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Target Hits $25 Million Goal For School Supply Donations

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08/04/2014

Target Corp. announced that it hit its campaign goal to donate $25 million in school supplies to children in need based on purchases made in its stores nationwide from July 13 through Aug. 2.

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Ten NYC Nonprofits Selected As 2014 Nonprofit Excellence Awards Semifinalists

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08/04/2014

A group of 10 diverse nonprofit organizations from the NYC area have been selected as semifinalists for the 2014 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards, a project of the Nonprofit Coordinating Committee and its partners, The New York...

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Donors Education Collaborative Awards $995,000 For Education Reform

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08/04/2014

The Donors’ Education Collaborative, a fund at the New York Community Trust established to improve New York City public schools, announced $995,000 in grants to 11 nonprofit organizations pushing for reforms to reduce inequality and increase...

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No Stories Without Numbers; No Numbers Without Stories

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08/04/2014

Paul Connolly, Director of Advisory Services for Bessemer Trust, writes about how donors can give "smartly" or "more strategically" and produce both stories and numbers showing how they're making a difference through their grantmaking.

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ASPCA Grants $1.5 Million To Boost Spay/Neuter Training

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07/28/2014

The ASPCA is providing $1.5 million to co-fund a new PetSmart Charities® Humane Alliance Spay/Neuter Training Center, located in Asheville, N.C.

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Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., Elected to Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors

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08/01/2014

Mitchell J. Blutt, M.D., M.B.A., founder and chief executive officer of the New York–based health care investment firm Consonance Capital, has been elected to the Commonwealth Fund Board of Directors.

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Health

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Heintz Named To NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50 List

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08/01/2014

Stephen Heintz, president of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, has been named as one of this year's Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50.

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08 Jan 2015

Time is Illmatic - Documentary Film Series

Thursday, January 8, 2015 -

4:30pm to 8:30pm

"Time Is Illmatic" is a feature length documentary film that delves deep into the making of Nas’ 1994 debut album, Illmatic, and the social conditions that influenced its creation.

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Three Named Winners For Best Green Business Ideas In Western Balkans

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07/31/2014

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced the 2014 winners of the Philanthropy for Green Ideas competition, a program it co-sponsors to encourage business ideas that will contribute to a better, more sustainable life for people in the Western...

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Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Ernest Tollerson Interim CEO

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07/31/2014

Ernest Tollerson has been named interim CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation.

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18 Sep 2014

Inequality, Democracy and Corporate Power

Thursday, September 18, 2014 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

A series of Supreme Court decisions; Buckley v Valeo, Citizens United, Shelby v FEC and McCutcheon v FEC, have expanded corporate constitutional rights and limited the ability of Congress and the states to protect voting rights and regulate campaign...

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Private-Public Partnership Commits $350 Million For Affordable NYC Housing

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07/30/2014

Citigroup and Morgan Stanley are joining with the city and other banks to provide longtime affordable-housing lender Community Preservation Corp. $350 million to invest in struggling NYC neighborhoods.

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Report Shows Some Success For NYC's Young Men's Initiative

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07/28/2014

A program started during former Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration, and which received support from Bloomberg Philanthropies and Open Society Foundations, was successful at increasing job placement and internship attendance for at-risk males...

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Atlantic Seeks To Sustain Gains From Past Work As Grantmaking Nears Conclusion

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07/30/2014

As Atlantic Philanthropies moves closer to completing all its grantmaking by 2016, it also is taking steps "to effectively realise and sustain gains in the core issues and fields that we and our grantees have seeded and cultivated over time," says...

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Weinberg Foundation To Make $700,000 in Emergency Grants to Nonprofits in Israel

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07/29/2014

The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced today it will donate $700,000 to support many of its active grantees that have provided crucial social services to those affected by rocket attacks on cities in Israel.

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"Eye-Popping" Costs for Drugs Could Threaten Other Pressing Societal Needs

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07/28/2014

America needs to take steps to prevent "eye-popping" prices of new drugs from driving health care costs so high that other societal needs suffer, write David Blumenthal, M.D., president, and David Squires, senior researcher to the president, The...

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Health

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More Technology Investment Needed To Boost Outcomes of Social Change Groups

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07/25/2014

If foundations want social change groups to have more impact, they need to step up investments that will help them make better use of technology, writes Geraldine Mannion, of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, along with three co-authors, in an...

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09 Oct 2014

We Are Many - Documentary Film Series

Thursday, October 9, 2014 -

5:30pm to 9:00pm

Join us for a wine-and-cheese reception, followed by a screening of the documentary We Are Many and a brief panel discussion.

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Alan "Ace" Greenberg, Leading NY Philanthropist, Dies

Release Date:

07/25/2014

Alan “Ace” Greenberg, the former head of Bear Stearns, who raised hundreds of millions for the UJA-Federation of New York over his decades of involvement with the organization, and who instilled the importance of giving to charity in his employees,...

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