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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’s population is expected to be urban by 2050. ... Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and...

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Supported by Novo, Notorious New York Prison Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged

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01/18/2017

... Is Reclaimed By The Women It Once Caged In 2016, the NoVo Foundation , a not-for-profit group run by Warren Buffett’s ... a global hub for people working on those issues. As part of the planning, NoVo has...

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Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens

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02/08/2017

Prudential Spirit of Community Awards Honors Teens A 17-year-old from ... for her hard work. Dimple Belani has been named one of two students in New York State as the top teen in volunteering by the Prudential...

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Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems

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02/09/2017

... for a Competitive Inner City and the Rockefeller Foundation warns. Based on an analyses of food systems in Los Angeles; Madison, Wisconsin; New ... City; and Portland, Maine, the report, The Resilience...

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Supported by Surdna and NY Community Trust, Study Shows How Arts and Culture Improve Health, Safety and Well-being in NYC

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03/10/2017

... according to a groundbreaking study by the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. And the results hold true in all five of the ... Agenda Fund in The New...

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Violence Against Women Is Not Only a Local Issue

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03/22/2017

... physically. While I was there, I was struck by the number of women still facing abuse by their husbands or a male ... issues related to the family, including the regulation of marriage, polygamy, divorce,...

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Target Corporation Supports Water Harvesting Cistern to Transform Blighted Properties

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03/29/2017

... recently decommissioned home sat abandoned. The home’s foundation was saved and will be transformed into a ...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia

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04/03/2017

Helmsley Trust Awards $5 Million for Study of Crohn's Disease in Asia The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ... million to the Australasian Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation and the Chinese University...

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Lessons from Family Philanthropy: Rockefeller Brothers Fund at 75

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04/04/2017

... Rockefeller Brothers Fund is often held up as an example of a family foundation that has weathered these storms successfully. How might the ingredients of its success be described? What...

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NYSHealth Funding Opportunity Now Open: Spreading OpenNotes in New York State

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04/24/2017

... OpenNotes in New York State The New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) is pleased to launch a Request for ... State interested in implementing OpenNotes, with awards of up to $100,000 to be granted to up...

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Why Pickleball?

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05/04/2017

... Fong, Communications Associate , The New York State Health Foundation Last month, a New York Post article highlighted ... not “actual activities that would result in prevention of diseases.” But they are! The...

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Open Call For Collaborative Reporting Projects

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05/10/2017

... reporting and build cooperative networks, the Rita Allen Foundation is supporting the Center for Cooperative Media ...

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Rockefeller-Backed FarmerLink Helps Philippine Planters Milk the Coconut Boom

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05/10/2017

... discovered some have it," Gonato told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone. She followed the advice - cutting down ... how to better manage her finances. The messages are part of FarmerLink, a pilot...

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Four Scientists Named 2017 Simons Early Career Investigators in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution

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05/12/2017

... in Marine Microbial Ecology and Evolution The Simons Foundation has named four scientists as 2017 Simons Early ... three-year awards are intended to help launch the careers of outstanding investigators in this...

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Get to Know Your PHIL Talkers

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05/17/2017

... This piece was originally published as the feature article of the May 2017 New York PhilanthroPost Policy Edition We ... Space Studies walk us through a multimedia presentation of the rising waters threating...

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A Peek into Bloomberg Philanthropies’ New Public Health Initiative

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06/23/2017

... factors contributing to noncommunicable diseases. A total of 46 out of a goal of 50 cities have signed up to date to be part of “Partnership for Healthy Cities,” the...

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Unbound Philanthropy is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It?

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07/17/2017

... is Laser-Focused on Immigration. Have You Heard of It? How can philanthropy support immigrants in a country ... anti-immigrant president? That’s a question lots of funders have been asking themselves since...

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Rockefeller: How to Halve Death and Disability from Pollution

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07/20/2017

... Alliance on Health and Pollution (GAHP) at The Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Italy. These forward-thinking ... goal: to halve death and disability from all types of pollution by 2030. Together, the...

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Sparks For Change: Open Society Fellows Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years

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08/09/2017

... Have Tested New Ideas For Baltimore For 20 Years Dozens of ex-offenders have passed through Gregory Carpenter’s ... and flaky pie crusts. He hopes these small tasks will be a foundation for a future career...

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