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Mayor must focus on city's resiliency

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01/03/2014

In an op-ed for Crain 039 ;s New York Business, Rockefeller ... city 039 ;s resiliency. New Yorkers expect two things above all from our mayor: to keep us safe and to keep our...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Public Policy

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Applications Accepted for the William T. Grant Scholars Program

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03/13/2014

... Program, which supports promising early-career researchers from diverse disciplines who are seeking to further develop ... from diverse disciplines, who have demonstrated success in...

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Mellon Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions

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06/03/2014

... Foundation Awards $1.3 Million to Chicago Art Institutions In partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and the ... has announced grants totaling nearly $1.3 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation...

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Arts

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NYC Working With Training Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals

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07/24/2014

... Partners To Build Pipeline Of School Principals Support from the Wallace Foundation is helping NYC partner with ... Among the stipulations of the foundation 039 ;s grant: a significant...

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Smaller High Schools and Outside Funding Increase Graduation Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment

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10/17/2014

... Rates, Test Scores and College Enrollment Findings from a new long-term study of small high schools in New York City show the approach may not only boost a ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Open Society Foundations

Ford Foundation Heads Group of Philanthropic Leaders to Save Detroit

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11/10/2014

... some of the nation’s top foundations were invited into a private meeting in a courthouse conference room here as Judge Gerald E. ... groups, some with ties to the city, to help rescue Detroit...

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Economic Security

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Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post

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02/26/2015

Carnegie VP of Education Profiled in Huffington Post "When I transitioned into education at ... that struck me was how critically important people were, from teachers to school leaders, in...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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National Journal Notes Ford, Open Society Role in Net Neutrality Victory

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03/13/2015

Civil rights groups that typically march in lockstep have split over new net-neutrality rules, and their discord has escalated into a sharp, at times even personal, feud. Beyond a split over .....

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Technology

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Bloomberg Gives $14M for Global Tobacco-Use Monitoring

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03/13/2015

The CDC Foundation has announced a two-year, $14 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies to enable the U.S. Centers for ... Control and Prevention to conduct tobacco-usage surveys in eleven...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Health

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation

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03/17/2015

... Foundation Discusses the Difficulties of Evaluation As a longtime funder of evidence-based programs and rigorous ... the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation (EMCF) has learned from experience how difficult it can...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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NYCT-Funded Initiative Has Taken on 424 Cases to Get Lawyers for Undocumented Immigrant Kids

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03/24/2015

... unaccompanied, undocumented minor has kept 13 children from being deported as of February, new data provided to ... by the New York City Council following the flood of minors from Central America who made...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

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05/28/2015

... TheDream.us has announced pledges totaling $30 million in support of its national scholarship fund, which aims to ... arrivals) status. Commitments of $15 million each from former Washington Post publisher...

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Pershing Square Foundation

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York Foundations that decided to pool their ... But for the residents of the Port Morris neighborhood in the South Bronx, returns from...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Ford Foundation Board Making Rare Detroit Visit

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06/15/2015

... Making Rare Detroit Visit There are also plans for a "grand bargain" reunion during the three-day visit, a gathering of top leaders in national and local philanthropy who...

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Sloan Foundation Backs Digital Public Library of America's Push to Serve All 50 States by 2017

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06/29/2015

... the written word plus works of art and culture – from 1,600 institutions. “The Sloan and Knight ... have been such generous contributors to DPLA’s success, from our planning phase to the rapid build-out of our...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Bloomberg and Rockefeller Leaders Featured on Crain's List of NYC's Top 50 Most Powerful Women

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07/01/2015

... on Crain 039 ;s List of NYC 039 ;s Top 50 Most Powerful Women From banking to the arts, technology to health care, New ... risen to even greater heights—leaving that glass ceiling ...

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Carnegie Launches Great Immigrants: The Pride of America

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07/02/2015

... an inspiring group of well known naturalized citizens from all walks of life — the “Pride of America” — who ... Carnegie’s journey to America and read the latest news from our grantees and other partners...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Well Application Challenges Fracking Ban

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07/14/2015

... New York energy company has filed an application to drill a natural-gas well using a waterless method that will test the state’s fracking ban. The Snyder Farm Group, made up of five landowners from...

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Environment and Climate Change

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

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08/13/2015

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World GivePower Foundation— a charitable non-profit organization that addresses energy ... world—is expanding. Through a $500,000...

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