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New Trees and Community Gardens Sprout from ConEd Blackout Settlement

Release Date:

05/22/2014

[North Star Fund] Years after a blackout wiped out power in swaths of western Queens, money from a settlement with Con Edison has been used to turn over a new, green leaf in the neighborhoods affected by it — including 962 trees and 40 new school...

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Food Systems

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North Star Fund

JPMorgan to Commit $100-Million to Boost Detroit’s Recovery

Release Date:

05/21/2014

Wall Street giant JPMorgan Chase will commit $100-million in grants and loans over five years to aid Detroit’s revitalization effort as the city recovers from the country’s largest municipal bankruptcy, The New York Times and the Detroit Free Press...

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Community Development & Place Based Initiatives

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

New York Life Foundation Awards a $325K to Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

Release Date:

05/20/2014

Helping Grieving Military Families: New York Life Foundation Awards a $325,000 Grant to the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors

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Education & Youth

Veterans

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New York Life Foundation

De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

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05/20/2014

De Blasio picks biz execs to overhaul jobs program.

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Workforce Development

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IBM Corporation

Goldman Sachs

The New York Community Trust

John A. Hartford Foundation’s Corinne H. Rieder honored by American Geriatrics Society with the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award

Release Date:

05/20/2014

Editor’s Note: Corinne H. Rieder, EdD, executive director and treasurer of the John A. Hartford Foundation, was honored at last week’s American Geriatrics Society (AGS) annual meeting with the David H. Solomon Memorial Public Service Award. The...

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Aging

Health & Human Services

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

Jonas Awarded Dean's Medal for Distinguished Service by UPenn

Release Date:

05/19/2014

Barbara and Donald Jonas Awarded Dean's Medal for Distinguished Service by The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing

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Health & Human Services

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

Billionaires Wield Greater Power Through Charitable and Political Donations

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05/18/2014

Billionaire philanthropists are moving beyond traditional charitable causes and tackling policy-oriented issues like climate change, gun control, immigration, and public pensions.

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

Public Policy

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Anti-Poverty Research Study Launched in NY

Release Date:

05/18/2014

The Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, and UJA-Federation of New York have collectively launched a new research study that will identify public policies that could have a significant impact...

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Faith-Based

Social Justice

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UJA-Federation of New York

Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

Release Date:

05/17/2014

Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries.

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The Commonwealth Fund

Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and Autism Science Foundation launch Autism BrainNet registration site

Release Date:

05/16/2014

The Simons Foundation, Autism Speaks and the Autism Science Foundation today announced the launch of the Autism BrainNet registration site, It Takes Brains ( www.takesbrains.org ). Autism BrainNet is a consortium of academic sites funded...