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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers

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02/16/2016

Cuomo Offers Support for Mark-Viverito’s Call to Close Rikers Gov. Andrew Cuomo voiced support Sunday ... York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito’s call to close Rikers Island. Calling the idea offered by...

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Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard Launch City Leadership Initiative

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08/26/2016

... Philanthropies have announced the launch of a joint initiative aimed at advancing leadership, ... with the tools, skills, and support they need — most of it made freely available — to tackle...

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

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10/21/2016

... know so well, the company makes purchase recommendations to them in real time based on items they've viewed or bought. So why aren't more of our cities leveraging data in the same way to...

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Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth

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Community Development

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Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity

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02/27/2017

... Support Exhibition on Gender Politics in the Age of Trans-Identity The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation ... centered on gender and feminist politics in the age of trans-identity, on view from February 9...

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The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Is Major Funder in the Fight Against Blindness

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03/03/2017

... blindness. Losing sight is a horrifying fate for anyone to contemplate, and it's not surprising that blindness has ... George Gund in 1971—has raised over $600 million to fund research advances to...

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Conrad N. Hilton Foundation (New York)

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Ford Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity

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04/03/2017

... Foundation, Tow Foundation and Others Launch $14M Fund To Support News Integrity A group of tech industry leaders, academic institutions, non-profits ... read and share online. The Initiative’s mission is...

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Communications/Media

Technology

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Nonprofit Trailblazers Unite for Third Annual American Express Leadership Academy Global Alumni Summit

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04/03/2017

... Summit in New York on April 3 and 4, celebrating ten years of a transformative program that has developed nearly 3,000 ... Changemakers, Common Purpose, and Independent Sector, to discuss best practices for...

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Bloomberg Writes on His Philanthropy's Public Health Projects

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06/01/2017

... a reminder that for all the ways in which we seem to be sliding backward, we’re lurching forward, too. The developing world turned a corner — thanks to medical advances, rising wealth and more — and .....

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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Announces New Board Chair

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06/02/2017

... Chair The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the United States, ... term that concluded May 31, 2017. "It is my privilege to serve the Weinberg Foundation in...

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Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact

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08/14/2017

Group Moves Toward Metrics to Ensure Impact Investments Really Have Impact As more investors seek to use their capital as a tool for social change, a group of asset managers and nonprofit leaders...

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Unaccountable Nonprofits? This Study Finds against the Myth

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08/25/2017

... This Study Finds against the Myth In the category of research that doesn’t tell any of us who know something about nonprofits anything at all new ... period, the organization was 50 percent more likely...

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Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017

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08/30/2017

Labor Day: New York Lawmakers on The State of Labor In 2017 For many this year, Labor Day will serve as ... included a measure in the state budget allowing workers to deduct union dues from their state taxes, and...

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Workforce Development

Gotham Gains: Family Incomes Up, Poverty Down

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09/20/2017

... Jobs, Rising Wages, Broader Advances: Seven Indicators of New York’s Economic Health.” The Census Bureau found ... income in the city had fallen by 5.2 percent from 2008 to 2013, during and after the Great...

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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 ... embodies trust-based philanthropy in many ways. As part of our ongoing series featuring...

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Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public?

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10/13/2017

Lots of Men Are Gender-Equality Allies in Private. Why Not in Public? Real male allies tend to have three things in common as agents of organizational ... research, using the National Science...

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Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows

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07/24/2018

Atlantic Philanthropies Announces Full Cohort of Atlantic Fellows The Atlantic Fellows program made a major step forward this month in its efforts to advance fairer, healthier and more inclusive...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation Names Nicole Taylor as President and CEO

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11/14/2018

... and CEO The Silicon Valley Community Foundation Board of Directors proudly announces that after an extensive search ... of SVCF. SVCF advances innovative philanthropic solutions to...

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Silicon Valley Community Foundation

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Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation

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12/10/2018

Rini Banerjee Welcomed as New President of The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation The Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation is pleased to announce that Rini Banerjee will join the Foundation as its fourth president and first...

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Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity

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09/30/2019

Tobias Rees Selected as a Rockefeller Foundation Resident to Study the Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Humanity Berggruen ... technology is challenging and changing what it means to be...

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