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De Blasio unveils 30-member task force charged with overhauling NYC’s job-training and workforce-placement programs

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05/20/2014

... and placement programs. The new task force, comprised of administration officials, private-sector executives, ...

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The New York Community Trust

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On Agenda For New Ms. Foundation Head: Diversity and Safeguarding Reproductive Rights

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07/10/2014

... Among the goals Teresa Younger has set for herself as the new chief executive of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to "diversify our grant .....

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Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change"

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07/22/2014

Rockefeller, Surdna Grantees Named "Champions of Change" Two individuals with organizations supported by ... Surdna Foundation were named Tuesday by the White House as "Champions of...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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NY Stem Cell Foundation and Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Explore Strategies to Advance Women in Science

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03/06/2015

... a glance at most university directories or pharmaceutical executive committees tells the more complex story. Women in ... are succeeding in fields that may not even be conscious of the gender imbalances. These...

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Inside the Russell Sage Foundation

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04/15/2015

... Sage made his wealth in America's first Gilded Age— as a financier and railroad executive . Lately, that fortune has bankrolled a remarkably deep dig into the inequities of the second...

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New JPB-Backed Collaborative Aims to Make Affordable Housing Healthier

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05/21/2015

... Healthier Co-founded by The New School's Parsons School of Design, Healthy Building Network, Green Science Policy ... Materials Lab (HML) is focused on reducing the amount of toxic substances found in...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Housing and Homelessness

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New York Foundation and Brooklyn Community Foundation Lauded for Nimbleness

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05/27/2015

... While it is far from the biggest foundation, said its executive director, Maria Mottola, it does make a big difference by being able to respond to the issues of the day. "We don't limit our grant-...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017 The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s ... build-out...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Technology

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PIMCO Foundation Director Explores Impact of Corporate Giving

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08/31/2015

PIMCO Foundation Director Explores Impact of Corporate Giving Those involved in local charity, from ... to nonprofit recipients, have noted this shift and see it as a catalyst to perhaps more effectively change...

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'Everything is Not Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color

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09/02/2015

... Fine.' Inside NoVo's Funding Push on Girls and Young Women of Color “There’s a myth out there that for girls and ... of color, everything is fine,” said NoVo Foundation Executive...

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Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit

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12/08/2015

Bank of America Awards $1 Million to Nonprofits Tackling Poverty in Detroit The Bank of America Charitable Foundation recently distributed nearly ... have access to basic needs and services. Six teams of...

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NBC News Profiles Asian Women Giving Circle at Ms. Foundation

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01/29/2016

... Ms. Foundation Twenty years ago, when Hali Lee was the executive director for a Korean-American non-profit serving victims of domestic violence, she discovered how hard it was to raise ... immigrants, Lee...

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Three Ways Ford Foundation's Shift To Inequality Will Affect Nonprofits Everywhere

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05/24/2016

... that work to combat poverty, the marginalization of women and minorities, and similar issues. But it also ... public shift to inequality means for the nonprofit world as well as how it will...

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Stonewall Community Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads

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06/20/2016

... Foundation’s ‘Dad Fund’ Changes Perceptions of Gay Dads Alexander Gardner loves hearing gay people call ... “The gay community has long called itself ‘family’— as in, ‘Oh, him, he’s family,” he says. “It’s...

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Stonewall Foundation's Jarrett Lucas Loves Seeing LGBTQ Youth Publicly #ExpressLove

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06/21/2016

... the past six years, Jarrett Lucas has been making his way, as he says, "up the non-profit stepping stool," working ... at Stonewall Foundation for the past six years. Now Executive Director, Lucas is...

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Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition

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07/14/2016

Novo Foundation and Goren Group Announce Winner of Women's Building International Design Competition The Novo ... have announced that Deborah Berke Partners is the winner of The Women’s Building International...

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Ford, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, FB Heron Named to 2016 Nonprofit Times Power & Influence Top 50

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08/01/2016

... NPT Power & Influence Top 50. Benjamin Franklin is quoted as having said: “When you’re finished changing, you’re ...

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Carnegie's Kim Lew Voices Concerns on Low-Return Environments for Foundation Endowments

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08/24/2016

... back on their activities, according to Bill Jarvis, chief executive of Commonfund Institute, which gathered the data... ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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NPCC Announces Winners of 2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards

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11/08/2016

NPCC Announces Winners of 2016 New York Community Trust Nonprofit Excellence Awards The Nonprofit Coordinating Committee of New York (NPCC) has announced the three winners of the ... $60,000 and...

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