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Morgan Stanley Launches Healthy Cities

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06/04/2014

Morgan Stanley is launching Healthy Cities, a philanthropy program designed to fuel innovation in coordinating the wellness, nutrition and play resources that can underpin a child’s healthy start in life.

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Children, Youth and Families

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Impact Investing: Not Just For Billionaires

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06/04/2014

[The Rockefeller Foundation] Foundations just make grants, correct? Not necessarily. Grants are becoming one option in a more complex menu of financial tools for the social sector.

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Children, Youth and Families

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White Named Deputy Commissioner at ACS

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06/04/2014

Andrew White has been named Deputy Commissioner for the Division of Policy, Planning, and Measurement at the NYC Administration for Children’s Services.

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Children, Youth and Families

Brooklyn Community Foundation Presents Third Installment of 'Stories of Brooklyn Insights'

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06/04/2014

ARTs East New York, the latest group to be featured in the series, is a storefront gallery and neighborhood hub that uses the arts to create community-led change.

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Arts

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Brooklyn Org

Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

In partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago, Northwestern University has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a program designed to advance the study of...

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Why Do Banks Care About Youth Career Readiness in New York?

Release Date:

06/03/2014

JP Morgan Chase recently announced a $250 million initiative to bolster the skills of workers, with a big focus on young people and three months later, the Citi Foundation also announced its biggest initiative ever: a $50 million, three-year effort...

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Why the New Teachers’ Contract Is Great News for NYC’s Students

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06/03/2014

Important for the future of the city’s public schools and the prospects for its students are the quite radical but largely overlooked contract provisions affecting how administrators and teachers will work with each other.

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Insights

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Education

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The Century Foundation

'Docu-Ad’ Exposes Hardship of Those Without Bank Access

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06/03/2014

A new commercial from American Express, presented like an investigative nonfiction film, exposes the high costs of living outside the traditional financial system.

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Communications

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Economic Security

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Sam Goldman Named 2014 Winner of Charles Bronfman Prize

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06/03/2014

Sam Goldman, founder and chief customer officer of the solar products company d.light design, was named the winner of The Charles Bronfman Prize, which comes with a $100,000 award.

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The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies [Closed]

New York Community Trust's HIVE Grants to Boost Digital Media Learning

Release Date:

06/02/2014

Teens will record residents' stories to make a multimedia map of the Bronx; make, play, and remix wired steel drums; and use a rock camp, audio lab, and planetarium to learn about the science of sound-with grants from the Hive Digital Media Learning...