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Edward W. Hazen Foundation President Warns Against Education Tax Credit

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01/30/2015

... education tax credit, or ETC, a term unfamiliar to most New Yorkers. We would all do well to pay better attention, as ... In fact, it may be possible for the donor to earn money from the exchange, as they may...

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Edward W. Hazen Foundation (Closed)

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Bloomberg Announces Winners of Genesis Generation Challenge

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04/29/2015

... conference at the Bloomberg Philanthropies headquarters in New York, Michael R. Bloomberg was joined by a renowned group ... Partner of WeWork, Adam Neumann; and via recorded message from Israel, human rights...

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Gerstner Family Foundation Commits $10 Million to Cancer Research

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06/11/2015

... Institute of MIT and Harvard announced a $10 million gift from the Gerstner Family Foundation, which will expand cancer ... that drive cancer drug resistance and pave the way for new treatments. “Cancer...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Awards $7.3 Million to Dance Organizations

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08/21/2015

... Organizations The Doris Duke Charitable Foundation in New York City has announced the inaugural round of grants ... also offered several organizations grants ranging from $25,000 to $50,000 in support of their...

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Eva Moskowitz, Practiced de Blasio foe, Weighs a Mayoral Challenge

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09/14/2015

... sometimes gets picked on unfairly," she said, to laughter from the crowd of Manhattan Institute donors clad in black ... traveling to those places causes any harm. Coming back to New York, well, that...

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Ford, Citi and MasterCard Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality

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09/28/2015

... Among Leaders to Commit Millions to Gender Equality New York Leading global companies and foundations are ... event in support of UN Women also include representatives from companies such as Coca-Cola, Cisco,...

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American Express Puts Nonprofit Leadership Programs Online

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10/29/2015

... the American Express Foundation is starting an ambitious new digital effort to train aspiring charity executives. ... eventually, academic institutions. Costs per course range from free to a few thousand...

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National League of Cities and MetLife Foundation Partner for Eight City Project

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10/30/2015

... Today, the National League of Cities (NLC) is launching a new initiative in partnership with MetLife Foundation to help ... for their residents. NLC received a $1 million grant from MetLife Foundation to...

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Economic Security

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MetLife Foundation Partners with Duke University on CommonCents Lab

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12/08/2015

... and Duke University today announced that, with support from MetLife Foundation, Duke University is launching the ... that will apply behavioral economics to identify new ways to help millions of Americans...

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The Nation Details Eric Holder’s Appearance at Ford Foundation

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12/14/2015

... issues were at the forefront of the public consciousness, from a new assault on voting rights to the Black Lives Matter ...

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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... to backers like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York, gun control groups have secured a number of ... approval for tougher background checks and other measures from Nevada to Maine. . . Bloomberg...

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Rauschenberg Foundation Eases Copyright Restrictions on Art

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03/07/2016

... of a favorite painting and receive an embarrassing tut-tut from a guard. But for decades, historians, curators and ... experiments over the last year, it has decided to adopt a new policy of making images of...

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The Wallace Foundation Supports Creative Ways to Expand the Taste for Classical Music in NYC Eateries

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01/17/2017

... location receded behind the vivid production. In New York, high art thrives far from Lincoln Center in similarly offbeat locales. Across the ...

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Cheryl Dorsey of Echoing Green and Family Van Shares Ideas After 'Leadership Transitions and Evolutions: Supporting Critical Junctures'

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01/18/2017

... ' Founder-led organizations go through many stages – from idea to execution to scaling impact. And it’s not ... organizational gyrations. After the Philanthropy New York program, " Leadership...

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How Cuomo's Special Prosecutor Order Is Playing Out, 19 Months Later

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02/28/2017

... killings of unarmed people, including Eric Garner in New York City. The order aimed to have the Office of the Attorney General -- which Cuomo himself held from 2007 through 2010 -- bypass what many came to see...

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Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Sends Poets to Princeton Environmental Film Festival

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03/28/2017

... the foundation, whose major programs include caring for New Jersey’s environment, had made major financial ... crabs by the millions as free bait... Birds of May trailer from Hundred Year Films on Vimeo ...

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Wallace, Ford, and Mellon on Strategies that Boost Arts Engagement Across Diverse Communities

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06/09/2017

... on the young and mid-career individuals, many of whom hail from underrepresented communities, within these ... staff" at arts institutions—echoing its work across the New York City museum space—and to...

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Simons Foundation's Flatiron Institute Joins IBM and Others including Citizens in the Microbiome Immunity Project

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08/23/2017

... to affect health. The Microbiome Immunity Project is a new , IBM-facilitated (NYSE: IBM) citizen science project by scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts ...

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How to Succeed on a Nonprofit Board

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08/28/2017

... one night, not too long ago, one of us got a phone call from a desperate executive director. The nonprofit he led was ... they had done so innumerable times in the past. But as a new federal administration...

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