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NoVo Foundation

'Docu-Ad’ Exposes Hardship of Those Without Bank Access

Release Date:

06/03/2014

... By commissioning “Spent,” American Express hopes to build a coalition for solving the problems of people forced to use nontraditional financial services. “Making the ... work better is within our reach,” title...

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Economic Security

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American Express

Report Shows Some Success For NYC's Young Men's Initiative

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07/28/2014

... and Open Society Foundations, was successful at increasing job placement and internship attendance for ... at -risk males who left school without a job. According to a city-prepared, 15-page...

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Economic Security

Workforce Development

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

Open Society Foundations

Nathan Cummings Foundation Names Ernest Tollerson Interim CEO

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07/31/2014

... including a three-year term as board chair, comes to his new post from the Metropolitan Transportation ... his career, Tollerson has worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers including the Philadelphia...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Social Justice

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The Nathan Cummings Foundation

Soros' Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition

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10/14/2014

... Support of Marijuana Legalization Leads Philanthropies to Increase Support for Opposition The story starts with ... like Afghanistan and Mexico. Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society donates roughly $4...

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The Achelis and Bodman Foundations

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Health

Public Policy

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Open Society Foundations

For Profound Change in America, Think Local

Release Date:

01/29/2014

... has left many of us searching for jobs or struggling to gain skills that fit in the “new” economy. Shifting ... funding. The cutbacks have limited their ability to move policy, provide services or engage in...

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Workforce Development

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Open Society Foundations

Weinberg Foundation Names New Position

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12/18/2014

... Foundation has announced that Sheryl Goldstein has been promoted to the newly created position of Managing Director, Programs ... Education. She will continue this work and expand her role to...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Workforce Development

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

The Century Foundation Releases Report on Charter Schools and District Integration

Release Date:

09/16/2015

... District Integration Today, the options for families to escape racially isolated, high-poverty, poor-performing ... how charter schools can and should be part of the solution to addressing this issue of inter-...

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Communities in Schools: Putting Quality Considerations First (Wallace Foundation, EMCF)

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11/12/2015

... Foundation, EMCF) When a federated network decides to prioritize quality over scale, it’s not hard to foresee that toes will get stepped on and feelings will ... board or any funder support a strategy of doing...

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Blue Meridian Partners, Inc.

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Students with Influence Over Peers Reduce School Bullying: Research Funded by WT Grant, Russell Sage Foundations

Release Date:

01/06/2016

... answer may not lie within rules set by adults, according to new research led by Princeton University. Instead, the solution might actually be to have the students themselves, particularly those most connected...

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Children, Youth and Families

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Russell Sage Foundation

UHF: A New Arena For Reducing Antibiotic Misuse: Outpatient Care

Release Date:

03/25/2016

... Misuse: Outpatient Care Antibiotic resistance related to the misuse and overuse of antibiotics has emerged as a growing public health concern, with at least 2 million people infected with resistant bacteria...

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Health

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United Hospital Fund

NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes

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08/09/2016

NY Community Trust Teams Up with Muslim-American Leaders to Counter Anti-Islamic Stereotypes In the past year, ... the media’s coverage of Muslims is negative, according to reports from the Institute for Social...

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The New York Community Trust

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Communications/Media

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18 Jan 2017

Homeownership and the Racial Wealth Gap – Webinar

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 -

1:00pm to 2:00pm

As the movement to understand and address income inequality gains momentum, ... and ethnicity. Homeownership is one of the key strategies to reduce the racial wealth gap, however, minorities continue to...

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Community Development

Public Policy

“Repeal and Replace” Gives States More Control over Healthcare Market

Release Date:

01/27/2017

... executive order signed on Friday implores federal agencies to act within the constraints of the ACA to delay or even waive portions of the law that they believe ... such repeal, it is imperative for the...

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Health

EAC Network Teams Up with Bank of America, Long Island Community Foundation for “Fresh from the Garden” Senior Initiative

Release Date:

03/15/2017

... agency’s brand new Fresh from the Garden program to provide at -risk seniors in New Cassel, NY with a free, three-step initiative to healthier living: nutrition education, cooking ...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Food Systems

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Long Island Community Foundation

I’m Having a CEO Moment. And You Can, Too

Release Date:

04/05/2017

... over the past few months, we’ve been working really hard to capture more and more of the great thinking that happens with our members at Philanthropy New York on our new media platform, PhilTV. ... CEOs get in...

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President's Message

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Proteus Fund (NYC Office)

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse

Release Date:

06/27/2017

Stavros Niarchos Foundation Gives $150M for An Initiative To Elevate Civic Discourse Great Britain’s exit from the ... from the right, not the left. Suddenly, conservatives seem to be on the side of the “commoner...

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Stavros Niarchos Foundation

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Unusual Times Lead to Unusual Grants from the Rockefeller Foundation

Release Date:

06/28/2017

Unusual Times Lead to Unusual Grants from the Rockefeller Foundation Political ... as a practical, problem-solving institution—one working to "promote the well-being of humanity throughout the world...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Respected Anthropologist Danilyn Rutherford Steps Into New Role as President of Wenner-Gren Foundation

Release Date:

08/09/2017

... chair of the Department of Anthropology and a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose research ... record of accomplishment, and the creativity and drive to lead Wenner-Gren,” said...

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