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Workforce Development

As Global Obesity Rises, Teasing Apart Its Causes Grows Harder

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09/19/2017

... a program for overweight children, or an obesity clinic, two places that Andrew Jacobs, a reporter with The New York Times’s health desk, visited to report an article ...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Back-and-Forth on DACA Leaves Young Immigrants ‘Just Dangling’

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09/25/2017

... 22, lifts weights at the gym, in between classes and two jobs. Apolinar Islas, 34, who came to New York from Mexico when he was 15, said he walks around in ...

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Children, Youth and Families

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Immigration

Schools’ Response to Bullying Is Questioned After Fatal School Stabbing

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10/02/2017

... history class in a Bronx school. A school social worker in New York City for 25 years, Harding formed a theory about what ... Cedeno to allegedly draw a switchblade and plunge it into two of...

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Education

How Many Big Storms Before People Abandon Coastal Cities?

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10/02/2017

... Coastal Cities? People love living near the coast. Only two of the world's top 10 biggest cities — Mexico City and ... Paulo — are not coastal. The rest — Tokyo, Mumbai, New York ,...

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Environment and Climate Change

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Ford Foundation Supports Immigrant Artists Mentoring Program

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09/07/2018

... Program Through the support of the Ford Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is pleased to announce ... their distinct cultural identities. The program combines two of NYFA...

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Arts

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Education Tech Nonprofit Launches with Gates, Carnegie Support

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02/06/2013

The Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation have provided startup funding for the new nonprofit, inBloom, which aims “to make personalized ...

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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Education

Technology

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

Several NY Donor Families Among Millionaires Asking for Tax Raise on the Wealthy

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03/23/2016

... the Wealthy More than 40 millionaires on Monday asked New York state to raise taxes on the wealthy, under what they called a “1% plan for tax fairness”. “As New Yorkers who have contributed...

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo Joins Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute

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09/14/2017

... Jim and Marilyn Simons to Dedicate Flatiron Institute New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo joined Simons Foundation co-founders ... Marilyn Simons on Sept. 6 to dedicate the foundation’s new Flatiron...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Science

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The Simons Foundation

Retaining and Sustaining Leaders in the Social Sector

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01/30/2025

... C-Suite leaders within and outside the social impact and philanthropy sectors—to analyze the survey results and lift ... solutions to this issue. Our analysis of this survey makes two findings extremely clear...

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Jonas Center / Barbara & Donald Jonas Family Fund

With Greater Commitment, Funders Can Solve the Healthcare Workforce Crisis

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10/26/2016

... Veterans Healthcare, was among the panelists at the recent Philanthropy New York Briefing: Healthcare Crisis: Do We Have the Workforce ...

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Health

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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 ... every income level and in every geographic area, finds a new study published in The Milbank Quarterly. Linda Blumberg, .....

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Appointments & Transitions

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Health

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Milbank Memorial Fund

Brooklyn Community Foundation names Tynesha McHarris Director of Community Leadership

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05/29/2014

... McHarris will be joining the Foundation next week in a new position as Director of Community Leadership. Tynesha has ... overseeing Neighborhood Dialogues and Community Engagement Fellows . As a full-time staff...

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Brooklyn Org

IBM Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Solve Poverty, Hunger, and Illiteracy

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06/08/2017

... giant announced the launch of Science for Social Good, a new program that partners IBM researchers with postdoctoral academic fellows and nonprofits to take on societal issues through data. With the ...

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Technology

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23 Jan 2012

Building Resilient Communities Through Systemic Change

Monday, January 23, 2012 -

7:45am to 11:45am

... approach taken by some community lenders as they employ new models to alleviate poverty, develop social justice ... granting strategies for maximizing long-term outcomes A Philanthropy New...

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Issue-Based

03 Oct 2013

Service for Impact Working Group

Thursday, October 3, 2013 -

8:45am to 10:30am

... and challenges, brainstorm on solutions and explore new opportunities to make a difference in society while ... invite you to contribute to the conversation. This is a Philanthropy New...

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Issue-Based

21 May 2014

Building Assets Through the Tax Code: Proposals for Reform

Wednesday, May 21, 2014 -

2:00pm to 3:00pm

... of the Asset Funders Network / Tax Policy Project . A Philanthropy New York Collaborative Program with the Asset Funders Network , ...

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06 Oct 2015

When a Policy Win is Not Enough: Civic Engagement After the Big Win

Tuesday, October 6, 2015 -

2:45pm to 5:00pm

... Workers Fairness Act, women (and men) have some important new protections. But if low-income workers, especially ... will be most effective to reach women at the margins? Is philanthropy supporting the kinds...

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All Funders

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Gender Justice

Workforce Development

Citi Foundation Announces $20 Million Community Progress Makers Fund to Accelerate Impact through Core Operating Support Grants

Release Date:

11/10/2015

... to organizations working in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco Bay Area and Washington, D.C. The ... says Phil Buchanan, President of the Center for Effective Philanthropy...

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Community Development