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How Evaluations Make Programs Stronger

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08/21/2014

By Michael D. Smith, Director of the Social Innovation Fund When funders invest ... evaluations. Over time, they move from tier to tier as they amass evidence and use that evidence to strengthen...

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Stonewall Community Foundation: Working Towards a Better Future Since 1990

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06/18/2014

... Working Towards a Better Future Since 1990 The needs of New York City's LGBT community are so vast and varied, it is ... Community Foundation is trying to help people do. As the only public foundation...

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Engaging Teens Through "Hunger Games" and Skateboarding Culture

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06/25/2014

... Skateboarding Culture Grants totaling $663,000 from The New York Community Trust to boost digital media learning will ... are part of the Trust's Hive Digital Media Learning Fund ; “The Hive has taken what...

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Lincoln Center Partnership To Train and Place Arts Teachers In NYC Schools

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07/07/2014

... a $1.5 million grant from the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund will help educate, certify and fast-track the placement ... Center, CUNY’s Hunter College School of Education, the New York City Department of...

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PNY's Disaster Relief Work Featured in SSIR

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02/09/2015

... the first-responders—must instead navigate a rush of new attention and potential funders. Many attend multiple ... to cultivate relationships for the long haul. Philanthropy New York (PNY), for instance,...

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Wall Street Not Giving Up On U.S. Social Impact Bonds

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07/30/2015

... the social issue it targets. Goldman Sachs helped to fund the first such program in the United States three years ... $9.6 million plan to reduce recidivism among teenagers at New York's Rikers Island...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Highlights Coal Communities in Latest Film

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05/01/2017

... Highlights Coal Communities in Latest Film The new film on the coal industry that Bloomberg Philanthropies ... miners, and it features groups that are helping them find new opportunities. With federal budget...

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Clark Foundation-Sponsored Forum Considers How NY Nonprofit Contractors Can Address Late and Under Payment

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05/25/2017

... Nonprofit Contractors Can Address Late and Under Payment New York City nonprofits providing services on behalf of ... people out of poverty. Speakers identified challenges such as payments for services that...

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Salesforce.Org Expands Philanthropic Efforts to Improve Schools

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12/12/2018

... grant to an education nonprofit, giving $2 million to New Leaders to help train principals and teachers. The ... for example, or improve math education. The grant to New Leaders is focused on boosting the...

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Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows

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07/15/2020

Open Society Foundations Announce 2020 Soros Arts Fellows NEW YORK—The Open Society Foundations today announced the ... That’s why the work of our fellows is so urgent, as they work on the frontlines of culture to...

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

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07/17/2013

... nursing care to low-income seniors got a boost recently as both AARP Foundation and The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced new investments in The Green House Project. The new...

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Cost of Health Care a Burden for Most U.S. Households

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04/15/2014

A new study published by the Milbank Memorial Fund 's Milbank ... said that she and her colleagues conducted the study as part of a multiyear project to evaluate effects of the .....

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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 ... salaries, according to an analysis performed for The New York Times by Compdata Surveys...

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

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06/11/2014

... Access to Fresh Produce in Low-Income Neighborhoods New York City's Green Cart initiative has increased access to ... in 2008 by the Mayor's Office of Food Policy and the New York City Department of...

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Helmsley Trust Awards $8.7 Million for T1D Research Program

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03/30/2015

... programs designed to improve clinical care and translate new therapeutics; and cultivate new funding sources to ensure the program’s sustainability. ...

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'Investment Club' of Foundations Pays Off for Nonprofits

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06/05/2015

... Pays Off for Nonprofits The first investment by a group of New York Foundations that decided to pool their resources ... that received a $250,000 loan from the New York Pooled PRI Fund . Per...

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Co-Authored by Arabella Advisors, Article Tracks A Foundation’s 15-Year Journey In Impact Investing

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10/11/2016

... globally? We started with two core principles. First, as former entrepreneurs, we wanted to be catalytic—to take risks to prove new models, so that larger funders with less risk tolerance ... adopt them, too...

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NYCT's Kerry McCarthy: Trump Cuts that Hit Arts Will Also Hurt Health in NYC Neighborhoods

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04/04/2017

... studios improve the well-being of young and old. Now, new research by the University of Pennsylvania has analyzed ... with improved quality of life in low-income areas as well as wealthy ones...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community

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06/23/2017

... that it will be making grants of $100,000 each to the New York City LGBT Community Center, the Sylvia Rivera Law ... advocacy, and social services to the LGBTQ community as they respond to an environment of...

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Google to Invest more than $1 Billion in Digital Literacy, Workforce Development

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10/13/2017

... Digital Literacy, Workforce Development Google announced new online tools and more than $1 billion in funding for ... combat that problem, Pichai announced Grow with Google, a new initiative and online...

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