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The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World

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11/17/2014

The Ploughshares Fund Strives to Create a Nuclear-Free World Ploughshares opposes ... and military expansion. The fund identifies itself as a “publicly supported foundation that funds, organizes...

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Rockefeller Brothers Fund

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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

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08/13/2015

Bank of America Provides Light to 500 Schools in the Developing World GivePower Foundation —a charitable non-profit organization that ...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Education

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JPB, Rockefeller Support New Initiative, 'Reimagining the Civic Commons'

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09/08/2016

... the Civic Commons' Four foundations will join forces to fund civic projects in four cities for a full $40 million. But instead of big ... many, not just neighborhood elites. On Thursday, the JPB ...

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Freedom Together Foundation

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Community Development

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Maricella Espinosa-Blohm

... from Northeastern University. She works as an assistant to the member services team and will continue to do so ... to study Cultural Anthropology at Northeastern University...

PNY Members Briefing Preliminary Planning Form

... purposes, Philanthropy New York will need 4 -6 weeks in advance of the briefing: Description of the briefing Names ... Services team . If you are hosting a program that may be of interest to grantmakers, and would like to post it on our Regional ...

With Help From Rockefeller Brothers, Ploughshares Pushes Better Ties with Iran

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06/18/2014

... Few peace and security groups are better positioned to help reduce tensions between Iran and the U.S. and its ... Fund, which has been investing heavily this year in work with hefty support from the...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge

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07/08/2014

The Roots of Today's Giving Pledge The Giving Pledge may be vogue today for many wealthy Americans, but as Forbes ... New York, wrote an essay encouraging other industrialists to give away...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Wealthy Donors are Driving the Immigration Reform Debate

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11/20/2014

... as early as this coming Friday. While Capitol Hill may have been consistently deadlocked when it comes to building meaningful legislation on immigration, a network ... Times...

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Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues

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12/16/2014

Data is Needed to Address Worldwide Women's Issues Former Secretary of ... Bloomberg teamed up to highlight the power of information in helping women worldwide and to...

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Gender Justice

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NYCT Seeks Applicants for the Nonprofit Excellence Awards Program

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03/12/2015

... now at http://npexcellence.fcny.org and are due on May 1, 2015; application clinics, which help applicants ... through the process, will begin later this month. As a leading funder of nonprofit technical and...

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The New York Community Trust

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

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05/07/2015

... Charitable Trust-Backed Research Makes Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine Scientists at the Salk Institute ... into any type of tissue–whose identity is tied to their location in a...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens

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07/02/2015

City Will Bring High-Speed Broadband to Digital Deserts in Brooklyn and Queens City Hall may be stalled so far in its fight with Verizon over its FiOS ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Are Too Many Seniors Taking Antidepressants?

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07/31/2015

... weren’t receiving attention for mental health issues— may now need to shift, says Donovan Maust, the geriatric psychiatrist who ... drugs taken at once, when prescribing psychotropic drugs in...

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The John A. Hartford Foundation

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Helmsley Charitable Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments

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08/28/2015

... Trust-Backed Program Explores DNA Damage Response to Find New Cancer Treatments Every organism -- from a ... these two perpetual threats. The discovery could help in the development of new cancer-selective...

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NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens

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10/09/2015

NYCT Supports Affordable Housing Proposal for Artists in Jamaica, Queens Dozens of local artists who are part of Jamaica's thriving arts scene may soon get the chance to live in...

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The New York Community Trust

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Arts

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United Hospital Fund's Levine Speaks on Healthcare's Toll on Caregivers

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02/16/2016

... Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, explained in a commentary in the same issue. They may feel uncomfortable or too overwhelmed to take advantage of support groups and...

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Appointments & Transitions

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Dan Cardinali Named New President and CEO, Independent Sector

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02/23/2016

... New President and CEO, Independent Sector Begining in July, Dan Cardinali will become the new President and CEO ... director on our very own Independent Sector board. And, in May 2011, he was...

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Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs)

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03/18/2016

Commission: US Lacks Strategies to Lower Child Abuse Deaths (Casey Family Programs) The ... such deaths has hovered at around 1,500 to 1,600 annually in recent years. But citing gaps in...

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