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Hometown Hope: How Amazon is Paying Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond

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09/20/2017

... Attention to Homelessness in Seattle and Beyond “It’ s permanent until homelessness is solved.” So remarked John ... As we’ve seen, permanence and solvability are front- of -mind for some of...

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Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) Welcomes Marcus F. Walton as President and CEO

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07/16/2019

... Organizations (GEO) announced today the appointment of Marcus F. Walton, a non-profit industry veteran, as its new President and CEO. Throughout his distinguished ... of practitioners and...

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Team Working on Suicide Prevention Wins Morgan Stanley Strategy Challenge

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06/12/2014

... American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and a team of Morgan Stanley professionals won the sixth annual Morgan ... a mission critical issue with a team of the financial firm...

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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02 Apr 2014

Grantee Executive Transitions – When and How to Engage as Funders

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8:45am to 11:00am

Foundations give grants to organizations. But let’ s be real: leadership matters. So what happens when the ... for a foundation , especially since it must also protect its mission-based interests...

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Heintz and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash

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06/20/2014

... Valerie Rockefeller Wayne pay tribute in a message on the foundation 039 ; s website to Dr. Richard Rockefeller, advisory trustee , ... write: "Richard was an exceptional human being—a...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $45 Million for City Halls to Tackle Urban Issues

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08/20/2014

... a new $45 million investment to boost the capacity of city halls to use innovation to tackle major challenges and improve urban life. The foundation will direct significant funding and other...

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Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced

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05/11/2015

Winners of the 2015 Pershing Square Sohn Prize Announced The ... and the biotech and pharmaceutical industries. This year 039 ; s prize-winners will each receive $200,000 per year for up to .....

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Carnegie and MacArthur Give $25 Million for Nuclear-Security Work

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03/30/2016

... on Thursday for high-level nuclear-security talks. The funding echoes a tradition at the biannual Nuclear Security Summit, at which representatives of participating countries present "gift baskets"...

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Carnegie, Ford Give $1M to Free Legal Services Project for Immigrants

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03/27/2017

... for Immigrants In response to the Trump administration’ s immigration policies, Governor Cuomo announced an ... offers pro-bono legal services to immigrants regardless of their residency status. Coordinated by...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Bloomberg’s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal Battles

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09/07/2017

Bloomberg’ s Latest Tool in the Trump Fight—Helping States Wage Legal ... Trump agenda, they’ve typically done so through the work of NGOs. Michael Bloomberg’ s taken some different angles so...

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13 Feb 2019

Public Health Approaches to Eye Care Delivery

Wednesday, February 13, 2019 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... New York City Vision Funders Group is a peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of blindness and vision ... and vision loss in New York are invited to join the...

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Global Companies Like Johnson & Johnson and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts

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09/23/2015

... and Goldman Sachs Join Climate Change Efforts Some of the world’ s most prominent companies are expected to set a long-term ... a sign that the divestment movement had spread far beyond its...

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... Academy Global Alumni Summit American Express will host its third annual Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a transformative program that has...

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Rockefeller’s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities

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08/17/2017

Rockefeller’ s ‘Resilient Cities’ Noted in Article on Climate and Cities In East Oakland, a few blocks from the home of the champion Golden State Warriors basketball team, a ...

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As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored

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08/29/2017

As Harvey Hammers Texas, Oddo Says Lessons Of Sandy Are Ignored As Texas mobilizes in response to the ... James Oddo said government officials still need to learn from the critical mistakes made in New York in the...

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Opinion: Why Can’t We Get Cities Right?

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09/05/2017

... is national interest. But Harvey will leave a huge amount of wreckage behind, some of it invisible. In particular, we ... of chemical plants, waste dumps, and more. But it’ s...

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Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in “zombie ... and tries to stay off social media to avoid “the tsunami of confusion.” All of...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Guggenheim Museum Is Criticized for Pulling Animal Artworks

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09/27/2017

... Animal Artworks Artists and museums are often in the thick of free speech debates — think of Rudolph W. Giuliani’ s battle with the Brooklyn Museum over a Virgin Mary artwork ... Till’...

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