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NYSHealth Awards Grants $1.2M to Empower Health Care Consumers

Release Date:

10/18/2016

NYSHealth Awards Grants $1.2M to Empower Health Care Consumers October 18, 2016 (New ... for grant awards totaling more than $1.2 million to empower health care consumers and ensure they have the ... understand...

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New York Health Foundation

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Health

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Russell Sage's New Book: More Poor Live in Suburbs than Cities

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06/21/2017

... alcove of the middle class and affluent—they are home to millions of America’s invisible poor. That’s the ... academics, and the general public remain largely oblivious to the plight of the 17 million people...

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Economic Security

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Russell Sage Foundation

Five Cultural Challenges Nonprofits Face With Digital Fundraising

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09/29/2017

... nonprofit world, direct mail is still king when it comes to generating revenue. This is one of the few industries in ... the near future. As a digital marketer, it's fascinating to me because this sector...

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New York Magazine Profile, "The Rockefellers vs. the Company That Made Them Rockefellers"

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01/08/2018

... 1911, when the Supreme Court deemed Standard Oil too big to exist, splitting it into 34 companies, including two that ... dawned, it became impossible for younger Rockefellers to spend time at the family’s...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Commonwealth Fund Study Finds Organizations Can Reduce Their Carbon Footprint and Improve Health

Release Date:

04/20/2018

... producer of carbon dioxide , making it a major contributor to air pollution. The environment shapes our health system as well: recent catastrophes have shown how climate change can adversely affect the health...

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Environment and Climate Change

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The Commonwealth Fund

Meet EMpower's New President and CEO, Cynthia Steele

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06/26/2019

... “have so much potential when opportunities are open to them.” Though a longtime Brooklyn resident, Cynthia can often be found on a plane, on her way to one of EMpower’s 15 focus countries to...

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EMPower - The Emerging Markets Foundation

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02 Oct 2019

Youth Voice: What it is and Why it Matters

Wednesday, October 2, 2019 -

3:00pm to 5:00pm

... "youth voice" programs and methods. Panelists will share how participating in authentic youth engagement, advocacy and ... competencies that set students individually on a path to success. You will...

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"Rosa Parks: In Her Own Words," a New Exhibition Supported by the Ford Foundation, Offers Intimate View of Seminal Figure's Life

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11/12/2019

... Parks, the civil rights icon made famous for her refusal to give up her seat to a white man on a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in ... encounter with a white boy who threatened to hit her...

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Arts

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Ford Foundation

05 Dec 2019

Philanthropic Assistants & Coordinators Network (PACNET) Winter Meeting

Thursday, December 5, 2019 -

8:30am to 10:30am

... Coordinators Network for our December Meeting focused on how to ask for and receive feedback. Clear and actionable ... feedback but it’s not as helpful as you’d like it to be? This session...

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Executive Support Staff

The Ford Foundation's $1.0 Billion Bond - A Briefing Note from SeaChange Capital Partners

Release Date:

06/22/2020

... was not the extra grants; it was the plan to finance them through the issuance of a $1.0 billion, ... of investment-grade bonds have already been issued in 2020 to take advantage of record-low interest rates?...

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Finance & Asset Management

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Grantmaking Strategy & Tools

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SeaChange Capital Partners

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08 Dec 2021

New York City Workforce Funders Collaborative Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday, December 8, 2021 -

10:00am to 11:30am

... and out of work in 2020. These young adults continue to face barriers to achieving their educational and career goals. Many who ... jobs that demand digital fluency and new technical skills. How...

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Workforce Development

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Announces Fall 2021 Grantees and New Website

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01/12/2022

... Fall 2021 grants. A total of $4.1 million will be awarded to 49 organizations to support the vital work of artists in communities around ... support their ability to freely express views, no...

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The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

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Arts

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The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Welcomes Its 2022 Distinguished Scholars

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02/02/2022

... YORK) – The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of its 2022 HFG Distinguished ... Guggenheim Research Grants, highest priority was given to research that addresses the causes...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Community Development

Gender Justice

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Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation

Doris Duke Foundation Announces "Racial Equity in Clinical Equations"

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06/27/2023

... design of clinical algorithms – mathematical models used to guide disease diagnosis and treatment – can lead to profound racial disparities in health care outcomes. ... and patients to...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Health

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Doris Duke Foundation

26 Sep 2023

The "Attica" Uprising: A Screening & Discussion Over 50 Years Later

Tuesday, September 26, 2023 -

5:00pm to 7:30pm

... a prison uprising erupted as incarcerated people demanded to be treated as human beings. Four days later, Governor Nelson Rockefeller ordered state troopers to storm the prison leading to the...

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Justice Reform

A Glass Half Full: Japan’s Disaster Response at One Year

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03/27/2012

... units have been constructed, and shops are starting to reopen in cities and towns that had been completely ... of globalization has been the invaluable role of overseas philanthropy : a recently completed JCIE...

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United Nations Foundation Board of Directors Names Kathy Calvin Next President and CEO

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12/03/2012

... Ted Turner announced a number of transitions designed to help the Foundation meet the challenges and opportunities of its global mission to support the United Nations: Dr. Gro Brundtland, former ... Women.”...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Names Leisle Lin and William B. Petersen as New Senior Vice Presidents

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02/01/2012

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is pleased to announce the promotion of Leisle Lin to the position of Senior Vice President for Finance and ... Land. Lin is also Treasurer, Finance Chair, and Trustee of ...

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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New Board Leadership at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

Release Date:

08/22/2013

... Brothers Fund has elected Valerie Rockefeller Wayne to chair the RBF Board of Trustees and also elected new ... had led the Fund since 2006. Mr. Rockefeller will continue to help guide its activities as an...

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