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Tech-Oriented New York Grad School Backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies Launches

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09/13/2017

... then Mayor Michael Bloomberg sent universities scrambling to win a competition for a new city-incubated research campus. During the run-up to the opening, officials have stressed the campus's capacity...

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Into Battle: The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Steps Up Its Advocacy Giving in a Big Way

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09/19/2017

... Pam Omidyar also have LLCs —and there are good reasons to look beyond the traditional foundation structure. The LLC ... much better vehicle for the kind of multi-faceted approach to big problems that Chan and...

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NoVo Foundation Featured in Funder Spotlight

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09/20/2017

... announced its Radical Hope Fund, a multi-year commitment to bold and transformative social justice work across the globe. With a motivation to give social justice leaders ‘room to dream,’ and...

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LDN Fund Officially Launched

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09/22/2017

... 2017 at the 13th Conference of the Parties (COP13) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in Ordos, China. With an ... investment vehicle leveraging public money to...

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How Nonprofits Can Make The Super Rich Work For Them

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09/22/2017

... gave nearly $282 billion of the total $390 billion awarded to charities last year. The lion’s share was from high net ... 91% of whom donate an average of more than $25,000 a piece to charity each year. But...

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Opinion: How Parks Lose Their Playfulness

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09/25/2017

... floated an idea for a new island. Called Pier 55, it was to be a two-and-a-half-acre wavy rectangle 200 feet off ... of Pier 54 near West 14th Street, where the Lusitania used to dock. The trust enlisted the...

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A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals

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09/27/2017

A Think Tank To Benefit Farm Animals Why is meat so cheap? McDonald’s ... USDA and the Small Business Administration guarantee loans to farmers, including owners of CAFOs (Confined Animal ... nonprofit...

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Food Systems

Is ‘Housing Not Warehousing’ Next?

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10/02/2017

... She now has a home in East Flatbush and is dedicated to ensuring others don’t have to undergo what she experienced. But she also participated in ... neighborhoods throughout the five boroughs—both efforts...

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More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help

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10/02/2017

More Trafficking Victims Turn to Hotline With Pleas for Help The tipster's account was ... National Human Trafficking Hotline, which relayed the tip to an anti-trafficking task force operating...

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UJA-Federation of New York Receives $20 Million Gift

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10/02/2017

... Centennial Signature Initiative. The gift will be used to help revitalize the infrastructure of the Henry Kaufmann ... and life-threatening illnesses, many of whom are able to attend at no cost... UJA-...

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How Nonprofit Programs Scale Up: Findings from the Wallace Foundation

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10/06/2017

... Foundation Sometimes, when one reads the phrase “getting to scale,” it feels a little bit like the nonprofit ... The Wallace Foundation’s latest report, “Strategies to Scale Up Social Programs: Pathways,...

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The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste

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11/14/2017

The Rockefeller Foundation Joins Hotel Industry To Reduce Food Waste Today, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the ... Foundation are releasing a toolkit with strategies to help hotel properties and brands meet...

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Route Fifty Recognizes Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities at Second Annual Navigator Awards

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11/17/2017

... results in performance management, transparency, access to data and the adoption of best practices and data-driven ... What Works Cities’ early goals involved using data to drive systemic changes across...

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Fast Company Names Ford Foundation As One of the World's Most Innovative Companies

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02/21/2018

... includes committing about $500 million a year in grants to nonprofit organizations. The group, originally founded by ... reforms. The group is known for spending creatively to find new ways to...

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Eight Programs Receive Grants for Equitable Bike Share and Related Research Funded by the JPB Foundation

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03/12/2018

... Share Partnership has awarded more than $410,000 in grants to help increase access to bike share in communities of color, and to fund research related to bike share and...

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How The Prudential Foundation Centers Community in its CSR

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05/04/2018

... Prudential Financial, urged small businesses and startups to inject corporate social responsibility (CSR) into their business operations to achieve their mission of turning their respective companies ...

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Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences

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05/14/2018

Yuri Tschinkel of The Simons Foundation, Elected to German National Academy of Sciences Yuri Tschinkel, ... and Physical Sciences division, has been elected to the Leopoldina , the German National Academy of .....

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Diana Davenport Announces Retirement From the Commonwealth Fund at the End of 2018

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07/11/2018

... at the Commonwealth Fund, has announced her plans to retire from the Fund at the end of 2018. Diana has been a ... worlds of New York for more than twenty years. In addition to keeping the Fund ...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows

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07/24/2018

... made a major step forward this month in its efforts to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive societies ... with 267 Fellows now participating in seven programs operating across five continents. This...

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