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What Makes for an Effective Program Officer?

Release Date:

12/08/2016

... the wall with words like “Curiosity,” “Dedication to Learning ,” “Empathy,” “Self and Role Awareness,” ... leadership, the posters are actually the feedback from asking a single question to 25 program officers...

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PNY News

Schott Foundation President on How to Keep our Schools Safe

Release Date:

03/09/2018

... provides insight into the road that disconnected him from his humanity: “I’m just upset that no one cared to ... a higher-order need. It is virtually impossible to improve learning outcomes without supports...

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The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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28 Jan 2020

YLBC Info Session Webinar 1

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

... that our 2020 Young Leaders Breakfast Club will run from May 2020 to December 2020. To participate in the ... of professionals, work on personal and collective learning agendas, and practice leadership skills...

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Network Building

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Weinberg Foundation Announces Additional $5 Million to Expand and Strengthen Baltimore Library Project

Release Date:

12/10/2020

... meals, and hands-on workshops with the goal of preventing learning loss over the summer months. By the spring of 2021, ... and middle school students—will have directly benefited from this initiative. To learn...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Culture in New York City

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08/14/2017

... How much will the plan cost, and where is the money coming from ? Will the city involve residents in refining the more ...

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Insights

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Arts

Citi Community Development and The Poses Family Foundation Support New Initiative Aimed at Building the Financial Security of People with Disabilities

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01/29/2018

... Empowered Cities was launched with $2 million in support from Citi Community Development, $1 million of which is being ...

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Community Development

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The Estée Lauder Companies Announces Bold Family-Related Benefits to Meet the Diverse Needs of Its Employees

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04/25/2018

The policies apply to all eligible employees, irrespective of gender. The company will also be adding or enhancing benefits around adoption, child and elder care, and infant transition support. These policies, which are among the most comprehensive...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Estée Lauder Companies

Lessons on Movement Building

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06/27/2018

... In May, right before the images of children being ripped from their parents shocked the country, Roxsana Hernández ... the same time, Claudia Gómez González, a young woman from Guatemala, was shot dead by...

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Immigration

The Restaurant Industry Is Structured on Racism. The Restaurant Workers Community Foundation Wants to Rebuild It.

Release Date:

04/14/2021

... to them by someone else. Without substantial support from the government, the chefs, waiters, dishwashers, ... immediate of crises. So in 2020, building on its momentum from the successful coronavirus relief...

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Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation

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Food Systems

Social Justice

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Kristen M. Ruff

... and supervises the Member Services, Communications, and Learning Services teams. Kristen provides key support to PNY ... rights organization. She holds a B.A. in Women’s Studies from Wellesley College and MPA...

Boys & Girls Clubs of America Taking Arts Programs to the Next Level with The Wallace Foundation

Release Date:

03/20/2014

... arts programming for underserved youth that stimulates learning , inspires creativity and encourages self-expression. ... to Say: Success Principles for Afterschool Arts Programs from Urban Youth and Other...

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Children, Youth and Families

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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

... The New Museum has received a three-year, $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to expand scholarship ... and urgent topics in contemporary art. “Major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon...

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Arts

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Mellon Foundation

How Institutions Take Risks

Release Date:

10/12/2014

... and thinkers, the Rockefeller Foundation pivoted from its core public-health work to the heart-wrenching and ... business of saving scholars who were seeking refuge from the Nazis. In light of this episode and...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Joins Others in Backing New High School Models

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11/11/2015

... redesign American high schools. That was the big news from the first-ever White House summit on "next generation ... during a daylong program saturated with high-flown visions from policymakers, teachers...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change

Release Date:

04/21/2016

... back to the social movements I learned about as a kid — from women's suffrage to civil rights — I picture grainy, ... movements we've become familiar with, distinguishing them from movements of the...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

Atlantic Philanthropies' Mediratta Publishes New Book on Inequality in School Discipline

Release Date:

09/09/2016

... and authoritative information on what has been learned from research, data, and practical experience about ... approaches. The chapters in this book draw from and were commissioned by the Discipline...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Benchmarking Foundation Evaluation Practices

Publication date:

09/2016

... can they do to ensure that the information they receive from evaluation is useful to them? With whom should they ... Findings in the report are based on survey responses from individuals who were either the most senior evaluation ...

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Seven Cities Join Bloomberg Philanthropies' Innovation Teams Program

Release Date:

01/17/2017

... for up to three years in support of a range of efforts, from tackling entrenched poverty to recruiting and retaining ... and rigorously measure progress on those goals. Officials from participating cities also...

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