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Prudential Names America's Top Youth Volunteers

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05/05/2015

... service initiatives that range from supporting families of U.S. soldiers to helping children with cancer, 10 students ... a national program sponsored by Prudential Financial in partnership with the National...

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Children, Youth and Families

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The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal

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05/13/2015

... Advance New York Launches Relief Effort to Support Victims of Earthquake in Nepal NYC mayor Bill de Blasio will be raising funds ... First Lady Chirlane McCray, has already collected $50,000 in...

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NoVo Grant Helps Sex Trafficking Victims Fight Prostitution Charges

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05/19/2015

... commit,” Kate Mogulescu, a public defender at Legal Aid in New York City, told The Huffington Post. But that ... Legal Aid that caters specifically to vacating the records of sex trafficking victims. It’s a...

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Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education

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06/01/2015

Teagle Awards $2 Million in Support of Liberal Arts Education Grants awarded through the foundation 's new Liberal Arts in the Professions initiative .....

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Resilience: Nature’s Lessons for Surviving Its Worst Moods

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06/02/2015

... for Surviving Its Worst Moods The recent earthquakes in Nepal, along with the ongoing and tragic aftermath in ... bring to mind inevitable questions about what type of community planning...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Winning Young Innovators Announced for 2015 Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge

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06/03/2015

... Information to Innovation Challenge Inaugural winners of the Moody's Information to Innovation Challenge – an ... to contemporary challenges, presented by The Moody's Foundation – were announced...

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Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion

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07/06/2015

Studio Museum in Harlem Unveils Design for Expansion The Studio Museum ... whose ambitions have long been checked by the limitations of its 1914 building, will construct a new $122 million home ... called the...

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John A. Hartford Helps Expand Program to Support Older Hospitalized Adults

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09/01/2015

... hospital officials said Monday. The John A. Hartford Foundation of New York, the American Geriatrics Society and the ... when orthopaedic surgeons and geriatricians care for them in...

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Atlantic's Feeney Awarded Inaugural Stead Medal for International Philanthropy

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09/21/2015

... for International Philanthropy Feeney, the co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers and philanthropist who gave his fortune ... more than $7 billion to bring about lasting change in the lives of...

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Staying True to Donors’ Wishes Beyond the Grave

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09/21/2015

... a charitable fund to help poor and elderly married couples in the city continue living together, the fund’s officers ... stumped. Times had changed, and there were now lots of seniors—including gay couples—who...

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The New York Community Trust

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The World Has Pledged To Divest $2.6 Trillion From Fossil Fuels

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09/22/2015

... To Divest $2.6 Trillion From Fossil Fuels The amount of money the world has pledged to divest from fossil fuels ... ago. The news was announced at a press conference in New York, hosted by groups including the...

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Rebuild By Design Joins Rockefeller's 100 Resilient Cities Initiative

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10/01/2015

... when working to address the resilience challenges of cities. This new structure also combines two powerful Rockefeller Foundation funded resilience organizations, creating a whole ... take the most effective...

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Newman's Own Supports Volunteerism Event This Weekend

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10/21/2015

... Day will take place this Saturday, October 24, 2015 in neighborhoods throughout the country, bringing Americans together for the common good. Tens of thousands will participate in the nation...

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"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says

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12/10/2015

"Resilience" Bonds Could Help in Climate Disaster, Rockefeller Report Says A "resilience ... disasters, according to a report funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . A traditional catastrophe bond is...

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Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer (Helmsley Charitable Trust)

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01/11/2016

Scientists Find Key Driver for Treatment of Deadly Brain Cancer Glioblastoma multiforme is a ... The late Senator Ted Kennedy succumbed to this disease in just over a year. But scientists at the Salk Institute...

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As Blizzard Looms, Morgan Stanley-supported 'Operation Warm' Gives NYC Children Free Coats

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01/22/2016

... new winter jackets paid for by private donors. The bulk of the coats will go to 32 elementary schools that are part of the city’s “community school” initiative, which ... share of low-income...

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Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities

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02/04/2016

Mellon Gives UPenn $5.1 Million to Boost Latino Faculty in the Humanities The University of Pennsylvania has announced a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in...

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Patients with Macular Degeneration Show Improvement with High-dose Statin Treatment (Research to Prevent Blindness)

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02/08/2016

... Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School and the University of Crete have conducted a phase I/II clinical trial ... degeneration (AMD) -- the leading cause of blindness in the developed world...

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Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps

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02/22/2016

Commonwealth Fund Questions Usefulness of Mobile Health Apps Fewer than half of the more than 1,000 ... Commonwealth Fund. The Commonwealth Fund is a private foundation that supports independent...

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