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Hurricane Season is Here, Sandy is Not Over

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10/31/2014

... again, and we recently marked the second anniversary of Hurricane Sandy hitting the New York region, bringing ... Sandy is still very much alive. Joseph McKellar, Executive Director of Faith...

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North Star Fund

United Hospital Fund Produces User-Friendly Data Sets to Advance Population Health in New York

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11/07/2014

... The United Hospital Fund today published a compendium of short, easily digestible regional chartbooks that provide ... of Performing Provider Systems,” said Chad Shearer, director of...

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UJA Federation Charities Scramble to Address FEGS Closure

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03/16/2015

... the nonprofit world was shocked. But the ruinous series of decisions that wrecked FEGS—a health and human services nonprofit that has long been one of New York’s largest, most well-regarded social services...

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Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017

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04/10/2015

Bloomberg, Sierra Club Direct $60 Million To Closing Half Of U.S. Coal Plants By 2017 The Sierra Club and Michael ... successful, the Sierra Club wants to see 166,000 megawatts of coal-fired power shut down or...

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New York Public Schools Fund Struggles to Secure Donations

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05/12/2015

... Mayor Bill de Blasio. The fund, which raised an average of $29 million a year over the last decade, has raised just ... which ends June 30, fund officials said. And about half of that comes from two large...

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The Heckscher Foundation for Children

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Helmsley Charitable Trust Increases Commitment to Environment of Madagascar

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06/18/2015

... Charitable Trust Increases Commitment to Environment of Madagascar The grant brings the amount of support the ... of Madagascar,” said Olivier Langrand, executive director...

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$1.25 Million Mellon Grant Awarded to Arts & Humanities to Fund Digital Humanities, African American Studies

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07/17/2015

... research and training model, awarded to the College of Arts and Humanities (ARHU) and co-directed by the Arts and ... in the Humanities (MITH), will support a faculty project director , postdoctoral fellows,...

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Ford and Atlantic Back Education Policy Think Tank

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09/04/2015

... some big education names, such Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the director of Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African ... language, literacy and culture professor at the University of...

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The Atlantic Philanthropies

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative

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09/11/2015

Bloomberg Philanthropies Funds Metropolitan Museum's Launch of Kid-Targeted Web Initiative Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced...

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JP Morgan Chase Launches 'New Skills For Youth'; Invests $75M to Build Tomorrow’s Economy

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01/19/2016

... talent they need to grow and compete. With the Council of Chief State School Officers and the National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education Consortium, we are...

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Presidential Candidates Ignore Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund)

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02/10/2016

... Long-Term Care Issues (United Hospital Fund) On the eve of the first votes of the 2016 presidential contest – a wacky year where ... advocate for the 40 million unpaid family caregivers and director...

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Aging

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UJA-Federation Noted in 'Why Metrics Matter In Jewish Philanthropy'

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02/18/2016

... may his memory be for a blessing, used to receive hundreds of envelopes from charities. Every month, he would work through the stacks of solicitations and joyfully write out checks for $5, $10 or ... beautiful...

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Laurie M. Tisch Honored by United Way’s Women’s Leadership Council

Release Date:

03/21/2016

... Way’s Women’s Leadership Council The United Way of New York City’s Women’s Leadership Council’s held it’s 10th annual Power of Women to Make a Difference Award Luncheon honoring several ... officer at Macy’s;...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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20 Jun 2016

Philanthropy, Refugees, and the Global Humanitarian Crisis: World Refugee Day - Webinar

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1:00pm to 2:30pm

Expanding Perspectives on the Integration of Refugees Refugee integration is not just about how our ... of gender, race, and age. Speakers Jamie-Rose Edwards, Co- Director & Co-Founder, Young...

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Funded by Research to Prevent Blindness, USC Study Predicts Visual Impairment Will Double by 2050

Release Date:

05/19/2016

... A study published today by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute in JAMA ... to double over the next 35 years. By 2050, the number of Americans with a variety ...

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Ford Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings

Release Date:

09/29/2016

... Sponsors Memorial to Confront South's Troubled History of Lynchings Southern states have long welcomed tourists ... by lynching in the U.S. from 1877 to 1950. The nonprofit's director , Bryan...

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Arts

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SeaChange Capital Partners Writes "Coming Back from Bankruptcy: How We Fixed Healing Arts Initiative"

Release Date:

06/06/2017

... bankruptcy a year ago, it was the last in a series of tragic events that was seemingly the death knell for the 47-year-old nonprofit. Former executive director D. Alexandra Dyer had been attacked with drain...

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Reaching the Unbanked: Citi Inclusive Finance Wins Euromoney Award

Release Date:

07/20/2017

... is unbanked, leaving them completely outside the system of formal financial services which can serve as bridge out of poverty and unlock opportunities that can ... Inclusive Finance efforts—...

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Bloomberg-funded WHO Report: Dramatic Increase in Life-Saving Tobacco Control Policies In Last Decade

Release Date:

07/20/2017

... bans to no smoking areas. About 4.7 billion people – 63% of the world’s population – are covered by at least one ... quadrupled since 2007 when only 1 billion people, and 15% of the world’s population, were...

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