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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity: Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans' Health

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02/06/2019

Funding is now available through a New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) Request for Proposals (RFP): Sponsoring Conference Participation in Support of Healthy Communities, Consumer Empowerment, and Veterans' Health.

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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New York Foundation's New Installment of “In Their Own Words” Focuses on Mekong NYC

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02/06/2019

In this installment of In Their Own Words, we sit down with Chhaya Chhoum, executive director of Mekong NYC. The organization aims to improve the quality of life of the Southeast Asian community in the Bronx and throughout New York City by achieving...

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Video

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Rahima Nasa, Named First FRONTLINE Fellow of Tow Foundation Journalism Program

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02/06/2019

Rahima Nasa, an alum from the Class of 2017, has been selected as the first Newmark J-School fellow for FRONTLINE, PBS’s flagship investigative documentary series. The new year-long journalism fellowship program is funded by The Tow Foundation,...

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Arts

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J.M. Kaplan Fund Announces Open Call for Applications to 2019 Innovation Prize

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02/06/2019

New York City – On January 29, The J.M. Kaplan Fund announced an open call for ideas and first-round applications to the J.M.K. Innovation Prize, which will award up to ten prizes of $175,000 each to catalytic social change organizations across the...

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Weinberg Foundation Partners with Major Donors in Groundbreaking $25M National Initiative to Increase Mobility from Poverty

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02/04/2019

A pioneering $25 million, four-year initiative to spur the development of new solutions to sustainably lift families out of poverty, and to promote dynamic leaders who will aim to change the national conversation around social and economic mobility...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

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Community Development

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Robert Smith III Joins the Surdna Foundation as Program Officer, Thriving Cultures

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02/06/2019

The Surdna Foundation is pleased to announce its hire of Robert Smith III as Program Officer of the Thriving Cultures program.

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Social Justice

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State UBIT and Commuter Benefit - Legislative Fix in the Governor's Budget

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02/06/2019

A drafting error that created problems for organizations with a fiscal year start date that does not align with the calendar year has been fixed and is included in Governor Cuomo's budget this month.

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Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York

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06 Mar 2019

Innovative Workforce Strategies for Criminal Justice: Involved Populations and Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 -

9:00am to 11:00am

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world, even with the rate in 2016 reaching a 20-year low. While there have been several promising legislative changes at the federal, state, and local levels recently, significant...

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All Funders

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04 Mar 2019

The Landscape of Money and Politics - A First Monday Discussion Webinar Hosted by FCCP

Monday, March 4, 2019 -

3:00pm to 4:00pm

This program is hosted by our partner, Funders' Committee for Civic Participation (FCCP), who has extended an invitation to PNY members. Space is limited and will be granted on a first come, first served basis.* This discussion...

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All Funders

Ford Foundation Appoints Maria Torres-Springer As Next Vice President for US Programs

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02/01/2019

The Ford Foundation today announced the appointment of Maria Torres-Springer as its next vice president for US programs. She will join the foundation in May, succeeding Xavier de Souza Briggs, who has served as vice president for five years and...

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Announces the Election of Ana Marie Argilagos and Anand Babu to Its Board of Directors

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01/29/2019

Argilagos is president and CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy (HIP), a network of foundations and philanthropists working to increase the power and influence of Latino communities across the Americas.

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund Announces Perry Cammack as the Program Director of Peacebuilding

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01/29/2019

Rockefeller Brothers Fund has announced Perry Cammack as the director of its Peacebuilding program.

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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New Report from The Century Foundation on Students from Low-Income Families and Special Education

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01/23/2019

A new TCF report finds that low-income students are more likely to be identified for special education and more likely to be placed in separate classrooms than their non-low-income peers. While the exact reasons for the differences are unknown, the...

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Education

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New Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Report Examines Impact from Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Five-Year, $15M Healthy Food & Community Change Initiative

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01/17/2019

Following intensive, 12-month review, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors(RPA) today reports that the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund’s Healthy Food & Community Change (HFCC) initiative improved people’s access to healthy food, addressed health...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Food Systems

Health

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Major Data Release From Sloan Digital Sky Survey Includes Galaxy Maps, New Data Access and Visualization Tools, and a Huge 'Stellar Library'

Release Date:

01/29/2019

The latest data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) includes observations revealing the internal structure and composition of nearly 5,000 nearby galaxies observed during the first three years of a program called Mapping Nearby Galaxies...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Science

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New Research Supported by Research to Prevent Blindness Finds New Biomarker for Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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01/29/2019

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, along with collaborators from the University of Iowa, have discovered a genetic biomarker that is associated with age-related macular...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Health

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Ms. Foundation for Women Partners with Gucci for Next Phase of Chime for Change

Release Date:

01/29/2019

Gucci has announced the latest chapter of its Chime for Change campaign, through which it hopes to continue to tackle gender inequality. The project will support six organizations across the globe that help with the fight for gender equality, with...

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Gender Justice

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New Survey from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Shows Increases in African American Curators and Women in Leadership Roles

Release Date:

01/29/2019

The survey documented that among repeat participants who are AAMD members, the percentage of curators who are African-American has doubled—from 2 percent in 2015 to 4 percent in 2018—an increase of 21 positions.

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