the NYPD made more than 530,000 arrests for low-level possession, including 50,000 in 2010 alone.
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Sep
2018
New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and Presentation of the Analysis and Recommendations from the Workforce Agenda Report
Wednesday, September 12, 2018 -
9:00am to 11:00am
In November 2014 Mayor De Blasio released the Career Pathways report, with ten recommendations including adopting a Career Pathways framework, committing $100 million for training and $60 million in bridge programs.
Schools Urged To Implement Alternatives to Zero-Tolerance Discipline Policies
Release Date:
07/24/2014
Forward-thinking school districts across the nation are demonstrating how alternatives to zero-tolerance discipline polices can improve educational outcomes, writes Kavitha Mediratta, the head of racial-equity program at The Atlantic Philanthropies...
Wallace Foundation Study Looks at Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth
Release Date:
09/30/2016
... Learning Programs on Low-Income Urban Youth (109 pages, PDF ), found that in five urban districts participating in ...
Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps
Release Date:
10/19/2016
... in Practice: Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF ), the number of districts and charter schools with .....
State UBIT and Commuter Benefit - Legislative Fix in the Governor's Budget
Release Date:
02/06/2019
A drafting error that created problems for organizations with a fiscal year start date that does not align with the calendar year has been fixed and is included in Governor Cuomo's budget this month.
Responding to 3/11: Helping with the Japan Disaster
Release Date:
05/12/2011
... if they can only attract sufficient financial and human resources . 4) There are effective ways to support Japanese ... regrant funds to Japanese groups, and they can be useful resources for American...
School Choice and Privilege Are Inextricably Linked
Release Date:
11/09/2015
... in education tax credit programs which use tax dollars to fund private school vouchers. In Georgia, for example, the ...
Native Wisdom: A Review Of Edgar Villanueva’s Decolonizing Wealth
Release Date:
09/24/2019
... of foundations have added leaders in the fields that they fund to serve as trustees. Yet, in the case of some family ... in the neighborhood. Another example is The People’s Fund (now known as the Bread and...
Bold Stories For Big Challenges
Release Date:
12/17/2013
Working Narratives' Paul VanDeCarr provides a recap of our PNY event on how foundations can use diverse types of storytelling for greater impact.