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Heckscher Foundation Congratulates Heather Sutton on New Role

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10/25/2017

Please join us in congratulating Heather Sutton, our Director of Special Projects and Strategic Initiatives, as she pursues an exciting new venture this fall with support from the Foundation.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Kicks Off CityLab Paris Summit

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10/24/2017

CityLab Paris Summit Kicks off with Candid Discussions from Mayors and City Leaders on Critical Issues, Including Climate Change, Social Cohesion and Terrorism

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Mertz Gilmore and Howard Gilman Foundations Among Funders Backing The Springboard Project's 2018 Residencies

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10/24/2017

Following the success of its pilot program launched in the spring of 2017, the Springboard Project announced it was accepting letters of inquiry for its 2018 residencies.

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Social Impact Means Investing in Leadership: Successful Models featuring Echoing Green and King Baudouin Foundation’s 2017 African Development Prize Winners

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Join Philanthropy New York’s International Grantmakers Network (IGN) and its Committee for Equitable and Inclusive Philanthropy (CEIP), the King Baudouin Foundation United States, and Echoing Green, for a rare opportunity for a conversation with the...

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Markle Foundation's Rework America Task Force Is Bridging The Tech Skill Gap

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10/23/2017

A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research estimates that hundreds of thousands of employees have been replaced by technology or robotics in the past 20 years. And an Oxford University study says 47% of American jobs could be at...

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Workforce Development

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Freedom, Justice, and Immigrant Mentorships: Ford's Arts Strategy in Action

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10/23/2017

A few months after partnering with collector Agnes Gund to create the Art for Justice Fund to advance criminal justice reform in the United States, the Ford Foundation announced its 2017 #ArtofChange Fellows who are "advancing freedom, justice,...

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P2CP Program Is Expanding with Support from The David Rockefeller Fund, Ford Foundation, JM Kaplan Fund, Teagle Foundation and Pinkerton Foundation

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10/20/2017

At Otisville, the Prison-To College Pipeline is expanding educational opportunity for students both inside and out.

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Ford Foundation President Darren Walker Highlights The Role Of Innovative Partnerships In New Orleans' Recovery

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10/20/2017

In this Times Picayune Op-ed, Darren Walker highlights the role of innovative partnerships in New Orleans' recovery.

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Partners With The Nature Conservancy To Explore Nature’s Ability To Mitigate Climate Change

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10/20/2017

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation partnered with The Nature Conservancy to bring together more than two-dozen expert scientists specializing in conservation, climate modeling, and economists from a variety of global institutions to explore nature’s...

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Carnegie Corporation Helps Fund An Event That Seeks To Find Oral History Of Racial Violence

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10/19/2017

Officials with a civil rights oral history project are seeking input from those who witnessed racial violence in Alabama from 1930 through 1970.

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Underwritten by JPB Foundation, New York City’s Libraries Will Forgive All Children’s Fines

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10/19/2017

On Thursday, the city’s three library systems — the New York Public Library, which serves Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island; the Queens Library; and the Brooklyn Public Library — will forgive all fines for children 17 and under and unblock...

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United Hospital Fund Issues New Report on Implementing Patient-Centered Medical Homes In New York

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10/19/2017

The report is an update on the progress made in implementing medical homes statewide over the past year. United Hospital Fund has been monitoring adoption of medical homes in New York based on the National Committee for Quality Assurance model since...

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Get It Right, Right Now

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10/18/2017

It is no coincidence that the communities that are hardest to reach in the decennial census count are also those that are under-resourced and under-represented in federal, state and local government. Systematic undercounting of hard-to-reach...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Teams Up With Lin-Manuel Miranda to Aid Puerto Rico

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10/18/2017

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation are teaming up with theater impresario Lin-Manuel Miranda to donate $300,000 to Puerto Rico relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria.

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Samuel H. Kress Foundation Funded Digital Archive Hosts 3,000 Years of Roman History, At The Click Of A Mouse

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10/18/2017

The digital Lanciani archive project is just one part of a larger scholarly collaboration called “Mapping Rome,” for which Camerlenghi is a principal investigator, along with scholars from Oregon, Stanford, and Italy.

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As Bloomberg Hammers Away at Coal, What Might Be Next for His Climate Giving?

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10/18/2017

After Bloomberg Philanthropies recently gave another $64 million to a campaign that’s closing down coal plants in the United States, one telling headline came from the Courier-Journal in Louisville: “New York City billionaires are battling over coal...

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George Soros Transfers Billions to Open Society Foundations

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10/18/2017

George Soros, the billionaire hedge fund manager and a major Democratic donor, has given $18 billion to his Open Society Foundations, one of the largest transfers of wealth ever made by a private donor to a single foundation.

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Rockefeller Foundation Releases YieldWise: Cutting Food Loss in Half for World Food Day

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10/17/2017

Two years ago the Rockefeller Foundation launched our YieldWise initiative, dedicated to helping cut such post-harvest losses in half.

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Brooklyn Community Foundation’s Spark Prize Support 20 Local Nonprofits with $100,000 Match on Giving Tuesday

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10/17/2017

Brooklyn Community Foundation announces the return of its #BrooklynGives on Giving Tuesday campaign, which aims to drive awareness and donations to a diverse cohort of 20 local nonprofits.

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Ford Foundation and Citi Fund Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture $22.3 Million Renovation

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10/17/2017

The New York Public Library’s renowned Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem celebrated the reopening of several renovated spaces after a nearly two-year, $22.3 million renovation funded funded by the Ford Foundation, Citi Bank,...

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