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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Join our first virtual #MCFBookClub event of 2025 as we honor Jonathan Eig's Pulitzer Prize–winning biography “King: A Life” with esteemed guest @darrickhamilton.bsky.social. Be one of the first 200 folks to sign up and get a FREE copy of the book while supplies last! Caseygrants.org/king-a-life

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King: A Life

The MCF Book Club: Reading for a Liberated Future is proud to present this critical conversation featuring Pulitzer-winning biographer Jonathan Eig in conversation with Dr. Carmen Rojas, president and...

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crojasphd.bsky.social @crojasphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The good news: a growing movement of tenant unions is organizing—and striking—to build a blueprint for national change, including a regulatory agenda to protect renters. @taraghuveer.bsky.social and @ruthygourevitch.bsky.social share how in @theprospect.bsky.social. prospect.org/infrastructu...

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Look for the Tenant Union

Those caught in the crossfire of corporate landlords and financial engineering need a regulatory agenda to protect them.

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crojasphd.bsky.social @crojasphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

The US faces an unprecedented housing crisis. There are 16M vacant homes in the US, but millions of people are homeless or housing insecure, while rents have increased >30% since '20. Now, landlords are using AI to exacerbate the crisis to the tune of $3.6B+/year. 🧵 popular.info/p/ai-costs-a...

The property management software used by many corporate landlords, RealPage, is deploying AI to artificially inflate rental prices in the United States by more than $3.6 billion annually, according to...

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Davarian Baldwin @davarianbaldwin.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

It's been a whirlwind of a year, especially for the work of my #SmartCitiesResearchLab. We were offered amazing support for efforts to help build equitable urban communities from both @caseygrants.bsky.social And also from... www.trincoll.edu/news/grant-s... 1/4

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Grant Supports Lab’s Work to Build Equitable Urban Communities | Trinity College

A grant from the Marguerite Casey Foundation will help support the economic and social responsibility work of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity.

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crojasphd.bsky.social @crojasphd.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Thanks, Jonathan Eig & Dr. Darrick Hamilton, for joining the #MCFBookClub to celebrate “King: A Life.” The book is packed with insights on confronting the rising politics of repression. @caseygrants.bsky.social will mail a FREE copy to the first 200 folks who sign up: www.caseygrants.org/book-club

Photo of Dr. Carmen Rojas, biographer Jonathan Eig, and Professor Darrick Hamilton.

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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

✨Funding Opportunity! Does your work advance opportunities for local government, frontline communities, and place-based funders to build trust and develop projects together? Check out the Partners for Places matching grant program. Apply by Feb. 28, 2025: www.fundersnetwork.org/partners-for...

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Partners for Places – The Funders Network

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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

“Democracy is a daily endeavor, and it starts with community organizing,” shares MCF president & CEO @crojasphd.bsky.social at the Latino Community Foundation webinar Driving Lasting Change. Watch and share these 3️⃣ directives for funders heading into 2025: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vs_...

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Facing 2025: 3 Directives for Philanthropy

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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“I imagine a world where philanthropy sits at the feet of racial justice leaders and heeds from the lessons and pains that both those leaders and the philanthropy sector are learning, so we can best be of service." — @crojasphd.bsky.social, president and CEO of MCF news.ucsc.edu/2024/11/carm...

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Redefining philanthropy: Alumna Carmen Rojas drives change

Alumna Carmen Rojas is the president and CEO of the Marguerite Casey Foundation and is a leader in the fight for racial, economic, and social justice.

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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

MCF is proud to share highlights from our Building a Multiracial Working People’s Coalition webinar, featuring experts Tara Raghuveer (KC Tenants); Faiz Shakir (@moreperfectunion.bsky.social); and Dr. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Princeton). www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKhY...

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MCF Summer School: Building a Multiracial Working People's Coalition

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Marguerite Casey Foundation @caseygrants.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

NYC! Join the #MCFBookClub on Tuesday, 19-NOV to honor NYT bestseller KING: A LIFE with an in-person event featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Jonathan Eig and MCF Freedom Scholar Dr. Darrick Hamilton. Tickets are free, but pre-registration is required: CaseyGrants.org/King.

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