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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide With President Obama ... to backers like Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York , gun control...

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Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Shut Down January 1; Profiled in Jerusalem Post

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01/07/2016

... Bronfman Philanthropies (ACBP) closed after three decades of miracle making, having “spent down” their capital, as ... family of foundations based in Jerusalem, Montreal and New York...

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PhilTV: Funders, “Blow People’s Minds” on Gender Norms to Reduce Teen Suicide

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01/15/2016

... By Stephanie Chrispin, Public Policy Fellow, Philanthropy New York New York City – Recent data from the World Health ... has now surpassed maternal mortality as the leading...

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Mortality Rates for Middle-Aged Whites Not Just About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund

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02/01/2016

... About Drugs, Suicide, Says Commonwealth Fund At the end of 2015, Princeton University economists Anne Case and Angus ... and more mental health problems. In January 2016, the New York Times...

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 ... and safety, according to an issue brief published by New York City-based...

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Tow Foundation Announces Six Playwright Residencies

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02/25/2016

... The Tow Foundation has awarded $75,000 grants to six New York City theatres to support a playwright of their choosing as the 2016–17 Tow ...

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Bloomberg-Sponsored Program to Bridge 'Word Gap' in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results

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03/28/2016

... in Poor Children Gets Inconclusive Results When former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced his foundation was ... Providence's high-tech idea to improve the vocabularies of the...

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At Ford Event, de Blasio Says Cities Must Innovate Since Feds and State Won’t

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03/30/2016

... Tuesday appeared to abandon any belief that higher levels of government have any interest in helping New York City grapple with income inequality. “In the end, ...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Spark Prize to Honor Nonprofit Changemakers

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04/20/2016

... the inaugural Spark Prize, the first and only honor of its kind celebrating changemakers in the borough’s ... collectively receive less than 5% of funds distributed by New York...

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Rockefeller Fund Takes First Green Stake in Pivot From Oil

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07/28/2016

... meant to bolster the fight against climate change. The New York City-based fund, founded in 1940 with the profits of Standard Oil Co., provided $10 million to Mainstream ...

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02 Nov 2016

End the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... on the sexual-abuse-to-prison pipeline: The proportion of girls – especially girls of color – in the juvenile ... Girls Story,” produced with the support of Philanthropy New...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Produces Short Documentaries Highlighting Public Art Challenge Projects In Four Regions

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09/19/2016

... the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge . Each of the three-minute shorts, which feature interviews with ... between the arts and civic leaders. View the Upstate New York video here...

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Century Foundation Study Finds Socioeconomic Integration Helps Narrow Achievement Gaps

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10/19/2016

... Lessons from Nine Districts" (61 pages, PDF), the number of districts and charter schools with programs that promote ... Connecticut; Jefferson County, Kentucky; and New York City, the...

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Century Foundation Fellow Asks If Trump's Victory the Jump-Start Civics Education Needed

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11/11/2016

... The 2016 campaign produced the unthinkable: the election of a presidential candidate whom members of his own party ... the University of Texas historian Jeffrey Tulis to The New...

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24 Jan 2017

Defending ACA and Making Progress at the Same Time. Is Philanthropy Ready?

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9:00am to 11:00am

... coming down the pike that will have a huge impact on New York City, healthcare consumers across the nation and, ... entire philanthropic sector. David Sandman , President of the New...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

... tobacco industry was beginning an aggressive ramping up of nefarious activities to grow their market share in ... Bloomberg, then in his second term as mayor of the City of New...

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Jonas Family Fund Strives to Eliminate Children’s Blindness

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01/10/2017

... project will, among other things, help establish a state- of -the-art pediatric ophthalmic diagnostic and imaging center at New York -Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital . ...

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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

... candy while a 32-piece orchestra sounded the opening notes of Verdi's "Macbeth," presented by the three-year-old ... location receded behind the vivid production. In New York ,...

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