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Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voices Heard, Says "Basebuilding is a Contact Sport"

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06/22/2017

Afua Atta-Mensah, Executive Director of Community Voice Heard, tells funders in this PHIL Talk that "basebuilding is a contact sport... change movements are built by a small cadre of people."

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With Support from Pershing Square and Alfred P. Sloan Foundations, New Research Finds that Behavioral ‘Nudges’ Offer a Cost-Effective Policy Tool

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06/08/2017

The new study, which examined the cost-effectiveness of nudges and typical intervention strategies like financial incentives side-by-side, found that nudges often yield particularly high returns at a low cost when it comes to boosting retirement...

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Long Island Community Foundation-Backed Report Finds Racial Inequities Cost LI’s Economy Billions Each Year

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04/25/2017

Long Island’s economy could have had an infusion of $24 billion in 2014 alone were it not for racial inequities resulting in an income gap faced by African-American residents, according to a report released Monday by the Urban League of Long Island.

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Social Justice

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Long Island Community Foundation

Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

Mark Lilla, visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation, writes in the New York Times to advocate for a "post-identity liberalism."

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The Century Foundation Rallies Against "Turnkey Tyranny" With Presidential Transition

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11/18/2016

With the election of Donald Trump, this warning is frighteningly close to becoming reality, as Trump has vowed to implement surveillance policies that “were frankly unthinkable a year ago.” Obama’s last challenge will be to do everything in his...

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The Joys and Frustrations of Managing Young People

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09/29/2016

Stephanie Chrispin, Public Policy Fellow at Philanthropy New York, reflects on the difficulties and rewards of managing the organization's first high school intern.

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Leadership Development

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Public Policy

Prisoner to Proprietor: Entrepreneurship as a Re-entry Strategy

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09/29/2016

Joseph A. Antolin, Executive Director of the Asset Funders Network, highlights a strategy that works with the formerly incarcerated to become entrepreneurs.

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Justice Reform

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#FOTH2016, From a First-Timer’s Perspective

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04/20/2016

Stephanie Chrispin of Philanthropy New York says one of her most remarkable experiences as the inaugural Public Policy Fellow has been talking directly with U.S. Congressional staff.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

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03/30/2016

The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation have prepared a $25-million "gift basket" to welcome foreign officials who will begin streaming into Washington for high-level nuclear-security talks.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Carnegie: Nuclear Material Isn’t Secure Enough

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03/24/2016

How can we defeat complacency in protecting nuclear materials? First, we must have a culture committed to continuous improvement, says Carnegie in a series of articles about issues related to the 2016 Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., on...

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