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Combating youth violence, addressing climate change, and improving access to mass transit. These are just three of the 46 projects New York’s community foundation is supporting to improve life for New Yorkers.

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Jamie Merisotis Becomes Council on Foundations' Board Chair

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05/14/2019

... committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. He previously served as co-founder ...

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UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies Receives Grant From Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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08/02/2019

Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA receives grant to improve teaching about the Middle East.

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Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

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09/30/2019

... serves as Reid Hoffman Professor of Humanities at the New School for Social Research and is a Fellow of the Canadian ...

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Equitable Helps Educators Equip Students with Remote Learning Resources through DonorsChoose Keep Kids Learning Program

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04/08/2020

... to serve nearly 800,000 educators in the K-12 public school market. “We are inspired and humbled by the ... the Equitable Excellence SM Scholarship, recognizes high- school students who have made remarkable...

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The Charles H. Revson Foundation Elects Ariel Zwang to Board of Trustees

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11/17/2021

... Ariel received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College. ...

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The Westchester Community Foundation Awards $3.2 Million in Grants to 66 Nonprofits

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12/01/2021

... for mental health and addiction. OSSINING UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT: $160,000 to address mental health needs of public- school students and their families in the Ossining and Peekskill school...

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The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust Announces New Program Officer for Democracy, Hannah Furstenberg-Beckman

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08/31/2022

... Wesleyan University and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School , where she was a John F. Kennedy Fellow. The ...

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Laura Rossi, Executive Director, Westchester Community Foundation, Featured in 2022 Westchester Power 100 List by City & State

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09/28/2022

... hotline, and $160,000 to the Ossining and Peekskill school districts for a mental health outreach project in the ...

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19 Jun 2012

-- POSTPONED -- Is Social Justice Sustainable?

Tuesday, June 19, 2012 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

Philanthropy New York, 79 Fifth Ave., 4th floor, NYC

... as Gara LaMarche , Senior Fellow at NYU's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and the Tides Foundation, provides ... Union Gara LaMarche , Senior Fellow, NYU Robert F. Wagner School of Public...

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14 Jun 2011

Speaker's Bio: Commissioner Nirav R. Shah, M.D., MPH

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 12:00pm

... and assistant professor at the New York University School of Medicine in value and comparative effectiveness. A ... degree and master's degree in public health from the Yale School of Medicine. He was a...

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03 Nov 2011

The American Economy, Manufacturing, and Sustainability

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -

10:00am to 2:00pm

... National Urban League . Gary Yee , President, Oakland School Board . Designed for All interested funders. The ...

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Dale C. Christensen, Jr. Elected to Board of United Hospital Fund

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11/01/2013

... legal degrees, respectively, from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and the Brooklyn Law School . Dale C. Christensen, Jr. Elected to Board of United ...

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Keesha Gaskins to Lead Democratic Practice–United States Grantmaking at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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01/15/2014

... Public Policy at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs. Gaskins worked for several years as ... and a doctorate of law from Northeastern University School of Law. She has been...

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Foundations Join the White House in Expanding Opportunities for Young Men of Color

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03/13/2014

... in key areas, including: early child development and school readiness, parenting and parent engagement, educational opportunity and school discipline reform, and ladders to jobs and economic ...