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New Leader, New Era: Rockefeller Foundation Plots Its Course

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04/27/2017

... no stranger to politics or philanthropy. He spent nearly a decade at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and served under President Obama as director of the U.S. Agency for International Development, .....

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... 2016 with $310,000 in UHF funding, data was collected from 31 clinics across nine health systems in New York City, ... with acute respiratory infections (ARIs), even within a single health system. UHF has...

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United Hospital Fund Honors 31 Health Care Trustees

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05/02/2017

... presented Distinguished Trustee Awards to 31 trustees from New York metropolitan area hospitals and health care organizations at a luncheon today at Cipriani 42nd Street. The honorees were ... respective...

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W.T. Grant Funds Research on How Technology Use Affects At-Risk Youth

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05/03/2017

... for adolescents already at risk for mental health issues, a new study from Duke University finds. "Also, on days at-risk ... days they use technology less," said Madeleine J. George, a...

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Novo Foundation, Carnegie and Ford Support Women for Afghan Women

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05/04/2017

... Women for Afghan Women Before Afghanistan turned into a war zone in the late 1970s and then came under Taliban rule ... the Taliban again making military gains—they now control as much as...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Gender Justice

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NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement

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05/04/2017

NY Community Trust Calls for Funding A Better, Broader Environmental Movement Climate change and ... the brunt of our civilization’s legacy of pollution: from the noxious facilities in their neighborhoods to lead...

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"Demonization" of George Soros Recalls Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies

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05/16/2017

... Old Anti-Semitic Conspiracies In most nations, having a billionaire financier and philanthropist would be a source of great pride, a person many elected officials ... billionaire and...

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Surdna Funds Report Analyzing The Social Wellbeing of NYC's Neighborhoods: The Contribution of Culture and the Arts

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05/22/2017

... the social well-being of New York City residents and are a bright spot in many disadvantaged neighborhoods, they tend ... unequally distributed across the five boroughs, a report from the...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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Michael Bloomberg Gives $75 Million to Shed Arts Center

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05/24/2017

... to Shed Arts Center The ambitious new arts center known as the Shed, rising in Hudson Yards, has received $75 million from Michael R. Bloomberg, showing just how much the Far West Side continues to be shaped...

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Peterson Foundation Fiscal Summit Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy”

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05/24/2017

... Convenes Nation’s Leaders To Discuss “Rising Debt in a Changing Economy” Leading voices and policymakers from across the political spectrum gathered to discuss the ... to our growing national debt, and...

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Peter G. Peterson Foundation

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Russell Sage Research Examines Social Consequences of Recessions

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05/26/2017

... Social Consequences of Recessions The Great Recession, as a new collection of research papers from the Russell Sage Foundation shows, generated ...

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Edna McConnell Clark’s PropelNext Initiative Shows Promising Results

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06/12/2017

... also expanding services to reach more youth. Early results from the California 2018 cohort suggest a similar trajectory of development. In most instances, ... 2015 grantees have made since completing the...

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Century Foundation: Why Manufacturing Jobs Are Worth Saving

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06/15/2017

... fresh attention. “American Manufacturing Is Having a Moment,” declared CNN in a recent headline. During his ... among Rust Belt states that carried him to election as president. Is this...

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Workforce Development

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community

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06/23/2017

... will use the funds at their discretion to provide a variety of legal, advocacy, and social services to the LGBTQ community as they respond to an environment of increased violence, ... people’s dignity, health...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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SUNY Tuition to Rise $200 for Students not Eligible for Excelsior

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06/23/2017

... in April for households who earn less than $100,000 a year. So for those students whose household income is more ... and who attend four-year colleges, their tuition will grow from $6,470 to $6,670 this fall...

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Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental Impact of Investments in Renewable Energy

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06/23/2017

Rockefeller Foundation Supports A “Carbon Yield” Methodology to Compare Environmental ... on estimating how much carbon-dioxide pollution is avoided as buyers want to know real environmental benefits of ... air...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Adam Falk Named Next President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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06/29/2017

... the President of Williams College in Williamstown, MA, a role he has held since April 2010. He is also a Professor ... Hopkins University for sixteen years, where he served as the James B...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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Pinkerton Foundation Supports Hofstra Northwell Medical Scholars Pipeline Program Class of 2017

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07/06/2017

... Northwell School of Medicine, thanks to multiple donors. A legion of charitable groups has pumped some $85,000 into ... 60 high school students into its 2017 class, hailing from Hempstead, Uniondale and...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Open Society Foundations-Backed Report Finds Mass Incarceration Sustatined by Prisoners of Time

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07/13/2017

... been criticized by many on both the left and the right. A new report from the Urban Institute tells much of the reason why: ... system is “length of stay,” or the amount of time that a...

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