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21 May 2024

Food Policy & Planning Roundtable - An Event Hosted by Community Food Funders

Tuesday, May 21, 2024 -

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Want to meet other funders working on current issues in food justice? As Community Food Funders’ membership has ... an upcoming roundtable to meet other funders interested in the same topic. Hear from each other...

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Rockefeller Foundation Commits $3 Million to Help Cities Build Resilient Infrastructure Systems

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01/22/2013

... hundreds of millions of dollars of private investment in local infrastructure projects. Today, the Rockefeller ... and integrated urban storm water infrastructure systems in order to prevent damage during...

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Disaster Relief

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Sloan Foundation Partners With Cornell, Georgia Tech, Penn State to Boost STEM Mentoring Among Minorities

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08/05/2013

... of Technology and Pennsylvania State University will fund University Centers of Exemplary Mentoring for minority graduate students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) ... educating...

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79 percent in neighborhoods hardest hit by Sandy say rebuild even in face of risk

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07/30/2013

... by the Rockefeller Foundation) also found that about 1 in 4 Americans believe they live in an area extremely at risk in the next five years of being hit with a disaster. A ...

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AARP, Weinberg Foundations Commit $10.5 Million for Skilled Nursing Care Model

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07/17/2013

... and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced new investments in The Green House Project. The new commitments bolster the national loan fund for Green House homes that RWJF helped to establish in...

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

17 Jun 2009

Challenges & Needs of African-American Girls in NYC & Strategies for Making a Difference

Wednesday, June 17, 2009 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... dialogue on the recently released report, “Black Girls in New York City: Untold Strength & Resilience,” ... Executive Director of the Children’s Defense Fund -New York, and Sharon Cohen, Executive Director...

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A Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the National Priorities Project

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02/28/2014

The National Priorities Project, a Rockefeller Brothers Fund grantee, has been nominated for the 2014 Nobel Peace ... for the Nobel Peace Prize recognizes NPP's important role in informing Americans about the...

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Why Women and Girls?

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03/27/2014

... Clinton, and then shaped the theme around her interests. In fact, we decided soon after our annual meeting last year, ... group and several individual member organizations that fund locally and internationally...

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Medicine’s Top Earners Are Not the M.D.s

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05/17/2014

Cathy Schoe of Commonwealth Fund quoted in New York Times article on doctor's salaries. Though the ... hierarchy: Physicians, the most highly trained members in the industry’s work force,...

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Learning Forward Launches Free, Online Learning Guide to Enrich Principal Preparation Programs

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05/06/2014

“The Principal Story Learning Guide” – based on PBS documentary and more than a decade of research, commissioned by The Wallace Foundation.

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Individual Market Insurance Premiums Grew 10 Percent Yearly Prior to Affordable Care Act

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06/05/2014

... was enacted (2008-2010), according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. The analysis, by Jonathan Gruber of the ... Institute of Technology, uses information collected in 2012 by the National Opinion Research...

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NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods

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06/11/2014

NYC Green Carts Expanding Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to healthy food in otherwise underserved high-density and low-income...

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Economic Security

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Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund

Heintz and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash

Release Date:

06/20/2014

... and Wayne Pay Tribute To Richard Rockefeller Who Died in Plane Crash Rockefeller Brothers Fund President Stephen Heintz and Chair Valerie Rockefeller Wayne pay tribute in a message on the...

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NYCT and Tiger Foundation Among Funders of Single-Sex Education

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10/28/2014

... site has cited this as among "the fastest-growing trends in the educational landscape of 21st-century America." Single-sex education has been thriving in New York. This fall, Public Prep, a network...

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The New York Community Trust

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People with Health Insurance Still Can't Afford All the Care They Need

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11/14/2014

... these out-of-pocket costs, according to the Commonwealth Fund Health Care Affordability Tracking Survey.... People ...

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Rockefeller Foundation Taps Skilled Workforce in Kenya

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02/17/2015

Rockefeller Foundation Taps Skilled Workforce in Kenya CloudFactory today announced it has received a $2 ... lives by connecting high-potential but disadvantaged youth in Africa to sustainable digital employment...

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Workforce Development

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Rita Allen Foundation Study Addresses Impact of Political Advertising

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03/20/2015

... issues by a ratio of 45:1. The study — paid for, in part, by the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation, and with analysis ... provided by the Sunlight Foundation — examined newscasts in...

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Rita Allen Foundation

Pershing Square Foundation Backs Initiative to Provide Scholarships to Undocumented Immigrants

Release Date:

05/28/2015

... TheDream.us has announced pledges totaling $30 million in support of its national scholarship fund , which aims to provide scholarships to at least five ... colleges. The latest pledges from Graham and Ackman...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

Release Date:

06/05/2015

... But for the residents of the Port Morris neighborhood in the South Bronx, returns from the program-related ... that received a $250,000 loan from the New York Pooled PRI Fund . Per Scholas will use the loan to...

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Community Development

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Workforce Development

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Altman Foundation

The Heckscher Foundation for Children

SeaChange Capital Partners

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World

Release Date:

08/13/2015

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World GivePower Foundation—a ... poverty by providing solar-powered lighting to schools in the developing world—is expanding. Through a $500,000 .....

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Environment and Climate Change

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