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The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation

NYC Social Impact Investment Fails to Meet Goal

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07/06/2015

... and as a result the city will not have to foot the bill for it, the Bond Buyer reports. The nation's first social impact bond — a pay- for -performance vehicle that leverages private funding to .....

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Bloomberg Philanthropies

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Rockefeller Announces Joint Initiative with Obama Administration to Create New Resilience AmeriCorps Program

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07/13/2015

... nationwide, including some of those in the 100 Resilient Cities network. AmeriCorps VISTA members will support the ... and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Corporation for National and Community Service...

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Gilman Foundation Donates $75K to Young People’s Chorus for New Music

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09/14/2015

Gilman Foundation Donates $75K to Young People’s Chorus for New Music Young People's Chorus of New York City (YPC) ... Gilman Foundation. The grant of $75,000 was issued to YPC for its New Music for...

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Arts

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Howard Gilman Foundation

Ford Foundation's $190M Revamp Receives Landmarks Approval

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04/21/2016

When the Foundation learned that it had to bring itself up to code, it decided not just to focus on technical improvements but also carry out some structural changes to make the building feel "less hierarchical," as the president of the foundation,...

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With Surdna and Open Society Support, Equitable Economic Development Fellowship Launches

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06/29/2016

... Development Fellowship Launches The National League of Cities (NLC), PolicyLink and the Urban Land Institute (ULI) ... first-ever Equitable Economic Development Fellowship. Six cities were chosen to...

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Community Development

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NY Community Trust Releases Report on Collaborative Funds

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08/16/2016

... we’ve made the City’s public school system better for all students; led the fight against AIDS in New York ... consumers into producers, and are creating a vision for a more equitable art sector... NY...

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The New York Community Trust

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Novo Foundation Supports Transformation of Former NYC Prison Into 'Women's Building'

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11/16/2016

... Gloria Steinem and other feminist activists who searched for decades before finding a building to house women's groups. "We've been looking for a women's building and hoping to find one...

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Gender Justice

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NoVo Foundation

De Blasio Derided by Sergeants Union for Deportation Stance

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02/28/2017

De Blasio Derided by Sergeants Union for Deportation Stance The head of the NYPD sergeants union on Sunday criticized Mayor Bill de Blasio for not requiring the city’s police force to act as ... John Catsimatidis...

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Immigration

Con Edison, Bank of America, Mertz Gilmore, Howard Gilman Support New Programming at Queens Theatre

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03/10/2017

Queens Theatre is launching its Winter/Spring 2017 Season with a diverse array of presentations, including the acclaimed Dance Company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana, Neil Simon's Last of the Red Hot Lovers and a new Queens Theatre production of the...

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Bank of America [Corporate]

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Arts

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United Hospital Fund Expands its Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship Initiative

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04/28/2017

... Stewardship Initiative to improve antibiotic prescribing for outpatients across New York City, working with seven ... revealing considerable variation in prescribing practices for adult patients with acute...

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Darren Walker Writes on Lessons Learned from Rikers Island

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05/15/2017

... crisis presents. While it seems that federal momentum for reform has slowed—if not reversed, as of late—it’s ... criminal-justice system, and may also offer a model for how it can be righted. . . Darren Walker...

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Justice Reform

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Ford Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation Announces Grants to Organizations Supporting and Defending LGBTQ Community

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06/23/2017

... Center, the Sylvia Rivera Law Project and the Campaign for Southern Equality. The organizations will use the funds ... LGBT Community Center will address the skyrocketing demand for Center services at a time...

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The Rockefeller Foundation

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Gender Justice

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Helmsley Funds Research Collaborative around Type 1 Diabetes

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08/18/2017

... collaboration and advancement by supporting opportunities for the sharing of scientific information and the generation ...

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The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

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Mayor De Blasio Signs Bills Designed to Protect Tenants From Landlord Harassment

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08/31/2017

... definition of harassment and increase the civil penalties for it. “Sometimes it feels like in New York City that this city is only for developers or landlords, or the very wealthy folks who ...

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Housing and Homelessness

Carmen Fariña Promises to Improve Classroom Diversity By Rezoning Schools

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08/31/2017

... Speaking with reporters Wednesday at a ribbon cutting for Manhattan’s Public School 191 campus, Fariña said she ...

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Education

NYPD Expected To Announce Drop In Violent Crime Tuesday

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09/05/2017

NYPD and city officials are scheduled to announce Tuesday a continuing drop in violent crimes, notably homicides and shootings, to record lows.

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Justice Reform

Landing High-Profile Employers Is Nice, But of Little Help to Those Who Need Opportunity The Most

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09/05/2017

... list of concerns among the dozens of candidates begging for votes in these final days leading up to the primary ... voters should also realize that New York is a tale of two cities when it comes to jobs. From...

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Inside The NYC Schools Critics Call ‘Failure Factories’

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09/05/2017

... on state exams has not exceeded 10 percent of students for four years in a row. Seventeen of these schools — which ...

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Education

Mayor De Blasio: NYC Will Continue to Support People Who Rely on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program

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09/06/2017

... on DACA Even As Trump Axes The Program I have a message for President Trump: Don't mess with your fellow New Yorkers. ... We don't like it when our neighbors are singled out for who they are. On...

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