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An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

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02/22/2016

Saru Jayaraman, a vocal leader in the food labor movement and founder of Restaurant Opportunities Center United (ROC), has been supported by the Ford Foundation for more than a decade. The New York Times profiles her efforts for restaurant workers.

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Economic Security

Food Systems

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 healthcare related-apps reviewed by researchers appeared to be useful for their potential for patient engagement, The Commonwealth Fund reports.

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With Mellon Support, Smithsonian to Create National Art Database

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02/22/2016

The Smithsonian American Art Museum, and 14 institutions from around the country, are building a shared, and searchable, online database that could spur research and scholarship about American art.

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Arts

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Bloomberg-Funded Study: Industry Initiatives to Prevent Drinking & Driving Lack Scientific Evidence of Effectiveness

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02/22/2016

Researchers find that the most effective interventions, such as use of sobriety checkpoints and ignition interlocks, are rarely used in industry-sponsored programs.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Impact Investing's Role in Global Development (Rockefeller Foundation)

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02/19/2016

A recent Center for Strategic and International Studies event, 'Impact Investing: An Opportunity for Development?,' brought together a panel of experts to discuss impact investing and its potential to address global issues.

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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23 Mar 2016

Family Engagement: Partnering for Student Success

Wednesday, March 23, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

Join us for this conversation which will explore and recognize the importance of developing successful partnerships among families, schools, and communities to support the development, learning, and success of our youth.

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Education

Children, Youth and Families

New Mortgage Program Big Boost for Detroit Buyers (Clinton, Ford Foundations)

Release Date:

02/19/2016

A new program to help Detroit home buyers finance purchases will guarantee 1,000 mortgages in a city where banks have been skittish about lending because of deeply depressed property values.

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Community Development

Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation

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Pinkerton, NYCT-Supported JobsFirstNYC Announces 4 Workforce Partnerships to Help Youth Gain Employment Training & Jobs

Release Date:

02/19/2016

Out-of-school and out-of-work young adults in NYC will be helped to connect with stable jobs and careeer opportunities, thorough JobsFirstNYC's local initiative - the Young Adult Sectoral Employment Project (YASEP).

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Three Easy Questions to Get Past the ‘Reflexive No’

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Susan Olivo of Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation says that the starting point for more inclusive philanthropy is simply to reframe your thinking.

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Insights

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Disabilities

Reader's Digest Partners for Sight Foundation

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17 Mar 2016

Changemakers: National Networks Engaging Next Gen Philanthropic Leaders - Webinar

Thursday, March 17, 2016 -

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Family foundations are poised to see an unprecedented change in leadership over the next few years as the next generation of philanthropists begins to take over governance roles.

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Family Foundation

Board & Trustees

Caltech Biologists Identify Gene that Helps Regulate Sleep (Rita Allen Foundation)

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02/18/2016

Caltech biologists have performed the first large-scale screening in a vertebrate animal for genes that regulate sleep, and have identified a gene that when overactivated causes severe insomnia.

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American Express-Supported NYFA Emerging Leaders Boot Camp Participants Named

Release Date:

02/18/2016

As the intensive professional-development program from the New York Foundation for the Arts turns three, a new cohort of arts administrators has been selected.

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Arts

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Howard Gilman Foundation

Gates Foundation Names Robert Hughes as New K-12 Strategy Director

Release Date:

02/18/2016

Robert L. Hughes, President of New Visions for Public Schools, will become the new director of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's K-12 education strategy.

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Education

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16 Mar 2016

New York Foster Youth Funders Group - Spring Meeting

Wednesday, March 16, 2016 -

9:00am to 11:00am

New York Foster Youth Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of foster youth in New York.

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Network Building

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All Funders

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Children, Youth and Families

Philanthropic & Social Enterprise Leader Betsy Fader Joins Surdna Foundation

Release Date:

02/18/2016

The Surdna Foundation named Betsy Fader, a leader in the philanthropic and social enterprise sectors, as Vice President, Programs.

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

Release Date:

02/18/2016

A rigorous approach to measuring charitable ROI (return on investment) is becoming more popular in the Jewish communal world and UJA-Federation of New York, which will celebrate its centennial next year, is wading into this world of metrics...

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Jewish Interests

UJA-Federation of New York

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Ford, Open Society and Others Join in Support of Public Interest Tech

Release Date:

02/17/2016

A group of five national foundations - Ford, MacArthur, Knight, Open Society and Mozilla foundations - are working to promote the use of the Internet for social good, and has announced grants totaling $18 million to strengthen the emerging field of...

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Technology

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David Berg Foundation Supports New York Historical Society Exhibition that Traces the Rise of Anti-Semitism in Germany

Release Date:

02/17/2016

The New-York Historical Society will present a powerful exhibition that examines the rise of a culture of hatred during the period 1919-1939 in Germany. The exhibit will trace the gradual and deliberate indoctrination of German citizens into active...

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The David Berg Foundation

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Jewish Interests

Social Justice

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Rauschenberg Foundation Partners With Art in America to Launch Pilot Writing Fellowship

Release Date:

02/17/2016

The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, in partnership with Art in America, has launched a pilot writing fellowship to support arts and culture writing in regions of the country that are often underrepresented in the media. The goal of the program is to...

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