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Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction

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10/04/2017

Republicans Are Reconsidering Full Repeal of State and Local Tax Deduction Republican leaders are backing away from a proposal to fully repeal an expensive tax break used ... estimated to cost $1.3 trillion over...

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Economic Security

What BP Won’t Be Paying For—and How You Can Help

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07/01/2010

... efforts? Penny Fujiko Willgerodt, the Executive Director of the Prospect Hill Foundation and an Advisor to the Gulf Coast Fund for ... Community Renewal and Ecological Health (a special project of...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

Don’t Forget the Small Guys

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07/19/2010

... In our latest blog post, Miguel Bonilla, the Director of Strengthening New York City Nonprofits at the United Way of New York City, argues that it is exactly during times like these that foundations should...

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Five Borough Farm: Supporting Urban Agriculture in New York City

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11/08/2012

New York is one of the most vibrant urban agriculture cities in the United ... Program Officer at the North Star Fund and Coordinator of Community Food Funders, talk about the Five Borough Farm ... and strategy...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Food Systems

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Doris Duke Foundation

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How Philanthropy Can Scale Away S.V.

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08/23/2010

In our latest blog post, Lisa Turngren, President of the Frank and Ruth E. Caruso Foundation , offers a unique ... most pervasive social issues—one which suffered a recent funding setback here in...

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Social Justice

As Use of Libraries Grows, Government Support Has Eroded

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01/08/2013

... to 21 other major American library systems, New York City 039 ; s three public library systems receive less government ... according to a new study funded by the Charles H. Revson Foundation...

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Charles H. Revson Foundation

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Public Policy

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Arts

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Bruce and Suzie Kovner Receive 2016 Simon Philanthropy Prize

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04/12/2016

... The annual award is named for the late businessman, foundation leader, and U. S . treasury secretary who helped launch the organization... ...

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07 May 2015

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution - Documentary Film Screening

Thursday, May 7, 2015 -

5:00pm to 8:30pm

In the 1960 039 ; s , ready or not, change was coming to America . A new ... would, for a short time, put itself at the vanguard of that change. Join us for a wine-and-cheese...

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Social Justice

LaVerne Evans Srinivasan named Program Director for Teaching and Human Capital Management at Carnegie Corporation

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03/25/2014

... expert on employing talent strategies to strengthen urban education , has joined Carnegie Corporation of New York as ... Management. Srinivasan will oversee the Corporation’ s grantmaking and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Education

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

State Authority Wants $1.5 Billion for Renewable Energy Boost

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06/04/2015

... boost for the renewable industry, which would go toward funding major renewable projects meant to increase the state’ s production. The proposal now heads to the state Public ... energy,” said Richard Kauffman...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Trinity Church Wall Street Appoints Managing Director of Racial Justice and Managing Director of Housing & Homelessness

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01/15/2019

Trinity Church Wall Street announced the appointment of two new members of its Grants and Mission Investing team: Susan Shah joins ... Shah said. “I have a deep admiration for Trinity’ s...

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Research to Prevent Blindness-Backed Study Finds Ebola Virus Lives in Eye Long After Blood Clears

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05/08/2015

... combined with a prednisone injection. Fluid extracted from the aqueous humor tested positive for EBOV RNA on ... reaction (RT-PCR) assay with a threshold value of 18.7 -- a "high burden of...

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Research to Prevent Blindness

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Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika

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08/19/2016

... and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell. It has yet to be studied whether the death of these cells has any short or long-term effects in the ... don’t show symptoms when...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump's DACA Decision

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08/31/2017

New York City March Held Ahead of President Trump 039 ; s DACA Decision Thousands are marching in ... that gave hundreds of thousands of young people a...

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Immigration

A Helpful Tool to Combat the Opioid Crisis

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09/11/2017

... monitoring programs, an approach highlighted in the draft report from President Trump’ s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid ... epidemic has led every state but Missouri to...

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09 Sep 2020

New York City Workforce Funders Quarterly Meeting - Strategies to Support an Equitable Economic Recovery

Wednesday, September 9, 2020 -

9:00am to 10:30am

This virtual Quarterly Meeting of the New York City Workforce Funders will focus on ... workers with the digital skills demanded by today’ s labor market; the opportunity to strengthen the digital ... the session...

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Technology

Workforce Development

Trinity Church Wall Street Announces Nearly $21 Million in Grants for Nonprofits in New York City and Throughout the World

Release Date:

11/30/2021

... has awarded $20.84 million in grants to nonprofits, many of them focused on fighting for racial justice in New York ... meeting the needs of this population in this last round of ...

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Trinity Church Wall Street

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Housing and Homelessness

LGBTQ

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01 May 2020

COVID-19 Weekly PNY Member Webinar - Sustainability & Survivability of the Nonprofit Community

Friday, May 1, 2020 -

2:30pm to 3:30pm

... broader PNY community. We will identify the focus of the call and share the topics and speakers in advance - ... which make up approximately 50% of New York City’ s social service spending. A...

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Disaster Relief

Human Services

Many Programs of Bankrupt FEGS Will End Up at UJA-Federation, Says CEO

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03/13/2015

... year ending June 30, 2013, FEGS reported total revenues of over $230 million. It had approximately 3,000 employees, ... with total salaries and payroll-related expenses of nearly $140 million. It owned land,...

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