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Laurie Tisch Illumination Fund Launches $15 Million Healthy Foods Initiative

Release Date:

02/15/2013

... initiative will work to improve access to healthy foods for people in low-income neighborhoods. The Laurie M. Tisch ... Food & Community Change initiative with a commitment of $15 million over five years...

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

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Community Development

Food Systems

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To Be a True Practitioner of Democracy

Release Date:

05/22/2013

Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian delivered this address to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University’s ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Public Policy

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Leigh Bonney Named Chief Financial Officer for The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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03/01/2012

Leigh Bonney has joined the staff of The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust as its ... before retiring in early 2011. As Chief Financial Officer for Research and Development, she was...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Finance & Asset Management

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Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen

Release Date:

04/15/2015

Open Society Justice Initiative Examines Repercussions of of U.S. Drone Strikes in Yemen For more than a decade now, the United States has been using ... Yemeni nongovernmental organization...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Open Society Foundations

Commonwealth Fund Supported Study on Task-Shifting from Physicians to Nurses in Europe, U.S., Other Countries

Release Date:

10/27/2015

... U.S. Faced with physician shortages, long wait times for patients, and high costs, health systems around the world ... by physicians to nurses with advanced training. For a study published in Health Policy,...

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The Commonwealth Fund

Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out-of-School-Time Programs

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02/17/2016

Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out- of -School-Time Programs The Wallace-commissioned ... cities. . . . Wallace Updates Popular Cost Calculator for Out- of -School-...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Education

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The Wallace Foundation

Simons-Backed Study Shows Neural Stem Cells in Adult Mice Also Vulnerable to Zika

Release Date:

08/19/2016

... at the Rockefeller University and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology report in Cell Stem Cell. It has yet to be studied whether the death of these cells has any short or long-term effects in the...

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Science

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The Simons Foundation

2016 Nobel Prize Winner Yoshinori Ohsumi’s Discoveries Could Change How We Treat Disease

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10/05/2016

... Ohsumi, 71, won the 2016 Nobel Prize on Monday for his research on autophagy ― a metabolic recycling process in which cells eat parts of themselves to survive and stay healthy. His initial...

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Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children

Release Date:

08/30/2017

... allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the practice puts young people at risk of serious, lifelong harm. More than 200,000 children under ... a child marriage problem,”...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Gender Justice

Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business

Release Date:

09/15/2017

Google Bows out of the “Bidding for Addicts” Business As addiction has ... fly-by-night endeavors. Many of them, to judge by recent research , are severely substandard. To...

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Corporate Social Responsibility

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High-Paying Jobs Alone Won't Save Big Cities

Release Date:

09/28/2017

High-Paying Jobs Alone Won't Save Big Cities The specters of white worker angst and racial disparities that took center ... during the 2016 presidential election created conditions for a corporate hero to...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

Opinion: How Nonprofits Can Use Artificial Intelligence To Improve Fundraising

Release Date:

10/02/2017

... Artificial Intelligence To Improve Fundraising The promise of artificial intelligence (AI) is to help companies become for efficient and effective. According to a Boston based AI ... programs, Ray Wang, CEO...

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Philanthropic & Nonprofit Sectors

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09 Oct 2012

Engaging Stakeholders for Impact: Involving Grantees and Others in Your Grantmaking

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 -

12:00pm to 3:00pm

All New York State funders are invited to participate in this special event at the Grantmakers Forum of New York's annual meeting. To solve complex community ... Heather Peeler , Vice...

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Network Building

JPMorgan Chase & Co. Releases Report that Examines the Skills Gap in NYC

Release Date:

10/30/2014

... JPMorgan Chase & Co. today released the first in a series of reports that lays out a specific roadmap for addressing the mismatch between the needs of employers ... available middle-skill...

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