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27 Apr 2017

New York City Vision Funders – Spring Luncheon

Thursday, April 27, 2017 -

12:30pm to 2:00pm

... peer network of grantmakers who are funding or interested in the area of blindness and vision loss in New York. The purpose of the group is to stay updated on ... Andy Fisher (Moderator), Executive Director,...

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25 Apr 2018

New York City Vision Funders – Spring Meeting

Wednesday, April 25, 2018 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

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12 Apr 2021

Funder Briefing on Summer 2021 Programming for Children and Youth

Monday, April 12, 2021 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... for children and youth. Representatives from the Fund for Public Schools, Department of Education, and ... efforts to coordinate programming, services, and funding in partnership with CBO colleagues to...

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Markle Foundation's Rework America Task Force Is Bridging The Tech Skill Gap

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10/23/2017

... of employees have been replaced by technology or robotics in the past 20 years. And an Oxford University study says 47% ... of American jobs could be at risk due to computerization over the next 20. This...

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Exchanges, Exchanges Everywhere: Understanding the Role of Private Exchanges

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02/06/2014

by David Blumenthal, M.D. , President, The Commonwealth Fund Just when we thought we’d gotten the health ... of Columbia, 36 run by the federal government alone or in partnership with states. We knew they aim to...

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Law & Order Politicians Don’t Care About Your Programmatic Silos

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02/06/2017

... are obsessed with keeping America “safe from crime.” In partnership with the private prison industry and countless ... solution for problems that should be addressed by other social systems. We have created a...

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Justice Reform

08 Apr 2013

Public/Private Partnerships That Work

Monday, April 8, 2013 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

The Walkway Over the Hudson, created from a railroad bridge abandoned since 1974, opened as a New York state park in October 2009. The Dyson Foundation in Millbrook managed ... partnership for...

Payout Redux

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04/09/2010

... Charles H. Hamilton Senior Fellow, Philanthropy New York In recent years, much has been made of payout rates. On the ... of recession like these, foundations should spend over 5 percent to at least keep...

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Simons-Supported Research Shows Link Between Non-Coded Portions of Genome and Cancer

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09/28/2016

... RNA is actually functional? And does it play a role in disease? A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor ... Reports, when they reduced the level of some of the most over -expressed of these RNAs from mammary...

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Why the Ford Foundation Launched a Program for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It

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05/19/2017

... for Formerly Incarcerated People—and How They Did It In late 2015, Darren Walker approached the foundation’s ... Prison Initiative (BPI). At the foundation, we’ve long supported the innovative work of BPI,...

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Chef Massimo Bottura's First U.S. Project Will Be a Rockefeller-supported Bronx Soup Kitchen

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05/30/2017

... Italy restaurant that topped the World’s 50 Best List in 2016, was planning to open one of his food waste-fighting ... in Rio de Janeiro, the community kitchens have lasted long past those...

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Opinion: ‘Fair Share’ Reform – An Essential Step to Solving the City’s Homelessness Crisis

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08/29/2017

... of least resistance. This isn’t how it’s always been in our city. When the city passed the historic Fair Share ... of city facilities and called for investment in a long -term plan for...

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Housing and Homelessness

Yes, It Can Be Done: A Philanthropist on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts

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09/06/2017

... on Transforming Rural Communities Through the Arts Not long ago, I wrote about the Maine-based Libra Foundation ... that the arts can transform a depressed small rural town in that state called Monson. I'...

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Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill

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09/14/2017

Here's What's In Bernie Sanders' 'Medicare For All' Bill The Capitol Hill ... headlines. (Meanwhile, some members are also wrangling over how they can stabilize Obamacare.) On Wednesday...

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Obesity Was Rising as Ghana Embraced Fast Food. Then Came KFC.

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10/02/2017

... high school a decade ago, Daniel Awaitey enrolled in computer courses, dropped out to work in a hotel, then ... here. He has an apartment, a car, a smartphone and a long -distance girlfriend...

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14 Nov 2017

Mapping the Intersections of Peace and Security and Human Rights Work - Brown Bag Lunch

Tuesday, November 14, 2017 -

12:00pm to 2:00pm

... peace is threatened, human rights are often sacrificed in the name of security. Where do these fields intersect ... a roundtable discussion on what it means for funders in this brown bag lunch (bring your own...

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Mellon and Doris Duke Foundations Back New Report Highlighting 20 Years of NEFA’s National Dance Project

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11/18/2016

... on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the program. In addition to an evaluation of NDP’s grantmaking data, ... literature review, and analysis of secondary data sources. Over the past 20 years, the...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness If ever there were a problem ... some deep-pocketed donors for at least a century. Over the past few decades, significant gains have been...

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New Push to Replace Obamacare Reflects High Stakes For Republicans

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09/19/2017

... the Affordable Care Act burst into view this week in the Senate, where leaders began pressuring rank-and-file ... was dead. The latest proposal would give states control over billions in...

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