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COF Briefing on the Hill: Opportunities to Encourage Charitable Giving

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10/19/2015

... This week, the Council on Foundations will participate in a briefing on Capitol Hill—organized in partnership with ... Sector—that will highlight opportunities, such as #GivingTuesday, that promote and...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York Backs Commission on the Future of Higher Education

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11/04/2015

... landscape — already ringing with cacophonous predictions from all manner of task forces, books, conferences, and ... in the next 20 to 25 years. The commission faces a double challenge: producing a...

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What's Driving Variation in New York's Hospital Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation)

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12/17/2015

... Spending and Prices? (NY State Health Foundation) A new study covered in yesterday's New York Times looks at ... spending and prices vary across the country. This is a careful study done by some of the...

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Rockefeller Supported, ‘Futures of Work” Report Examines Global Disruptions

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01/19/2016

... in very different ways, according to The Futures of Work, a groundbreaking new report from Foresight Alliance, a Washington DC-based foresight consultancy. Supported by ...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

... Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum suffers from no shortage of lofty goals — its theme two years ago ... plans to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to reduce food...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Trustee: Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools

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02/04/2016

... Bring Restorative Justice to Our Schools Last fall, a disturbing video took over the Internet: a White school safety officer at Spring Valley High School in ... Columbia, South Carolina, pulled a...

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Ford’s Alexander Reviews ‘Incarceration Nations’ in Washington Post

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03/22/2016

... What is justice? I’ve asked my children this question from time to time, hoping they will give me an encouraging ... answer. Usually they parrot what they’ve learned from television or the games they play with...

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NCRP Reviews New York Community Trust

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04/13/2016

... mostly follows through on those goals to achieve results, a new report from the National Committee for Responsive ... Further Its Impact? Trust grantee achievements include a commitment...

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NY Community Trust Announces Three Staff Promotions to Program Director

Release Date:

07/28/2016

... Futures program. Michele Kumi Baer has been hired as a new program associate working in the Thriving ... and staffing the NYC Cultural Agenda Fund. Michele comes from Dance/NYC where she...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Supports Effort to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities

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12/13/2016

... to Enroll More Low-Income Students at Top Universities A new effort to enroll low- and moderate-income ... being announced today in an attempt to have more students from modest backgrounds graduate ...

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Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs

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01/12/2017

Robert Sterling Clark Foundation Welcomes Lisa Cowan as Vice President of Programs Lisa has been working with ... organizations for the last 25 years, first as a community health educator and...

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MetLife Foundation Sponsors Ballet Hispánico Tour

Release Date:

02/21/2017

... Ballet Hispánico Tour Ballet Hispánico en Familia is a 90-minute, fun-filled journey through Latin American dance ... Hispánico Artistic Director & CEO Eduardo Vilaro as host, excerpts from...

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Novo Foundation's Jesenia Santana Discusses the Dismissal of Domestic Violence and Its Effects in the Criminal Court System

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03/09/2017

... whose entanglement in the court system stemmed directly from their abuse. This included survivors facing charges for defending themselves as well as those facing charges in connection with...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies Featured in Study on Limited Life Foundations

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03/22/2017

... impact is the key driver for the decision to spend down, a report from the Center for Effective Philanthropy finds. Based ... leaders of eleven limited-life foundations, the report, A Date...

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The Army Infantry’s First Women

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05/26/2017

... of the mixed-gender milestone. But female grunts see it as monumental and revolutionary. The first group of women graduated from United States Army infantry training last week, but ... to distinguish the mixed...

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Bank of America Charitable Foundation Looks to Move the Needle on Affordable Housing

Release Date:

06/07/2017

... closer to home: community development and housing. With a recent grant of $3.75 million to Enterprise Community ... housing initiatives. Community development funding from a bank isn’t the...

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... most funders in favor of organizational grantees reflects a simple assumption. Organizations involve more people, and from a strategic standpoint, seem to offer more influence and ...

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F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money

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06/30/2017

F.B. Heron: Charitable Giving Is Only a Small Part of What Foundations Do With Their Money Foundations make up a big part—about a sixth—of all the charitable giving ... But some would argue that...

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation-Supported Study Finds Babies Born Big More Likely to Become Obese Children

Release Date:

07/12/2017

... Big More Likely to Become Obese Children Infants born with a high birthweight are more likely to become obese as children, a new study from the University of Virginia...

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Leon Levy Foundation Funds Civil War Brooklyn Historical Research via the BAM Online Archive

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08/14/2017

... Research via the BAM Online Archive It is always a cause for celebration when new archival history resources ... funded by the Leon Levy Foundation to digitize items from the BAM Hamm Archives. More than 70,...

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