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Ms. Foundation Speaks Out Against Trump Administration Changes to Obama Era Contraceptive Rules

Release Date:

10/11/2017

Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa C. Younger released a statement in response to the Trump Administration’s decision to roll back Obama Administration requirements for employer-covered contraceptives.

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13 Dec 2017

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting and the City of New York’s Workforce Strategy

Wednesday, December 13, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Public funding of the workforce system has declined significantly over the past twenty years. Further reductions for the Workforce Investment Opportunity Act (WIOA) are anticipated in next year and in future years.

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Workforce Development

Russell Sage Foundation Supported Studies Explore How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

Release Date:

10/10/2017

How Affordable Health Care Reduces Poverty and Payday Borrowing

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Rockefeller Foundation Research Shows Connection Between Watershed Quality and Disease in Children

Release Date:

10/10/2017

A University of Vermont-led study of 300,000 children in 35 nations says kids whose watersheds have greater tree cover are less likely to experience diarrheal disease, the second leading cause of death for children under the age of five.

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07 Nov 2017

Protecting Our Precious Waters: New York City’s Impacts on the Long Island Sound and the Hudson River Estuary

Tuesday, November 7, 2017 -

3:00pm to 4:30pm

What are New York City’s impacts on the health of its waterways and the Long Island Sound? How do combined sewer overflows present complex challenges with community development and environmental justice dimensions?

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Environment and Climate Change

New York Community Trust Announces 2017 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Finalists

Release Date:

10/10/2017

Six nonprofit groups from across the city have been chosen as finalists for The New York Community Trust 2017 Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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Weinberg Foundation Selects New Trustee, Paula Pretlow

Release Date:

10/10/2017

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation is pleased to announce that its newest trustee, Paula Pretlow, was approved unanimously by the Board of Directors on September 27, 2017 and will begin her term on January 1, 2018.

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Wallace Foundation Case Study Examines Arts Programming at Boys and Girls Clubs

Release Date:

10/06/2017

The study explores the efforts of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America (BGCA), a federation of more than 4,000 clubhouses around the country, in the first three years of Wallace’s Youth Arts Initiative.

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MetLife Foundation Seeks to Increase Financial Well-Being

Release Date:

10/06/2017

MetLife Foundation supports Common Cents Lab, a financial research lab at Duke University that collaborates with chosen financial services providers to custom design, test, and launch new features and products that aim to increase financial well-...

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Johnson & Johnson Brings Better Sanitation to Homes in India

Release Date:

10/06/2017

Johnson & Johnson's CaringCrowd's platform is dedicated to crowdfunding to improve global public health. Its latest project will introduce sanitation facilities to improve the health of families with young children.

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Mike Bloomberg Offers to 'Match Every Donation' to Fight Gun Violence

Release Date:

10/05/2017

On Wednesday afternoon, former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg took to Twitter to announce that he will match donations given to Everytown for Gun Safety, a nonprofit organization that advocates for gun control that he founded in 2014.

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Awards $26 Million in Grants

Release Date:

10/05/2017

The Conrad N. Hilton Foundation in Agoura Hills, California, has announced fourteen third-quarter grants totaling $26 millio n.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funded Studies Make Progress In Fight Against Malaria

Release Date:

10/05/2017

Two new strategies show promise in battling malaria, a disease that kills more than 400,000 people each year, mostly children ages five and under in sub-Saharan Africa.Both new strategies involve making Anopheles mosquitoes more resistant to malaria...

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Banking Against Urban Poverty, Inside JP Morgan Chase Philanthropy

Release Date:

10/05/2017

The once sleepy world of corporate philanthropy has been perking up lately. An older model of giving—which often involved cutting lots of checks to local charities without asking many questions—is giving way to a more focused and strategic approach...

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14 Nov 2017

New Ways to Think About Evaluation

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

9:00am to 11:00am

While evaluation seems like work that requires more resources (dollars and staff) than you have, foundations of all sizes – especially small-staffed ones – can position themselves for successful evaluation of their impact.

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Young Invincibles’ Jen Mishory & Skadden Fellow Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Cofounder and former Executive Director of Young Invincibles Jen Mishory and Skadden Fellow and attorney Yan Cao have joined The Century Foundation, a leading progressive public policy think tank with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.

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Tow Foundation Funded News Integrity Initiative Awards $1.8 Million to Build Support for Quality Journalism

Release Date:

10/04/2017

The News Integrity Initiative at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism announced $1.8 million in grants that aim to improve people’s lives by fostering trust between newsrooms and the public and nurturing constructive, inclusive community...

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New York State Health Foundation releases new data snapshot "Health Care Spending Trends in New York State"

Release Date:

10/04/2017

New York's health care spending overall and per capita are among the highest in the nation. Health care expenditures were the second highest in the country, totaling $193 billion in 2014, up from $165 billion in 2009. A new data snapshot from...

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United Hospital Fund Recognizes Four New Yorkers For Their Leadership to Improve Health and Health Care

Release Date:

10/04/2017

United Hospital Fund paid tribute tonight at its annual gala to leaders in philanthropy, banking, and health care—James H. Simons, PhD, Priscilla Almodovar, Robert Gore, MD, and James R. Tallon, Jr.—in recognition of their important contributions to...

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It’s OK to Pause and Think. In Fact, Please Do.

Release Date:

10/04/2017

Day after day, month after month, crisis upon crisis comes. Just last month, I used this space to talk with you about what has been learned over the years from Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy that could be applied to Harvey. This month we must face...