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The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation

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04/12/2016

The New York Community Trust Gives $5.4M to 45 Nonprofits Across the City and Nation Forty-five ... news: The New York Community Trust, the city’s community foundation , has approved $5.4 million in grants for...

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Rockefeller Divestment in Fossil Fuels Leads Landmark Climate Accord Approved at U.N.

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04/25/2016

... Convention on Climate Change, delivered a global agreement to limit future global warming to under 2° C above pre-industrial levels. The formal ... for being over-reliant on fossil fuel, and the Rockefeller...

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PhilTV: Funder Advocacy Is Powerful in Conversation on NP Sector Sustainability

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05/24/2016

... toward changing harmful funding practices that contributed to its, and others’ demise. Nonprofit and foundation leaders are now actively working on issues such as ... said Doug Bauer, executive director of The...

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Carnegie, Helmsley Support Teacher Leadership Projects

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05/03/2016

... Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) to provide direct support to teachers to strengthen professional development and ... supported by the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley ...

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Carnegie Corporation of New York

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Rockefeller and Nonprofits Fight Food Waste With Feast

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05/09/2016

... in a landfill. Together with Feedback, The Rockefeller Foundation , City Harvest, NRDC, Sustainable ... America, GrowNYC and other partners, GRACE is proud to cohost Feeding the 5000 NYC, an event designed...

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Housing News Coverage Supported by Revson and New York Community Trust Wins Honors

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05/11/2016

... by the New York Community Trust, the Charles H. Revson Foundation and the Fund for Investigative Journalism... ...

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New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers

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05/16/2016

New York Community Trust Gives One Million Dollars to Help Train Social Workers The New York Community ... (NASW) and the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) to educate and train more social workers to...

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Casey Family Programs Evaluates Housing’s Role in Child Welfare Services

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05/24/2016

... facing a number of destabilizing factors that can lead to homelessness, open cases with child welfare agencies and ... care placements. Officially known as “Partnerships to Demonstrate the Effectiveness of...

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Less Talking, More Doing: Operationalizing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Philanthropy

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06/15/2016

... Executive Director, Reader’s Digest Partners for Sight Foundation Cynthia Rivera Weissblum, President and CEO, Edwin Gould Foundation Co-Chairs, Committee for Equitable and Inclusive ... discourse, and the...

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Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia

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06/17/2016

Rockefeller Family Fund Leads Summit To Oppose Pipelines In Georgia Anti-pipeline activists from across the country met in Atlanta this week to talk strategy. The summit brought together two groups that ... Those...

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Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships

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07/08/2016

Young Journalist Responds to Darren Walker's NY Times Op-Ed on Unpaid Internships ... a Privilege." The op-ed was by Darren Walker of the Ford Foundation , and it discussed what he called "America’s...

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02 Nov 2016

End the Sexual-Abuse-to-Prison Pipeline

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First, the hard facts on the sexual-abuse- to -prison pipeline: The proportion of girls – especially ... with the support of Philanthropy New York member, the Ms. Foundation for Women . An increasing number of...

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Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS

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09/23/2016

Sloan partners with NASA to Study Microbes from ISS What can microbes from space tell scientists on Earth? The world is about to find out as experts are currently analyzing fungi grown ... new research partnership...

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

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10/07/2016

... ranks as the most generous in terms of lifetime giving. To come up with its list of the most generous ... with $427 million, has given a total of $7.46 billion to philanthropic causes since 1984, or 373,000...

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NYTimes Examines Role of Ford’s Walker as Pepsi Board Member

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10/31/2016

... the needy, Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation , has emerged as a prominent voice of morality. So it seemed discordant to some critics when, this month, Mr. Walker joined the board ...

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Russell Sage Fellow in NYTimes on The End of Identity Liberalism

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11/18/2016

... a more diverse country. It is also a beautiful thing to watch. Visitors from other countries, particularly those ... ethnic groups and faiths, are amazed that we manage to pull it off. Not perfectly, of course...

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Supported by Rockefeller, Study Finds Gig Economy Media Reporting Disconnected from Worker Reality

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12/20/2016

... and even loneliness. On behalf of The Rockefeller Foundation , Cision conducted a one-year news media and social media analysis of conversation relating to independent workers, including those working in the...

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Request for Letters of Inquiry – Liberty Fund at The New York Community Trust

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01/03/2017

... at The New York Community Trust The Trust and the New York Foundation created this special funding opportunity to help City nonprofits address immediate issues affecting ... of immigrants; Increasing health...

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Bloomberg's Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit

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01/06/2017

... Kelly Henning on Working Together Around The World To Kick The Big Tobacco Habit Ten years ago, the world was a different place when it came to tobacco. Fewer than twenty developing countries in the ... of the...

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