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UJA-Federation Names New Chief Program Officer

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08/16/2016

... Rabbi Joselow will lead all UJA program strategy and grant- making , which totaled more than $140M in the last fiscal ...

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Russell Sage Foundation Papers Help Explain the Growing Wage Gap

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08/22/2016

A new essay from researchers Martha J. Bailey and Thomas A. DiPrete, which is part of a newly released collection of papers from the Russell Sage Foundation, helps to explain why women are no longer catching up to men when it comes to pay.

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Commonwealth Fund Exec Comments on Obamacare Marketplace Pressures

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08/22/2016

Sara Collins, vice president for healthcare coverage and access at The Commonwealth Fund, said she believes the Obamacare markets are maturing rather than dying.

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Mellon Foundation Supports Festival That Will Show Sneak Preview of PBS "Hamilton" Documentary

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09/06/2016

... that delves into the life of Alexander Hamilton and the making of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Pulitzer Prize and Tony .....

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Ford Joins Growing List of Grant Makers Focused on People With Disabilities

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09/12/2016

... close look at Ford’s hiring practices, leadership, grant- making priorities, and the physical accessibility of its New ...

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Social Justice

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William T. Grant and Century Foundations Support Study on Effects of For-Profit Schools on African-Americans

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09/19/2016

A new study of 150 black youths from some of Baltimore’s lowest-income neighborhoods shows that young people who attended for-profit institutions ended up in more debt and with fewer job prospects.

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William T. Grant Foundation

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Simons, Gates Foundations, HHMI Announce Faculty Scholars

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09/26/2016

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Simons Foundation, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have announced the selection of eighty-four faculty scholars, early-career scientists at forty-three institutions who have great potential to...

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Sloan Supports New Study on What Happens When The Brain Is Artificially Stimulated

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09/26/2016

The research marks a step forward in the quest to develop personalized brain stimulation as a treatment for disease.

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

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18 Nov 2016

Philanthropy 101 - Module 3: Fundamentals of Grantmaking

Friday, November 18, 2016 -

8:30am to 11:00am

... be able to: Discuss where implicit bias plays a role in making a grant Identify examples of how foundations give ...

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United Way of New York City Helps Distribute More Than 100 Backpacks to Brownsville Students

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10/04/2016

On September 8, FedEx volunteers teamed up with United Way of New York City (UWNYC) to make this first day of school possible.

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Zegar Family Foundation Supports 'Sunday in the Park' Starring Jake Gyllenhaal at City Center

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10/04/2016

City Center thanks Gala Performance Underwriters Luigi Caiola and Sean McGill and is grateful for additional support from the Zegar Family Foundation.

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Wallace Selects Seven Universities to Participate in $47M Initiative

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10/13/2016

Universities to redesign programs in collaboration with their states and local school districts.

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NYSHealth Awards Grants $1.2M to Empower Health Care Consumers

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10/18/2016

... resources that will inform consumer health care decision- making ; and identify strategies that meaningfully engage ...

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New York Health Foundation

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The Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own

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11/28/2016

... Latest Nutrition Grantmaking From Newman's Own Paul Newman was a man ahead of his time. While everyone now grasps the idea of social enterprise businesses, Newman's Own was a novelty when it launched...

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Food Systems

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A NYS Health-Funded Report in 'Consumer Reports' Offers National and Local Ratings of Health Cost Estimator Tools

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12/02/2016

This NYSHealth-funded report in Consumer Reports offers ratings of health cost estimator tools, both nationally and New York State-specific, that help consumers make better-informed decisions about their health care.

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Mellon Foundation Supports Commission on Language Learning

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12/15/2016

... will recommend a range of options for improving—and making more widely available—a set of educational ...

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Westchester Community Foundation Supports Westchester Green Business Program in New York State

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12/19/2016

... program in New York State. Westchester Green Business was awarded funding through The Cleaner, Greener Communities ... sustainability goals and principles into local decision- making , and leading to a...

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UJA-Federation of New York Screens Holocaust Film Premiere in Long Island

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01/03/2017

... explored her family’s history during the Holocaust, was made in 1988 and was short-listed for an Academy Award. Goodstein, a former ... Poland two decades later to make the follow-up film, which was...

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Herbert Sturz of Open Society Foundations Named A City & State Lifetime Award Winner

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01/12/2017

... the age of 50 who have committed decades of their life to making the city a better place. The honorees will be ...

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