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Helmsley Charitable Trust Backs Global Type 1 Diabetes Prevention Initiative

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04/28/2015

... the launch of an ambitious new T1D Prevention Initiative to investigate the early stages of development of the disease ... the Trust is making an initial investment of over $8.7 million in...

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Health

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Rockefeller's Rodin Discusses City Resiliency on Innovation Hub

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05/04/2015

... you’re always flirting with disaster. Whether you live in the drought-ridden West, the hurricane-prone Southeast, Tornado Alley in the Midwest, or the Northeast — where epic snowstorms ... Foundation...

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New York Life Backs Save the Children's Relief Efforts in Nepal

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05/04/2015

New York Life Backs Save the Children's Relief Efforts in Nepal New York Life announced today it will donate $50,000 to Save the Children. Nearly two million children are believed to...

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Brooklyn Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds

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05/06/2015

... Community Foundation Launches Large-Scale ‘Invest in Youth’ Initiative Focused on 16-24 Year Olds Brooklyn Community Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of its cornerstone initiative, Invest .....

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Pershing Square Foundation Grant Will Help Develop a New Way of Tracking Criminal Justice System Performance

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05/12/2015

... As a nationwide, bi-partisan push is underway to reform the broken criminal justice system, The Pershing Square Foundation announced today a $3.1 million grant in support of Measures for...

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Bloomberg and CDC Foundation Explore Tobacco Use Covering 60 Percent of World's Population

Release Date:

06/01/2015

... use represents the leading cause of death and disease in the world. Today, approximately 1.3 billion people use tobacco products and 6 million deaths each year can be attributed to tobacco...

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International/Foreign Affairs

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Markle Foundation President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd

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06/04/2015

... President Examines China as a Source of Jobs for the U.S. in WSJ OpEd The 2016 presidential-campaign season will bring all sorts of familiar proposals to create jobs in the U.S., but...

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Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives

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08/19/2015

Carnegie President Praises Efforts to Amplify World Humanitarian Initiatives Every day we are ... U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees finds that almost 60 million people -- over half of them children -- have been...

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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice-In-Education Initiative

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08/27/2015

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Backs Columbia's Justice- In -Education Initiative The seminar in 401 Hamilton Hall ... with their professor ranged in age from their late 20s to...

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United Way of New York City Joins Cuomo and Other Leaders for Economic Justice

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09/18/2015

... wage has trapped millions of hard working New Yorkers in poverty and has prevented them from finding a way out of ... He successfully increased the minimum wage twice while in office, amounting to...

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United Way of New York City

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New York Community Trust to Receive $650K from AG’s Settlement with Fraudulent Clothing-Bin Operator

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10/30/2015

New York Community Trust to Receive $650K from AG’s Settlement with Fraudulent ... Clothing-Bin Operator Three local organizations are in hot water after the state attorney general found they ... to...

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NYTimes Profiles Several PNY Members, Says They’re Aiming High

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11/02/2015

... commanding headlines and emerging as major talking points in the presidential campaign, at least for Democrats. They ... year that it would direct all its giving — about $500 million annually — to...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies-Backed Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years

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11/05/2015

... Report: U.S. Electric Sector Expected To Hit Lowest CO2 Emissions In 20 Years The U.S. electric sector is expected to hit ... that the electric sector is on track to total...

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Tow Foundation Touted as Prime Example of Funder Helping Turn the Tide for Juvenile Justice Reform

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11/19/2015

... when Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy announced a plan to establish 20 as the age of jurisdiction for the state’s ... the first state to presumptively include anyone over 18 in the juvenile...

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Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA

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12/15/2015

Century Foundation Releases Proposals to Strengthen ACA In just under six years, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has succeeded in enrolling millions of people in health insurance...

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Bloomberg Cited by NYTimes as Driver of Gun Control Progress Nationwide

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01/04/2016

... Control Progress Nationwide With President Obama poised to act on his own authority to try to stem gun violence, his ... shifting tactics to try to remake...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline

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01/07/2016

Atlantic Philanthropies Writes About Philanthropy’s Role in Promoting Positive Approaches to School Discipline Last year, at the beginning of ... from school for disciplinary reasons. Today, nearly 3.5 ...

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Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos

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01/21/2016

Rockefeller Foundation to Take Food-Waste Fight to Davos The World Economic Forum ... to announce here on Thursday that it is kicking off a $130 million initiative to...

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Environment and Climate Change

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An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation)

Release Date:

02/22/2016

An Outspoken Force to Give Food Workers a Seat at the Table (Ford Foundation) One afternoon in late January, prominent New York restaurateurs, including ... of a new book by Saru Jayaraman, an outspoken leader...

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