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To Get a Railroad Project Moving Long Islanders Had to Pull Together

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06/23/2020

... Long Island Rail Road. The addition had long been sought as a means of reducing commuter delays, enabling reverse ... up by a few powerful officials. This was the case in New York...

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More Details Emerging About Greer's Ouster from Nathan Cummings Foundation

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06/10/2014

... Nathan Cummings Foundation A report in The Chronicle of Philanthropy has shed more light on what led to the ... Cummings Foundation that Simon Greer leaving his post as CEO. The Chronicle...

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Morgan Stanley Picks Newark As One Of Its Healthy Cities Sites

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06/27/2014

Morgan Stanley Picks Newark As One Of Its Healthy Cities Sites Morgan Stanley named ... Cities target areas. Joan Steinberg, Global Head of Philanthropy at Morgan Stanley, said...

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Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans

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10/20/2014

Charities Seek to Attract More Boomers as They Mull Retirement Plans As wealthy baby boomers are ... about how to channel their money and other assets into philanthropy . Charities are also...

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Atlantic Awards $14.8 Million to Transform the U. S. Health Care System

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04/06/2015

... promote fundamental changes that will reshape the delivery of health care for all Americans. The grant will support ... transformation" strategy, which includes the creation of a Center for Consumer and...

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Rockefeller Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing

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11/17/2015

... Foundation, J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs Noted As Supporters of Impact Investing There is a growing ... realization that, along with government aid and charitable philanthropy ,...

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NoVo and Arcus Foundations Noted for Taking A Stand In Social Movements

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03/17/2016

... bus. Chinese student activists stand defiantly in front of a tank in Tiananmen Square. Pro-life advocates rally under ... Unlike donations that result in something tangible, like a new museum wing, this gift...

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Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America

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09/23/2016

Morgan Stanley Renews Commitment of $8 Million to Feeding America On September 22, 2016 The ... its renewed commitment to hunger relief through a new $8 million, four-year pledge to Feeding America to ... start in...

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Andrus Family Fund's Peguro Praised in NCRP's Reflections on Resilience and Community Building

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09/28/2016

... was an oft-repeated truism spoken at the place-based philanthropy conference Towards a More Resilient Place, ... from decades of racism and disinvestment are described as “resilient,” it...

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Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers

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10/07/2016

Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list ... Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies...

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Mastercard's Singh on How Companies Can Help Cities Close the Data Gap

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10/21/2016

... companies do business. Starbucks, for example, rolls out new beverages and chooses its store locations by analyzing customer, economic and other data. And as Amazon's customers know so well, the company...

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Foundation CEO Angst: Moral Imperatives and Insomnia

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12/09/2016

... the good (and perhaps hardly surprising) news in a new report from our organization, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP). But there is bad news, too, and some may ... most characterize the current...

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Rockefeller and Unreasonable Institute Give $1M to Groups Fighting Urban Poverty

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01/12/2017

... than ever are flocking to metro areas: more than 75% of the globe’s population is expected to be urban by 2050. ... Figure out how to help the underprivileged in just one of those zones, the theory goes , and...

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Investing in Young Scientific Talent: How (and Why) Rita Allen Foundation Does It

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06/14/2017

... Rita Allen Foundation Does It Few foundations provide most of their annual giving to individuals. The bias of most ... organizations, are paramount, according to the Princeton, New Jersey-...

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NY Community Trust Urges Mega-Donors Can Offset Their Clout By Empowering Community Funders

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06/22/2017

... Funders Some who worry about the rising influence of billionaire philanthropists, myself included, tend to be ... social good and we're excited by the prospect of lots of new...

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At Google, She Oversees $100 Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More.

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08/28/2017

... Million in Giving. She Thinks Companies Should Do More. As president of Google.org, Jacquelline Fuller runs one of the nation’s biggest and most unusual corporate- philanthropy...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

... guarantee loans to farmers, including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal Feeding Operations). Animal ... all these policies, and what, if any, are the benefits? A new nonprofit organization called The Greenfield...

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Bloomberg Supported Cities of Service Announces the Winners of Inaugural Engaged Cities Award

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05/17/2018

Bloomberg Supported Cities of Service Announces the Winners of Inaugural Engaged Cities ... de Cali, Colombia, and Tulsa, Oklahoma as the three winners of the Engaged Cities...

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TCC Group Study Reinforces Importance of Funder Affinity Groups for Collaboration

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05/18/2018

... each other and key nonprofits partners, both to deal with new threats and seize opportunities. Navigating all these ... report, some funders are becoming more open to “systems philanthropy ,” in which they “see...

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