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Groups seek changes in NY policy as hunger grows

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10/14/2013

Advocacy groups are pushing for changes in New York policy to attack what they say is a rising tide of hunger among the working poor, children and the elderly while combating obesity and boosting farming.

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Food Systems

See the Storify and More: Education Funders Research Initiative Launch Event

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10/10/2013

More than 130 attendees joined us and an esteemed panel of education leaders at the launch of the Education Funders Research Initiative, our new project to engage New Yorkers and focus on how the education system can best prepare and support...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $1.3 Million in Support of Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Theatre Fields

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10/09/2013

The grants to nine national arts organizations were awarded through DDCF's Fund for National Projects and are designed to strengthen the national infrastructure of the professional nonprofit dance, jazz, presenting and theatre fields and improve...

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Top Education Official Supports More Teacher Professional Development

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10/08/2013

Beth Fertig reports from the Education Funders Research Initiative launch event at Trinity Wall Street for The Times’ SchoolBook blog.

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Report: What Works - and Doesn't - in NYC Schools

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10/08/2013

Beth Fertig reviews the Education Funders Research Initiative’s first two reports for The Times’ SchoolBook blog. (PNY President Ronna Brown is also interviewed in the article.)

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These Donors Will Take Anything but Manhattan

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10/08/2013

This article on donors who support arts and culture organizations in boroughs other than Manhattan includes Shelley and Donald Rubin and Laurie M. Tisch.

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How to Build Strong Ties With Companies

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10/08/2013

American Express Foundation President Timothy McClimon and DoSomething,org CEO Nancy Lublin participated in a Chronicle Live Discussion on how nonprofits can make themselves more attractive to a corporate benefactor.

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Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Announces Recipients of 2013 SEED Grants

Release Date:

10/08/2013

16 emerging arts organizations across the country receive three years of unrestricted operating capital as a surprise award

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To Get Beyond Two Percent, We Have to Go Beyond Giving

Release Date:

10/08/2013

Arabella Advisors Founder and Managing Director Eric Kessler weighs in on Dan Pallotta’s closing talk at the 2013 TED Conference and suggests how funders can respond to the growing demands on the nonprofit sector and increase the impact of...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Commits $136 Million to Create Youth Job Opportunities in Greece

Release Date:

10/07/2013

The foundation will also convene a conference in New York City in early 2014 to explore proposals to combat the ongoing socioeconomic crisis in Greece.