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Subject: A Novel Philanthropic Effort to Help Native Americans Build Wealth
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After some initial delay, large philanthropies are stepping in to help New York City manage an influx of hundreds of thousands of migrants. The Carnegie Corporation of New York recently announced that a gift of $4 million to the city’s public libraries will in part fund more staff who can help connect migrants with services and expand English classes. In addition, the Robin Hood Foundation and the New York Community Trust will donate a total of at least $4 million to nonprofits providing services to migrants. The goal is to help migrants become self-sufficient as the city’s budget is increasingly strained. (New York Times)
Plus: Refugees in New Hampshire Turn to Farming for an Income and a Taste of Home (Associated Press)
Thousands of foster children in California could be uprooted as nonprofit foster agencies face an insurance crisis. After large sexual abuse settlements, the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California, which says it covers 90 percent of foster agencies, is poised to let policies expire in October. The nonprofits are scrambling to find new insurers, even as many have left the market. Alternatively, short-staffed county agencies would have to start overseeing foster homes, which would trigger a lengthy bureaucratic transfer of responsibility and likely result in fewer “wraparound” services. (Los Angeles Times)
Background from the Chronicle: Older Young People in Foster Care Were an Afterthought. A Politician and a Child Welfare Expert Teamed Up to Reform the Safety Net
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Street Design: Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Asphalt Art Initiative provides support for arts-driven street redesigns that improve safety, revitalize public spaces, and engage local communities. The Initiative’s current funding round will award ten grants of up to $100,000 each, as well as provide on-call technical assistance and impact evaluation support, to cities in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with populations of 50,000 or more. The focus is on large-scale projects that will make important streets safer and more accessible, create significant new public spaces, or enact other similarly transformative roadway redesigns. Grants up to $100,000; application deadline January 31, 2025.
Access to Food: The America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative Food Access and Retail Expansion Fund will support innovative fresh food retail and food system enterprises that seek to improve access to healthy food in underserved areas of the United States through food retail. $60 million in loans, grants, and technical assistance will be provided over five years for the predevelopment, planning, and implementation of projects aiming to increase food access, and strengthen, expand, and innovate within the food retail supply chain. Support will be provided for projects in eligible underserved geographic areas. Grants up to $250,000 for implementation, and $100,000 for early-stage planning; applications due October 14, March 3, 2025, and August 4, 2025.
